Bisbee daily review., 1914-01-18
CHECK ON ALCOHOL
 IS DEMANDED FOR 1.
 RACE RETIREMENT
Attention of National Con- ference Is Called to Gen. eral Use of Beverages of Increasing Strength

f'A NiS tfthi4Ns Htf'h'f 'oh. Restriction and final elimination of the use of alcoholic drinks is vital factor In Eugenics today asserted Henry Smith Williams of New York in his address to the National Confer ence on Race Betterment. The per capita consumption of alcohol is h. creasing; people drink more spirits and less beer. the use of drugs is growing and prohibitions by MT. Wil- Hams, who declared that the only so- Mtion is to make the sale of liquor a government monopoly. Private profit must he eliminated altogether from the traffc. he deciered.
 The pci capita consumption of al coliol has increased steadily year iy year in, lite of vigorous efforts 10 combat it both by educational propo gai.da and by legislation" said Mir. Williams. "The fir crease in matted liquors has not quite kept pace. 1t V ould appear that ihere is a general tendency to supplant mildly alcoholic beverages with those that are strong ly alcoholic. There is also an enor. nous traffic in morphine and cocaine. an dthe use of these drugs increase fin proportion as 1t becomes difficult to secure alcohol.
 "The ultimate solution of the prob lem must be found in the education of the coming generation to n complete understanding of the desirability- from the standpoint of physical health, mind. and morals--of total abstinence from alcoholic beverages. We are obliged. however. to recognize. that there is an important minority o. adults in the community who, either through inherited weakness or through acquired habit. have a lust for alc0- hol against which no argument can prevail.
 At present our treatment of the. oipsoma piac is grotesquely irratio.sl We arrsIt him and send hi into jail fnr week Sand then rclease him. know ing tha, he will immediately become again a disturbing element in the com, munity. Segregation fin a proper in- stituion for term of years is the only solution that at the moment can be depended on. All question of punish ment should be eliminated from the judicial mind; but the absolute neces- sity of segregation for a long period should be fully recognized.
 "Well-meant efforts to control IT, quor traffic by sumptuary legislation have signally failed Prohibitory leg islation. local or statewide, has nos where beon effective in reducing the amount of alcohol consumed by the individuals to whom 1t is most harm ful. Illicit stills spring up in prohibit ton states liquor of the forst quail ty is everywhere dispensed surrepti- tiously; and morphine and cocaine, supplement the effects of the bad li- quor Either in Maine and Kansas, or in Georgia and the other southern states that have recently come under the alleged "dry" region. the results are the same-the evil effects of alco- hol are demOnstrably more in evi- dence fin the prohibition territory.
 lh' Aibol ldllOildi dANtinpt tndt udS ever been put into practice to control the liquor traffic is known as the Gotherburg system, because it was first carried out in Gothenburg. Swed- en. In a slightly modified form 1t has been started successfully in England. The fundamental principle of the method is that no private concern can profit by the traffic in liquor under the operation of this system. Nor should the profits of conducting the sale of liquor be used by the Government as ordinary revenue. All such profits would be applied to public utilities reading rooms. amusement halls, and : ymnasia-intended to serve as sub stitues CT as standardization to the
 saloon. In my opinion there Is no oth CT proposed line of action that gives
 such good promise of stemming the tide of alcohol and leading to iti
 complete control"