The Press., 1897-07-29
w. C. T. U.
Valuable Testimony.

In response to a request from Christian churches and allied philanthropic organi- cations in the United States, a committee of distinguished physicians, members of the American Medical association, was chosen to examine the textbooks used in the public schools to teach temperance physiology and endorsed by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Their re- port was given in full in The Union Signal of April 15, every one of these medical experts pronounoing them to be accurate. In addition to this Mrs. Hunt has secured statement from Dr. Baer, the royal sanitary commissioner in Berlin Germany, the foremost European specialist on the subject of the effects of alcohol and other narcotics upon the human organism. We hope our readers will cut 1t out and pre- serve 1t for future use. It is most valu- able testimony to the scientific accuracy of these textbooks that are so often as- sailed
 Berlin, N. w., May 15, 5,Rathenower str. 5. National and International Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction in Schools and Colleges, Represented by Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, Superintendent, 23 Trull Street, Boston, Mass.
 Honored Madam By your letter of 1 March 15 you have done me the honor to request my opinion in regard to the Zap proved and endorsed temperance physiol- l ogies' which have been sent me, and are now in use in the public schools of most | of the states of North America, as to whether the teachings of these school books, in regard to the value and effect of alcoholic drinks, are in harmony with the principles of modern science.
 | In order to ascertain the truth of the l important question at issue, have gladly undertaken the task, and have examined l with strict impartiality the school books l the endorsed list).
 On the basis of the examination have | made, can assert that the above men, toned school textbooks, in respect to | their statements regarding alcoholic | drinks, contain and disseminate no teach
 ings which are not in harmony with the l attitude of strict science.
 Ideas and facts as to the actual value
 of alcohol as food, as to the effect of its l occasional or habitual use upon tho body, | upon the tissues and organs, likewise up-
 on the brain and its activity are, through out, represented correctly and clearly,
 and often with remarkable felicity adapt
 ed to the youthful understanding. Though, personally, do not practice
 total abstinence, yet consider the dis
 semination of the above teachings in the
 way of instruction in the schools, wise
 and the most admirable and effective serious evils which alcohol does both | the individual and society, and of bringing
 about 8 complete change in the drink habits.
 Hoping for the best results of your efforts, I am with much esteem, your obedient servant, Dr. A. Baer.
 Geheimer Sanitatsrath, Chief Physician
 of the Penitentiary, Plotzensee, bel Ber- lin.
 | Mrs. Hunt has also received letter of
 appreciation for the valuable service she
 rendered the state of Illinois during the
 recent contest for stronger temperance
 educational law. It bears the signatures
 of Hendrick V. Fisher, president of the
 senate, Edward c. Curtis, speaker of the
 house, and Charles Bogardus, chairman committee on education.
 Mrs. Hunt Is our national delegate to the International Congress on Alcohol, to be held in Brussels August 30 to Sep
 tember 3, 1S97 An elaborate program
 is already in print.
 ! The largest meeting of the National
 Educational association known in its
 history opened at the exposition building in Milwaukee, Wis, July 6. It Is esti-
 mated that over seventeen thousand dele
 gates were in attendance. Fifteen thous.
 and people were turned away from the first meeting.
 President Charles R. Skinner, superin tendent of public instruction of the state
 of New York, made the first address. ; Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin, president oi
 the general federation of women's clubs , presented paper the second day. Presi , dent Skinner in introducing her said t hat
 one of the encouraging things for the cause of education is the interest taken , in schools by women. The ladies were , asked to take off their hats and severa
 thousand responded.
 t The third day Dr. Lyman Abbott spok, for religious training in the schools, no theology, but a practical training II justice, mercy, truth, faith, hope, love goodness. Man must learn to goverr himself. His motive powers must be 7 educated as well as his thinking powers or he will not become good citizen..... , When read of two hundred lynchings il
 this country last year, when I see trampG increasing on the one hand and multi , millionaires growing in numbers on th'
 other hand, when find criminals are
 multiplying, feel we ought to have some l of the religion of the Hebrew" Women constitute large majority o the educators of America. Women were F as much in evidence at this convention a'
 men; they read papers, delivered ad . dresses and made impromptu speeches a, ; we'll as the masculine delegates; botf
 sexes shared equally in the labor whict
 made the gathering such a ''feast O.
 reason and flow of soul"-they divided
 the work, but what about the honors
 In the list of officers elected for the en
 suing year not woman's name appears