The Ocala evening star., 1915-03-24
VIC. I. j. DEPARTMENT
Mrs. E. Van Hood, Editor
Ravages of Booze Traced to Pockets of


Ravages of Booze Traced to Pockets of
Employers
]. S. Sargent in the Estero Eagle: /
Good bye Booze! Big Business is get
ting ready to throttle you, then you
will go to the boneyard, sure. For
years we have pleaded that for health J
and morality's sake you be banished
from the land, but Business said
'No. The saloons draw trade, they
pay our taxes. What need we care
about the right or wrong of the mat
ter?" Then we tried to show Busi-
ness that the general public lost more
than it gained either in trade or
revenue, but Greed was blind, or if 1t
did see the point, said LET the gen
eral public look out for itself. What
is that TO us? We are for the money
and nothing else" What Big Busi-
ness says in this country usually goes
but the saloons did not go; they stay
ed.
matter and traced the ravages Of
booze directly into the pockets of big
employers of labor by the decreased
efficiency of their employees. Then
Business began to sit up and take
notice. 1t began to experiment. One
man induced one thousand of his en-
ployes to sign the pledge, and at the
end of the year he found himself
! the gamer from that thing alone of
/ S25, 600. Eminent German and Eng
ish chemists have found by actual
tests in their laboratories, that the
drinker, even in moderation, lost from
seven to fifteen per cent efficiency at
his occupation . DR.. Kraepelin, of the
Munich University, found that the al
coholic equivalent of one glass of Bor-
deaux, taken only one day, would de-
crease the amount of work from sew
en- to nine per cent. A number of ac-
eountants were given daily in divid
ed doses the equivalent of three anC
half cups of claret. After two
weeks of this moderate drinking theil
, ability to add up figure columns haC
, decreased fifteen and three-tenths pc
: cent. And so on through a numbe1
: of tests, showing similar results. Blu
q the strange thing about it is tha
they all imagine they gain in efficienc,
$ by drink.
Q With the advent of the troops il
f the coal mining districts of Colorad
r the saloons were closed. AS a resul
: the president of the Colorado Fuel
Iron Company states that the outpu
e of coal per man was increased te
per cent. Spoiled work is one of tn
). great losses that always followed al
ter pay day. A workman in one c
y the Coatsville Steel Mills said that
# was no unusual thing to have frol
f twenty to forty tons spoiled in tn
n rolling at such times when the So
looms were open, but with their cloi
o ing "that's all history now" One {
" the complaints of industry was tt
o meager output on Mondays after tt
% men had been drinking Saturds
night and Sunday, but where Il
" drink has been shut off, Monday
$ work measures up with the 9th,
Id days.
n Finding that total abstinence is Gu
t. ting out losses in so many direction
and adding profits, more and more
ne the big employers of labor are becor
to ing set. against the saloon and a
or contributing literally to the fig
against 1T wherever there is oppo
t. tunity. The statewide campaign
G. West Virginia was financed main
r. with their money, and one brew
is living and running brewery in a
e other state, but having other indu
: trial interests in that state, sent 81
,r- to help carry the state for prohil
tion.
t. The Gar of Russia stopped t
ue sale of vodka in that great nation a
he is finding most beneficial results fro
M it. At the outbreak of the war
by Europe all drinking in the Germ
army was ordered stopped. With