The Penn's Grove record., 1916-09-15
BOOZE AND BUSINESS
The Prohibition of the Liquor
Traffic Has Become an
Industrial Necessity

The American Pharmaceutical Asso-
citation held their convention in Allan
tic City last week. One of the interest
ing topics under discussion was how TO
meet the pressing demand for whisky
and brandy for medieval purposes, since
both hOmely remedies for many common
ailments have been cut out of the Uni
ted States Pharmacopeia, eighth revis-
ion, which became effective on Septem-
Der LIST.
DIR. II. G. Wood, Jr., of Philadelphia.
made an urgent plea to the pharmacists
10 clear their shelves of medicines con-
tanning even the slightest trace of mar
cotics. will you as pharmacists bar
ter away the happiness of your fellow
man for Il few paltry pieces of silver?
If not, exclude these so-called medi-
cines containing narcotics, no matter
how small the amount from your store"
Pharmacists lave to be persons edu-
Gated in the use of drugs. If such a
plea as DIR. Wood made applies to those
Sho sell medicines containing alcohol to
De taken in ~teaspoonful doses what
greater restriction should be put on the
sale of alcoholic liquors used as bever-
ages.
The pleas of the ethical, moral and re-
igious agitators for total abstinence for
he individual and prohibition for the
state has received great enforcement
from the industrial necessity of having
sober, clear-headed working men. With
A shortage of two million immigrants,
and a demand for 30 per cent more pro-
ductiOn the need of every man working
Ia his full affs.an1.x. =. -, .I
DIR. r. L. bowers in the American
Magazine. July. says: The widespread
use of alcoholic beverages has been es-
timated as causing the loss of twenty
one per cent in the efficiency of the ma
tons workers, which amounts to eight
and a half billion dollars yearly"
Nearly all railroad companies forbid
the taking of a single drink. on or off
duty, and men are discharged for fire.
quenting places in which liquor is sold.
Other great industries have come to see
that alcohol makes only for accidents. in
efficiency and waste. Workmen's- com
pensation laws in many States have help
ed to pen mems eyes. and business
common sense is keeping them open.
The employer has no desire to med
lie unnecessarily with the wOrkmen's
liberty, but if this alleged liberty inter-
feres with the conduct of the employers
business, the output of his establish
ment, or the quality of his goods. he
feels that something must necessarily
be done about it, and lone right away.
Alcohol does all these things and more
as industrial leaders are finding out rap
idly in these days of scientific investi-
CATION.
If an employer is to be held liable for
the death or injury of the employees. he
IS going to see to it that all removable
causes are eliminated.
CAUSES OF ACCIDENTS.
American medical directors of three
great insurance companies estimate that
alcohol causes accidents as follows: Sew
en- per cent railroad accidents, eight per
cent of street car accidents and those
due to vehicles and horses, and in mines;
forty-three per cent of heat prostra-
tons, seven per cent of machinery acct
dents and ten per rent of gunshot
wounds.
j. b. Mansfield, vice-president of the
j. E. Bolles Iron and Wire Works. says:
Forty per cent of our accidents are
among men who take intoxicating LIQUOR.
Ninety per cent of serious accidents oc-
cur among men who drink. Not a
single serious accident has happened to
an employee who was a total abstainer,
since our compensation law went into
effect"
The Pittsburgh Steel CO.. employ
ing $3.50 men. ven so far as to address
a letter to the license judges of the
county protesting against the licensing
of saloons.
The Philadelphia Quartz Company re-
emily conducted a pledge campaign and
offered ten per cent increase if they
agreed to use no liquors. and to avoid
places where it was sold. Ninety-nine
per cent made the promise.
When a person applies for q civil ser
vice position under the movement the
question is asked, "Do you use intoxicat-
ing liquors?" IH(E
The August number of Harper's Maya
zine contained an article by Burton ],
Hendrick in which he said:
''The most ardent temperance en-
thusiast does not show greater hostility
to the use of alcohol than Americas
captains of industry at the present NOM
ent. / have before me letters from one
hundred and fifty manufacturers of iron
and steel. Through them all the opin-
ion is unanimous that drinking, even in
moderate amounts, increases accidents
and is demoralizing to the workmen and
the plant. All these corporations
great concerns like the Illinois Steel
Company, Carnegie Steel Company
American Steel and Wire Company,
American Tin Plate Company. Ameri-
can Car and Foundry Company. Ameri-
can Bridge Company. Ind others are
now conducting a great campaign against
drinking.
A workman who cashes his pay check
at a saloon is discharged. The Ameri
can Steel and Wire Company has order
ed its men to withdraw from clubs
where liquor is sold. A year ago the
Carnegie Steel Company posted a no
tice declaring that all nromotions wou1f