Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-02
TEMPERANCE NOTES.

1t is proposed to establish a system
on the plan of the Virginia Byrd liquor
law for the State of Tennessee.
Prohibition candidate Chafin is busy
making campaign speeches. He says
his party is the only one that has a
real live issue.
The legislature of Indiana has passed
local option bill providing that when
ever 20 per cent of the population of a
county desires a vote, an election shall
be held to decide whether that county
shall be dry or not.
In the taprooms of st. Johns, New
foundland, women serve as bartenders,
and over the saloon bar there is posted
weekly list of all persons arrested for
drunkenness. No one is allowed to sell
any such person drink for period of
two weeks, under penalty of heavy fine.
The appellate court of Georgia has
decided that the solicitation of orders
for whiskey by mail is violation of
the laws of that State and that the We
nue. of the crime committed is at the
place where the letter is delivered. In
other words, man outside the State
may violate the laws of the State and
be subject to its legal penalty, and that
the State may punish such a criminal
without infringing on the rights of the
United States government to control
the use of the mails.
Believing that the local option law
would cut off the whiskey supply at
Kokomo, Ind. Charles Thresper and
Charles and William Lindley on Sunday
took jug of whiskey to gravel pit
to have farewell drink. Thresper and
William Lindley were found dead in the
gravel pit the next day, and Charles
Lindley was found lying near the bodies
in a dying condition. Teachers and
pupils of the Greentown School, near
the pit, marched past the dead bodies to
give the children an object lesson in
temperance.
DOES ALCOHOL REDUCE MANS WORKING
EFFICIENCY TEN PER CENT.
In the October McClure's DIR. Henry
Smith Williams tells of the experiments
by Prof. Aschoffenburg with four type
settlers in an effort to determine the
effect of alcohol on mans working eff
cheney. In summing up the professor
says:
1.-The experiment extended over four
days. The first and third days were
observed as normal days, no alcohol
being given. On the second and fourth
days each worker received thirty-fve
grams Ia little more than one once) of
alcohol. in the form of Greek wine. A
comparison of the results of work on
normal and on alcoholic days showed,
in the case of one of the workers, no
difference. But the remaining three
showed greater or less retardation of
work, amounting in the most pronounc-
ed case to almost fourteen per cent.
AS typesetting is paid by the measure,
such worker would actually earn ten
per cent less on days when he consum-
ed even this small quantity of alcohol"
DIR. Williams says: 'In the light of
such observations, glass of beer or
even the cheapest bottle of wine is seen
to be an expensive luxury. To forfeit
ten per cent of ones working efficiency
is no trifiing matter in these days of
strenuous competition. Perhaps it
should be noted that the subjects of the
experiment were all men habituated to
the use of liquor, one of them being
accustomed to take four glasses of beer
each week day, and eight or ten on
Sundays. This heaviest drinker was
the one whose work was most Influenced
in the experiment just related. The
one whose work was least influenced
was the only one of the four who did
not habitually drink beer every day:
and he drank regularly on Sundays. >"