Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1916 — Temperance [ARTICLE]

Temperance

A 8 HEALTH OFFICERS SEE IT. Dr. Haven Emerson, health commissioner of New York city: “It Is, as I conceive It, the duty of departments of health to teach, teach, teach, persuade, demonstrate, exhibit, exhort, prove that alcohol as a beverage oi In patent medicines is a menace to personal and community health, is a common source of Mckness and death, is blocking the path of preventive medicine and Is a menace to the physical and social development of the nation." Health Commlslsoner Ford of Cleveland, O.: "Teaching the effects of alcohol la a public health function. There is nothing more Important than this question.’’ Dr. J. N. Hnrty, secretary Indiana state board of health: “We know that alcoholic liquor is a vile and evil thing. It Is a horrible thing from an economic and social point of view; It is always and everywhere injurious from the physical standpoint. Every drop is a poison. Its use is always injurious, and if I had the poWer I would close every public saloon as a public dope shop." Dr. John Dill Robertson, health commissioner of Chicago: “In the city of Chicago, where the death rate is approximately 100 a day, it is safe to say that at least 25 per cent of these deaths are caused direct-' ly or indirectly by alcohol.. Alcohol produces acute inflammation of the stomach, hemorrhage of the pancreas, heart disease, cancer of the stomach, Bright’s disease, fatty liver, hardened liver, inflammation of the nerves, epilepsy, hardening of the arteries and a multitude of other afflictions of the body. Those are known medical facts. It is not only a causative factor in the diseases and afflictions mentioned, but it invades the mental man and product insanity.” The New Jersey Health Officers’ association passed a resolution recommending tjjat campaigns of publicity be by the state and local departments of health for the purpose of Informing the public of the dangers attending the use of alcoholic beverages. ’ The Vermont state board of health is planning an anti-alcohol crusade similar to that of New York city. Other city and state health boards are also incorporating anti-alcohol work as a regular part of health department programs.

DOES IT? “Beer promotes efficiency,” says the advertisement of a certain brewing company. Someone replies as follows: , ___ 2 “If you were about to have a dangerous surgical operation would you jirefer to have the surgeon take a few glasses of beer just before the operation, to ‘promote efficiency T “If you were about to take a trip on a railroad, would you prefer to have the engineer and the telegraph operators and the switchmen along the line take a few beers while you were on your way, to ‘promote efficiency?’ “If you are business man, do you prefer to have your employees ‘rush the can’ occasionally, to *promote efficiency.’ “Remember, you can get just as drunk on beer as you den on whisky. BOTTLES SPARCE. A chemist in Chicago, who is experimenting with a formula for making catchup .and other preparations in tablet form, explained to a friend that this change was all “because of prohibition.” “Second-hand bottles are used to a great extent by manufacturers of many of these products, said the chemist, “and the spread of prohibition is making it almost impossible io secure bottles for this purpose.”

NO REAL OBSTACLE. Sumptuary legislation? Yea. Curtailment of the citizen’s personal prerogative? Y es. -- We used to halt at ■ this rock, too. And it is still there. But how easy it is to go around it and find out what is on the other side. How much more is on the other side than on the tide whlch.-only, we have seen up to now.—Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle (oldest newspaper in the South.*, which has taken its stand for national prohibition). * PERSONAL RIGHTS CHAMPION. Obedient to the conservation ideal, society steadily declines to tolerate -humanity’s waste of itself in sensuality. This aligns against the drinker and the liquor maker and vender today persons and institutions that a generation ago were also stout champions of “personal rights.*—Christian Science Monitor. DRINKERS NOT WANTED. “If we could, we would keep nar man in our employ who drank at aft. Sober men are -safer and-the better always. The total abstainer is decidedly better than the one who drinks even moderately.”—The Buckeye Rolling Mill Company, Steubenville, O. VIOLATES LAW. ‘.J Champion of Fair Play: - “There is not a licensed, saloon keep* er In the state who does not lay him* ■elf Hable to prosecution a doxea times a day.”