The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-03-18
SEVERAL PERSONS
TELL EXPERIENCES
IN LIQUOR TRAFFIC
Men Relate Evils of Saloon
Business At Meeting of
Drys in St. Paurs Luther
an Church.

Personal experiences of men VINO
attended the temperance meeting at
the St. Pauls Lutheran church last
night. where Prof. Ebert Russell
gave temperance speech, were re-
lated by the men themselves VINO
had personal encounters with alconol'
Prof Russell declared that he knew
of a street car conductor VINO re-
signed as election judge for the vets
because the Terre Haute, lndianapO-
lis & Eastern Traction company has
posted within the last week. notices
at the car barn forbidding drinking,
either on or Off duty, ana mad pledgeu
himself to vote dry.
He quoted DR.. Emil kraepelin, pro-
fessor of mental diseases at the Uni
versity of Munich, in saying that al
coho is not stimulant and that it is
the sum of the first, second and third
drinks that intoXicates and not the
fourth or fifth drink. The investiga-
tons have been concluded by machine
tests in the laboratory which prove
conclusvely, he declared, that the
muscular and mental speed OF the
man who drinks suffers d diminua'
ton as a result of drink.
Reduces Efficiency.
The tests for efficiency under
slight alcoholic stimulation. as it is
called, have shown that a mans ell
DURANGO and ability to withstand ia
tigue Of weight lifting decreased
eight per cent" said Prof. Russell
The tests were made repeatedly in
Germany until there is no doubt OF
their reliability
Speed tests carried out there have
shown decrease i'll a mans ability to
perform mental tasks of six to eight
per cent. The men used in the tests
were given only the equivalent of q
glass of Bordeaux wine after each
meal.
when the amount of liquor is in
creased the mental inefficiency in
creases until the man is in a condi-
ton which scientists call alcoholic in
hbitiOn He forgets his watch and
chain. the number Of the house in
which he lives and often cannot re-
member his wife's first name.
These alcoholic tests have come
as the result Of the great wave of pro
hbition sentiment. The question
never vas such a great issue before
as il is now because there was a time
the men Of leisure, Primitive man
had no means of getting drunk often
or to drink much alcoholic beverage.
The wealthy classes spent most of
their tine in drinking. In time, how
c; err il grew so that the poor people
were robbed and the rulers corrupted
through its influence.
AS the new social condition arose
hen the poorer classes themselves,
and in fact every class. became adj
dittsd 20 the use Of intoxicating bev-
cragts new problems have given
places 20 the Old.
Friends Took Steps.
In modern times. il has become a
general question and has taken a
fresh and more general hold, The
number of brewers and distillers in
creased. The strength and quantity
OF intoXicants increased, Early in
III" countrys history. each man made
his own special brew and drank only
What he made himself. Even the
Friends used to partake but when the
liquor business increased to alarming
proportions they abandoned it as they
did slavery when that practice was
abused.
"'!E. civilization Of man and the
Introduction Of machinery have gone
hand in hand. With the advancement,
Of ono. tne social conditions Of tbs
ovid have become more and more
complex. People have come together
in cities instead Of being scattere,
aF0, I'd he country. instead OF "acf
tamil: making everything it needed
factories almost exclusively supplj
manufactured articles
Il 4
int reased .he chance for intoxicatins
beverages to do harm Machinery re
qnires sober men and men who ar,
not even moderate drinkers becaus.
drinking in moderation causes a dead
ening of the control over the facul
tics.
Wave Set w.
T. About the middle Of the ninetepntl
century 4 strong prohibition wave So
IN. This was conducted largely b
women at first because it happened II
be the women who We're Suffnrin
rom the increase Of the liquor trat
tic through 1hc drunkenness of has
bands. fathers and sons. However
the 500 ial Importance of prohibition
was not felt strongly and SLAYER
questions were first IN the minds O
mon. But after the Civil war and tn
reconstruction days. the Temperance
question over hadoWed all others"
Following Prof Russell's address.
number Of men gave experiences the
had had with Intoxicating beverage
or as the result of the use by Others
Ex-Eartender Gives Figures.
!. =. Allen. for eight years a bal
tnnder, but now connected with a }c
G.: factory, declared that many s;
loon owners prohibited the use Q
drink among their employees. He ha
presented figures showing some of tn
factOry Workmen that forty cents