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Show i GERMAN STUDENTS GIVING UP ALCOHOL I BERLIN. .May 27 (By 'Die Associated Associ-ated Press.) "Mankind, allot yourself a couple of non-alcoholic days each week," Is tho motto which should be hung up everywhere, according to Pro-fosaor Pro-fosaor Walter Nernst, rector of the University of Berlin and a Nobol prize winner. Ir Nernst voiced this opinion in addressing the second annual German Congress for tho Propagation of Prohibition Pro-hibition Among Youths He asserted he thought voung students particularly particular-ly liked lo wmn drinking songs but lhal they did no: drink. SO mm h as o Commonly assumed lie callod attention atten-tion to great writers, from Horace to Goethe, who have sung the praises ol alcohol, but said of lato years young Students were swinging to the othei direction. He eald one no longer found the inclination to drink .olHy foi the sake of getting drunk and declared that scholars had become the best al-1 lies In ihe fight against alcohol- Other ipetUters Included prominent; di .i inal i n 1 1 medlral lea ders I n Germany, kustrls and Crecho-Slovak-la, who emphasised the injurious of-feots of-feots of alcoholism from various - i ndpolnts. .Minister of Justice Radbruch said tho government was taking a lively l part in the campaign asaiB Professor Tii'-k of the laH of Marburg. ? v.rrifin jsm tlon a ' n!- ': i reatrt lion :'" :ran"Saei alcoho ! T licenses and tho lightening oissm on non-alcoholic drinkf |