The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-03-24

literally anarchy IN Wn7c0 4re ana
property are in constant peril All
The leaders recognize that the alcohol
&c problem has a sanitary side a. thal
most absorbing interest," and thie
must be recognized and Become apart
of the practical life OF every conn0nun-I
Ity.
The unsettled conditions of home
life the prejudices and conflicts of
inseparabIe TO the evolution OF
a new South must have no comphca-
from alcohol and forces that are
destructive to all healthy growth.
Industrial progress and develop
ment of the vast of the
South is obstructed and retarded I'M
less alcohol and its use as asbevs
erage can be controlled or suppressed
DIR. Howard A. Kelly, of Baltimore.
Md, Professor of Diseases of Women
in the John Hopkins University, de-
clared that The Alcoholic Problem IN
Every Day Life is becoming more and
more apparent in the diseases, degen-
and injuries which are trace
able directly to the use OF alcohol.
Every thoughtful physician must
recognize that alcohol as a beverage
and even as a medicine has an I'M
known danger that may come into
prominence in a great variety of dis
eases and conditions.
Every days experience brings out
this fact, and while we are not always
able to trace the connection, there is
great certainty that 1t exists. and that
alcohol is a dangerous and uncertain
drug. and al a beverage it should
have no place in healthy normal hv-
ing.
DR.. T. D. Crothers. of Hartford,
Conn, Superintendent Walnut Lodge
Hospital, in a paper OF The Future
of Alcoholic Problems, affirmed that
at present there are potitive tndica-
lions of the early solution OF this
great problem by means and meas
ures that cannot be mistaken.
1-Experience and laboratory re-
seareh have shown alcohol to be a
narcotic and it's effects on the system
produce a distinct disease both cura-
BILE and preventable.
2.-This question is one of public
health and sanitary science. The sa-
loon for the promotion of the sale of
spirits is a center for the promufga-
ton of this disease, and is doomed
to extinction from a larger and more
exact knowledge.
3.@Science shows that alcohol IS
an an~aesthetic has a value in medi-
cine but it's zeal power is that of a
IuO fllSLI dlNu jim pIOuuCOu. a-ti
4.-That cheap alcohol can be made
from a great variety of sources hat
will be active competitors to electric
ity, gasoline and steam.
5.-What is needed Is the inven-s
ton of boilers, lamps and means to
utilize and make practical this great
power Of alcohol.
6.-Every distillery and brewery in
the country will be required for the
manufacture and distribution of cheap
alcohols when the inventor supplies
the missing links.
7.-Alcohol will become one of the
great rivals of electricity to do the
worlds work because it can be made
from the waste and by products In ev-
cry section Of the country.
S.-Beer, spirits and all other forms
of alcohol as beverages will disappear
when the inventor shows us how to
harness and utilize this new latent
power of civilization.
9.-The future of the alcoholic prob
lem will be followed by a great revo-
luton in commercial industry and will
De a question of sanitary. science and
inventors skill.
DR.. V. A. E1fworth, of Boston, Mass.
Superintendent Washington Home
read a paper on What Shall We Do
With the Inebriate, AND declared that
from an experience of over fifty years
with the care and treatment of 30, 1000
patients at the Washington Home, 1t
had been proven ~conclusively that me
deal care and restraint in proper in
stitntions was the only answer to the
question.
Statistics showed that from Is to
20 per GEM of all cases treated in
properly organized hospitals were per
manently restored. At least 30 per
cent were temporarily improved and
benefited.
The statistics of legal treatment by
fines and imprisonment show that less
than l per e of all persons arrested
are restored while 80 per cent are per
m~anently trained to careers of crime
and pauperiSan and made worse by
the efforts of the State to cure them.
What is needed is workhouse hospi-
tails and reforroatorfes conducted al
org military lines where restraint and
occupation can be combined to perma
nently overcome the disease and re-
store the patient to health again.
This is an answer to the question,
What Shall We Do With the Ine-
briate?
DR.. B. C. Kefzter, of Roanoke. vfr.
stnia, Superintendent of the Home
S~anitorium at Roanoke, Id a paper on
Alcohol from a Scientific Viewpoint.
showed tina modern laboratory re-
search and clinical experience denied
the tonic and stimulent value OF alco-
ho1.
Every test with Instruments of pre-
cision showed that it's action is that
of an anaesthetic and narcotic. In
science, faith and previous theories
have no place, unless they are support
ed by critical evidence that is uIdis-
puted.
Theories held a few years ago as
correct are now found to be enron.
eous. Alcohol, like every other drug
in common use. is found by science 20
be useless, except as a narcotic.
The ethers of alcohol seen In ether
and chloroforrn r Of priceless value
and their use marks a new era In ms.