The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-12-24
BITTER war ON IN1EMpIRANcE
soLDiItRs FIGIiTING THIS CuRsE
GREATLY CHEERED
What Makes Idiots?---Onc Eminenr
Authority Says That Thirty-five
Per Cent. OF the Predetermined
Arc the Result of Drink.

AutnOffty says Innt ihirt!-nto {
Per Cent. OF the Predetermined
Arc the Result of Drink.
One OF che aaddest sights In this
world is an undeveloped, dwarfed or
sluggish intellect. Statistics have
placed the number of defective chill
dren In the United States as 10000,
enough to make a city OF nearly 200,-
O00 What is the cause of this alarm-
ing increase in idiocy? One eminent
authority says that thirty-iive per
cent. of the feeble-minded are the re-
suits of strong drink. What a stum-
bling block this nation is placing be-
fore the children Ia the form OF the
licensed dramshopl
o mother, yod whose arms are
folded about your bright, laughing.
dimpled little ones, think of the thou
sands of helpless infants, forced into
an almost joyles-, senseless existence
| through the 0bLOxious rum trafiic.
| Each mother should say, Il am but
| one-but / am one. cannot do
! much, but l can 40 something, and
I what / can do, b. the grace OF God,
l will do
No matter how we'll directed the
effort for the Idle development, he
will always b, handicapped, and
never in this ia will he be what
he has a right be.
/ Because of .-e degradation of rum
drinking parents in one large city,
100000 children, owing to their filthy
] physical and moral inheritances and
bad environments, are prohibited
from attending the public schools.
Belle Kearney, in an address at Ann
Arbor, told of one of her experiences
while touring the South. At the
close of one lecture little boy came
running toward her. 20 Miss Kear-
ney," he cried, stretching out his
claws toward her, for his thin hands
were little more; don't you think
the boys and girls ought to be pro-
tected from strong drink?"
In small village of Michigan
there exists family of nine children.
The father is habitual drinker. His
children are dull, and some Of them
have criminal tendencies. Their one
little girl was an exception. This lit
tie child was very pretty and appeared
normal up to her second year. Later,
one afternoon her mother went away
and left her in the care of the two
younger boys. In her absence the
little girl attempted to light the gaso-
line stove. Her clothing caught fire
and she was burned beyond earthly
hope when her screams brought a
passerby to her relief. Their older
boy is now In jail. For months the
children have absented themselves
from school. The teachers say they
do not want them to attend, for their
presence always starts trouble. This
family can be multiplied many times.
The boys are growing up without
Christian training, and waen they
| fbofr xpfll rnnnt
as much as the minister's.
Physicians assert that in many
towns more than one-half of the
women to-day are incapable of nurs-
ing their children. This incapacity
is on the increase and has been found
to be hereditary. Their milk has to
be supplemented with cows milk. II
has been found that human milk, to
meet special requirements of the
human infant, is poorest in albumer
} and richest in Tactic acid. The latter
component is the principle element
I used in building up the brain. Now
. the milk of the COW is composed oi
! ingredients in percentages that NEE
! the need Of the calf, and therefore
cannot be considered proper substi
tute for human milk for the infant
! Over 100 eminent medical men hav'
80 =,
ascertain the reason for the failure
; of so many mothers to nurse thei
L children. Sixteen hundred familie
L were taken for object studies to inves
tigate along this line. The failur
y in seventy-eight out of hundred
d was found to be due to alcoholism
s Only small percentage of the daugh
: ters of drinking fathers were found t
be able to nurse their children. II
|. child is not we'll fed, especially in in
g fancy, it is in danger of becoming
n lifelong victim of mental inaptitude
o 1t will scarcely attain the success tha
+ it might have enjoyed had all of tn
- conditions been favorable.
, II for no other reason than love t
y these little human flowers" let US
as mothers, wives, sisters and daugh
u ters, do all we can to take down tn
3 Stars and Stripes from the license
@ saloon and wrap it around the pref
ious children.