The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-02-24
VIC CT.U.CoLUMN. 7.
~.,erc TED By MRS. N. l. HOBBS.
p,, .icians and Educators
4, Il. Rspl, Of the Committee Of Fifty

NIN .Nr n.y.
+ port Of the Sub Commit
tha Committee OF fifty with
rnneiations OF our present sys-
n public school temperance
NON. and its condoning oi
~.,e drinking, has elected no
II approving comments from
3icai and educational press
tas reverse.
r-a, Medical Journals Say.
Ma Cincinnati Lsncei-C!inic,
nublishing 8 long resume oi
Riplv 10 the Sub Committee ~
\ ,G,nal Noman's Christian
.erance Union, comments tnat
alter "seems to score at every
90 which it taxes Issue Win
-lb-cOmmlltee :,
HE Chicago Medical Standard
-..-vne to this reply, says
rb- danger OF alcohol l. such
a,e so subversive ot the vel
society. that i, can hardly oe
.rba-izad toomuch, not, OF course.
M expense Of truth let tne
ang Of scientific hairs Is hard y
-arv on either side. Let Inc
unembelii.hed truth be tod
~ children without reserve, oy
means The horrors OF alcohol
are not likely to be much over
D.
rb4 criticism that the indorsedl
tsr. books have been exaggerated
,n hardly b. made against tn'
,4r school bsoks on physiology
written by professors in the N2r'n
v-.tern University Medical Schoo
,nd the Harvard Medical School
These are clean, up TO date an
imbued with the teachings OF moa
ern science. To discontinue ia
pub'ic instruction in physioiog
with its bearings on the alcohol an
tobacco questions would certaini
~ a mistake. But let us have a.
curacv, by all means"
limited states Senate sets lis sea
n approval on the reply b the con
mitiee OF ffty.
On motion OF the only memo'
o' ,ne medical profession Ia 4
United states Senate, Senator y Al
niger Of New Hampshire, the rep
to The Physiological sub-cor mlt''
N the committee OF fifty has be-
,~s4s government document
unanimous consent OF the Senat
~-nator Gallinger was ply
n vide repute b.fore he enter
politics. and therefore Is sccustom
io Judge Of these matters iFom
scientific standpoint. 1T has De
pleasure to me, he writes,
gse wider circulation TO this mag
scent revly than it would have
,aived had not the senate plsc
X seal Of approval upon 1t. 4
sciion by the Senate was the o.
significant because no one had ask
that il be taken, aud every m@m
had received a copy Of the rep
sen. him as a matter Of iniorma'l
% he had the opportunity 70 kn
ilr wha, be was voting
Educational criticism Ct the g
mitiee of fii,y's report
Educational papers protest en-
getically against the character OF
report Of the COMMITTEES OF nifty
DR. A. f. Winship Of the Ma
ehuse,ts State Board Of Educail
in An incisive editorial IN the ;
England Journal OF Education
the Bowditch- Hodge report oi
sub committee concerning tenn
ance education, says in part
There is nothing charged q
nst the physiologies that l. %
scientific a. DR.. Bowditch unsc
tine. undignified, unproiessi
assumption that tners Is any e
ufc value to his IS per cent ;,
Ter cent. III per cent. OF re-
from answers from only one-io
Of those who should have snsws
"Intempersnce il a crying
the habit Of using intoxicants VI
the health, the intellect, tn m'
Of millions Of Americans tne
81 intoxicants tends TO undo ril
the schools vim 10 do; their u
curse 10 the homa. TO lndnsins
municipal and political lite.
1T j. vastly bsiter, IN 81
cause. 10 do a little to much To
do nothing
NO eminent medical sutt
has ever made any appreciaoi3
ID utilize the schools foI the 81
iening Of youth regarding the
ers lurking in intoxicrnts.
The W0man's Christian
perance Union has put u
times the effor. into the enl'e
A.