Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1909-12-03

CiioiS aDOub Tue eutctS OF alcODOi
and substituting the facts that sci
ence is declared TO have evovled
about the use of the beverage. even
when taken i'm small doses.
In futherance of this plan, Mrs.
Edith Smith Davis OF Milwaukee,
Wis, superintendent of the Worlds
and National Christian Temperance
Union, and one of the American del
egates, urged the necessity OF getting
To the root OF the matter by compell-
ing the cuTricula of normal schools
and universities to include such nor
mai shoots and universities TO in
clude such education. In this way,
Mrs. Davis contended, the younger
generation would be assured of pro-
per instruction on the subject.
Miss Cora +. Stoddard of Boston,
another American delegate and secre-
tary of the scientific temperance
federation, also devoted to the same
subject, her address which was the
first paper of the congress. In il she
dwelt upon the important relations
of such instruction in the schools To
national progress. She put forward
the benefits derived by number of
countries through the adoption of
such plan rs proof that it should
become universal.
The United States, according TO
the report, made an unusually good
showing i'm its exhibits. Germany
also was TO the fore with a particu-
larry fine collection OF colored charts
showing the effect of alcohol OH the
body. the family and upon society.
Especially effective, it is said, were
the stereopticon slides of the Nation
al Temperance League of Great Brit
ain.
The stereopticon pictures, the re.
port goes on to show, were largely re
productions of municipal posters that
are being issued 10y the city conciIs
of about 100 British boroughs. The
posters deal i'm n popular way with
the delete-ious effect of alcohol on
the human system, and are posted by
order of the regular officials of towns
in which the sale of intoxicants is
licensed. This fact, however. does
not prevent the ofliciasls from warn
ing the public against the use of al
cohol.
Following the example OF Great
Britain, the city and district officials
of both France and Australia like
wise have adopted the "pubIic
waning method OF advising the
people against indulgence. The re-
port deplores the fact that the same
method has not yet found n fuoIhold
in the United States although such n
plan has been noted i'm certain cities.
where posters inveighing against the
use of alcohl have been issued by
authority Of the mayors
The relation of drunkenness to
crime, was a subject that received
much attention ut the congress. The
chief justice of England, Lord AL
Verstone, announced that in his be-
lief 30 per cent of the crimes passing
under his observation were due TO
drink.
Judge w. +. Pollard OF St. Louis.
Mo. who presides Mt the second dis
trict police court in that city. declar-
ed that OF the cases passed upon by
him fully 50 per cent of those con
victed could charge their degradation
To the use of alcohol. Lieutenant
Colonel Hardy of Edinburgh, Scot
land, conceded with Judge Pollard
rs To the percentage of crimes occur
ring in the former Scotch capital.
Judge Pollard won the support OF
the delegates from twenty-three coun
tries for the doption o. his plan to
suspend sentence in the case OF every
first offender who is brought into
court charged with drunkenness.
This involves scuh first offenders
signing n pledge 10 abstain for one
year. If the probationers fail to
live up To their pledge they may be
arrested and summarily sentenced.
The ledge that one drink NAV
mean prison sentence, !ulee Pol
lard argued, kept many d man
straight until he had time to collect
himself The penalty for failure to
keep faith with the court was not
settled, several of the delegates argu-
ing iii favor of various degrees Of
Punishment. The principle, howev-
er, was regarded as admirable, and
400 delegates argued its adoption bv
the various governments OF the
world.
There was considerable debate on
the effects of the use of small ouanti-
ties of alcohol. Certain of the dele
gates. according to the report. in
sisted that the use of alcohol. i'm
whatever quantity, was of the great
est danger TO the human. Others
commended that experiments showed
concluSively no harm resulted. No
conclusion was reached, the latter
calss maintaining that further exper-
imentation should be undertaken be-