The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1911-06-22
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EAGAS 49,
WHISKY DRlNkER TO HIS SON
Children From Dangers Better
Than Any Other Person.

man Any other Person.
How SHOULD a whisky drinker talk TO
his son? II he talked as he feels, he
would hold up the fiat. brown bottle
and say:
MY boy you know that am a poor
man and have nothing TO leave to
you or your mother
The difference between myself and
successful men who have passed me
Is this
i have gone through life with this
bottle In my hand or in my pocket.
They have not
A man comes into the world pre-
pared 20 do his share OF the worlds
work well or Ill. as his brain and his
physical strength may decide or all
his qualities the most important prac-
tically is balance
The whisky in that bottle destroys
balance. both mental and physical.
IL substitutes dreaming and foolish
self-confidence Tor real effort
II presents all OF lifes problems and
duties in false light. II makes those
things seem unimportaBt which are
most important
II dulls the conscience, which alone
can make men do their duty, in spite
OF temptation. and struggle on to sue
cess in spite OF exhaustion.
Keep away from this bottle. and
keep away from those who praise IL.
He who hands II to his fellow man is
criminal, and he who hands It to a
young man is a worse criminal and a
villain.
II is impossible but that offenses
will come, but woe unto him. through
whom they come st Luke 27:1.
II is a well established fact that in
the usual order OF events drunken.
ness would he handed down from IA
ther TO son, and hundreds OF thou
sands of families would be ultimately
wiped out by whisky.
II liz not true. fortunately, that the
son OF a drmhard actually inherits
drunkenness fally developed. But a
drunkard gives to his son weakened
nerves and a diminished will power,
which tends 10 make him a drunkard
more easily than his father was made
a drunkard before him.
The great safeguard Of q drunkard's
children undoubtedly lies In the warn
Ing which they see every day in their
home and in the earnest advice which
the man who drinks will give to all
young people u he have any con-
science left
II the man who drinks would save
his own children from the same dan
ger he can do 30 better than any 9TH
er. He need not lose their respect by
telling them of his own mistakes, IL
these mistakes have been hidden from
them. Let him simply tell them with
out personal reference what he knows
about whisky. its effects on a mans
happiness. success, self-respect and
physical comfort.
Whisky gives a great many things
OF men-negative gifts most OF them
or these gifts here are a few.
Lack OF friends, lack of will, lack
Of selfrespect, lack OF nervous force
lack Of everything save the hideous
craving that can end Only with uncon-
sciousness, and that begins again
with increased suffering when con.
sciousness is restored
With the fear of whisky, there
should be impressed upon children
sympathy and sorrow for the unfortu-
nate drunEard
| One OF the ablest men, and one Of
the most earnest in America, said to
his friend very recently:
Il never drink. as you know. But
when | see man lying drunk In the
gutter, ! know that he has probably
made that very day harder effort at
self-control, nobler struggle TO con-
troll himself. than ever made in my
life lie has Welded and fallen at last
but only because all Of his strength is
H. sufficient 10 overcome the disease
, that possesses him"
Teach your children that drunken
ness is horrible disease, as bad as
leprosy. Teach them that il can be
avoided; that the disease is contract.
ed in youth through carelesness. and
that II is spread by those who en-.
courage drinking in others. Tell them
that the avoiding OF whisky Is not
merely question OF morals or obe-
dience TO parents, but question in.
volving mental ana physical salvation.
success In life, happiness ard the re-
spect OF others