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Show MOONSHINttlS IS DEVELOPING TO HIGH POINT Torrents of Home Brewed and Distilled Liquor Blamed for Many Ills (BY FLOYD V TIM Ml KM N Whether prohibition will ultfmatel prohibit, whether the hard-faced distiller dis-tiller of moonshine liquor Is gidng to be with us always, are questions hard to answer- Hut at least on tblnr Is certain and tbat la that we are rapidly developing a large and expert class of both silk and coti.on-stocklng bootlegger boot-legger 8. It Is singularly deprcsrlnjr to watch nn ordinarily and otherwise staid business bus-iness man engaged In flouting flu- law Bargaining, telephoning. briblnCi ult-caslng. ult-caslng. and hip-pocket lng his alcoholic alco-holic way and nil with the naive delight, de-light, of a child breaking a parental order simply because he Is told not to. Mo"st people say he Is drinking lees than before prohibition. That may be so Hi' may be drinking less- -but It Is hurtlnjr him more. uooxsHixrns dk elopb physicians throughout tht country, and many of them right here In Og-den Og-den "HI enlighten you, should you ask t In rn, with th- heerful good news tlu. since the advent of our good prohibition pro-hibition and I hi' accompanying torrents tor-rents of mojiishlne whisky that case.t of liver trouble, henrt-trOUble, stomach stom-ach and Intestinal complaint h;iu multiplied mul-tiplied almost three-fold and the pa-'icnts pa-'icnts aro still renting in with many forms of "moonshinltls." Prohibition, it must be admitted, hus made g 1 business tor the doctors doc-tors and hospitals. Hut the majority of the keen medical medi-cal observers of the ravages of th illicit il-licit brew agree that .he worst Is yet to urrHc. They say thai sy:-iiin- m;iy not give way at once under the onslaught on-slaught of the poisons poured In with the moonshine, but the undermining will take place until perhaps years af-Cerward, af-Cerward, when the patient may again be drinking good whisky, or not drlnK-Ing drlnK-Ing nt all. They point out that a vital organ might be impaired to such an extent thut although It will function along perhaps Indifferently, it will eventually break down as the result of the crashing blow dealt when ih owner was hitting the gay w hite moonshine moon-shine way. This may soem not all appropriate to many persons In ogden. but HERE S v Vsi Last summer a certain baseball player In Ogden took one drink of moonshine liquor from a bottle offered of-fered by a frbnd. This was In 'he afternoon. After midnight he was discovered dis-covered lying under a tree In Lorlu Farr park, apparently dead. I, was rushed to the police station where Stomach pump was applied it was aald by physicians that If he had laid in the park another hour, he would have died. In three days he was able to walk around, but that's all It was learned later that one drink was all he took. There la a case of an Ogden automobile automo-bile mechanic A customer came Inl 3 his shop with a car. Ho save the mechanic a "snort" of "hofie- hofCeh" of doubtful parentage. T" hours later .he mechanic was at home, arms and legs completely paralysed. Functioning Func-tioning of his limb returned a few days later and he is now back at his bench, liut he drinks no more moonshine moon-shine There are several cases where quick action of the tORlAOh pump saved lives In Ogden after the patient had freely Imbibed from tho moonshine bottle. Another Ogden man went to Salt Lake and accepted a friendly homo drink. He had been to a banic and had $1000 In bills In bis pockets. Ho remembers starting toward Ogdcn In his car and hat's about all When he awoke he found his car parkoJ on a side-street In the southern part of Salt Lake. It was several hours nftor he had headed for Ogdcn. He didn t know how. when, he krot there or why, 1 Luckily hLs money was still safe in his pocket. Ii wouldn t be true to say that v..m- HH.N I UUUU , UKI.ft, UU V II V at least changea to good liquor. BEM ri.lt ONES UK kI.I Theso are but a f-w Instances of what has happencu. There arc prob-'ubly prob-'ubly some betici ones untold, j And few have to ask 'where can you go It?" It is ulso unnecessary to explain where It. can be procured. A story Is tjld of a sale.iman who , came to Ogden and In his Wanderings about the streets became thirst: Not knowing the town he stopped a man on th Street and asked where can I get a Jolt V" The man took him carefully by the arm led him several blocks to a sparsely settled section of tho city Pointing to a lone-appearing -houso in the middle of a lot, he usked of tho salesman, "sec that place?" "Yes." whispered the