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Show DR. KINGSBURY SAYS BOYS ARE MADE OLD BY DRINK Special exercises were held this morning at the Weber academy, the occasion being the visit of President Kingsbury of the University of Utah. After several musical numbers, Dr. Kingsbury addressed the students. He began with a swift survey of conditions in Utah during the first decade de-cade after the pioneers entered the valley. He next discussed early educational edu-cational history, showing that it took definite shape in the founding of the Deseret university in 1S68, From these general topics, the speaker narrowed his address to the value of moral education; contrasting conditions In Mexico, with conditions In our own land, and showing that the real reason for Mexico's terrible con dition today is (he absence of moral safeguards to life and liberty. Dr. Kingsbury next adverted to tne relation of food and drink to educational educa-tional advancement. He dwelt at length on the effect of alcoholic beverages. bev-erages. A quarter of a century ago, the Impression was given out by German Ger-man scientists that there was really a food value In wines and beers, and this notion led to the widely extended use of these beverages, not only In Germany, but throughout the world Investigations a year or two ago by scientists in Germany reversed all this completely. By extended experiments, experi-ments, It was shown that there is no food value whatever In alcohol. Nor is alcohol even r stimulant, like tea or coffee. Experiments invariably showed that work, both physical and mental, was retarded, and not accelerated, accele-rated, by alcohol. The conclusion was inevitable. Alcohol is a narcotic, or poison, and nothing else. The speaker next showed the effect of tobacco on the human system, and brought out the astonishing fact that a man at 20 years of age Is often older than another at 60, that Is, If age be Judged by the hardening of the arteries ar-teries and other tissues by narcotics. A man may become old before the period of youth has fairly begun. Dr. Kingsbury later In the day visited vis-ited and addressed the graduating class. |