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Show CUTOUT THE BOOZE. It is not an uncommon thing for camplngpartlcs totake with them a liberal supply of Anheuser-Busch, and a drinkable somewhat redder In appearance. This is clearly In the exercise of a personal right the law guarantees all of us, but still the suggestion sug-gestion may be made that the canyon with Its manifold dangers not Infrequently Infre-quently demands clearer heads and more alert action than Is possessed by people who have Indulged to any considerable extent. Where numbers are gathered together in in dangerous places the responsibility Is greater, hence the sanity of greater precaution being taken. There Is no sanity In taking Intoxicants on camping camp-ing trips, The writer has no quarrel with the moderate drinker greater than with the man who drinks tea and coffee at his meals. To us the danger appears greater, because of the known weakness weak-ness of men and the insidious hold that liquor gets upon their s) stems but that is clearly their own lookout. For tho man who uses liquor to excess we hao a greater sympathy, and not so great vexation of spirit as at him who cats to excess or gives little care to 'the way he treats his stomach. Of the two men, the heavy drinker or the over cater or careless cater, we are inclined in-clined to believe that the latter Is the greater evil so far as society is concerned. Tho one perhaps causes more Immediate discord In society, but the other, tho careless cater, be-, be-, queaths to posterity1 an extiemcly tm-'perfect tm-'perfect body. Imperfect bodies seldom sel-dom produce the best mentalities, and arc the source of much difficulty i In the aerage home, and it ts a well known scientific fact that much of the delinquency found In men apprehended appre-hended for crime may be accurately traced to Imperfection of the body. Nor can It be denied that the crime of over-eating and careless eating Is more widespread than excessive drinking, drink-ing, henco, the more widespread disastrous dis-astrous results so far as posterity Is concerned. Drinking Is not tho crime some- pco-plo pco-plo Imagine. It is not a crime until it becomes an excess and then It Is not more of a crime than other excesses that lesult disadvantageous to the individual and society, but the falling Is more certainly before the public gaze and Is jumped onto with both feet, while evils are passed by. This. Rooseveltian preachment has little to do with the matter of booze and canyon trips except to indicate a good faith rather than captious criticism criti-cism in tl.o suggestion that on all trips wherein numbers participate it Is far better to le.tvo the beer and whiskey behind. Think it over ' |