The Washington times., 1913-12-10

pensation, but the laws OF nature
are fixed, Whatsoever a man sow
eth, that shall he also reap" The
degenerative factor becomes more
potent with each transmission. and
renders posterity more and NOR.
susceptible to disease,
Heredity Shown.
An Illustration Of this he-edity law
may be noted in the children Of Ten
iamiiies OF drinking parents, traced
through three generations.
len families OF drinking parents:
AZ. gensration-Forty-seven chill
from organic and Functional dis
eases. ois-
SECOND generation-Ninety chill
dren, OF whom 81 per cent. suffered
from organic and functional diseases
Inird seneration-EiGhty-t chill
aren, OF whom IS per cent. suffered
irom organic and functional dis
Our studies of school chi,dr.,
show that one in every three is
mentally deficient. II this percent
age noids good over the entire
country, there are seven millions OF
cnlofen OF a school age that ave
mentally deficient. and less than
sAtS-seven thousand OF these are
tree from hereditary alcohol taint
Three out OF five school cb,idrer
are AFFLICTED with some functionaI
or organic disease
III tnis percentage holds good over
the entire country, there are fhir
Teen millions OF children of a sebool
age that are afflicted with f,1nctionaI
sno s organic diseases, and less than
80 80 Sno nan million of these are
A nation half-diseased and hai,.
men cannot live, but here we have
tnree-hfths OF the rising genera
non mentally and physically dis
Many Are Insane.
Cur investigation indicates tina, IN.
oat or every five children born To
drinking parents will be insane. One
out OF every three children bor, 70
drinking parents will suffer from
epilepsy and hysteria. At this -nis
OF hysteria among drinkers children.
ana with an increased per capita
consumption Of alcoholic LIQUORS, we
must expect. very largely Increased
number Of insane among the chiIJrsn
OF the next generation.
Inc great white plague has not
lost IT'S power TO destroy. Our studies
Indicate that 75 per cent of tubercu-
lous children are the children of
drinking parents.
cancer bears a relation to alcohol
tnat need not be mistaken. Among
the great total abstaining races on
Africa, Asia and Iceland there a a
rarity of total absence of cancer:
Wff!e In the great beer, wine and
spirit drinking countries of Europe
there has been a steadily increasing
mortality from cancer.
In England a few years axo. Of
1000 men examined at Manchester.
300 were rejected as physically unfit
for army service. DR.. Rallineer est
mates that half of the young men
IN Germany between eighteen and
twenty-five years Of age are incapa-
bic Of bearing arms. Not long since
a call was issued for young physi-
clans to enter the United States
army. Eighty per cent of those ex-
amined were rejected as physically
unfit.
Alcoholic degeneracy il the most
important sanitary question before
the country, and yet the health au-
thorities do not take acion. as aico-
hol is intrenched in politics. Leaders
in politics dare not act, as their DO
litIcal destiny lies in the hands OF
the agents of the liquor traffic. We
are face to face with the greatest
crisis in our country's history. The
alcohol question must be settled
within the next ten years or some
more virile race will write the epi-
taDh of this republic.