The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-19
CURSE Of DRINK
(Continued From FRS, Page

last year. At the door Of the liquor
traffic she laid the blame,
That the use of alcohol. even in
moderation. does It's part in the de-
generation of the race. she asserted.
and. as an illustration she told of the
scientific inquiry made In Munich and
in Maine
~ Out of 100 Deficient.
In beer drinking Munich she said.
"seventytwo out Of every Toe chill
dren born are physically deficient,
while in prohibition Maine seventy
one aud one-half out of every 100 are
physically perfect
Dr. Geisel told of many eases which
have actually come under her pro-
fessional experience, all of which
have proved to her. even had it NOT
been proved by science, that the eff
feet of alcohol on the human system
takes it, toll even unto the third and
fourth generations"
She had praise for Virginia for vot-
ing dry" last fall, but she insisted
tina. Virginia Stlll has work to do in
aiding the rest OF the prohibition
people to drive the liquor traffic from
the nation.
DR. Geisere afternoon address to
ing what the effects of alcohol are
upon men md women and upon the
perDetuation of the race
soon Have Devil ON Run.
Dr. Ira laudrith. president of
Ward belmont College, at Nashville,
Tenn, and the only Southern member
of the Flying squadron. made fer
vent appeal for the protection of the
nome and of the child against the
national liquor business, and called
upon the peoples of all religious views
TO get together on this issue
1t is 4 strongly organized church
that We need In this fight he de
clared. some churches are 50 inof-
fensive to the devil that it il a won
der they don't die. We must quit
sectarian differences and turn our
guns on the devil 1t makes no diff
ference whether we think it must be
immersion or sprinkling, predestina-
ton or foreor dination or fallen from
grace We must get together If We d
done 1t years ago the deyild be on
the run now
"Professed Christian citizens must
stand together. lie is his partys best
friend who fights its bad aims and its
wicked candidate.
Democracy must be decent or die
Republicanism must be respectable or
ruined; IrOgreSSiveism must be pure
or II Is preordained to perish.
In Debt TO Four Generations.
For the Individual" said he, lit is
all OF life and duty TO be fit to live
and fit to live with, for rs man is
fit 10 live here he will be abundantly
fit To live hereafter, and If he is fit
for human beings to live with he will
grow fiji for eternal sanity associa-
ton. But il the saloon is permitted
to do its work with and for him, he
will he fit neither to live nor TO live
with.
'To think Alright, To speak Alright. to
DO right to be riSht--therc is the
whole individual program OF the de-
sirahle citizen. but the liquor traffic S
set Tor keeping men from right think =
Ing right speaking right doing. right
being.
Every vert h. while man is in debt
To az least tonr generations; To be
worthy OF his parentage by making
his father and mother proud that they
bore him. Ia he blessing to his own
generation hN so living and SO serv-
ing his age that the men ana women
around him Will he stronger and bet
ter for his having touched their lives;
10 be SO helpful to his own children
and to the children Of his neighbors
and to the worse than parentless chill
dren that never had a chance, so that
these children shall grow to morally.
physically, mentally staiwart manhood
and womanhcod: and, finally. To see
20 II that The next generation. the
unborn ia hes % his own little chill
dren. shall have worthy parents. well
reared and We'll trained tor their
sublime parental Office, a wide and
alluriug life mission is that four-fold
program, my friends. bur no smaller
or narrower one is worthy OF a child
of a"king. And, yet. everybody knows
that 10 the extent that the saloon
prospers. every nart of this program
fails. let man become the victim
~ drink and his father must be
ashamed of his, his own generation is
injured by him. his children suffer ir-
rcparablc injury at his hands. and his
children's children are in deadly peril
from the weak and wicked Inheritance