The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-05-02
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THE MAKING OF IDIOTS.
Important Part Alcohol Plays in Great
Human Curse.

Important Part Alcohol Plays in Great
Human Curse.
Jne Of the saddest sights In this
world is an undeveloped. dwarfcd on
sluggish intellect Statistics have
placed the number OF defective chill.
dren In the United States as 10000.
enough TO make city of nearly 20O.-
00O What is the cause Of this alarm
ing increase In idiocy? One eminent
authority says that 80 per cent. OF the
Predetermined are the results OF strong
drink What a stumbling block THIS
nation is placing before the children
IN the form Of the licensed dramshop'
o mother. yon whose arms are fold
ed about your bright laughing. dim
pied little one. think Of the thousands
OF helpless infants, forced into an al.
most joyless. senseless existence
through the obnoxious rum traalc.
Each mother should say. Il am but
one--but | am one. cannot do much
but ! can do something. and what |
can do. by the grace OF God, I will
DO"
No matter how wen directed the ef
fort for the idiots development. no
win always be handicapped, and never
In this world viii he be what he has a
right to be.
Because OF the degradation OF rum.
drinking parents IN one large city.
100. 600 children. owing TO their hhhy
physical and moral inhoritances aud
bad environments. are prohibited from
attending the public schools Belle
Kearney. IN an address 40 Ann Arbor,
told OF one OF her experiences while.
touring the south Al the close Of
one lecture a little boy came running
toward her 20 Miss Kearaey. b.
cried. stretching out his claws toward
her. for his thin hands we're little
more: don't yon think the boys aud
girls ought TO be protected from
strong drink
In a small village Of Michigan. says
Irene Davis In the Home Herald. there
exists a family OF nine children. The
father Is q habituai drinker Ills chill
dren are an duh and some OF them
have criminal tendencies Their one
little girl was an exception. This
little child was ycTy pretty and ap.
peared normal ~ 70 hsF second year.
Later. one afternoon her mother went
away and left her Ia tho care 81 the
two younger boys. in her absence the
little girl attempted 20 hght the Eoso.
line stove Her clothing caught ere
and she was burned beyond earthly
hope when her screams brought a
uasscrby 20 her relief Their older
hos Is now IN jail For months the
children have absented themselves
from school The teachers Say they
do not want them 10 attend. Tor their
presence always starts trouble. This
family can be multiplied many times.
The boys are growing up without
Christian training. aud when they nre
81 their vote viii count as much as a
ministers
Physicians assert that IN many
towns more than onehalf o. the Won.
en- to-day are Incapable Of nursing
their children. This ineapaoity is on
the Increase aud has been found TO
be hereditary. Their milk has 90 be
supplemented With cows milk. Il
has been found that human milk. 20
meet special requirements Of the hu-
man infant. Is poorest In albumen
aud richest In tactic acid. The lat
ter component n the principle ele-
ment used In building up the brain.
Now. the milk OF the COW is COM
posed OF ingredients in percentages
that meet the need OF the calf. and
therefore cannot be considered proper
substitutes for human milk for the
infant. over 100 eminent medical
men have been engaged In scientinc
research to ascertain the reason for
the failure OF so many mothers 10
nurse their children. sixteen hundred
families we're taken for object studies
70 investigate along this line. The
failure IN "a out OF a hundred was
found to be due 20 alcoholism. Only
small percentage OF the daughters
Of drinking fathers we're found TO be
able to nurse their children. II
child Is not well fed, especially In In
fancy. II Is In danger OF becoming
lifelong victim OF mental inaptitude.
II win scarcely attain the success that
II might have enjoyed had all OF the
conditions been favorable.
II for no other reason than love
70 these little human fowers. let ne.
az mothers. wives sisters and daugh-
ters. do all We can to take down the
Stars and Stripes from the licensed
saloon and wrap II around the pre-
cious children