The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-21

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p Of the United States, January 1, 1918. Com.
ap with the Map Adjoining Shows the Enor.
De In the Last Twenty Years by the Temper.
average age OF hftyone, losing thirteen years
out OF his life. II he is heavy drinker, his
prospect OF life Is fifteen years, and he will die
at the average age Of thirty-fve losing twenty
years out OF his life. Conservative estimates
place the number Of confirmed drunkards In
the United States at something over 100000
OF whom 100000 die every year; the heavy
drinkers at over 100000, and temperate regu.
lar drinkers at over 100000.
scientist, after wide Investigation has
round that In only 1 per cent of cases do
accidents occur In maternity to mothers where
the parents are total abstainers while 5.25 per
cent occur where the parents are regular tenn
perate drinkers, and 1882 per cent where the
parents are heavy drinkers. OF the children
OF drinkers. 10 per cent will have consumption;
of the children of total abstainers only is per
cent
Those who drink alcoholic beverages should
realize the terrible price they pay. They nearly
oouDle the chances of their children dying in
INFANCY and they undermine the health and
normality of those that survive man may
take chances with himself. but If he has a
with deadly poison that will
cause the helpless little children he brings into
the world to be deformed idiotc. epileptic or
insane. =
Scientists selected from litter of spaniels
TWO little brothers exactly alike In infancy and
brought them up. one as alcoholic and the
DINER as a total abstainer. giving the former
only small quantity Of alcohol with his food,
ABOUT equivalent in proportion to what be-
nlghted parents often give their children In
peer or light wine mixed with water. From
another litter OF spaniels they selected two
little sisters exactly alike In infancy, and
brought them up in the same way, one as an
alcoholic, the other total abstainer. When
the TOUR dogs were grown they were mated the
Two alcoholics together and the two total alb
stainers together. and the process was repeated.
me TWO mothers and the offspring placed
under close scientific observation. Extraordi-
nary phenomena set in with the alcoholic
mother. She experienced difficulties and acci-
DENTS suffered great travail in birth, and finally
died In pupbirth with the fifth litter. Many OF
her offspring were born dead. Many OF them
died In infancy. and of those that survived
only lib per cent were normal.
The abstaining mother had no such OK.
perience; she bore large filters Of healthy
strong pups, Of which sos per cent were abb
soutely normal
The same memorable law holds for man as
Tor animals scientist having Investigated
more than 500 cases, announces that Of children
porn to alcoholic parents one in every five will
be hopelessly insane, one in every three will be-
historical of epileptic. and more than two-thirds
will be degenerate
Another scientist located ten large families
In which both parents were alcoholic, and In the
same localities with other conditions practically
the same. ten large families in which both par
children OF the alcoholic parents, ten were de-
formed, six were epeptic, six were diotic.
only IL per cent were normal, and SO per cent
were abnormal. OF the sixty-one children of
the misunderstanding parents. 10.5 per cent only
were abnormal and these chiefly backward.
while 896 per cent were absolutely normal
seventeen per cent were normal IN the one
case and 895 per cent In the other Casa
difference of 725 per cent.
Parents by becoming alcoholic will sacrifice
three-fourths Of their children on the altar Of
drink.
Exact research has demonstrated that alcohol
is destructive and degenerating to the human
OF the body are Oppressive. narcotic and anes-
thetic. Therefore. therapeuticaly, It's use
should be limited and restricted in the same
way as the use Of other poisonous drugs
The question has passed beyond the expert.
mental stage. beyond the stage of theory, and
Is demonstration that is final, like the demon.
stration that the world Is round and not fat
The last word of science is that alcohol Is a
poison. 1t has been found to be hydrocarbon,
produced by the process Of fermentation and Is
the toxin or liquid excretion or waste product
of the yeast or ferment germ According to the
universal law Of biology that the toxin Of one
form OF life Is poison to all forms OF life OF a
higher order. alcohol. the toxin of the low yeast
germ. Is a poison to all human or other animal
life. and to all the living tissues and organs.
1t 10 not day too soon to grapple with this
foe. When degeneracy has gone much farther
1t will be too late. AT the present rate 1t will
not be long before abnormals and degenerates
swamp our cities and overrun our States,
nature Will not tolerate race OF degenerates.
backward. and usually despised race, but
undegenerate, is found ready to give the coup
de grace. When Persia degenerated, Greece
was on hand to strike. When Greece degen.
Grated. Rome was ready. When Rome degen.
Grated, Gaul ready
If America degenerates. the yellow man viii
be on hand. Some may make light OF the
yellow man; 80 did Romans make light OF the
'Barbarians." The yellow man Is not degen-
Grating. He can shoot as straight as white i
man now, and. undegenerated. he can live on
onetenth of what Is necessary for the white
man while he is in the field doing the shoot.
Ing. A race Of degenerates cannot occupy the
American continent In this generation our
people must take their choice; In the next
alternative. We are fatty In the death grapple.
All the pages Of history ara crying out TO
America, Conquer the great destroyer oe
s