The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-06-27
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ALCOHOL is NOT NECESSARY
Prof. Howard Marsh Gives Telling
Testimony Against So-CaIIed
Drinking in Moderation.

!
ference on The Uses of Alcohol" held
recently by a thriving branch of the
c. E. Temperance society at Cam
bridge, Eng, and addressed by the
eminent professors Of medicine, pa
/ tholoSy and surgery in the university.
! Prof. Howard Marsh gave telling tes-
tlmony against the use of alcoholic
/ drink even in so-called moderate guam
! titles.
! In opening his address he said that
he had been interested in this ques-
ton for very long time, and could
say with all modesty, for he was only
/ expressing his own opinion, that he
had come to very definite conclusions
upon 1t. The first was that even in
moderation, and except for medical
purposes, alcohol was perfectly I'M
/ necessary. The Japs never used it,
/ yet how well they had done in war.
| A similar illustration was afforded by
| the brave native Sikh regiment, total
abstainers. He had an example a
! short time ago when be sent some
what venturesome invitation to Sir
Robert BadenPowell to come down
and inspect the Cambridge Scouts. He
| first sent his aide-de-camp to see
/ whether it was worth his while to
/ come. He came and lunched at Down
I ing college. He was about twenty
eight years old, five feet ten inches in
height, and with as clear a complexion
and as bright an eye as one would see,
and he knew what sort of young fell
low he must be to be Baden-PowelPs
rlght-hand man. He was struck by
the fact that the young fellow, as
splendid young animal man as one
could meet anywhere, proved to be a
vegetarian, an abstainer, and non
smoker. The tennis champion-not
lawn tennis, nice as it might be, but
the real thing-his old friend, Mr..
Neville Lytton, was an abstainer. He
/ (the speaker) used to play golf a
great deal, and they were often struck
with admiration at the way the great
player Taylor played, with marvel
Gus precision. There was no one who
could hold him. He specially asked II
he was a teetotaler, and the reply
was, of course he Is; if he were not
Ac NOllu LIOt play ING that
/ He did not believe that alcohol was
necessary as food, although he could
not say anything in the presence OF
Sir Clifford Allbutt about its use as a
medicine, though he did say that In
some other circumstances it was
harmful in very definite degree.
/ Take the case Of contests OF physical
power. Did they think man would
take a large dose of alcohol and ex-
pect to win the kings prize? They
might be perfectly certain that if he
did he would not be able to shoot for
nuts" In the case of an ordinary so
cial party made up of young fellows
from the services, they knew that il
they dined heartily with wine over
night they could not shoot next morn
ing. The best shot in England, If he
INDUCED to any extent in champagne
overnight, would be unable to hit
more than one pheasant out OF five
the next morning. Alcohol even In
moderate amount untitled him for
skilled work. In golf he had known
people who showed at once whether
they took alcohol or lot. A man might
play splendidly in the morning, but IL
he had a couple of WHISTLES and sodas
at lunch, his play would fall off in the
afternoon. Another thing had struck
him. That among so-called moderate
drinkers, young men from twenty-five
to thirty-tive might drink wine pretty
freely, but they would often hear a
man say at forty: II can't drink as [
used to do; wine does not agree with
me now" That Just showed that
while in the very prime of their phys
ical life they might seem to find no
very serious effects. as soon as any
of their organs began to flag they
could plainly see the injurious effects.
He was delighted at the changes
for the better going on in England
now. The other day he was dining at
Woolwich and saw at least five-sixths
of the young officers present were
drinking nothing stronger than lemon
ade. At least 10000 men in the army
today were teetotalers. He thought
that a splendid thing, because with
that many teetotalers in the army, the
whole would be teetotal before long.
he was Sidu ludl the formed
by intelligent people in an intellectual
society today was that alcohol was
unnecessary. 1t was Of the greatest
assistance to the poorer classes now
adays that they could get good cup
of hot coffee or milk and a piece of
bread and butter instead of a glass OF
adulterated beer Things had been
thrown into beer in the past which in
creased mans craving for it. Now
that these men could get coffee or
milk they said, That's the thing for
me-" He believed that was one of the
best and most powerful influences at
work today. 1t would be the greatest
thing If everybody would make I'd
their minds to start their children
afresh and right and bring them up
as total abstainers, for he believed
that if they were never given wine or
beer as children they would never
want 1t. If they did not teach child
that alcohol was necessary they would
find that he would never want 1t.
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