Arizona republican., 1903-09-10

primary to the end of the first year of the high school, making, for the nine
 years, two hundred and seventy lessons
 in all in the whole subject of physiology
 and hygiene. due proportion of which
 is devoted to the effects of alcoholic
 drinks and other narcotics.
 The fact that the Bremen congress
 numbered nearly fifteen hundred mem- bers from fifteen different nations shows the interest in this question in
 countries usually considered prejudiced in favor of alcohol. Five days were
 given to the profound discussion of eV-
 cry phase of the subject including eS- ! pecially experimental and other re-
 search on the physiological and socio- i logical results following the beverage
 use of alcohol even in what is termed
 moderate amounts" The papers and | discussions of these topics were chiefly
 by men from the universities and other ] institutions of learning of Europe. The , facts against the beverage use of alco-
 holic drinks. facts which, disputed by i the lovers of and dealers in those drinks, we. are teaching in the public
 schools of the United States, were abundantly confirmed.
 A marked impression, which is all ready reported to have stimulated ac- i tion in five different nations, was made | by facts derived from the last census
 and ether official data presented at the l congress by the writer These facts show that this education has helped
 secure the increase of 4.1 years in the i average length of life in the decade 1 preceding the last census, the greater
 sobriety of the American workman
 which IS acknowledged to be one factor | in the commercial success of the United | States and the decline in the rate of 1 increase of the use of alcoholic drinks. the returns of the internal revenue
 department showing that during the | last eleven years, in which this study
 has been quite generally taught in the
 schools, the gain in their per capita ! consumption was only one-thlrd as 1 great as in the preceding eleven years
 when there was little or no study of the : subject. That there was even ais gain
 was largely due to the enormous influx l of alcoholic drinkers, as immigrants, i during this time.
 1 Temperance education in the schools
 is already so much of a world move ment that great interest attaches to the inquiry why such gratifying results are | following this educational method Of preventing alcoholism in one country | and not in every other. Thus the ques
 tions of what is taught and of methods are of live interest.
 INTEREST OF THE GERMAN EM- | PRESS.
 1 In the midst of this general express sion of concern that some effective method be devised for Germany to check the ravages of alcohol, a telegram l ha i Hoffman to "the Marble Palace at Pots
 dam, where Her Majesty. the Empress of Germany, Sraciously wished to re- ceive" us. The royal carriage, which the invitation said would be in waiting
 at the station in Potsdam, was there, and tocok us to the favorite summer home of the royal family.
 Her Majesty, the mother of six sons i ana a daughter, is a tall. slender, beau
 tiful woman. with a youthful face un-
 der a crown of light hair. Advancing
 to meet us with the most gracious of smiles, and with extended hand, she welcomed us with entire simplicity and
 absence of formality. In response to
 her questions. l told Her Majesty the
 story of the origin and progress of the
 movement which has put temperance
 education laws upon the statute books | of our national congress and every one
 of our forty-five state: of the organized mother-love in the Woman's Christian
 Temperance Union with its represents | tiNeS in every town. village and city Cf | the land, watching to see that the chil-
 dren get this particular education; of
 our great but successful struggle for
 well-graded textbooks on this subject; i of what they teach: of the interest and
 good work fo.C Nu9r public sI:hCn. teachers i of the importance. if the habits of the 1 cOEring generations are to be influenced. l ot the study being progressive from the | lowest primary grade; and finally of the
 results to individuals, to industry, and
 to the nation of this instruction. With l these results it was evident that her ma jesty was not unfamiliar.
 | In the HohenZollern museum there is l q picture of Queen Louise who is rep
 resented as saying when Napoleon I.
 was advancing to take Berlin, "Whither shall I flee from him. The picture showed the following lines from Goethe cut by the queen with her diamond ring on a window pane in the house in | Tilsit 10 which she and her husband, i King Frederick William. had fled: 1 He that with tears did never eat his
 bread
 ! He that hath never lain through | nights long hours,
 Weeping in bitter anguish on his bed He knows ye not, ye heavenly powers.
 | As the interview with the empress which lasted over an hour was about to close, I ventured to say: "I saw yesterday in the Hohenzollern museum picture which represents Queen Louise, after the treaty of Tilsit was signed which cost Prussia half her ter ritory, as visiting Pestalozzi's school and saying, We must teach the people