South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-16
Science a Strong
Enemy Of Alcohol
ClOuded Wit and Fumbling
Touch Have No Place in
New Order of Industrial
Methods.
BY Woods Hutchinson. NJ. d.

BN NOOuS HUTCHINSON. VI T.
The Worlds Foremost Writer on
Medical Subjects
without undue conceit. science
may claim a heavy share in the
blessed achievement of making
alcohol unpopular. First, by MAX
ing human effort. for the first time
in the world, really accurate and
successful.
War. letters, craftsmanship. the
oId-styled practice of professions,
could all be carried on haphazard.
hit-or-miss, more-or-less, in the UNI
cultured cowboy phrase. "by guess
and by God" because there was so
much that was conventional. uncer-
tain. matter-of-opinion about them,
and nobody was expected TO sue
coed in them more than three times
out of five.
But when science began TO play
a dominant part in the affairs of
men. with her answering laws, her
precise and delicate balance be-
tween action and reaction, her per-
feet and reliable control Of the
great elemental forces. every strap
and every buckle of whose harness
must be sound and in place If they
are TO work safely i'm the service Of
man. all that just about. "hit-or-
miss. near enough" business went
suddenly and disastrously out of
favor.
Accuracy i Vital
Precision and accuracy became
not merely desirable. hut vitality i'm
dispensable, and clouding OF wit
or dulling of accuracy or fumblins
of touch of 10 percent stood out i'm
glazing relief instead of being one
of The most venial of faults. scarce
worth mentioning between friends
We don't want excuses for failure;
we have come 10 expect success,
and hence PHILOSOPHERS. croeds and
alcohol are losing their hold on us.
Give men something real and sue
cessful 20 do, something hopeful and
worth while 10 think about and
they won't need 10 90 "eNhilarated"
i'm order 10 be happy.
one Of the most striking and con-
vincing proofs of this source OF the
approaching doom of drinking lis that
furnished 10y our great factories
which have boldly and intelhgently
given their workers the long wage
and the shot day Take for i'm
stance. the famous automobile fac
tories of Detroit. with their thou
sands OF workers. earning from four
20 seven dollars a day for eight
hours work. II is the unanimous
estimate not merely of the care
fully kept welfare records of the
factories. but also Of the ministers
and priests. in whose parishes" the
workers live; of the magistrates. of
the police of the settlement work
erS. and Of the teachers i'm the
schools that never was there less
drunkenness and disorder particu-
larly among the foreign born OPP
eratives. Drunkenness has gone
down even faster than wages have
two-thirds. Of the larger wage has
gone directly into better homes.
houses with modern sanitary con-
venienceS in better neighborhoods.
better educational facilities for the
children. and money In the savings
banks or other investments
No Pace for Liquor.
II YOU want 90 know why an YOU
have 90 do is 20 use your eyes as
YOU walk through the factories. or
stand at the main gate as the flood
of workers pOurs ont at change of
shift a inner. clearer eyed. more
manly and intelligent crowd of
American citizens it would be diff