Show the world worlds drink rr cin in two recent numbers of the christian union mr AX J axel ea gustafson has two articles on the worlds drink problem in tho the first of these he deals with intemperance in pagan lands and in the second with christian countries he sums up at the end of the second article the tho general conclusions reached as regards the continent of europe in these words 1 that the two banner countries for freedom of commerce and industry switzerland and 11 holland olland are also the most advanced in restricting the freedom of the alcoholic drink tr traffic affia and that despotic russia comes next 2 that tho the two most educated nations franco and germany az are 6 more drunken than the most ignorant russia italy and spain 3 that wealth proves to be a more prolific cause of drunkenness than poverty tho the surplus earnings being too often expended in drink 14 4 that wine and beer are not temperance drinks and that the two countries inhabited by the chief wine and beer drinkers and in which the wines and beers are of the lightest character namely france and belgium are aro the most drunken while russia almost wholly brandy drinking is a relatively sober country mr gustafson also says that until today there has properly speaking been no real effort to combat the drink evil except among the scandinavian and english speaking nations As tho result of his study of the drink evil vil he alerts the utter fallacy of the contention that wine drinking makes for temperance |