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Show GOOD CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA Former American Physician Testifies to Benefits That Have Followed Doing Away With Vodka. "Fewer cases of insanity are" being received in the asylums and hospitals of Russia today than before the war, notwithstanding the brainracking experiences ex-periences which hundreds of thousands thou-sands of people of that country havs gone through during the last year. This indicates to my mind that prohibition prohi-bition of the sale of vodka has been a great thing for Russia." This statement was made to a re-' porter by Dr. Philip Newton, formerly a hospital physician of Washington, now a brigadier general in the medical branch of the Russian army. Doctor Newton arrived here recently after having served for fifteen months in Russia first as a surgeon of the American Red Cross and since October, Octo-ber, 1915, In the Russian army. "The prohibition of the sale of vodka vod-ka and other intoxicants has made & better citizen and soldier of the Russian," Rus-sian," Doctor Newton said. "He may not be as smart as the English and French, but he can do harder work and better withstand hardships. The Russians make ideal hospital patients. The manner in which they endure the moat painful injuries is waderful." Washington (D. C.) Star. |