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Show PROVES BEER IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN VODKA I In the May American Magazine aro tho results of a number of sclem tide experiments with beer drinkers ! which seem to prove this nppnr ently harmless beverage Is fully as dangerous to mankind os pulque, ogua dlente, vodka, "hootch" or any of tho other strenuous beverages. Dr Kdwin F. Bowers snys: "Modem scientific research haB shown that boor Is proportionately much moro noxious thnn aro wines oi liquors. Tho Bremen Anti-Alcohol Congress, a conclavo of many of tho most famous physicians In Europe, concluded thus, while liquor makes a man brutal and dulls his Judgement, Judge-ment, an adequate amount of beer makes him slow-witted and abolishes Judgement. While, wine or brandy i Is sufficient quantity, makes n man crazy, beer tends to make him stupid. I "Tho actual reason for this tend-I tend-I ency toward brutallzutlon and sot-tlshness sot-tlshness has been known for only n lew ycais Is not even now generally understood. "Tho so-called lupulln glands of tho hops, according to Professor KctnlU- er, of tho University of Graz, secreto an etheareal oil consisting of vnr- i ions terpenes substances similar to turpentine oil which hold tho i other elements in solution. Among j theso elements aro tho hop acids and i reslnu. "W.e used to think that wo got nil ,11)0 'rosin' with which wo varnish j our kidney cells from pitch lining 'of tho beer borrlB. 1 tit t now we know that wo get our kidney shel'vie I from tho hops In tho beer. In nd- dltlon to llioir deleterious effects tip-' tip-' on tho kidneys these terpenrs act powerfully and disastrously upon tho nervous system. "Now hashish contains exactly tho samo elements as are found In tho lupulln glands of lions blttor-tastlng resins, an ethereal oil, and ono or moro alkaloids. Therefore, hops ex crt tho same effect on tho human I body as does hashlBh, differing only i In degree." I |