Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-12-06
SHOULD YOUNG MEN DRINK?
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drink habit, desirable positions are
not open to him. Financial lnstltu-
tions do not want him. Business
housesl are closed to him, railroads
dare rot employ him. AS result
the bright, promising boy, whose
fri ends looked for a great success in
business or professional life, meets
with a hitter disappointment.
How was the terrible habit ac-
uuired? The young man thought 1T
manly to take drink now and then,
feeling sure that he never would be-
come q slave to appetite. He did not
realize that alcohol is a narcotic
poison. which creates an apparent
necessity for further and increasing
use.
Before he was aware of it. there
was feeling of nervous depression,
which was relieved by larger quanti-
ties taken oftener. He has become
victim of the delusion that he was
suffering from some peculiar trouble
which could only be relieved by in
creasing the daily dose of alcohol
''This feeling has existed In the
minds of men for thousands of years,
always with the same result, that
from time to time an increased
amount of the seductive fluid is re-
quired to relieve the depression or
habit which has become fixed. and
which can be eradicated only by super
human effort.
GAS time goes on the will power
becomes impaired. the formerly
strong nervous system becomes weak
ened, and is less under control.
The man passes from the first stage
of exhilaration and satisfaction to
the second, in which he loses control
of himself, his face becomes flushed,
his eyes dull, his thoughts confused.
His former self confident manner dis
appears, AID he becomes suspicious
and hesitating.
FINALLY, the last stage is form of
progressive paralysis, beginning with
trembling hands and general dis
turbance of the emotional system.
A change takes place in his surround
ings, his home life deteriorates,
happiness fees. and it becomes more
and more difficult to secure and retain
a place in which to earn livelihood.
"How can any young man indulge
in habit which is sure to end in such
disaster?'
Don D. Grout. M. D.. superintend-
ent of the state hospital for the in
sane, after forty years study and
observation, writes:
"In replying to your question al
low me to state briefly what opportu-
mites | have had to form opinions and
draw conclusions that lead me to
answer most emphaticalIy, yes. For
forty years it has been my privilege
and professional duty to study man
kind, to learn as far as possible the
factors that contribute to its downfall
or success, and how to alleviate its
distress in a measure.
1.-The chief factors that contribute
to make man are heredity and en-
vironment If his heredity is what it
should b., he can usually make or
choose his environment. The adult
man is almost invariably Bundle of
Habits These habits are formed
gradually, and when once formed are
the dominating forces that control his
actions
1.-The average young man little
realizes how easily habits are formed
for good or evil, or how dominating
they are when once formed. No one
will deny that the inordinate use of
alcoholic stimulant is one of the worst,
most dpmoralizing, and fatal habits a
man can acquire. might have said.
1.-The inju1icious use." but purpose
ly avoided it, for in my opinion there
is no sucl thing as the judicious use
of alcoholic drinks in any way or form.
at requires little effort for the
young man 20 avoid the first drink.
But having taken the first one it is
very much harder to avoid the sec
ond' third, tenth and so on, until a
habit is formed which it is impossi
BILE to control 1t is absolutely i'm
possible for the average man, having
once acquired the habit of even the
"judicious' (?) use of alcohol in an
form, to taper of" or materially
curtail lts use.
I'm my opinion the drink habit is
the most horrible menace that man
kind faces today. II causes more un
happin 2ss. suffering and degradation
than any other one thing the huma
family ha to contend with. The on
ly safe AM sane course is for young
man to avoid the first drink"
Mr.. J. n. Barss, superintendent o.
the State Industrial School at Yer
gennes, wac has been so successful il
helping hayward boys and girls to
better life and who has had much ex
perience IN work for the "submerge
classes" n as this to say:
! would most emphatically advis
every youlg man starting out in lif
empn4ticnlly declares that the huma
system does not need alcohol; tina
there is n, crisis in any kind of sict
ness VT ~ ething else will nc
meet the needs of the case as we'll &
alcohol.
Our N ,st noted physicians tell I
that un!er the strain of severe Hines
the chances are always against tt
man addicted to alcohol, and in fave
of the total abstainer, other thing
being equal. In fact many of OF
most noted scientists teach US tods
that the human system has no grea
er enemy than alcohol.
"We nay rail against habits. b.
we do form them and shall contin,
to do so. The ceierity with whit
habit DIV elops, and the power it e
erts when it becomes fastened on
person, are two of the appalling fac
with which all workers in practic
yoc;oloCu have tn contend No hone