The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-06-20
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ALCOHOL IS NOT NECESSARY
Prof. Howard Marsh Gives Telling
Testimony Against eo-csIIsd
Drinking In Moderation.


Testimony Against eo-csIIsd
Drinking In Moderation.
Speaking at Q largely attended con-
ference on The Uses OF Alcohol" held
recently BY Q thriving branch Of the
Q. X. 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-
imony against the use Of alcoholic
drink even IN so-callsd moderate guam
titles.
In opening his address he said that
he had been interested In this Quss
ton for . very long time. and could
say with all modssty. for he was only
expressing his own opinion, that he
had como TO very definite conclusions
upon H. The nrst was that even In
moderation. and except for medical
purposes. alcohol was perfectly un,
necessary. The laps never used H.
yet how we'll 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 Q some
what veoturssoms Invitation to Bir
Robert Baden Powell to come down
and inspect the Cambridge Scouts. He
nrst sent his aidsdsoamp to see
whether Il was worth his while to
coma He came and lunched at Down.
Ing college. He was about twenty.
eight years old. nvs feet ten inches In
height. and with 40 clear . complexion
and a. bright an eye a. one would see.
and he know what sort Of young fsl
low he must be to be Baden Powsli's
right-hand man. He WAS struck By
the fact that the young fellow. ~
splendid Q young animal man ~ one
could meet anywhere. proved TO be Q
vegetarian. an abstainsr. and Q non
smoker. The tennis champion-not
lawn tennis. nice as II might be. but
the real thing-his old friend, Mr..
Neville Lytton, was an abstainsr. lie
1.-THE speaker used to play golf .
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
he was teetotaler. and the reply
was. "Of course he Is: II he we're not
he could not play like that"
lie did not believe that alcohol was
necessary as a food, although he could
not say anything In the presence OF
Sir Clifford Allbutt about its use as q
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 a man would
take a large dose of alcohol and ex.
pect to win the kings prireI They
might be perfectly certain that II he
did he would not be able to shoot for
nuts" In the case OF an ordinary so
from the services. they knew that II
they dined heartily with wine over
night they could not shoot next morn
ing The best shot In England. II 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 II
he had a couple OF WHISTLES and sodas
at lunch. his play would fall OF In the
afternoon. Another thing had struck
him. That among socalled moderate
drinkers. young men from twenty five
20 thirty-nve might drink wine pretty
freely. but they would often hear a
man say at forty: Il can't drink as 1
used TO do: wine does not agree with
me now" That Just showed that
while In the very prime OF their phys
teal life they might seem TO find no
very serious effects, as soon as any
OF their organs began 10 flag they
could plainly see the injurious effects.
lie 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
AIDE. At least 10000 men in the army
today were teetotalers. lie thought
that n 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. II was OF the greatest
assistance TO the poorer classes now
adays that they could get a good cup
OF hot coffee or milk and piece or
broad and butter instead OF glass OF
adulterated beer. Things had been
thrown into beer In the past which In.
creased a mans craving for II. Now
that these men could get coffee or
milk they said, That's the thing for
me" lie believed that was one OF the
best and most powerful Influences at
work today. II would be the greatest
thing n everybody would make up
their minds 10 start their children
afresh and right and bring them up
as total abstainers, for he believed
that II they were never given wine or
beer as children they would never