Charlevoix county herald., 1916-09-01
ALCOHOL INSIDE
RETARDS THOUGHT
THE MENTAL POWERS ARE MUCH
CRIPPLED EVEN WHEN USED
IN MODERATE DOSES.
EVILS OF BEER AND HlGHBALL
How Booze Really Affects One VINO
Drinks Moderately 10 Startling
To Those Who Think.

The Department OF Health OF the
city of Chicago In bulletin lssueo
for June under the caption, BOOZE
and Brains" says:
The fellow with alcohol in his sys'
tenn Is not a good witness as to its
effects upon himself, for his mind as
we'll as his body Is bribed by the drug
and is as full of prejudice as MS
breath is full of fumes.
You had a glass OF beer or three
fingers of rye today. didn't you! You
think that 1t puts snap in your Wits
and steam in your cylinders. You feel
fine and think you are ready 10 tackle
your Job and meet any problem In
sieht with a clear head and strong
hand. But your feeling has deiuded
YOU. The fact Is that the drink you
took actually diminished your power
To add numbers, to memorize, TO asso-
ciate ideas and to see, hear and think
quickly.
Facts Have Been Proved.
This statement is not the result OF
Euesswork or a question OF antithis
or anti.that on moral grounds. 1t Is
based on experiments made by an
eminent scientist, Professor kraepelin,
of Vienna, who has devised series
of tests and applied them to many
individuals, before and after they have
taken alcoholic liquor. His findings
have been duplicated by other scien-
tific men.
In all cases the ability to add, to
memoriZe and to think quickly were
greatly reduced within few minutes
of taking the drink, and the handicap
lasted for as long as three days. The
more difficult the task. the greater was
the handicap, and the more numerous
we're the mistakes made by the one
tested.
Experiments upon four typesetters
showed the results Of drinking In ev-
ery-day work. On the average the
falling off in efficiency under alcohol
amounted to over Is per cent, as CON-
pared to normal conditions. There
men were not drunk, but simply had
moderate drink. just like the one you
had today.
Daily moderate drinkers are con-
rtantly under this harmful influence
OF alcohol, since the effects OF one
drink, as is clearly shown by these
experiments, do not wear on before
the drinkers observed imagined that
he was doing work fully up to grade,
while the tests showed 1t was far be-
low par. These men were not con.
scious Of their mental deficiency.
Think Before You Drink.
This should make you think before
you order another stein; for while
you may drink another fellows health
In 1t, you are hurting your own brain
power. And who does not need all
the mind he can muster in these
days?
Schiller said, wine invents moth
Ing; 1t only blabs 1t out"
The great Helmholtz asserted that
the slightest amount Of alcohol de-
stroyed his power OF scientific insight.
Goethe repeatedly declared that So
called stimulation by liquor could
produce only a forced, inferior cre-
alton of ideas.
Happiness and contentment are said
to spring from the benumbing infiu-
ence of alcohol upon the higher brain
functions. Such happiness is false,
such contentment bought at the ex-
pense of individual mental liberty.
John Stuart Mill put 1t right when
he said, who would not be a human
dissatisfied, rather than a pig salts
6ed?"
Think before you drink, for after q |
beer or highball you cannot think so
we'll.