Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-25
Booze has Same Respect for Cardinal It has for Sailor

| Ine neaV1eSt QTlnKer SLarteu out tO be temperate but a moderate use soon failed to satisfy. The fact is that alcoholic liquor Is a poison that cul- tivates an appetite for itself.
 Alcohol Makes You Slow
 The common theory that a small quantity of alcohol at the right time and place and in moderation is really helpful and serves to bring out some latent power in the body is not sus- tained by the following eperiments:
 The late Dr. Ridge made some ex- of ten people, comprising medical students, porters and nurses. He put up at the end of a corridor a row of letters, and got each member of the group to walk slowly from the other end until the letters could be read, of course, changing the order of the letters in each case. A mark was made on the floor to show the spot where the reading was done, and the per sons initials placed beside it. Then he supplied them with beer in quan- titles ranging from half-a-pint to as little as One-sixteenth of 8 pint. On repeating the test, not one of the group could now read the letters at the spot where they formerly stood; all had to go nearer. In no case was there an improvement.
 Professor Braeplin, of Heidelberg University, in the course of his fam Ous experiments discovered tha, an average man who has taken fluid ounce of alcohol (equal to one pint of beer) had half an hour after ward to go to a distance of 20 feet to read letters that he had previously read at 30 feet. He also records that the effect on the nerves of a quarter pint or half-pint of beer lasted from four to five hours after drinking.
 Professor Kraeplin made his long series of experiments with the idea of proving that moderate dose of al- cohOl helped man to do better work. oo hic tCotiAiohy 10 th0 re- markable when he records the fact that he proved just the opposite One of his experiments was as follows: He put a man at some distance from screen, from behind which a colOred flag was suddenly erected The rais- ing of the flag started a stop watch, and the man had to press a button which, by means of electricity, stop ped the watch, and so recorded how long he took to perceive the flag, de- eide the color, and press the right button for that color. He then was allowed a glass of wine, which might be considered equal to a half-pint of beer, and a short time afterward the experiment was repeated, with the re- suit that in every one of the many cases tested the man was slower after taking alcohol than before 1t.
 Professor Kraepelin set a dozen clerks to work a number of compound addition sums. Each man had a stop watch. which started when he began work and stopped when he had finisn- ed, thus recording the time taken Then he was given a glass of wine. and started to work an equal number of similar sums. Out of the first dozen tried. eleven were slower than before, and the other man though slightly faster. got all his sums wrong. The experiment was repeated again and again, with different sets of clerks, but the result was invariably against the use of alcohol. The remarkable feature of it all was that every clerk was certain he was working faster after the wine than before, and was astounded to find that his watch was against him. So impressed was the professor that he tried the experi ment on himself, and suffered the same deception as to doing better and faster work after taking alcohol than before. This explains why many people persist in drinking liquor to help them in their work-they genu- finely think it helps them. Adv.