The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-12-20
|MPhIRS
EVERY FACULTY
Is the Opinion of Nest
Eminent Authorities
d. cR00kER's VIEWS

\ Iroiniie,n Unitarian Diyin. No. in
Raleigh, Shows That the ysa or IN
toAlcants Is Injurious and That
There IS No Sane Us+- OF A!col,ol =.
Il Beverage.
KEY. Or. Joseph II. Croober. # Bos-
ton. head Of the Unitarian Temperance
lorc@S, is in North Carolina for the
winter II search OF health and to en-
Joy the niilder climate He !,ae spe0t
the Meek in Raleigh, visiting institl-
ions and, As he says. resting and loaf
ing and studying conditions. lie has
been greatly Interested III the work
ing Of North Cardinals temperance
laws. Recently Or. Croker wrote an
article in the Christian Register III
reply TO Margaret Deland's statement
IN the Atlantic. It IS instructive AMI
interesting and * as follows:
'Tllat -Ans lent Superstition Again.
In her article in the March At;rn-
tic. the celebrated novelist. Margaret
Dc,and, most unfortunately lenIs net
- - Nt AZ H@I ''@'t A2 $50 49, =
o respecting the drink haiir IL th&@@
words: THAT nobcr e~OuCatlon q moi
Grafton which means the sane u.s. ii
!iqunr. Her cam is tnat oniy e<c"@~
size drinking i harmful. 2 ut2t
moderate use provides lnVafUapi. .ttll-
cal lraiDlnG. III 50 expressing herself
she simply shows that she Il Wefuii.
lgnoranI. As muc4l behind the times as
wage who strive to stop the ptao4c
by sacrificing sheep and oxen. Sh *
totally OF what &cle33r1Stj
proclaim and captains II industry
NINA Is her mind We're free
from the j. bliGhtiDg superstition,
she would realize t1at there is 10 Sant
use Of liquors as beverages.
What are the facts? After review
in. the world Discovering in THIS fclss
1or the past twenty years, III" tro en1l-
nent authorities. PROT. Ho@tnotI ana
nr. Iso:@ao+, declare. THIS nllcf can
! now he considered as tirJn;y establish
| ed: alcohol inlnairs every human fac
ulty." \ hurtirad German University
professors Of medicine recently ISSUED
an apDea1 for total abstinence, which
| contains these words: "Tac practIc" OF
moderate drinking remains the uiti-
| mate source Of in~tenlpeFalce. Prof.
KassOwitz Of Vienna, a lSti1gu-She
scientist. makes this statement: Alec
| hol is neither a good nor a bad nutrf~
tive substance. but q poison attacking
| and destroying p~rotophlasIn. the iNIns
substance of all tissues Prot 'haf~
rim. q leading scientist and educator
of Paris, uses this language: In q few
wears unless something Is done tto
stoD moderate d~rinkingJ. we snail
have in France q population OF uceeli-
crates and madnen?
after an exhaustive Investigation
Prof. Dubois and DIR. Schuyler OF
Rerne, Switzerland, made this declar-
-. ~-tlaUnraa nation that
moderate drinking (even Of light
Iouorss with meals helps the iatofGT
Ia do his work is false On" CT the
most eminent German scientists, Pro-
kraepe:in. a specialist IN TINS nAii'
after repeated experiments concIuaeS
that the use of moderate amounts Of
alcohol for ten days results in q
steady. obvious decline III -mental
WORKING ability A great English
medical authority, Sir Victor Horsley,
apDroves the statement Of the BRUSH
actuary Mr.. Il. NJ. Moore. that conf
pairing 100000 moderate drinkers
With the same number Of total alb
s~+ainars. 1900 less Of the former
reach the age OF seventy thar the
Latter, DIR. G.. Sims Woodhead. an
eminent professor in the University OF
Cambridge. reaches this CONCLUSION: Ii
alcobolic beverages were b"nished
from any community tomorrow, IT
would be better noufloheu. - "a
do better work. there would be lever
cases of general physical and moral
da+erioration. DR.. Richard Froelicn.
Of Vienna. states a growing convlc-
tion among scientists, when ne writes,
.Drink is a hindrance to every kind
of work. and even in the moderate
quantities. Of which we near SO nucf.
4 IS an unqualified injury. Anotler
,;nant German authority, Prof.
h~scnatfanhur makes q similar state
n,ent: srhe widespread notion that
mod crate drinking helps an artisan in
| his daily work is false.
zone of the most distIhsuishe
European investigators IN tins De
p;aa.l nses these words: Post-nlorteIl
termination will show any physician.
no viii open his eyes. tb. -d"le-
terious effect Of alcohol feNen in Sm4'a