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New-York tribune., 1918-05-02
Real Basis for Fight
Is That Alcohol Is Poison

Let the restraining hand Of the
government lay hold of alcohol, as it
does of other poisons. For alcohol
is poison, and that is the real is
sue for the prohibition movement.
The following statement Of the case
against liquor is from Samuel Will
son, assistant superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League of New Jersey
and editor of "The American ISSUE"
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l do not see that the discussion
Of the medical value of alcohol has any,
thing whatever to do with the question
Of prohibition as it is now, before the
American people, as neither the sug-
gested Constitutional amendment nor
any of the state legislation prohibits the
medical use Of alcohol.
The question is simply part of the
worldwide agitation against the indis-
criminate sale and use of habit-forming
drugs, and | think none of the distin-
g4ished physicians who have expressed
themselves will dispute the fact that
alcohol is habit-forming drug China
has prohibited the indiscriminate manu-
facture, sale and use of the drug opium;
the Federal government and the states
of the American Union have adopted
very drastic prohibitory laws against
the indiscriminate sale and use of dam
gerous narcotics, such as opium, cocaine
and other habit-forming drugs, in any
of their dilations or derivatives, These
laws provide that such drugs cannot be
sold, except upon the prescription of an
educated and licensed physician, or dis
pensed, except by an educated and
licensed pharmacist.
The prohibitionist insists that the
drug alcohol should be placed in the
same class, and its sale surrounded
with the same restrictions as other mar
cotic poisons. No well-informed ply
sician will question the fact that alco-
mol Is dangerous, habit forming drug,
as defined by Sir Lauder Brunton in his
classical work on materia medica, who
says
Alcohol Is nerve cell paralyzant,
paraiyzing the nerve cells in the in
verse order of their Developments
Every reason that calls upon the re-
stralning hand of government for
opium and cocaine, because they are
naoit-forming drugs, applies with equal
or even greater force to the drug al
cohol.
The dope fiend" Injuries himself in
ms body and mind, whereas the alco-
nolic,. in addition to his own personal
iHs. inhicts vast injury upon society,
as is abundantly proved by the records
OF courts and eleemosynary institutions.
The drug addict can get his supplies
only through iliegitimate and under
ground channels; but the fact that
there is an Illicit traffic in habit-form-
. ing drugs is not considered to be a
reason for removing the restrictions
and permitting the open sale of the
drug to all coners. BY the same token
the prohibitionist claims that 1t il un-
civilized for government to authorize
tho indiscriminate sale Of the drug al
cohol In its various dilutions, rs a bev-
erage by ignorant and often brutal men
TO all comers who have the price, SO
long as they are able to stand up
s&xinst its narcotic influence.
II the people are to be permitted to
uss poison let 1t be done in the name Of
niedica! science, under medical super
vision; let all poisons be treated alike,
New-York tribune., 1918-05-02

surgeon to the Massachusetts Homno-
pathic Hospital
DR.. Winfield Scott Hall, professor Of
physiology Northwestern University,
Chicago.
Still more recently over 600 physi-
clans of Massachusetts signed petit
tion asking the state Legislature to
ratify the national constitutional pro-
hibiton amendment. Among these and
speaking for them before the legis-
lative committee was the widely known
and honorcd DR.. j. J. Putnam, special
st and former lecturer on neurology
at Harvard Medical School and visiting
physician to the Massachusetts Cen
eral Hospital.
EMMA l.. TRANSEAU,
Secretary Scientific Temperance
Federation.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-02
Wages and Education
Blamed for Intemperance

