Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-05
A DOCTORS VIEWS ON ALCOHOL
Given Address Before Good TenpIar Upon
 of Mankind E. C. Chipman of New London the Speaker-Second Anniversary of Buckingham Lodge.

l Buckingham lodge, No. 20, Interna- ttonal Order of Good Templars, con 1 ducted well attended public meeting | Tuesday evening in the Buckingham Memorial, with Dr. E. c. Chipman of New London as the principal speaker. 1 Though there was no formal allusion l to the fact, the occasion marked the ! second anniversary of the organization 1 /. of Buckingham lodge. Frank Haglund ! presided at the meeting.
 1 The programme opened with the singing of America by the gathering, accompanied the piano by Miss Olive D. Linton and on the violin by CTS Old Photograph, was given by Miss McNeely. Herbert L. McNeely entertained with song entitled Vic tory May Depend on You. T. Austin
 rendering of Schunann's Traumri.
 Miss Linton accompanying on the pi-
 ano. Ray D. Gilmore gave a recita-
 ton, Bill Mason's Bridge. Robert Me
 Nicely and Grand Chief Tempiar John
 A. Akerlind of Hartford gave a few
 interesting remarks. MT. Hagiund pre-
 sented the speaker of the evening, pr.
 Chipman of New London. whose Sub-
 ject was the Conservation of Man
 kind. He spoke in part as follows:
 The question of conservation, in all
 its phases, is occupying the minds of
 thoughtfuI men and women throughout
 the civilized world. Every nation is
 more or less interested in it. Our own
 government at present is deeply inter
 ested in the conservation of her animal
 indus tries. her agricultural pursuits,
 her mineral resources, her forests, her
 water powers, and her deep water
 ways, but te the casual observer shhe seems to have forgotten or ignored mankind. I hold that every effort Of conservation. whether of the animal, Vegeta ble or mineral kingdom or of our
 saI eff toward the conservation of mankind.
 Mankind was the supreme creation upon the earth. and thus conservation of mankind is the supreme question to consider.
 We should become the anct stors of a race of great character and thus full fill our destiny. To me this Is 8 cru cial period in cur civilization. am an optimist and think mankind will advance in civilization and character, but there is that possibility to be kept in mind that our civilization may take a tOboggan slide, as did the ciViliza- tions of Minevah, Babylon, Greece and Rome They had advanced civiliza- tiou with great wealth and power, but lost their characters and were oblit- erated.
 What caused the loss of character, degeneracy and destruction of former civilization? In the light of modern science, I unhesitatingly answer, Al cohol There might have been a hun dred degenrating agents, but if alcohol had been ebliterated the other 99 could have been controlled. This same agent has a strangie hold on civilization. Can we and will we break this hold and thus conserve mankind. Scientists have demonstrated to us that alcohol has little oi any food value. Is a mar cotic poison to the human system. Is not a stimulant, but rather a depres- sent when administered as a remedy and has but little use in the human economy. Today the physician finds that alcohol lowers the blood pressure. We also find that many diseases also lower the blood pressure. and in dis ease when the pressure is below 100 on onr blood pressure instrument we consider the patient critical. So that in pneumonia and typhoid fever where we once thought alcohol benefited. we know now it assisted those diseases in killing our patients.
 The physician today does not use one-tenth much alcohol in medicine | as did his grandfather practitioner, 1 and by word~and practice tbe physt- clans are teaching the public that 1t 1 has little use. as a remedy Alcohol l aere means all alcoholic beverages. as ! brandy, wines and beers.
 Every physician and nearly every 1 ay1nan today knows that an habituaI | 1rinker Che need not be drunkard)