The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-05-08
N c. I. j. DEPARTMENT
Mrs. T.. Van Hood, Editor
Dr. Harvey ". NiIey's Views on Al
cohol a. an IT nmitigated Evil

By H. W Wiley, II. D.. Contribut-
ing Editor Of Good Housekeeping
Magazine.
Says a great American daily news
paper o. a new force that has Joined
the fight 10 drive out the saloon:
The new force comes from
1-ed:eaI colleges AMI hospitals. from
The operating tables of surgeons and
the laboratories of chemists, where
cold-blooded men OF science study i
the deadly effects of alcohol" Of
striking significance OF an opinion
upon this from Dr. Harvey W. Will
ey, who for twenty-nine years was
chief chemist Of the United States ag-l
ricultural department, and whose
leadership in the fight for pure food
has made his name a household word
in America.
Alert leaders of bible classes will
not be slow to see what DR.. Wiley's
Sunday School Times means TO them
in their teaching of the temperance
| lesson which is treated in this issue
of the Times. In last weeks issue
| and on page 125 of the issue will be
| found additional temperance teach
ing suggestions. DR.. Wiley's pro-
| nouncement upon prohibition, COM
| ing at the time when the issues be-
! fore the country as never before,
/ is noteworthy because the famous
scientists personal attitude toward
| total abstinence is not that for which
the Sunday School Times has long
stood.
most interesting discussion has
| lately taken place respecting the ad-
visibility of eliminating brandy and
| whisky from the pages Of the ninth
revised pharmacoporial of the United
! States. As chairman of the pharma-
copoeial convention and a member
of the committee on revision, / have
been greatly interested in the matter.
The arguments which have been adj
vanced in favor of the deletion Of
these articles are in my opinion
sound and convincing in so far as
principal is concerned.
In brief the argument is as fol-
lows, namely, that brandy and
whiskey are no longer used as medi-
cines in sufficient quantities to war
rant their retention by the pharma-
copoeia. This fact has been ascer-
tanned by consulting large numbers
of acting practitioners, who have re-
sponded in such a manner as to
show that brandy and whiskey are
rarely found at the present time in
the prescriptions of the most pro-
gressive physicians. What the final
decision of this matter will be, OF
course, l am unable to say; but at
! any rate l may say that if brandy
} and whisky are retained in the phar-
macopoeia it will be on the ground
that there are few physicians who
} sometimes prescribe them, and
} hence, as they are sometimes used as
, medicines, it would hardly be fair to
4 1
} pceia, where they have found place
for so many years.
Aside from the practice of medi.
.. cine, what is the general trend OF
l may answer that in my opinion the
great weight of scientific evidence
} and the force Of scientific opinion al
the present time lead to the conclus.
ion that alcohol in its various forms
I is an unmitigated evil.
III Personally l would be glad to see
| nationwide and worldwide prohibi
ton. While am not teetotaler,
am prohibitionist. / am firmly
convinced that the evils produced by
alcohol so far outweigh any Of its
supposed advantages as to lead logi
cally to but one conclusion, namely
the absolute prohibition of the use Of
alcohol for any but industrial pur
poses.
The Rich at the Hardware Club
| Eat and drink and to be drunken
III ". 45). Eat, drink, drunken. Note
the order of the combination. Tha
!! is the star. The glass of wine with
the lunch. And the lunch will be
beautifully served, with the fine
china, bright silver, dainty linen and
appetizing accessories. Later the
graduate will get the cheap booze
( over the sloppy counter, and the
: lunch will be broken crackers and
I pretzels from the dirty cracked bow
!. on the end of it. John BarleycorI
has the man for keeps. The good