The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-04-21

IL its apparent harmiessnesa Whis-
key, wine, gin. brandy and other So
called "hard drinks" long mid behind
the Biblical bulwark, '... for the
stomach's sake" At last science and
common sense combined to prove
that they have no peculiar medicinal
value, and practically no food value.
Then beer picked up the fallen BAN
ner.
The food values of beer and ole
have been proclaimed so widely and
entertainingly that the average per-
son fatuously believes in them. Be-
sides, beer is supposedly the bever-
age of that truly neutral country iy-
ing between sobriety and iuebriety
1t is the cup of compromise. II can
drink beer all night without feeling
it." is a common enough remark.
But can you?
Modern scientific research has
shown that, contrary to general be-
lief, beer is proportionatedy much
more noxious than are wines or IL
ouors. The Bremen Anti-Abcohol
Congress. conclaye OF many OF inc
most famous physicians in Europe
concluded that. while liquor makes a
man brutal and dulls his judgment
an adequate amount of beer makes
him slov-witted and aboIishes judg-
ment While wine or brandy, In sur
ficient quantity. makes man crazy,
beer tends to make him stupid.
The, actual reason for this tenden-
cy toward EQUALIZATION and scottish
ness Is very simple; for In addition
to the small whiskey glass Of pure
alcohol in each pint, beer also con-
tains a large and varying percen age
of lupulin--the active principle OF
hops. The so-called tupulin glands
Of the hops, according TO Professor
Retnitzer. Of the University OF Graz,
secrete, among other clements. hop
acids and resins.
We used to think that we got all
the "rosin" with which we varnisneu
our kidney cells from the pitch Inning
of the beer barrels. But now we
know that we get our kidney shellac
from the hops in the beer. In addi-
ton to their deleterious effect upon
the kidneys. these secretions act pow
erfully and disastrousiy upon the
nervous system
Now. the hop belongs to the hemp
crouu. and Is closely related to III
dian hemp. On the female blosso ms
Of Indian hemp. as on the 'ema.e
blossoms Of hops, we und gtanus
holding a narcotic, sticky, D1tfer-
tasting SuDStStfSs' NIA'NA 40 ~
element OF hashish-
Hash,sh is used largely by the va
rious Mohammedan peoples OF west
and south Africa and in tho Malay
Archtpelaso for narcotic pnrposes
In the intermediary stage-oetors
rononIete stupefaction sets in--these
harnn habitues become dangerously
violent, even, to. running @muek win
"A huge crooke5~bladed dagger stao-
hing and slashing, until they are Her-
clfully killed In their tracks,
asbtsh contains exactly the same
elements as are found in the lupuln
glands of Observation-Disclosures resi- g.
q, ethereal OIL and one or more al
talotds Therefore. hops exert the
90 me effect on the human body as
aooa hashtsh, differing only IN os-
free or course you cannot conpaFe
a beer drinker TO a hashish eater
Naturally, we must not forest th1
ms shish Ia used in concentrated IorHl,
while there Is relatively ou- a -
amount of the hemp elements ~
Anar Yet we should also bear IN
rotns the fact that beer drlhke'
IN, hfbas In his favorite beverage SUI =
ficient lupuiin to make up some o.
the deficiency. an-,-
predecessor Refnitzer has also DEM
ors+ratad that IT Ia due 20 Vne prs
aer,-etive action of the hop resins 'In'
~ is nossihle TO keep" beer Inc pac-
tertei life-forrns in beer ttne sarcin@
orrentsnas1 are htndered from multi
o,tss.- ~ the resins contained in the
49, Th,s assists the alcohol lii pre-
..srttr1 undue fermentation. SO inc
catarrhal organs of beer drinker IN
sarro double process az plch1'n y, :
narf Of which may be AVOIDED nc
peon+,nea himself exclusively 10 al
cohol. uux scien.
.,ric explanations as TO why excess =
beer drinking Is accompanied py 'ie
stupidity and clumsy heaVlness VI
,otna neculiar to those who lnouike
l'i'ta enrtselv and unwell. That VI
Ia =. ga Srtll,ance of wit which
an abias the Munich beer drinker' LOT
Instance. TO stare stupidity into MS
haer r,Dr for an hour at une are
typical symptoms of hemp poisoning
plus alcoholism. And either aloue
Ia bad enough.
II IL easy enough to show that the
whtskev devil cannot be driven out ~
the beer Beelzebub. Here are 10"
reasons why: ,... -,
Zurich, reported that at ths r'll ma.
Sanntoriurn (the first great hstieu-
Non In europe TO forswear alcohol In
! therapeutics) the number OF peer A,-
coholists outnumoered the sp'ri's a.
coholists nine to one. $50
DIR, Hueppe and Professor Prizin-
ram OF Prague, have demonstrated
INV the incontrovertible evidence OF the
s,,topsy table that beer Injuries more
hearts. livers and kidneys than does
brandy.
The psychologist weiminsky has
shown that the belief that beer drink
ers do not suffer from dehrium tre-
mems Is a fleeing. fitful fancy. He
has given us accurate statistics prov
Il ing that In Bohemia and other Euro
mean countries with a berry past,
present, and perhaps future. a FAR
greater number OF the delirtous have
become so through beer than through
spirits drinking.
And DR.. DeIbrueck adds. for our
ed.fication, that beer and wine lanes
are the most alcohol drenched
(France, Germany, Belgium and Ba-
varia), and that the VIII! +key ana
brandy lands tSweden and Norway,
are tie least so. He concludes tnat
the beer danger Is for the future far
greater than the spirits danger.
Also, we can now state positively
that beer drinking, even more than
spirits drinking. produces invariably
dNation Of the heart. and coinci-
dentally causes all the pathological