The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-01-06
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Fargo Daily News:
Alcohol and alcohol
ism are two of the real and substantial
enemies of moral, artistic and COM
mercial progress of the human race.
according to the report OF the United
States delegates to the Twelfth Inter
national Congress on Alcoholism,
made public by the State Department
today. The delegates were appointed
by Secretary Knox as one OF his first
official acts. The Congress was held
last July in London, and twenty-five
governments were represented, the del
egates OF each concuring in the gener-
al finding that alcohol not only was
unnecessary'to. human life and COM
fort but was inimical to both.
Three departments of the United
State 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 pub
lie health and morals and subversive
of national, moral, commercial and
military greatness.
According to the report the interest
shown in the congress was greater than
ever was shown before. Because of the
information evolved at the congress
the delegates accepted the invitation
of the Queen of Holland to hold their
next meeting, two years hence, at The
Hague in conjunction with the confer
ence of the committee that is working
for international peace.
While the Congress urged the neces-
sity of of imposing the most rigorous
restrictions on the sale and traffic in
alcoholic liquors, it regarded as equal
ly important the need of educating the
younger generation to true knowl-
edge of what alcohol is and what it's
effects upon the human system are.
The delegates believe that the numer-
Gus 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 American delegates sum up this
phase of their report by saying:
Increased teaching as to its char
acter and influence should be provided,
to conserve industrial efficiency in the
commercial competition of nations, as
we'll as to promote two of the chief OBJ
jections of government; the public
health and morals"
The value of this method of combat
ting the growth of the liquor habi6 is
emphasized in the report. While &C
knowlegment is made that the organi.
zation of associations of juvenile alb.
stainers is useful, it is declared, the
chief reliance should be placed on sci
enti6c temperance education in the
public schools as means of Kidding
!, the the public mind of errors about thu
effects of alcohol and substituting the
facts that science is declared to hav.
evolved about the use of the beverage
even when taken in small doses.
In futherance of this plan, Mrs
Edith Smith Davis Of. Milwaukee, Wis
superintendent of the Worlds ant
/ National Christian Temperance Union
and one of the American delegates
urged the necessity of getting to tn
root of the matter by compelling tn
curricula of normal schools and uni
, versities to include such education. Ii
this way, Mrs. Davis contended, tn
younger generation would be assure,
of proper instruction on the subject
(To be continued later.)