The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1913-09-19
PAGE SEVEN.
The Saloon Is Ashamed
Of Its Best Gus
toners.
THE MODERATE DRINKER.
Ede Is a Menace Not Only to Himself,
but to Others.
TONER'S.
BY l. D. MASON, N. o.


A prevalent and popular fpllacy Is
that the moderate drinker ana, always
remain as such. that Moderate drink.
ing Is always under control and the
habit can be left Off at any time and
always kept within the limitations Of
safety and sobriety. This false doc
trine has ruined more lives than any
other argument brought forward to
sustain the habitual and moderate use
of alcoholic beverages.
The drink habit is accretiye and pro-
gressive. Tolerance is easily estab-
lished. and larger quantities are re-
quired to meet the daily growing de-
mand. 1t is exceptional for the mod
crate drinker to remain as such. AS a
rule all immoderate. habitual drunk
ards were once moderate drinkers Ex-
ception to this does not prove the rule
and no amount of specious sophistry
can alter the natural sequence in this
particular. The accustomed dose I'M
der moi fiia1 cntdY MONS " nil. be snfs
(. Il ife-terfn nNirfatv--Sr tempe rate Hse :
of alcoholic beverages Is not definite.
There is not any established or def
ni.aly aseert2ined qua 9titEr that -wf..
can use daily or habituaily within the
bounds OF safety and exclude any
possibility of mental or moral or phys
u
true cor 81 the fgfofined nan q OF tie man
with hereditary tendencies or diseases
or injuries affecting the cerebro spinal
axis-that Is the brain 81. spinal cord
or chronic painful conditions in which
the alcohol in some form Is used for
Its an6estbetic or narcotic effect.
The constant. habitual use of alco-
-
GRAFTON is more dangerous than its
occasional excessive use. Personally,
moral considerations excepted. the oc-
casional excessive drinker Is safer
physically than the everyday habitual
moderate drinker. for the latter keeps
his blood up to certain percentage
constantly alcoholized. while the for
mer. at least during the interval be-
tween his debauches, has a chance OF
recovering normal blood current.
In the great majority Of cases OF
habitual drunkards the parents or
grandparents used alcohol In modera-
ton habitually or in excess. In a
study of 600 cases that came under my
supervision in which made a study
Of the family history. none escaped the
record of antecedent degeneracy from
various forms of narcomania. nervous
disease. consumption and other condi-
tons of alcoholic degeneration, there
being evidence enough to demonstrate
the relative sequence between drink
ing parents and drp1Ken posterity.
believe that the starting point Of
the alcoholic degenerate can be traced
not infrequently to the so called mod
crate hdbitual use of alcohol In some
form by respectable. temperate. i'm
mediate progenitor who was never
drunk and who prided himself on his
self restraint. and yet this paragon Of
virtue and responsibility was giving
to the world, through his poisoned
blood talthough moderately alcoholized.
1t is trueI. posterity of physical and
mental weaklings and ignorantly and
unconsciously starting race of neu-
rotics, idiots and lunatics and beget-
ting a long line OF alcoholic degener-
ates. And how many families in this
lapd III. = lEa ~ -1free Tram the alGn-..-
holic faint in the direct or collateral
branches extending even to one gener-
alton back? .... .-.14sss,SAe1