The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-29
Moderate Drinking Ana1vzed.

SIMPLIFY, England, May S.
Especial correspondence. At the
recent conference here under the
Joint auspices of the British
Temperance League and the Ship
ley Temperance Union, DR.. Will
shaw, vice-president of the health
committee of the municipality OF
Southport, read very interesting
article on the many sided fallacy
of moderate drinking. The paper
was heartily received and made a
splendid impression. Discussing
the widespread notion that the
'carefuF' non-abstainer is without
danger of becoming a victim to
the alcoholic appetite, DR.. Will
shaw said:
IF no one becomes a drunkard
all at once, then everyone must
have passed through the so-called
stage of moderation before the full
effects of alcoholism are seen.
"Seeing what are the extreme
dangers ahead, [ think our ener-
gies ought to be promoted in COM
batting the idea that, taken in mod
Grafton, no harm results, because,
although moderation does not
show its harmful results at once, it
certainly does in time in those de-
generate changes which commence
so insidiously and yet so surely.
[ claim that the moderate use of al
cohol is
''Without value; that all the no
tons regarding the strengthening,
warming, stimulating, appetizing
action of small quantities will not
stand the test of true scientific re-
search.
''That the moderate use of al
cohol predisposes to certain NAL
aides and shortens life. I refer
especially here to pneumonia and
tuberculosis, two very common
diseases.
ut is dangerous, because it is a
trap into which it entices and then
pushes its victims further on to it's
immoderate use, position which,
even while it is working so insidi-
ously, is not desired, but dreaded.
ut is the true cause of alcohol
ism. A person becomes a drunk
ard by one way only, and that is
via moderation.
1T is utopian to hope by mod
GRAFTON to stem the evil. This is
confirmed by history, by present
day observation, and one may
even venture to say by prophecy.
Moderation has always ex-
listed, and immoderation has al
ways been dishonored; and what is
the success? The advocates of
moderation have in no degree
checked alcoholism and all the
evils which it entails; total alb
stinence, and that alone, has, or
ever can, do So"
i. + i.
Drink and Poverty.
| have said a hundred times, and
| am willing to say it again, that
if anybody will take charge of all
the poverty and crime which re-
suits from drunkenness, the South
Congregational church, of which
have the honor to be the minister,
will alone take charge of all the rest
of the poverty which needs relief
in the city of Boston.-Edward
Everett Hale.
Another incident proving how
truly blood and training tells is
brought before the w. G.. T. U.
Miss Kara Grace Smart chosen as
'Our next round the-world mis-
sionary' is the daughter of a
clergyman, as was her mother who
has also been devoted w. G. T.
I. woman for many years. Miss
Smart has received seminary and
business college courses and taught
school, and has also been a sue
cessful business woman. After
trying to uplift the young and in
still into their minds the great
need of temperance and purity
through the White Shield Circle
she found that incomplete and or
ganized a Y. w. G. T. U. in
which she has worked as local dis
trict and State officer. She goes
to Japan where she will carry on
the work so grandly started by
Clara Parish Wright.
Mrs. Ramsey, president of
South Dakota, testi6es to Miss
Smart's unusual qualifications
thus: "Miss Smart has been an
ideal officer. She has the ability
to bring things to pass. The
business training which she has re-
ceived makes her intensely practi-