salesman. "Well, thii.'s the only placo In town where you can't get It " HITS KAIJLRO l Mi N "An Instance of tho entraco of home I brew Into the transportation problem is cited in tho Railway Age of Dccem-, Dccem-, ber 17. I'nder the heading Mom. ; Brew and Color Blindness, the article ar-ticle sa "In lh0 Inquiry following a recent rear-end collision the englneman testified tes-tified that he had receded a yol- low or caution signal Indication. An! examination of the slrnel at the time j of the accident showed thal it was In I the stop position ami displayed a red j Ilsht. At the investigation the en- 1 I glnemnn's vision was found to be per-( per-( feet, but upon being asked whether hc drank any home brew before starting on hat particular run. he admitted, having had a couple of glasses He was then given some homo brew to I determine what effect. If any. It would have on his vision, and on tclng ex-amlnel ex-amlnel four or five hours later he was I found to be absolutely color blind, j This effect, however, wore off In the I course of 12 to 16 hours and tho en-, , glneman'S vision was again normal. ' I Thus another probb-m presents itself! to further harass or overwork railroad's rail-road's managements EFFECTS ol UA-OHOJ, Some of the effects of alcohol upon I the system and good alcohol too. are nbly explainer, by Hr. Henry' Smith i Williams, In b book ho has written doallntr with alcohol alone When the effects of good alcohol are as dlsai-trlous dlsai-trlous us claimed by Dr Williams. It Is little wonder that those who Indulge In moonshine lose their sense of direction di-rection He says "The effect of alcohol on mucular activity has a larger measure of popular pop-ular Interest. Indeed. It Is a question of the utmost practicality The experiments expe-riments show that alcohol does not Increase In-crease tho capacity to do muscular work, but distinctly decreases It. Houbtlcss this seems at variance with many a man's observation of himself; but explanation Is found In the fact that alcohol blurs tho Judgment As Volt remarks, It gives, not strength but at most, the feeline: of strength. A man may think he Is working faster fast-er and better under the Influence f alcohol than be would otherwise do, but rigidly conducted nporlmcn'ii do not confirm this opinion. "Hoth Bcl-ern Bcl-ern e and the experleix if life," sas Dr. John Abel, of John Hopkins university, uni-versity, "have exploded the pernicious theory that alcohol gives any perslst-ent perslst-ent Increase Of muscular power.'' M I K ol l.i OHOL "It may be of Interest to Inquire Into the method of action of alcohol, with an eye to an explanatbin of Its protein activities; and in particular to make Its specific effects upon the nervous system, since upon these effects the chief measure of its evil Influence depends. de-pends. "Tho primal fact seems to be that alcohol has an affinity, not ff,r nny particular highly organized tissue of the body, but for protoplasm Itself, which Is tho basis of all living matter. To gain B clear menial picture of its action on the body, one may liken the effect of alcohol circulating In the blood to that of a current of water coursing along the bed of a stream Every portion of the bed of Ihe stream Is to some extent affected by the abrading force of the current. But some portions are affected far more than others. A granite boulder, for example, seems to escape almost unscathed, un-scathed, whereas, the limestone surface sur-face is gradually ctil and furrowed and a sand bed or a muddy deposit may be swept away altogether. The difference dif-ference Is duo not at all to the current of water, but to inherent differences In tho surface acted upon; the stream washed against granlto, limestone, and, and mud quite Impartially. ATTACKS WEAK TISSUES "In much the same way the alcohol circulating In the vasculat currents of a human organism tends to attack one tissue and another The precise effect j In the case of any given organism, depends upon the lelatlve stability of the various tissues of that organism j Tf the cells of the liver, for example, chance to be relatively weak and sus-ceptlble, sus-ceptlble, thc-llver will be tho organ most conspicuously ' attacked" by tne alcohol. In other cases kidneys or heart or nervous tissues may bo the ones to suffer most becaueo they Chanced to be the tenderest tho most easily abraded tissues. It can hardly j be said that alcohol singled them out j for its attack, their Inherent weak-1 ness Is the cause of their destruction, just as the inherent softness of the sand bank explains its abrasion by th tri im The affected colls cease to