The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1916-07-07
Can YOU DRINK and
Hold YOUR JOB
ONE MILLION JOBS IN AMERICA
ARE CLOSED TO
DRINKERS
What Life Insurance Companies
Know About Drink


American medical directors Of three
great life insurance companies estimate
tfiat from seven % forty three per cent
Of accidents are due, either directly
or indirectly, 70 alcohol. Seven per
cent Of railway accidents, eight per
cent Of street car accidents, ten per
cent Of automobile accidents, eight
per cent Of those due 10 vehicles and
horses. forty-three per cent Of heat
prCstratiOHs and sunstrckes. seven
per cent Of machinery accidents. eight
per cent Of all accidents in mines and
quarries, thirteen per cent II drown
ings, and ten per cent Of gun shot
wounds, are sustained, either In whole
or in part, because Of alcohol
with this IN mind. the Pittsburg
Steel Company, employing five thous-
and two hundred and fifty men at a.
monthly expense Of three hundred
thousand dollars. went 50 far as 10 adj
dres a letter 10 the lisence Judge Of
county, protesting against the Hcens-
ing Of saloons. They said:
We have experienced a growing in
efficiency and an increased careless
ness in the mills, resulting in accidents
and deaths, largely attributable 70 the
excessive use OF beer, whiskey and
other alcoholic drinks. This evil has
been growing rapidly, unit loUr COM
pany has been compelled TO impose
restrictions on our men as 70 the use
OF liquors, with some beneficial results;
but the safety Of our men and the ef-
fIeient conduct Of our business cannot
/ oh
| in such habits can be secured.
| The widespread use OF alcoholic bev-
erages has been conservatiyely estima-
ted as causing the loss Of twenty-One
per cent in the efficiency Of the ma
TONS workers. The production Of
wealth is reckOned at about thirty two
billion dollars yearly: the loss due &c
( deficiency Cor diminished efficiency
in round numbers is therefore FULLY
eight and one half billion dollars.
4 What the Heads of Business Say
X Some months ago / wrote to this
heads Of insurance companies, indus
1 trial corporations, railroads, and col
lleges: also to safety experts, stalls
.ticians. and those who have made ;
study Of efficiency and economics
tout Of five hundred letters sent / re
/ ceived four hundred and three replies
In quote from few Of these. which ar
Representative Of the mass opinion
Practically the only voice which di
not condemn alcohol in business cam
from manufacturer OF beer pump.
Mr.. Francis Norie- Miller. OF the Gen
eraI Accident Fire and Life Assuranc
Corporation, Ltd, writes: i hav
lcome unhesitatingly to the opion tina
the effect Of alcohol on the huma
system is to degrade in every paticu
lar. mentally. morally and PHYSICAL!
Those of my employees who have in
duIged freely have, by a process moi
or less gradual. become absolutel
useless. Poverty and misery in Ii
homes have resulted. Their childre
III find weak. physically and mental,
and feel that, not only for the sal
Of the present generation. but for II
sake Of generations to come. ever
community should have probition to II
extent that il would be as difficult
obtain strong drink as TO obtain stron
polsons.'
Ex- Senator william A Clark adds
THE disqualification Of persons ad
dicted to the excessive use Of alcoh
was in my early experience 50 stricl
ing that ! pretemptorily declined
take anyone into my service upo
whom / could discern the effects Of il
, diligence in alcohol | look upon alec
lholism as a disease which. as time got
on. iusidiously and surely fastens itse
upon the victim. so that yOlitiOn is er
tirely destroyed"
Mr.. Thomas d. West. chairman Z
the West Steel Casting Company an