The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-21
Germany Suffers Thru Her
Habit of Many Years.
CAUSE OF MENTAL DISORDERS
Appearances of Persons Addict
ed Are Only Misleading.
TeutOnS Must Give 1t Up, Sci
entists Now Agree.


effects of beer, set forth in manner
to show the beverage may easily con-
stitute a national menace, furnishes
the subject matter for an extensive
bulletin issued here by the board of
temperance of the Methodist Episco-
pal church. Especially interesting is
the comment of German scientists and
writer's as applied to the beer drinking
habit and its hold on Germany.
P #. Emil Kraepelin of the Univer-
sity of Munich and one of the best
known of German scientists, is quoted
as saying that in the production OF
alcoholism in Germany, beer I'M
doubtedly plays the chief role He
SAYS thirteen thousand persons become
victims of alcohol each year in Ger
many, and that one-fifth of all mental
disorders are attributed to alcoholic
liquors.
DR.. Hugo Hoppe, the famous nerve
specialist of Konigsburg, Germany,
says;
THE result of extolling beer as the
mightiest enemy of whisky and brandy
has been that the consumption of the
distilled liquors has changed very lit
tie while to these liquors has been
added beer, the use of which has led
to a great and still increasing beer
alcoholism. The brutalizing effect of
beer alcoholism is shown most clearly
in the fact that in Germany crimes
personal VlOl0nCe,
gerous bodily injuries, occur most fire.
quently in Bavaria, where there is the
highest consumption of beer"
A quotation from Professor Won
Struempell follows:
Formerly whisky and brandy were
the universal evil-doers, the only de-
spised drinks as against noble wine
and harmless beer. At present we
know that in practice the injurious
effects of beer are at least as frequent,
if not, indeed. more frequent, than
those of distilled liquor.
Other Injurious Substances
For although the percentage of al
cohol (beer to 4 per cent?, is not
especially high, yet this low percent
age is counteracted by the great guam
tity drunk; 100 cubic centimeters of
beer contains only three grams pure
alcohol, but liter (about one quartz
contains thirty grams. A moderate
beer drinker. who daily drinks his
five liters, thus gets every day $50
grams of absolute alcohol into his
body. Finally it must be noted that
perhaps beer contains besides alco-
| hol other injurious substances from
the hops, whose effect is also to be
taken into account"
Prof. Rudolph Eucken, possibly the
greatest philosopher Germany has
| produced, declares that his country
must give up beer, which breeds the
which everyone is familiar"
The term "Philistinism," as de-
scribing the intellectual desolation and
EQUALIZATION resulting from the beer
habit. is now universal. The Scientific
American says:
The most dangerous ella sses of ruff
fans in our large cities are beer drink
erS- Intellectually a stupor amount
ing almost to paralysis arrests the
reason, changing all the higher fac
uIties INTO a mere animalism. sensual,
selflsh, sluggish, varied only with par
oXysns of anger, senseless and brutal :"
and 1t also continues its unfalterfng
remarks as follows:
Disease Follows Drinking.
In appearance the beer drinker
may be the picture of health, but in
reality he is most incapable of resist
ing disease. A slight injury, a severe
cold or shock to the body or mind
will commonly provoke acute disease,
ending fatally. Compared with other
inebriates who use different kinds of
alcohol, he is more incur-ble and
more generally diseased 1t is our
observation that beer drinking in this
country produces The very lowest kind
of inebrity, closely allied to criminal
insanity"
Doctor Fiessinger, editor of Paris
medical periodical, declares that beer
makes people ferocicus and beastly."
Other eminent European scientists
and doctors speak as follows:
Prof. Emil Kraepelin-In the pro-
duction of alcoholism in GERMANY
beer undoubtedly plays the chief role
1t must be conceded that beer is ca
pable of producing typical delirium
tremens.
Prof Gustav Won Bunge-No other
drink (referring to beer) is so insidi-
Gus. 1t has been in Germany worse
than the whisky pest, because more
apt to lead to immoderate drinking.
Professor Mobius. Leipsic-I know
/ little of whisky and wine drinkers.
With US II is beer that ruins the peo-
pie.