Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-06-07
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ALCOHOL Is NOT NECESSARY
Prof. Howard Marsh Gives Telling
Testimony Against So-caIied
Drinking In Moderation.

9. E. Temperance society at Cam
bridge, Eng, and addressed by the
eminent professors of medicine. pa
thology and surgery in the university,
Prof. Howard Marsh gave telling tes-
timony against the use OF alcoholic
drink even In so-calIed moderate guam
titles.
In opening his address he sad that
he had been interested in this ques-
tion 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 it. 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
short time ago when be sent some
what venturesome invitation to Sir
Robert Baden-Powell 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
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-Powell's
rsght-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 nom
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
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 teetotaler, and the reply
was, "Of course he is; if he were not
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
medicin@s~ though he did say that In
some other circumstances it was
harmful in a very definite degree.
Take the case of contests of physical
power. Did they think man would
take 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 not. 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-five might drink wine pretty
freely, but they would often hear
man say at forty: Il 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 we're teetotalers. He thought
that a splendid thing, because with
that many teetotalers in the army, the
whole would be teetotal before long.
He was glad that the opinion formed
by intelligent people in an intellectual
society today was that alcohol was
unnecessary. It was of the greatest
assistance to the poorer classes now
adays that they could get good cup
of hot coffee or milk and piece OF
bread and butter instead of glass OF
adulterated beer. Things had been
thrown into beer in the past which in
creased a 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
hest and most powerful influences at
work today. It would be the greatest
thing il everybody would make up
their minds to start their children
afresh and right and bring them up
as total abstainers. for he believed
+ha+ if they were never given wine or