The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-03-05

! illos OF drunkurds and ten temper,
ance families for ten years. lie
shows how the use Of alcohol By Tho
parents decreased the birth rate
| caused excessive Infant mortality. re-.
suited In insanity, epilepsy, nervous
| ness. poor health and dwarfIsh ply
siQues. Facts and figures are most
COnvinCing-tn some, they are strong
or than moral BlHsion. Picture what
one busheI uf corn produces when
made into whiskcy; contrast with its
USr III food On u bulletin board print
in bold type recent Successes for pro-
Inhibition sentiment: king George for
Prohibition "CHar Nicholas lIanshcs
Vodka; Italy Prohibits the Sale Of
Strong DRINK: no More Abslnthc. "
says France; 1.-THE President OF France
a TcCiutalcr" Tighten American
States Vote Out tho Liquor Traffic :;
Il. 100 'Ad' McA Cheer for Curb on
Drink; physicians and Business
Men Back OF tho Prohibition Move
mcnt." lave the school room and
halls blazing with temperance light
Experiments. too. that have been
made In the school room may he pre-
served or repeated at the exhibit
With piece Of bread. potato. some
grains of barlCy-or with various
fruits--lcmOnstrate how alcohol is
made. Explain about the yeast plants
that are floating in tho air. Make tests
similar to those OF Or. Richardson's
with the jelly fish. and DR.. AbeI's with
animals. Use the animal life-tadpOle.
flea or frog-most accessible. Place
one in jar Of water, the other in 4
Jar Of water to which n small quantity
Of alcohol Is added. Note effects. Make
this same experiment on two plants in
different pots; the one moistened for
n week or two with water and alcohol
drOOps and dies Show that all liquors
have alcohol in them, and that neither
animals nor plants can thrive when
fed this poison.
Presenting temperance subjects in
teresLingly in connection with physi-
ology and hygiene Is most helpful. Let
each pupil have n blank book cover
decorated by himself on which he
prints: 1.-THE Architect" II he can
not draw. he will be interested in find
ing pictures to illustrate the pages for
each lesson. Here is reproduced the
teachers talks on building these tenn
ples-our bodies. the material used,
where found. and how 10 get them.
Know We not that your body is the
temple OF the Holy Ghost" inspires a
child with the desire to have that ten-
pie not only beautiful but clean and
strong. Various helps for these are
from the Sunday School
Times Publishing Company, from the
national Women's Christian Temper
ance Union headquarters, from the
Educational Quarterly,
manuals for teaching temperance, ana
from the different texts on hygiene
in the schools. This kind of book is
most interesting to children, even in
high school grades.
AS the pupils advance. temperance
instruction, without leaving the foun-
dations. will broaden in scope. AL
ways, however. the voice of science
will be heard declaring against alco-
holic beverages. Children of larger
growth arc intensely interested in
stories OF experiments such as DR..
Hodge of Clark University conducted
with the cocker spanlels; or the tests
OF efficiency in craftsmanship given
by the Swedish government; or con-
tests between alcoholic and non-al-
coholic soldiers marching cited by the
German officials; or the effects OF al
Cohol on typesetters, as noted by DIR.
Aschaffenburg OF heidelberg; show
that use OF tobacco lowers scholar
ship, as proved by DR.. Holmes OF the
University of Pennsylvania, Such in
formation-all OF which is easily OBJ
tainable-forccs students 10 realize
that self reverence, self knowledge,
self control, these three lead life to
sovereign power"
A study of the order OF brain dcvel-
opmcnt, such as DIR. w. A. Chapplc,
M. p, suggests is wonderfully impress
sive. He shows that alcohol has n
specific affinity for the brain centcra
and begins its fatal seigcs first on
the highest, latest developed centers,
that in which conscience resides. This
inhibition center degenerates. and self
control and self restraint disappear.
knowledge may sit on its tottering
throne for while. but 1t, too. yields
to the onslaughts OF the enemy. top
pies down and leaves the former man
slave. chained 10 obey the mandates
of his lowest nature.
After learning tllat alcohol is often
responsible for hereditary insanity. a
large per cent of tuberculosis Of the
lungs. pneumonia. heart disease. pa
ralysis. apoplexy, cIrrhosis of the liv-
or, and other fatal bring
ing the conservative estimate of it's
annual death toll up 10 $4,000 in the
United States alone-the student be-
comes convinced that il for no other
reason than the prevention of bodily
affection. prohibition of liquor drink.
ing would be amply justified.
But the teaching OF temperance
would he incomplete did it conine
itself to portraying the effects Of al