The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-08
REPORT ONALCOHOL'S USE
REsUET OF INTERNATIONAL CON-
 GREss GIVEN.
Delegates From Civilized World As- semBIed in London to study Ef- fects of AIeohel---Formuiate
 PIan of Education.

Washington. Nov. 7--Alcohol and alcoholism are two of the real and sub stantiai enemies of moral artistic and commercial progress of the human race, according to the, report of the United States delegates to the Twelfth International Congress on Alcoholism. made public by the state department today.
 The delegates were appointed by Secretary Knox as one of his first of ficiai acts. The Congress was held last July in London, and twenty-five governments were represented. the delegates of each concurring in the general finding that alcohol not only was unnecessary to human life and comfort but was inimical to both.
 Three departments of the United States government were represented by delegates. the state. navy and treas ury. Twelve representatives went abroad, and all of them unanimously signed the report made public today. the finding of which Is to condemn the drinking habit as dangerous to public health and morals and subversfve of national, moral, commercial and mili- tary greatness.
 Because of the information evolved at the Congress. the delegates accept ed the invitation of the Queen of Hol- land to hold their next meeting. two years hence. at The Hague in conjunc- tion with the conference of the com mittee that is working ] for interna- tional peace.
 While the Congress urged the neces- sity of imposing the most rigorous rec strictions on the sale and traffic in alcoholic liquors, 1t regarde as equal | ly important the need of educating the younger generation to a true knowl- | edge of what alcohol Is and what its effects upon the humans system are. | The delegates believe that the numer- ous recent discoveries as to the harm fulness of drunkenness and even of
 moderate" drinking, also. should be set before children in order that they | may see the danger of the practice. The value of. this method Of com | batting the growth of the liquor habit Is emphasized in the report. While | acknowledgement Is made that the or ganization of associations of juvenile abstainers Is useful, 1t Is declared, the chief reliance should be placed on | scientific temperance education in the | public schools as a means of ridding | the public mind of errors about ihe effects of alcohol and substituting the | facts that science Is declared to have
 evolved about the use of the bever-
 age, even when taken in small doses l In furtherance of this plan. Mrs.
 Edith Smith Davis of Milwaukee. Wis
 superintendent of the Worlds and Ma
 tionaI Christian Temperance Union and one of the American delegates urged the necessity of getting to the | root of the matter by compelling the curricula of normal schools and uni- versailles to include such education. In | this way, Mrs. Davis contended, the younger generation would be assured
 of proper instruction on the subject
 Miss Cora F. StoddarJ. 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.
 The United States, according to the report. made an unusually good show ing in it's exhibits. Germany also wal to the fore with particularly fine col. lection of colored charts showing tho
 effect of alcohol on the body. thu
 family and upon society. Especially
 effective 1t is said, were the stereopti.
 con slides of the National Temperance,
 League of Great Britain.
 Following the example of Grea Britain. the city and district officials , of both France and Australia likewisl have adopted the public warning , method of advising the people agains iindulgence. The report deplores tn