Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-06
w. G.. T. u. Department
BY JULIA A. GARRISON

/ ingenuously to me that most of the
patients were drinkers! We succeeded
in enlisting many of them for our
lodges after we had explained our prin-
ciples. A hospital is a good place to
make propaganda, for the patients
have time to think as hardly ever else
where
EXTERMINATION DEMANDED
Dr. Vaka has just given in the
French Academy of Medicine picture
of the appalling growth of violent
crimes in France, and traces the par
allel between alcohol the cause and
the resultant brutality. The Paris
Temps, in commenting on the report,
comes out squarely for the prohibition
of the manufacture and sale of dis
titled liquors. ut is an absolute ne
cessity to attack the sale of brandy.
Here Is the enemy. In our judgment
the situation demands the entire eX-
termination of the trade in strong
liquors. and if we can induce the peo-
pie Immediately to take this step in
the direction of fundamental reform
to free France from this pest, I'VE must
at least reduce the number of drink
shops and suppress the right of pri-
vate distilling."
The late Professor Hilty of Berne, in
addressing university students, warned
them of the danger to- their prestige
which neglect of the great movement
against alcohol involved. ''If you do
not come upon this field of action" he
said; "f you ignominiously resign the
post you should take, you sacrifice by
so doing all claim to be a leader in
your generation. Other racial classes
of the Swiss confederation. :.
can then with justice proclaim them
selves to be the real universities
Moderation will not do. In fact, what
ever progress has been made from
grosser. drinking to moderation
should fall to the credit of abstainers.
Without them this tendency would
never nave been reported. Our people
owe little to the moderates. They have
rather been an obstacle than help,
and in practice have really proved
the most useful allies of the drink
interest"
NATIONAL HEALTH AFFECTED
In a dissertation on the increase of
heart-sickness in the German army,
DR.. Bruno Eckhard makes clear the
tremendous injury which beer is caus-
ing the national health. In twenty
years the number of those in the army
suffering from heart disease has
doubled relatively. He puts beer
drinking to the front as the chief eff
cient cause. The heart is weakened
by earlier drinking so that when it
is exposed to the strain incident to mil
itary exercises, it gives out. The fact
is striking that the number of heart
diseased in the whole German army is
greater in the First and Second Ba-
varian army corps, although this ex-
cess has in late years declined. He
does not explain whether this decline
is due tola declining beer consump
ton in Bavaria or to an increasing
consumption elsewhere.
Professor Angelo Funaro says alco-
hoI, as arsenic, suplimate, phosphorus,
etc. has its legitimate uses, for eX-
ample, in the preparing of acetic acid.
chloroform, iodoform, as a solvent in
innumerable ways, for the prepara-
tion of tinctures and extracts and as
a fuel. In Germany 81 per cent of the
alcohol produced is used in these legit-
innate ways ''When we get so far in
Italy $4,000, 900 hters less of pure alco-
hol will pass into our peoples throats.
What a reduction in the process of
race poisoning that will meant We
might not only manufacture our own
ether, chloroform. acetates, etc, which