Show I 1 drunkenness in russia Ilu ista y ot of lato late the papers have published foreign dispatches portraying an appalling state of drunkenness among the starving russian peasantry how reconcile this with the statement that drunkenness pr produces poverty tyl simply thus wise that drunkenness in the past was the cause of the poverty stricken state among tho the peasants at present and their drunken habits unfit them for energetic effort to relieve the stress of the situation hence to drown despair they drown reason in drink drinking in poverty intensifies the evil of poverty the total abstainer rarely becomes poverty stricken but if ho he docs does he knows that drink is no cure christian at work |