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Show HABITS OF NEW YORK SCHOOL CHILDREN ARE MOST DEPRAVED New York-, Juno 11. "Like the depravity de-pravity of ancient Sodom" is tho wav Dr. Alexander MacNlcoll tonight described des-cribed the habits of school children In certain sections of New York. In a statement regarding the children chil-dren Dr. MacNIcholl said: "Fifty-eight per cent drink some form of alcoholic beverage occasionally occasional-ly or at regular Intervals; 37 per cent drink one glass of beer a week to five glasses of beer a day; 21 per cent drink wine or spirits. In some groups the percentage of occasional and regular regu-lar drinkers run as high as 70; of these attending school, 46 per ceut arc backward In their studies." |