Blamed for lntemperance
Remove the causes of drunken
ness, which is a disease like klepto-
mania, writes Eli Appelbaum, be-
cause prohibition can no more make
drunkard sober than Jail can
make thief honest. The reply is
obvious: A prisoner cannot at least
continue his acts of dishonesty in
jail.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I am opposed to prohibition for
the same reason that | am opposed to
any attempt on the part of duly con-
stituted authority to prevent q man
from exhibiting in public the symptoms
of an external disease.
Drunkenness is one of the many
diseases which aflict society to-day
Prohibition will hide the unpleasant
effects of this disease, but can not and
will not remove the cause. One must
go outside a brewery or saloon to find
the real causes of mans Incorporate
habits. The causes of drunkenness are
infinitely greater than the brewery or
the saloon, greater even than the
owners or patrons Oh CHeSe lnStltuIlOnS.
The causes of intemperance are:
/. Lack of adequate educational
training, due to the economic neces-
sity of curtailng the schooling of the
child
2. An insufficient wage for the main
tenancc of decent standard of living
and the preservation of ones self-re-
spcct.
3. Exhausting, long hours of monoto-
nous labor, which compel a man to
seek solace and relaxation in the arti-
fetal stimulating effects of alcoholic
beverages.
Although matrimonial difficulties,
business reverses and mental degen-
eracy may be classified as contributory
causes of drunkenness, they are but
part of the major causes enumerated
above and merit no separate considera-
ton.
In brief, poverty of the purse, body
or mind is largely responsible for the
extensive use of alcoholic beverages
If prohibition can successfully re-
move the basic causes it will make a
contribution of inestimable value tow
ard the emancipation of the human
race. But prohibition will no more
keep man sober than Jail will make
thief honest
ELI APPELBAUM
New-York tribune., 1918-05-02
A Word for Mr.. Lanyon,

Discussing the Kaiser's glee when
vodka was banished in Russia, Rob-
ert H. Lanyon. in a letter printed
April "a, wrote:. II can. imagine
the grin of satisfaction which i.
will pervade his countenance when
ever he hears that the United States
has committed itself to an equally
foolish policy" Lee de Forest re-
plies as follows:
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Among all the letters bearing
on the war which The Tribune has
printed doubt if any has cast greater
slur or carried a mcaner insult to our
American troops abroad than that
signed Robert H. Lanyon.
prohibition arguments run far
and wild In seeking new reasons" why
ioodstuifs and. labor should be wasted
during this war; but seldom has one
gone 80 far toward disloyalty or so be-
smlrched the intel igence and morale
of our troops as to infer that if those
on the firing line are denied their
'oNho tHSy Will IOrCnWltn, ike the
ignorant and half-starved Russians, de-
sert and fraternize with the Germans.
who can give them booze!
We're such rawlings less insulting to
the brave lads who are sacrificing their
all to save Tribune letter writer's from
the Hun they would be merely humor-
Gus. Equal in historic truth is Mr..
LANNON'S other statement that Russians
banished their Czar because he had
banished vodka.
Among various relics of Ignorance
and barbarism whose extinction will be
hastened by this war are such anachro-
nisms as autocrats and alcoholic poi-
sons. LEE DE FOREST.
Who Is Fit
To Pass on Alcohol2
Surely the following men are
competent, comes the reply to DR..
Allan McLane Hamilton from the
recording secretary Of the Scientific
Temperance Federation Of Boston.
Il DR.. Allen McLans Hamilton's d.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-02
Liquor Head Offers Red Cross $4,000
For Evidence Against Alcohol

and not in the name Of business as
beverage, with resulting physical, men
tai and moral decrepitude and ineffi-
cheney.
In its last analysis this is the real
basis of the prohibition movement.
SAMUEL. WILSON.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-02
Would Eliminate
Bars and Treating

Two physicians join in signing
the following opinion on the best
solution of the liquor problem. At
ter a discussion of the effects Of al
cohol on the human body, they con-
clude with verdict for temperance
rather than for prohibition.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; There is evidently a difference
OF opinion concerning alcoholic bever-
ages and their relation to health and
happiness. The term s"liquor" used in
the proposed constitutional amendment
likewise permits of Indifference in in
depreciation, and, as commonly and
scientifically used, does not designate
wines, beers, ales and other mild alco-
holic fluids.
Consider physiological facts relative
to this, subject In times of stress,
with fear, anxiety, excessive work,
physical or mental, especially done
under strain and in conditions of
fatigue, the suprarenal glands pour
secretion called epinephrin into the
circulation. This secretion constricts
the blood vessels, forcing the blood out
the heart, lungs, brain and nervous
system These temporarily become
more active and efficient. With rest
or sleep the reverse occurs, the blood
vessels relax and recuperation and re-
pair result.
is not stimulant, but a circulatory
depressant. a substance that decreases
the restraint and efficiency of the
higher cerebral functions, but it is
only at intervals that such efficiency
is required. Ordinarily. the brain
action should approach automatism.
CO There is a considerable period in
each twentyfour hours when the brain
should be at partial or complete rest.
Alcohol in moderation causes the
same relaxation as rest and sleep. It
acts upon the sympa athletic nervous sys-
tenn, causing the inhibition of stimuli
which often continue to act after the
necessity for them has ended. Rest
and sleep are frequently impossible
when required, and if resorted to de-
mand the elimination of mental and
physical activity.
Alcohol taken insufficiently diluted is
another matter, and may create an
abnormal desire, due to the TACT that
taken concentrated it can give rise to
catarrhal irritation of the CASTRO
intestinal tract and the absorption of
toxnes irritating to the sympathetic
nervous system.
The use of alcohol should be re-
stricted to fluids containing small per-
centages, and if not taken upon an
empty stomach habit will never be
created. The following measures will
eliminate the so-called liquor traffic
and its consequences:
L. The elimination of all bars and
the installation of tables and chairs.
2. The elimination of treating.
3. The formation of clubs to re-
place saloons, whose officers are paid
salaries, not percentages on profits, ~
If the, same j energy were expended
upon temperance as upon prohibition
5fe powSHul political Hobbies of the.
organized interests and of the fanatical
,reformcrs Gould not prevent the nor
nal and valued use of alcoholic bever-
ages in moderation.
WATERS F. BURROWS, M. D.
ELLIOTT C. BURROWS, M. D.
Some Remarks
Doctors and Drink
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New-York tribune., 1918-05-02
"The beer Il

