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Show J Youngsters Need No Stimulants! A born idiot has dignity, but one artificially created by alcohol has none, Angelo Patri wrote recently in a column for young people. Writing for the Bell Syndicate, he said: "The reforming of grown people never interests me. If we teach children what is good for them and do our best to protect them from evil we will not have too many adults to reform. That is why the cocktail hour that offers stimulating drinks to young people in their late 'teens and early 20' s seems so dangerous to me. "Young people are stimulated by the wine of youth. There is no drink as heady as that with which nature has stimulated them. It takes all 4p b A W. C. T. U. Temperance Poster they have to keep an even balance without taking on additional stimulation stimula-tion in the form of a cocktail. "The afternoon gathering and the need for relaxation and gaiety are set in the day's routine by nature. Cocktails are not nature's way of relieving re-lieving the situation and we who are in any way responsible for the welfare of young people should be quick to save the situation by providing pro-viding the needful elements without falling back on stimulants. "Music will help tremendously provided it is selected with an eye to its effect. Tea is a good stimulant. stimu-lant. A good drink tasty, sparkling, snappy can be made by combining tea, fruit juices and ginger-ale. It can be lovely in color and when served in dainty glasses is quite as attractive as any cocktail. It will smell better and taste as good and it will do its work without robbing youth of its charm and its brains. "A body without its mind is an awful sight, especially when that body is usually occupied by an intelligent, in-telligent, able mind. . . . It's an awful sight and one no young person would wish to imprint on friends' memories." |