functionate normally In the presence j of th" distributing lnfjuence of the nl I cohol They no longer take up ox- I ygen and other nutrients and give off wnnfft nroducts In tho usual propor- 1 tlon. Ultimately. as wc have seen, they may degenerate Into useless fatty fat-ty or scar-like tissues OND1 ( TS EXPERIMENTS "When a single doso of ulcohol Is administered. Its effects gradually disappear, dis-appear, as a matter of course. But they are far more persistent than might bo supposed. Some experiments conducted by Furor are Illuminative as to this. Ho tested a person for several sev-eral days, at a given hour, as to reaction re-action time, the association of Ideas, tho capacity to memorize and facility In adding Tho subject was then allowed al-lowed to drink two quarts of beer In a course of a day. Ko intoxicating effects whatever were to bo discovered by ordinary methods. The psycholog leal tests, however, showed marked disturbance of all tho reaction, a diminished dim-inished capacity to memorize decreased decreas-ed facility In adding, etc. not merely on the day when tho alcohol was tak-I tak-I en. but on the succeeding days as well, j Not until the third day was there a I gradual restoration to complete normality, nor-mality, although the subject himself and this should be particularly not- cd felt absolutely fresh and free from after-effects of alcohol on the day following fol-lowing that on which the boor was tak-I tak-I on. Similarly Rudln found the effects of a single dose of alcohol to persist, as regards some forms of mental disturb-, disturb-, ance, for 1- hours, for other forms ii 1 hours, and for yet others 36 hours or more But Kudln's experiments bring out another aspect of the subject which no one who considers the alco-I alco-I hoi question In uny of its phases Nhould overlook the fact, namely, that Individuals differ greatly In their re-' re-' sponae to a given quantity of the drug. Thus, of four healthy young student-i who formod subjects of Rudln's' , experiment, two showed very marked, disturbance of the mental functions, for more than AS hours, whereas the! third was Influenced a shorter time, and the fourth was scarcely affected at all. The student who was least , affected was not, to bo supposed one who had been accustomed to taking alcoholics habitually, but. on the cpn-ir.ir;. cpn-ir.ir;. . nc- who lor six years had been a total abstainer. nil i r.Kl Nt E or TEMPERAMENT "No one will Infer from this, of COUrie that abstinence from alcohol gives Immunity to its effects when taken; the experiment merely Illustrates Illus-trates tho Individual differences of temperament that must always be considered con-sidered In dealing with so complex an organism aS the human body. No ono i need doubt, moreover, that the student whO was unaffected by tho HO grams of alcohol would have succumbed to tho effect of twice or thrlco the quan- tlty. Thus far we havo witnessed tho ef-facts ef-facts of a single dose of alcohol In producing lmmcdlato and relatively persistent disturbance of tho mental faculties Noting that such effects may persist for two or three days, one li led to Inquire what the results would I b If th dose is repeated day after I day. Will there thou be n cumulative I effe'-t. or will the system become tolerant toler-ant of the drug ami hence unrespon- ; she'.' Some experiments of Smith and I others of Kun and K'raepelln. have been directed toward the bolutlon of this all-Important question. The re-I re-I suits of the experiments show a piling up of the disturbing effects of the alcohol. al-cohol. Kurs and Kraepelln estimate that after giving SO grams per day to an individual for 12 successive days, the working capacity f that Individual's Individ-ual's mind was lessened from 25 to -10 per cent. Smith found an Impairment Impair-ment of the power to add, after 12 days amounting to 40 per cent; the power to memorize was reduced by 70 per cent. "Forty to SO grams of alcohol, the amount used In producing these astounding as-tounding results, Is no more than the quantity contained in one or two liters of beer or in half bottle to a bottle of ordinary wine. Professor Aschaffen-burg, Aschaffen-burg, commenting on these experiments, experi-ments, points the obvious moral that the so-called modi rati drinker, who consumes his bottle of wine as a matter mat-ter of course each day with I i l -tinner and who doubtless would declare that he Is never under the influence of liquor, Is In reality never actual! sober from on week s end to another. Neither In bodily nor in mental .n tl-Ity tl-Ity Is ho ever up to what should b-his b-his normal level." oo |