The Alaska citizen., 1916-06-19

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 Ccouunued From Last Week.. NAVAL ACADEMY STUDENTS DO
 NOT DRINK.
 l spoke a lew nights ago tO eight hundred and fifty mIdshIpmen tt the Annapolis Naval Academy. and A finer body of young men it would be impossible to lind. Not one oi them Is allowed to use intoxicating liquor Why is the use of liquor forbidden to these men except on the ground that t would be hurt ful to them? They are beng pre- pared at government expense. for government service and the fact that they are not permitted to ule alcohol should impress all youns men who seek to lit themselves for important work.
 ALCOHOL CURSES THE UNBORN.
 The use Of alcohol not only low CTS a mans productive capacity but 1t mparts constitutional weak ness to his offspring. Even If the pleasure derived from the use 0. alcohol were not followed by pam that overcomes the pleasure even If 1t did not manifest itself in the impairment ot the individual wuo uses 1.-the fact that its effects are transmitted to the child and thus visit an underseryed punishment upon it, ought to weigh nightly with the man who has not decided the drink question for himself.
 ORUNkARDs COME FROM MOO-
 ERATE DRINKERS.
 But there is another reason why one should not drink at all, name ly, the danger of drinking to excess. It cannot be tIuthfully said that every moderate drinker becomes drunkard, but 1t is true that every drunkard comes from the number ot those who drink moderately; none come from the ranks oi the total ab stainers. I remember to have heard a temperance lecturer use an illustra- tion when l was boy; l pass | on to those of this generation. lie admitted that there is differ ence between the moderate drinker and the drunkard, but he described it as the difference between the pig and the hog-the hog being q little older than the pig.
 TIPPLlNG NEVER SAFE.
 The drunkard has indulged the habit longer and to a greater eN tent than the moderate drinker-- but the moderate drinker is on the road over which the drunkard must travel before he becomes a sOt. And no moderate drinker can be absolutely sure that he will not be overcome by the appetite. There is no time in life from youth to old age when it is safe for a man to cultivate taste for alcoholic drinks; and surely it is the part of wisdom not to drink at all when drinking brings no advantage; when drink, even in small quantities, inc pairs ones capacity; when the use of alcohol affects the child of the thinker and when in addition to these a drinker runs the risk of being overcome by the appetite.
 A WASTE OF MONEY.
 But let me give you another req son for total abstinence. No one can afford to spend money for drink not even a small amount of money Money should not be wasted and it is worse than wasted when used for that which, instead of benefit ting, does harm. There are so many good uses that can be made of money that it seems strange that anyone should be willing to spend money for intoxicating liquor. Co among those who drink and see to what actual needs the money could be applied. It would improve and make more sanitary the houses in which they live; it would clothe their children better; it would bring more comfort to the home, not to speak of the more substantial plea sure which the thinker himself would be able to enjoy.
 INVEST IN HUMANITY.
 If one does not need all his money. either for immediate use or as a protection against the infirmities o' age the world around presents op- portunities for use of his money in innumerable altruistic ways. There is no investment so profitable as investment in humanity. He who, out of brotherly love, aids his fel- lowmen in proportion as he is able to aid draws from such contribu- tions a joy infinitely more satisfy ing than can be derived from the use of liquor.
 INFLUENCE OF EXAMPLE.
 I have spoken of the reason based upon physical welfare and also Of the reason based upon the ohltga tion that rests upon a man to make a wise use of his money, but there Is third reason which, to my mind, cannot fail to impress the