Show i FOUGHT THE FLOWING BOWL ji Eastern Monarchs and Religious Leader Lead Lead- er era s Long Ago Lifted Their Voices Against Drunkenness c Temperance mo movements and prohibition tion crusades date b back ck at least years It was China th that t first tried j to be bone Early reforms along temperance lines are attributed to the I I priests of or India and Persia But the Chinese claim that In the eleventh century century cen cen- tury before Christ their emperor so disgusted over the prevalence of dru drunkenness drunkenness drunk drunk- ic- ic enness ordered all the grapevines In Inthe the kingdom uprooted A hundred years before this bon bone bone- v dry effort In the twelfth century before before before be- be fore Christ King Wen tried partial reform reform reform re- re form In China Wen founder of the Chou dynasty promulgated an Announcement Announcement Announcement An Against Drunkenness according according ac aee cording to ancient Chinese documents handed down by Confucius King Wen declared drinking has long been a national vice He ordered ordered ordered or or- dered that wine be used only In connection con con- C with sacrifices sacrifices and and even ven then drunkenness was not to be tolerated The temperance reforms also exIsted existed ex ex- Isted In Egypt centuries before Christ Heres Here's what a teacher said to a youth who had been looking upon the flowing bowl too f freery reefy Drink not beer to excess The words that come out of thy mouth thou not recall Thou dost fall faU falland L Land and break thy limbs and no one r reaches aches out out outa a hand to thee Thy ny comrades go on drinking they stand standup f up and say Away with this fellow who Is drunk If It anyone should then seek thee to ask counsel counselor of thee thou be found lying In the dust like a little child |