Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-10-05
SOME GLOBE PHILANTHROPY


 designed to benefit certain part of mankind. The man to whom the credit is due is Dr. Earn est Thomas, who every older Globe resident probably knows. Dr. Thomas motive is to ex- tend help and remedial measures to those unfor- tunate people who are fighting against an over towering desire for alcoholic stimulants. To this end, he has evolved a remedy which he calls the Globe Three-Day Cure. Dr. Thomas frankly says that this preparation brought release from bondage to him after excessive drinking had threatened the ruination of his career. He speaks then from the point of view of one who has passed through the perils and miseries of all cohosm and so knows whereof he talks.
 Dr. Thomas was at one time in the liquor busi- ness in Globe. And constant handling of alec holic drinks led to his establishing the habit of excessive drinking. Mir. Thomas has frank ness that carries conviction of his earnestness and is the surest possible proof of the permancy of his own rehabilitation. ''I didn't draw a sober breath off fifteen years, '" was statement of his made to an acquaintance few days ago That is an unusual admission for any man to make The fact is by no means startling or rare in the occurrence, but the ingenous avowal of it is most infrequent. A sort of false pride pre- vents the average man from confessing to any great weakness, however glaring and fragrant it may be to the observer Dr. Thomas possesses degree of manhood that he has the conscious ness of having effectually and forever put his folly behind him. A weakness overcome is a point of strength, and so in this case.
 When Dr. Thomas found the way out of the abyss of horrors into which excessive drinking had thrown him, his inherent nobility of nature came uppermost and found expression in his present work. The only justifable course of ac- ton he saw before him was to lead others from misery to freedom by the same way that he had come. And thus originated the reformation work of the Globe ThreeDay Cure.
 But there is more to Dr. Thomas plan for the reclamation of manhood from the wretchedness of drinking to excess. This reformer of which Globe has reason to be proud has what appears to be most logical and effective plan for rally ing the mental, moral and physical faculties of a man for the struggle with an enslaving habit He plans to work in conjunction with a capable temperance advocate who will do all in his pow CT to correct and stimulate the mental attitude of sufferer against his own weakness. The ''cure" may be depended upon as the physical ally. The combination should be well nigh in- vincible and has the virtue of being a new idea for strengthening the individual to the point of necessary resistance against his own desires.
 This plan for enlisting moral, physical and mental forces in the fight against the drink de- mon excess is one that should conquer, and one that should receive the earnest support and commendation of every thinking person with the betterment of mankind as an ideal. The mind of man whose physical forces are broken down by eXcesses is in no condition to lay hold of any plan for deliverance, however logical and forceful may be its presentation. Likewise, a man undergoing the bangs of starvation finds scant comfort for his plight in perusing the pages of a beautifully embossed Bible. After all the body is an ally whose services we can not we'll reject. The presentation of loaf of bread along with the Scriptural volume may be de- pended upon to make the recipient much more