The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-03

man as for animals and plants. A
scientist having investigated more
Than 500 cases. announces that oil
children born to alcoholic parents
one of every five will be hopelessly in
sane, one ont OF three Will be hys-
terical or epileptic. 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 parents
were total abstainers. OF the nifty
seven children of the alcoholic par
ents ten were defOrmed, six were
eplleptic. six were idiotic, twenty five
we're nonviahle. only seventeen per
cent were normal. e.ChtY-three per
cent being abnormal OF the sixty
children of the total -abStaining par
ents 1915 per cent only were abnormal,
and these chiefly backward while
sal per cent were absolutely normal.
Seventeen per cent were normal In the
one case and sos pr cent in the other
case. 3 difference of 72.5 per cent.
Parents ny becoming alcoholic Will
sacrifice three-fourths OF their chit
dreu on the altar of drink
I'm the embryonic stage the tissues
are the tendorest and the young st,
lIliFtAt. every process even Tue
earliest, that touches the question Of
reproduction. is the most delicate in
male and female,
The effects of alcohol in all these
processes arc deadly. The invesfiea-
tons Of Or. Rertholet, Of lausanne
show that the organs Of reproduction
euffer most severely.
Now, the human species IS eVolv-
inE or building IN the top ef the brain
! IF aa-E 10y
~ the brain that is the seat Of the
moral scnsc. the center Of inhibitation
and seif-ContrnI, The seat Of what we
can character
i ere tA--ttt--st te-t4-A--
tsve, delicate. and unstable because
they are the latest. the Youngest IN
the lIue Of human evolution. In all
species nature tries IN her reproductive
processes 10 foster this line. So, in
regard TO everything that touches the
question Of Reproduction ard the cvo-
luton of the speeies. alcohol blights
With deadly effect.
cone part'of alcohol "a thousand
parts Of water. an extremely weak so
tuition. VIII seriously and materially
attack an embryo, while one part Of
alcohol In two hundred parts of water,
attn weak solution. with kill an
embryo. mother can go out To din
,ner and come hack with 1900 part Of
alcohol iu her system and have 81 mis-
carriage and never approach into8ica-
tion.
The experiments with aninas CON
firm tho results.
Cause Of World Tragedies
HISTORY Is a record of a sad pro-
cession Of world tragedies. Nations
ana empires in turn have risen TO
greatness only 10 fall Before the
ueathbl"w was struck from without
TIE evidence shows In every case the
ravages of a titanic DESTROYER within.
under whose operations the vitality
and strength of the nation were sub
merged in general degenercy.
For centuries the worlds phifoso.
piers and historians have looked on
appalled,. overwhelmed only In the
last few Years has science taken tfp
the question Following hef. patient
rigid methods under which nature ana
Hfe have slowly yielded up their Sc
crets, science has at last cleared up
the mystery and identified the great
destroyer as alcoholic poisoning.
How are new drinkers re#rr7Y,tef1o
4eshmony before this eoanmitte go
SHOWS that the recruiting is chiefly
among tho young. / have been In
Of the National Wholesale IAntlor
Dealers association one Of fheir
strong men delivered an address urg-
ing mem bers TO always bear in mind
that their trade Is built Up npon the
development Of the appetite In BOYS
/ recommending them to treat bows FREE
and develop the appetite. no matter
what the cost that Z would come
back a thoueandfold MS an invest
! In@nt when the boy grows mp as
drinking man.
who is II that undertakes 10 de-
bauch the youth have yet to find
single man out of the business. no
matter how much of drinker he
may he himseif-a single man who
would Voluntarily teach a hoy to
drink A man may drink himself, but
he does not want his boy 10 learn
( the habit, and he does not want his
( neighbours boy TO learn the habit. and
ne ~ not going to he base enough
unless he is u degenerate, to teach
boys To drink
! Debauci,ing Nation.
The continuation and expansion of
drinking in the nation Is the result
of the systematic debauching Of the
Youth by the liquor interests for
/ purposes Of gain. The moment You
stop tho profits I'm the business by
stopping The sale. the business itself
must die, and the moment the or
eanized liquor business dies, the aps-
tem3tlc dahauchinE or the youth Of
this country will cease. Thereafter
the youth would grow up sober In
/ two generations we would he a conn
pletc sober nation.
THE nations material prosperity
depends On the producing power of
It's citizens The average Of efficiency
! Of the citizen as a producer is &C.
/ riously lowered by the widespread use
Of alcohol even In moderation
Take beer. that the representa-
tivos Of the Decentralization Alliance
so lauded here last Saturday TWO
stems of beer day Will lower Your
efficiency an average OF from & To 10
per cent
And the greatest loss Of efficiency
is where the labor entails the e&cr-
+ else of the higher faculties for these
are the most sensitive.