The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-06-15
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H0ARY TYRANT KING ALCOHOL
Liquor Dislodees Mans Judgment and
Leaves Him Unressonlns and
Demoralized Being.

session or powers 10 engender human
izing and intellectual efforts-as wit.
ness a blind John Milton and Michael
Angelo, a hunchbacked Alexander
Pope, and a dyspeptc Thomas Car.
lyle-the decay OF the mind wrecks
the entire man, both mind and body.
writes DIR. Axel r. Gibson In an ex.
change. Alcohol by acting directly
on the mind dislodges the individual
from his moral center OF gravity, un.
balances his judgment and leaves him
sooner or later as an unreasoning, de-
moralized and deyitalized being.
Sentiment and moral suasion arc
not sufficient to stir up the unfortu.
nate victims OF this vice TO a full re.
alizatlon Of the seriousness OF their
situation Facts must be presented
naked. tangible, irrefutable facts We
must approach the enemy in his own
stronghold and assail him with his
own weapons
We are often met by the argument
that alcohol as a drink generates
warmth and strength. and above oil
serves as valuable stimulant Moth.
ing, however. is more erroneous. Tho
sensation OF bodily heat, 10 which
drink OF whisky on a cold day is ac-
credited TO give rise. is based on the
quality found in alcohol to open a way
for the warm Hood stream to the sur
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the cutaneous vessels become filed
with blood a wave OF warmth Is felt
to pass over the body-only. however.
10 disappear few moments later un.
less a new drink is INDUCED in
Old. wise Mother Nature, always
provisional, and far-seelng, has given
70 the vital processes OF the body a
perfect system OF economy. Under
the influence Of cold the skin Is made
TO contract it's vessels so as TO pre-.
vent the normal and indispensable
heat OF the body from passing out OF
the system the moment the blood
stream sweeps through the cutlclo
and becomes exposed TO the cold. abb
sorbent, surface tissue The sensitive
and more highly organized interior
yiscera. such as the heart, intestines.
lungs, brains, spinal cord, etc, ara
thus kept warm at the expense of the
coarser and less readily deranged
structures Of the skin. Now. in place
OF assisting nature In this ingenious
scheme which, for the prolonged
maintenance Of life is absolutely nee.
essary. the consumer OF alcohol
thwarts her efforts and wastes his
bodily resources in unreasoning wan.
tonness. He may TO some extent be
compared with a person who after
having heated up his apartment TO a
point OF normal temperature, throws
his doors and windows wide open to
the withering cold OF winters blast
Indulgence In alcohol as a stimulant
against cold. opens the caplllaries OF
the skin and sends out into mid.air
the reserve fund of warmth which is
intended to surround and protect from
cold the interior high-strung vital or
gans. Hence the sensation OF inter
nal cold which always follows as soon
as the effec. Of the drink is passed
of. sensation which often leads to
cyanosis and alcoholic poisoning, II
is on the basis Of this fact that in po-
lar expeditions all indulgence in liquor
is strictly forbidden.
Probably one reason for the perni.
clous action Of alcohol is that II Is
upon the might side" OF nature. Fer
mentation rudely interrupts the nor
NAL life cycle Of the grain or seed
and sets up instead a destructive de-
composition. This vibration intro
duced into the living organism cannot
but induce similar vibrations, there
fore it's effect Is always injurious in
every respect. Unprejudiced tests
have shown that those who partake OF
It are less capable of both physical en-.
durance and mental eNertion.
The progressive drunkard soon be-
gins to exhibit the old characteristic
marks of fiabbiness and looseness Of
excessive tissue. The cause of this
phenomenon lies in physiological
process equally simple and impress
sive. As is well known. the blood.
among other important things, con.
tains two kinds Of blood corpuscles-
the rNi and the white While tie func-
tions of the red are 20 exchange oNy-
gen derived from the lungs, for car
bon dioxide. derived from the com.
bustion going on in the bodily tissues.
the functions OF the white blood cor
puscles consist In removing and caus.
ing to be eliminated from the system
all broken-down and effete tissue. Bac.
terial invasion. liberated tissue, In
elements, are all cleared
out promptly and diligently by this
vitally so important blood corpuscle.
Now If on the microscopic slide we
bring drop OF alcohol in touch with
n white blood corpuscle outside the
body does II almost instantaneously
succumbs to the destructive influence
nf the alcohol. A numbness steals
over the blood corpuscle, which at
once ceases to exhibit its normal ac-
tivity and soon dies
The effect which alcohol has on
white corpuscle outside the body in
no way differs from It's effect on the
corpuscles inside the body. The num-
Der of white corpuscles being thus di.
ninished through alcoholic indulgence
L follows that their functions of scav.
angers, owing to the decreased mum.
Der, can be only imperfectly dis
charged. AS result eifete material
s permitted to remain in the bodily
issues, which gives rise TO fermenta'
ion. Hence the bloated, swollen, tur-