The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1912-06-28

rocsly and lalirectIy. for llQuoe would
g1ve Z TIVE Weekg' vacatl0e % svery
maa. weman an1 ehild b ~ lan1
with thslr hoard asa srpsasss patd
We spsa1 oi.Beo. go 900 . year ~
alcoholic drinks. and Ne spsnd q
much nose fer jndesa. poles. Jaiis
pooe houeeo aa1 insane asysums e
take cars ~ the people who sst intN
trouble through hard drink. That
nAkss es.eee ~. 49,. o. 80 Apiece for
svsrybo1y. vor . family u father,
mother aal fsus cAildrsn n amounts
% $3.50 . year. . MICS sum for - out.
Ing 10 The country.
Il b estimated thae i.too.ooo men
an1 women n the United States ere
every day slther mentally Or physicai.
y disabled for work - result o.
drink. Investigator am0as Aims
houses shows that more than half o.
the inmates become paupers on ~
count Of drink. That means that more
than i.Soo. 800 people who have put
themselves out Of business through
drink have 10 b. fed and cared Tor
q ths expense Of the honest hard
WORKING people who do not er'nk'
Warden Roberts Of the New Yora
almshouss on Biackwsil't islasd. o.
clared that be believed ninsrtenths Of
the inmates came there through drink.
Dr. T. D. Crothsrs asserts that one
persoa oct Of every ten Who dies goes
10 bis grave On account Of the abuse
Of alcohol. and one-flfth Of oil diseases
Of mankind are tSacsabls to alcohol
Il h commoay supposed that there
b no harm n drinkins u the psrson
doss mot become Intoxicated. But doc.
tors are constantly nssting eases Of
paralysis caused b. alcohol 10 those
who never become intoxicated. And
besides this. II b known that people
Who drink very Moderately are not %
well able 10 resist when attacked By
disease. People who drink even mod
eratsly run much greater risk d death
n surgical operations. People Who
uss alcoholic beverages havs mora
diseases thas psopls Who do not drink.
D.. Alexander LAmber Of New Yors
asssrts that Of The 3$.3oe patients In
Bellevue hospital during one year. over
ons-fourth vess alcoAolic patisnts.
The startling statement b made by
Professor Cuttsn that oct Of every 100
alcoholics attached By pasumoaia 70
~. Wills ont q svssy - people Who
~ ~ 1slnhees oaly - ~ vhsa q.
tAeks1 ~ poeauealA
q II coul1 y shown that tAs drink
IND uan haA betteS brains. q better
muscles, o. bsttss earning power. OF
lived leaese thas Tie mas Who I'D
uoe lrink. thsss night - so0e argu'
meat 10 favor q drink. even IN spits
q all that has Jsst bssn said. But
thousas1s u experiments have shown
that the brain worker and the labosina
man ere both at . aisadvaatase u
they drink.
Expsrimssts h The Preach army
showed that uadsr III circumstances
the Preach soldier b 20 per cset
more e0cisnt when subjected 70 .
reeimsn q total abstinence. 0snerals
Roberts and Kitchener In Africa
proved the same fact about the Brit.
ish army. Laboring men Who used IL
feel the necessity. Of having their drart
regularly b order to Do their work and
DO Il we'll. nov know they were for
merly deceived. and that they are bet.
ter workmsu without drink. 30 weS
d this understood BY practical bust
nsss men that many large railroads
and other employers Of labor have pro
limited the use Of alcoholic liquors By
employees at eli times. Some marine
Insurance companies made . reduction
Of : psr cent. IN Insurance rates 10
ships % which no liquors are drunk