according to r. Ii adver-
tisers, was only We rs ago
prescribed by doctors for y .lents in
poor condition, writes VIII. p, who
further inquiries why we should be-
lieve doctors now who tell us that
beer has no food value.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Only a. few years since, when
patients, especially women, were in
poor condition, the doctor almost in
variably prescribed beer or ale, because
Of its food value or stimulating quail
ties, to build them up. And thereby
thousands of people acquired the drink
habit, and the bottled beer trade pros
pered accordingly. Now we are told,
again by doctors; that beer has no food
value and is a narcotic, not stimulant.
Of what value, therefore, is the opin-
ion of doctors upon this question, and
why quote them? w. H. P.
Cheyenne record., 1918-05-16
FOOD, OR DRINK,

food will win the war;" But drink must
lose it.
Why, then. as nation, do we booze IT.
What are all our soldiers fighting for
Indeed, II not, and soon, to win the war;
If food will win. and II the drinking won't.
Why are we sending soldiers to the 'front.'
And holding fast at home by wine and
beer?
Must we go on. 80. weary year on year.
Yes. Food will win." we Loyalty may
When Food makes manhood stronger. day
But weakened manhood by the power Of
booze,
And how can men do other. then. than
lose?
While brewers waste the food which
means our might,
How shall our soldiers make winning
hght7
II beer must be at home the bread of
why send our boys abroad. to losing
strifef
They risk their lives, and possibly their
In light for freedoms highest. srandest
Shall we be towards thus to see them
Because we fear the brewer and his
National Advocate.
Cheyenne record., 1918-05-16

Brown for few minutes. Put in
cooking vessel with seasoning, rice,
vegetables and one cupful boiling. wa
ter. Simmer for one-half hour and
put in f1reless for three hours without
the disks or two hours with them.
With chicken and okra this is the fa-
nous creole chicken of the South.
Roasts-Sear the roast, season,
place in the cooking vessel between
two hot disks. Do not add water. AL
low 25 minutes per pound.
Soup stock-Cut up meat, crack
bones, and cover with cold water. Let
it reach the boiling point, then place
in cooker for several hours.
Dried fruits and vegetables-Peas,
beans, corn, dried fruit-soak in wa
ter until restored to the original size.
Boil few minutes and then keep in
cooker six to twelve hours. Baked
beans or peas are especially good
cooked in the freless.
For more recipes send to the depart
ment Of agriculture for Farmers Bull
letin I'll, "Home-Made Fireless Cook
ers and Their Use.'>
Cheyenne record., 1918-05-16
Temperance
1nNOte5a
Conducted by tho National Woman
- Christian TEMPERANCE Unionl
WINNERS DON'T USE lr.

