The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-14
9Th Grade 1 st Prize Essay

Written by Agnes Olson under
supervision of Scientific Temperance
Instruction Dept Washburn w. {.
I. U.
Many people think that little al
cohol will not aeect your ability to
work.
DIR. Aschaffenburg showed by ex-
peaiments that alcohol in small
amounts affected the typesetters. lie
gave them on the days when working
one ounce and a quarter. The men
drank it fifteen minutes before type
setting. Each did what he could to
set as much type as possible and in
every trial but one alcohol hindered
and did not help.
Another experiment was taken and
soldiers were picked out. All were
fine marksmen. When they took al
cohol they could not shoot as well as
when alcohol was not taken. The
one who is a user of alcohol is almost
lacking in memory. With brain so
confused there cannot be the least
accuracy. A Swedish admiral thinks
that if alcohol is done away with
there would not be as much crime.
and other terrible things.
A man who uses alcohol ruins him
self. He, who goes on weakening
the power of his neurons damages
the greatest part of his nervous sys-
tenn. When a man is drunk his con-
troll slips away from him and crimes
are comitted.
DR.. Warner gives the case of
family in which the older children
had stronger bodies nhan the smaller
ones. When the first children were
born the father was temperate man
but when the smaller ones were born
he was a drunkar0. A man and
boy were bitten by a mad dog. The
man was bitten on the hand alone
while the boy was bitten in the back.
The man was less severly hurt than the
boy. They were taken to the doctor
and he gave them careful treatments.
The man who was expected to live
died and the boy who was expected
to die lived. The man used alcohol
and the boy did not.
A man came to doctor to straight
en- his back. The doctor said he
could be cured if he went to the hos
pital. He could not go because he
did not have enough money. But it
was found that he used alcohol.
Schaefer found out that alcohol
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power. He also says that moderate
use of alcohol effects memory and
ability to add figures. School child
rem who drink one or two glasses of
beer or wine stand lower in their
classes. Most serious things are &C.
curing daily thru drinking. The
effects of drinking extends thru out
life Thousands of innocent people
have been imprisoned or executed
from this cause. Automobile acct
dents that occur daily are from al
cohol.
DIR. Hatch points out that alcohol
causes insanity. 1t is classed as
drug and poison. 1t has no posi-
ton as O medicine. 1t also increases
taxation by filling prisons and poor
houses. Alcohol, when it is taken
by children checks growth and causes
diseases. Nine tenths of criminals
by the saloons. Drink is greater
than war and it causes famine and
chez ks education The common be-
lief that moderate quantity of al
cohol is helpful is wrong. A long
experiment proving that little in
the form of beer made a man do
better wor was but tried when it
showed the opposite. 1t was found
that man who could read letters
80 feet away had to draw ten feet
nearer to see it after he had tax en-
one glass of beer. When no alcohol
is taken with clearer brain and
healthier body a man can get along
better in the world.