Smyrna times., 1901-01-16
TEMPERANCE NOTES SELECTED.
By the ". c. 7. U. Press Superintendent,
Miss Anna W. Sutton Of Smyrna.


Miss Anna W. Sutton OF Smyrna.
The Union Signal of January 3rd, con-
tanned the two following items. THE
General Conference of the Methodist
Church last Spring to Inaugurate a gen
eral temperance crusade met in Chic
agorecently. 1t was decided to ask
the Methodist ministry throughout
the country to set apart Nov. 2jth, of
each year as Temperance Day and
hold special services on that occasion.
Over 10, 600 ministers, it is said have
already signifed willingness to do
so.
The determination of the churches
to continue the crusade against vice
has assumed organized form. Twenty
five ministers representing churches of
all denominations have selected a Wig
ilance committee to point out to the
city authorities the evil of such places
as all-night saloons, gambling joints,
and moving picture slot machines.
Another committee was directed to Sc
cure funds to aid unfortunates affected
by this crusade"
"a press dispatch from Ashtabula,
Ohio says: Notices have been posted
at all Lake Erie harbors forbidding
the use of liquor on any of the docks.
All who violate the order will be dis
charged. For many years, or IN fact
ever since ore handling became an in
dustry, it has been a custom among
many of the dock laborers to take their
beer in the middle of the forenoon
and again in the middle of the after
noon in working hours.
Da. 7. D. Crothers, editor of the
Journal Of LaeJrjety says: . That the
appetite for alchOhOl Is never natural
but always supernatural and abnormal
is evidenced beyond dispute. 1t is a
certain sign of defects of both brain
and nervous system. 1t is an express
sion Ofphysical and psychical distress;
of imperfect and damaged activity of
the brain centres and vital forces, and
1t may be literally called a cry for re-
lief and rest. AlchohOl when taken,
opens up a new world of feeling cover
ing up the old sense of unrest, discom-
fort and pain. This is done by tempo
rary palsy of the sensory centres fol-
lowed by delusive feeling of comfort.
This palsy is temporary and reacts in
certain intensiication of every condi-
tion which has created desire for its
use. To both the savage and civilized
man the use of alchOhol reveals new
feelings, new experiences. To the de-
generate and exhausted brain and
exhausted brain and body and the
faulty nervous energies it covers up a
Of their presence and
brings a new sense of change and rest.
In all this the alchoholic appetite is
degeneration and death, al
ways marked and rarely realized b.
the victim until recovery is impossi-
BILE. ="
As safeguard against the alcho-
holic appetite and its dire results, we
give the total abstinence resolution
adopted by the recent National W. G.
I. I. Convention. 'Because our com
plex social system brings high mental
and physical pressure to the life Of all,
and is filed with subtle temptation to
young and old, foremost among which
IS the drink habit; we urge by every
Of our common human
.ty and the love and precepts of the
Christ, that men and women, Chris
.ians and patriots everywhere, shall
and encourage total abstinance
rom all alchOholic drinks. Most es-
should this rule govern those |
If power and wide influence"