The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-04-26
CLUB WOMEN TOLD
TO PASS UP WINE
Members of Betterment Organization
Hear That They Have Duty TO
Protect Young.

Protect Young.
Philadelphia. Pa. April 2s--Mern-
hers Of women's clubs have been asked
TO face their responsibility for the
prevalence of liquor in the best
homes. They were brought fact 10
face with the cocktail drinking, punch
passing and wine imbibing habits ii
the upper set" at country clubs,
dinners and dances They were asked
in the name of womanhood and
motherhood to take pause and swing
into the temperance movement which
is sweeping the world
Members Of the Philomuslan club
who have been forward in all the
hetterment movements of the tines
since the opening of their new club
house at Fortieth and Walnut Streets.
turned their meeting over to speak
ers for the commission on temper-
ance for the Federal Council az
Churches of Christ in America
Mrs. r. F. Richardson, president Of
the club. in opening the meeting
stated that it is the duty of the club
which has stood for the best inter-
ests of the community to give a hear
temperance
The meeting took up the economtc.
social and physical aspects OF alco-
hot, and It ended with an appeal from
Miss Abby A. Sutherland, principal OF
the Ogontz School for Girls. for
better chance and a cleaner heritage
for the children of the future
ut is the duty of the women to
protect the young" said Miss Suther-
land. ut is the business Of mothers
to give their sons and daughters an
Inheritance Of clear minds and strong
bodies, and they cannot do this Ii
they indulge in cocktail themselves
IL they are a, part of that society
which today Is full of human wrecks.
the flotsam and ietsam of life's under
current of alcohol"
The speaker pleaded for a social
life In which real mirth and real wit
shall succeed the champagne laugh,
and the vinous jokes. where Young
girls will not have to face the evil az
drink, where the brain product of the
best schools and colleges will not be
hefuddled and wasted and finally
tossed into the scrap-heap Of the in-
sane asylum or the private sanitarium.
She asked the women 10 do their
share in banishng the cocktail and
the punch bowl from their homes and
refusing to tolerate 1t in the social
dren. ~
The medical side OF the question
was taken UP by DIR. Matthew Woods
and DR.. Daniel Hoyt, who quoted
scientific research in this country and
in Germany to prove that alcohol has
none of the beneficial proprieties for
neriy claimed for it.
Doctor Hoyt took away the last
leg that whiskey had left to stand on
when he declared that the warmth
that ii gives to a man who has been
exposed. and who takes drink to
get his blood going. is false warmth.
and in reality checks his temperature
and makes 1t fall to subnormal. The
old theory that alcohol aids diges-
ton. he said. has been utterly dis
proved by scientific tests. @
He showed a. chart of an animal
that had been viyisected and had al
cohol injected to see it's effect on the
heart-action The chart showed not
waver of the line indicating the
heart-action, but when digitalis was
injected the line made a plunge ups
ward. showing the genuine worth Of
this drug as compared with alcohol
DR.. Woods stated that alcohol given
in fainting as stimulant Is likely to
kill the victim rather than help him
as its action is not stimulating, but
irritating, and is bad for the heart 5
muscle.
In his address summing UP the tenn.
perance movement. Rufus Miller
chairman of tie commission on tenn.
perance Of the council, told his hear
ers that with Europe on the water
wagon, the only thing for America "a
do In TO follow suit.
There can be no real prepared-
ness" he said, without temperance.
The most important thing for any
nation In TO have men and women
with strong bodies. 1t is easy enough
to say what our armies will do In Y
case OF war, and easy enough ia
promise what we will do ourselves,
the thing to do is to begin now by
cutting out drink for the same reasons
that the big manufacturing concerns
have tahOoed ii. because It means de-%
creased efficiency and brings danger
and DEATH