Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1910-10-14
CONTINUED from last weekly
MANS DAILY LABOR AFFECTED
ny ALCOHOL.

BY ALCOHOL.
Sir friedrich Treves, the eminent
surgeon of Kiog Edward VII, says
that In the South African war when a
column of 10000 British soldiers
moved upon Ladysmith the frat to
drop ont we're not the big men nor
the little men, nor the tall, nor the
shor., but the men who drank; and
they dropped out as clearly as II they
had been labeled with q big letter on
their backs.
He also says: "To be at, no young
man can touch 1t. No one who is
youog and healthy can want alcohol
any more than he can want strych-
niue"
In our age Of keen competition,
here Ia a praotioll side OF the ques-
tlon that should not be overlooked by
any OF US. We know that man
must be- at his best all OF the time 10
order to succeed, and when one
drinks alcoholic beverages regularly
he lie not able to perform his maxi
mum amount of work. To show that
this is true let rs consider the fol-
lowing experiment performed By
Prof Aschaffen burg, former student
OF Kraeplin. The tests were made
upon four professional type-setters
and with all che rigor and precision
OF the psychological laboratory. The
men worked in the ordinary way and
under exactly the same conditions as
they were accustomed to, except that
the oopies from which the type was
set we're always printed In order to
secure uniformity. The results 40
summed up by the author follow:
"Ths experiment extended over
four days. The first and third were
observed as normal days, no alcohol
being given. On the second and
fourth days each worker received
thirty Ave grams Ga little more than
one ounce) OF alcohol in the form OF
Greek wine. A comparison OF the
results OF the work on normal aud on
alcoholic days showed. in the case Of
one OF the workers, no difference,
But the remaining three showed
greater or less retardstion OF work
amounting In the most pronounced
case to almost fourteen per cent. Al
type setting IL paid for by the meas
ure, such a worker would actually
earn fourteen per cent less on day
when he consumed even this email
amount of alcohol.
EFFECTS ON CHILDREN.
Some interesting facts as to the Of
feet of beer drinking on German
school children have been gathere
by Bayer who investi gated the habit
of SOL children in the public school
of Vienna. These children wer
ranked by their teachers into thre
groups denoting progress as "good,
"fair," or "poor" respectively
Bayer found, on investigation. thu
1874 of these pupils took no alcoholi
drink, that 1874 drank alcohol yer
seldom, but that 2l9 drank beer
wine once daily, IL drank 1t twiC
daily, and three drank it with ever
meal. or the total sbstsiners AZ p'
cent ranked in the school as ''good.
40 per cent as "fair," and per Gel
as "poor." or the occasional dFinI
ere, "a per cent ranked as good,
81 per cent as "isir," and per Gel
as "poor." or the daily dIinker
% per cent ranked as good" {
PER cent as "fair," and IA per Gel
ss poor Those who drank twi,
daily ranked % per cent "good,
81 per cent as fair" and Is p
cent as "poor. " OF the three wi
drank thrice daily, one ranked
flair" aud the other two as 'poor.
1t is needless to comment on the
figures, they speak for themselves.