WINNERS DON'T USE IT.
have been asked to tell what I
think Of the liquor question and have
to break oven the traces at the jump.
do not discuss the 'liquor question"
Spades are always spades with me,
and always call them spades. That
Is why use the word booze. can
talk about booze and its effects, but
such nice expression as the 'sliquor
question" gets my goat. Giving the
stun the right handle can grab it and
tell all know about it.
Here 1t is, in one bunch: Booze
doesn't make winners.
There never was a winner in the
world that built his winning on booze.
don't care what line. you get into.
you won't find one winner who used
the stuff to his advantage.
Ask Grover Cleveland Alexander
how much booze has helped to make
him the best pitcher that Charles
Weeghman could buy to give the Cubs
a pennant.
Go out to your Chicago university
and ask Coach Stagg how much booze
he feeds his football or baseball play
ers, or his track athletes.
Ask Charlie Comiskey-bless his old
heart-if booze ever helped him when
he was first-basing around the country.
Or ask him how much booze has done
for Eddie Collins or Red Faber, or that
center fielder Of his, Happy Felsch.
You'll get the same answer anywhere
you go-the old, old answer to the So
called 'liquor question" 1t doesn't
pay. it never has paid. and it never will
pay.
And winners don't use 1t. They
can't use 1t and win. And, after all,
the Lord must love a winner. For
winning means clean living. and clean
living means efficiency. and efficiency
means decency. None Of these things
takes off its hat and makes itself at
home where booze hangs out.
To any reader who can name one
man that has won with booze, I'll name
hundredvyes, thousand-who have
lost.-Billy Sunday in Chicago Exam
liner.
Cheyenne record., 1918-05-16
MODERATE DRINKING
WHAT
DOES.

The degeneration due to the So
called moderate" consumption Of al
cohol is very similar to senile decay.
In the opinion Of Prof. @. Sims Wood
head, M. A., M. D., F. R. @. p, f. r.
8. r., Of Cambridge university, Eng
land.
"Alcoholic degeneration, however"
Professor woodhead points out. "does
not proceed equally in every part Of
the body. The weaker tissues are first
attacked and the patient gives way at
the weak link of the chain. Alcohol
calls upon the reserve strength which
ought to be held like balance at the
bank to meet sudden and unexpected
emergencies. If you have such phys
ical reserve, you are able to tide
over emergencies and wear out gradu-
ally, but If you let alcohol withdraw
your balance, exhausting your reserve,
You may become physical bankrupt
at any moment"
Cheyenne record., 1918-05-16
HOW TO CONSTRUCT AN
IcELESS REFRIGERATOR

A wooden frame is made with
dimensions AZ by 18 by IA
inches and covered with screen
wire, preferably the rustless
type, which costs little more
than the ordinary kind. The
door is made to fit closely and
is mounted on brass hinges, and
can be fastened with a wooden
latch. The bottom Is fitted SOL
i'd, but the top should be COW
cred with screen wire. Adjusta-
BILE shelves can be made Of solid
wood or strips or sheets Of gal
vanized metal. Shelves made of
poultry netting on light wooden
frames, as shown in the illus
tration, are probably the most
desirable. These shelves rest
on side braces placed at desired
intervals. A bread baking pan,
IA by 16 inches, is placed ON the
top and the frame rests in a II
by 1S-inch pan.
All the woodwork, the shelves
and the pans should receive two
coats Of white paint and one or
two coats of white enamel. This
makes a very attractive surface
and one that can be easily kept
clean. The screen wire also may
receive the coat Of enamel,
which will prevent 1t from rust
ing.
A cover Of canton flannel. bur-
lap or duck Is made to At the
frame. Put the smooth side out
If canton flannel is used. 1t will
require about three yards Of ma
terial. This cover Is buttoned
around the top Of the frame and
down the side on which the door
Is not hinged, using buggy hooks
and eyes or large-headed tacks
and eyelets worked in the mate
rial. On the front side arrange
the hooks on the top Of the door,
instead Of on the frame, and also
fasten the cover down the latch
side Of the door, allowing a wide
hem Of the material to overlap
the place where the door closes.
The door can then be opened
without unbuttoning the cover.
The bottom Of the cover should
extend down into the lower pan.
Four double strips, which taper
to 8 or 10 inches In width, are
sewed to the upper part Of the
cover. These strips form wicks
that dip over into the upper pan.
The dimensions given make a
refrigerator Of very convenient
size for household use and one
with efficient evaporating sur
face, but it Is not necessary to
follow strictly these dimensions.
II a larger capacity Is desired,
the height Of the refrigerator can
be increased.
Cheyenne record., 1918-05-16
some FIrsless spseialtIss.

