The Washington herald., 1914-03-09
''bE TEMPERATE
WILEY'S Warming
Pure Food Expert Temper
ance Day Speaker at
Church Services.
HEAVY MEALS FATAL
President, Wilson. of Ant-Saloon
League. Takes Optimistic View Of
Districts Development.

feature at each church was a temper
snce talk by local leaders In the anti
saloon movement DIR. Harvey w. Wiley
spoke in the morning before the regular
service at tie Lutheran Church OF the
Reformation.
zone of the fundamental principles"
said DIR. wiley. ''of the doctrine of good
health, Is temperance In dressing. 1t
seems to be a human fallacy that young
child must be dressed as warmly as pos
sible. When we read OF the deaths of
thousands of babies every year. we have
some grounds for the belief that good
many babies are smothered to death I'M
their clothes"
Temperance In eating is another good
lesson we might well learn. When o.
man dies of starvation. the news ts on
every ones lips, and II 10 regarded as q
public scandal to allow q man to starve
to death on our streets
How many times do we hear Of the
man who was killed from over-eating?
I venture to say that where starvation
kills one man. over-eating or intemper-
ate eating kills 100 men. Does not one
deserve as much sympathy as the other?
overwors< Is immoral.
"Of course, we all understand that al
cohol and its Incorporate use is the chief
evil A man is a slave to alcohol the
moment he feels that he needs drink,
although he may not know It He has
established a systematic craving and an
appetite for the drug. For children II
preach a doctrine Of prohibition in the
use OF alcohol. For adults I recommend
temperance.
THE eight-hour law recently passed
In the District Is not based merely on
the principle that eight hours Is a suit
able length of time for people to work.
in order that they may have time to do
other things. To work more than eight
hours is to put strain too heavy upon
the muscles and nerves and the man or
woman who works more than six days
a week is committing a hygienic wrong.
and. therefore. he is, to that extent. an
immoral man.
People want to fatten babies. It seems
Why should babies be fattened- Are they
to be killed and eaten like a plump
fowl!
'T want to warn every one against the
evil of chewing gum. We are making al
class Of chewing-gum manufacturers rich
by destroying the power Of our salivary
glands. 1t is a tax too heavy to pay"
- DR.. Wiley was accompanied by Har-
vey W. Wiley. jr., who is quite a way
ahead of his father" according to Dr.
Wiley.
At all the other churches the services |
were under the auspices OF the w. e. 7.
U. This society called on President An /
drew Wilson. of the Anti-Saloon League, |
for volunteer speakers. and the response |
was generous
Saloons on Decrease.
Mr.. Wilson and H L. B. Atkinson both /
spoke to the Sunday school classes at ST. /
Paurs NJ. E. Church and Bethany Baptist |
in the morning. The former gave some /
interesting statistics showing hereditary
effects of alcohol
In the District twenty years ago." said
he. there was one licensed saloon to
every rs of the population Now there
is only one in SIS. About 20 per cent Of
tuberculous children were made so by
alcohol consumed by parent or parents.
In juvenile insanity cases. one case out
OF every five is due to alcohol. Hysteria
and epilepsy among children were traced
to the alcohol habit in their parents in
one case out of every three"
Mr.. Wilson also pointed out the ef-
iciency among total abstainers. He said
that SS per cent of children of alcoholic
parents are sub-normaL
F. NJ. Bradley talked to the Sunday
School classes at Epiphany Church. He
was followed with a stereoptican illustra-
ton of the redemption Of a drunken
father through the efforts Of his child. !
Children at Union NJ. E. Church heard
Virgil H. Easterling: Jessie c. Suter spoke
at Whitney Avenue Christian Church;
Willard C. Thompson, at Wesley NJ. E.
and Fifth Baptist. Arthur Stabler spoke
to a large audience at Central Union
Mission in the evening.