Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-02-23

the system, but science has shown
that the deaths from consumption, for
instance, in different sections Of the
country with climatic conditions the
same, and the deaths from consump-
ton in different occupations and walks
Of life, are directly proportional to the
average amount Of alcohol consumed.
Deaths in Infancy.
Ordinary observation would never
attribute death in infancy to alcoholic
pois oning, but scientific records have
shown that deaths in infancy among
children Of temperate regular drinkers
are almost double the deaths in in
fancy among children Of total abb
stainers; for total abstaining parents
13 per cent, of the children die in in
fancy, for temperate regular drinkers.
% per cent, and for heavy drinkers,
30 per cent.
Ordinary observation would never
attribute deformity, idiocy and other
abnormalities in children, and the
deaths that arise therefrom, to alco.
holic poisoning but scientific records
show that only II per cent Of the
children born to alcoholic parents
are normal, compared to 80 per cent
: for children Of total abstaining par.
ents; of children born to alcoholic
parents one in FIVE, OIL the average,
will become hopeIessly insane, one
in three will be hysterical or epileptc
and over two-thirds will be degen
= crates of one kind or another.
q Ordinary observation would moi
:. disclose any economic depression
" over the land on account OF reduced
n efficiency in the average producer
$ due to alcoholic poisoning careful
d estimates based on The scientifically
d measured reduction of efficiency il
y drunkards, heavy drinkers, temperate
+ regular drinkers, and occasions
r drinkers show fully 81 IL per cen
N loss of productiveness, equivalen
d to over $7,000000000, while tn
y economic loss in the untimely deaf
10 of 10000 men is over S6,000,000,00
IS total permanent depression {
a. S13 000000,000 yearly, the nation
,e total productiveness being $4,000
$. 600 instead Of $43000000,00(
,e Ordinary observation would not Sc
r. an even heavier depreciation in tn
IS average standard Of character Of tn
r. nations citizens.
,e Degeneracy of City Life.
st Ordinary observation would not Sc
re in the widespread use of alcohol
beverage in large cities the mai
cause of deeeneracy Of city life, an
10 Of the final downfall Of the nations an
al civilizations Of history, nor would
of see in the increasing consumption {
We such beverage in proportion to tt
an growth Of city lifein America, til
lie greatest menace 10 our institutions ar
r. to the very lie Of the nation,
Of Ordinary observation is useful, b
We in dealing with alcohol, the mocke
No it must be supplemented, and in mar
w cases superseded. by scientific invest
OF CATION and scientific calculations.
he No method is more reliable the
that employed by the British goveri
lot ment and the great life insurant
nv companies by which they establisht
k that the nation sust aims 440 additiona
= deaths every year in every 61,51
,r- Of the population because Of the Il:
es Of alcoholic beverage, giving a tot
,ot additional death list in America
Of 10000 every year as compared Wi
ov 100000 men killed in battle in all Il
or wars Of all the world during the Ia
re 2,300 years.
Ig. Taking account Of the loss
We length Of days, every heavy drink
on and every drunkard must be regardt
IN, as mortality wounded, and there "a
he 100000 Of these. and every tempe
er, ate regular drinker must be regard,
us as seriously wounded, and there q
ni- 100000 Of these, making a to-
on list Of 28,000,000 Americans who a