Show Difficult Problem Is It Proper View Towards Alcoholic By ARTHUR M. RICHARDSON It seems that moderation in the form of social drinking meets with approval from But thre is an angle to the custom which is August Forel writing for the American Journal of Insanity speaks of the slight veil of illusion which spreads over reality whenever alcohol promotes sociability and loosens the it is the consequence of cerebral Whenever the dose is too weak to produce this it also fails to have the desired Chemists have for some time tried to show ordinary folks that alcohol is equally as pernicious as other H. G. Sherman said on the topic of narcotic to which classification alcohol no one who experiments with the taking of narcotics escapes the necessity for increasing the dose in order to get the same physical and mental Sherman maintained that because of moderate drinking frequently leads to immoderate drinking if not quickly point of great as stated by the British Alcohol Investigation that without signs of intoxication in the or in the legal sense of the the bearing and individual attitude of mind suffer temporary change as an effect of the and those in contact with the person so affected have for the time being to deal with an altered individual whose mind lacks temporarily its normal factor of judgment and conspicuous elements of its This question of moderate drinking has been long A survey was made of the records of life insurance policy The records showed that the lighter class of moderate drinker attained an average of four more years of age than the moderates who drink And as for a comparison between moderate drinkers and abstainers we need only turn to a paper by Arthur actuary of the New York Life Insurance He experience of seven American life insurance companies has proved that abstainers have from 10 to 30 per cent lower mortality than He said his figures were like those in British data on the same Phillip in addressing the Tenth International Congress Against in is the daily moderate use which dulls and stupefies and it is not simply the but the family table with its wine and which robs the great multitude of that fine sensitiveness for moral worth and moral From this evidence it would seem then that moderation means a loss of higher values in mental in business and and in helping to solve some of the urgent problems of |