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Show FIGHTING THE RUM EVIL. tSiinin I'mcllrnl SiikkpnIIiiiih I17 m. I'ruinliirnt l'h kIcIiiii, Dr. I. A, JlcSwaln In n paper on al cohollc limnnlty, read before the Tennessee Ten-nessee Medical association, offered the following suggestions: "The children of drunken nnd debauched de-bauched parents ought for obvious reasons rea-sons to bo token away from them and placed In decent homes or removed to Industrial Institutions provided by the state. This would check their hereditary heredi-tary tendencies to drunkenness and Hierefore reduce the number being raised up to become a burden to tho state In the way of paupers, criminals, lunatics. "Young people who In early life contract con-tract the pernicious habit of drinking should also be removed from the temptation temp-tation of their environments ami placed in Inilllutlons in which they should bo taught some useful employment and restrained from vicious habits. "The drinking man as soon as he begins be-gins his spree, before he Is crazed by It, should lie taken Into custody, not as a mere nuisance, but as a dangerous dan-gerous man or one likely to become so. because of insanity In the Incipient stage. "The conllrmed drunkard, the chronic alcoholic subject, should on no account be allowed to exercise his personal liberty lib-erty In the pursuit or delusions which result from prolonged excesses." Medical Itecord. |