Here are some things that can be
cooked well in the hreless cooker:
Cereals-Prepare as for the stove,
NNut use one-sixth less water. Boil for
ten minutes, or longer with coarsef
cereals. Place in the cooker boiling
hot and leave six or eight hours or
over night. go ~.
Meats-Buy cheaper cuts. Tho nre-
less can make tough meat tender.
Creole Stew.
4 mound lean beef or n cupful rice.
medi,Im fowl e cupful chopped on
Z cupfuls tomatoes. lon.
I cupful carrots or tablespoonful nat.
okfa cut small. teaspoonhuA b1At-
cupfu1 chopped -llt
sweet peppers A.
Cut the meat In small pieces or cut
the fowl into joints. Melt the fat. add
the onions, peppers. meat or chicken.
Cheyenne record., 1918-05-16

Never buy large quantities Of spices
at q time-they spoil.
Cheyenne record., 1918-05-16
HOW 70 AVOID FOOD RIOTS.

Says DR.. Haven Emerson, commits
sioner Of health, New York city: IF
we would avoid serious food riots, such
a. occurred last year in. this city, and
which might be brought to a head any
time, by reduction In available bread
and milk for the poor, we must cut
OF the daily expenditure in this city
Of q million dollars q day, which ID
now the city's daily liquor bill. We
must ret that money out Of liquor into
food"
Cheyenne record., 1918-05-16
DEVICE TO keep
FOOD IN SUMMER
Evaporation of Water From Cloth
Cover Is Cooling Principle Of
Refrigerator.
COOLER FOR DRINKING WATER
Temperature Of 80 Degrees r. PossI-
bic Under Ideal conditions-PIaee
for Meats, Fruits, Vegetables,
Milk and Butter.

Where ice is not obtainable an ice
less refrigerator, homemade, will be a
useful food keeper and food saver this
summer. Maintaining low tempera-
/, ture through the evaporation of water
from it's canvas cover, the iceless re-
frigerator will keep meats, fruits and
vegetables cool and will extend the pc
Rod for keeping milk and butter. 1t
can also serve as a cooler for drinking
water.
Separate Refrlgerators.
In homes where large quantities of
milk and butter are to be kept 1t would
be well to have one refrigerator for
milk and butter and another for other
foods, as milk and butter readily abb
sorb odors from other foods. 1t costs
very little to build the refrigerator and
nothing to operate 1t. The operation is
as simple as the construction. The
upper pan should be kept filled with
water. The water Is drawn by capil-
larry attraction through the wicks and
saturates the cover. As evaporation
takes place heat is taken from the
inside Of the refrigerator, thereby low
ering the temperature Of the inside
and the contents. Capillary action
starts more readily II the cover is first
dampened by dipping 1t in water or
throwing water upon 1t. The greater
J the rate of evaporation the lower the
temperature which can be secured /;
therefore the refrigerator works best
when rapid evaporation takes place.
Evaporation 10 Rapid.
When the refrigerator is placed in a
: shady place In a strong breeze and the
air is warm and dry, evaporation
takes place continuously and rapidly
and the temperature inside the refrig-
orator Is reduced. Under ideal condi-
lions the temperature has been
known to be reduced to 80 degrees
Fahrenheit. When it is damp. and
the air is full Of moisture. the refrig-
orator will not work as well, since
there Is not enough evaporation. More
water will ind its way to the lower
pan, but 1t will be drawn up Into the
covering by capillary attraction when
the air again becomes drier.
The refrigerator should be regularly
cleaned and summed. IF the framework,
shelves and pans are white enameled
they can more easily be kept in sani-
tary condition. It IL well to have two
covers, so that fresh one can be used
each week and the soiled one washed
and summed.
Cheyenne record., 1918-05-16
a auMMI1 or PRooREss

Governor Cox Of Ohio pardoned Q
convict on condition that he stay away
from the saloon. 'Why," asks the
Ohio State Journal. mot impose this
upon all menf
II every man would abstain ana
keep out Of saloons M this man has
promised to do there would not be any
penitentiaries, or II there were, they
would not be much larger than county
jails. Even from q social standpoint.
leaving the moral cut altogether. It
would turn out to be q summit Of prog
reoA
Cheyenne record., 1918-05-16

Natural Sequence.
what did Gings do when his wife
made such a sweeping attack upon
himr "Why, he busted"