The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-22
". C. '. Q. ActiUities
For God, Home and Native Land
 fly MRS. MABEL F. LEAKE

Mrs. F. M. Jackson, president of the Central union. announces her union will not meet until the first Tuesday in Janu- ary. owing to the members being unusu7- ally busy with their Christmas prepara- tions and the influenza epidemic.
 Mrs Jackson. who is in Pass Christian, will return home in time to preside at the first meeting of the new year.
 The Francis Willard union will not meet until the second Thursday after
 .uon in January, when Mrs. George smith, president. viii tell the members plans for the work to be accomplished during the year.
 Mrs J. P Moore. superintendent of the medal contest department announce the gold medal offered for the highest number Of contests in 1918 was awarded to the Dothan union.
 The offer is renewed for the coming year and Mrs. Moore urges every union ! to appoint medal contest supernteud- ent and begin this important work at once She lays special stress on the in- ! portance of medal contests in the public schoois and invites pupi,s interestsu to ! write her for plans. Her home address ! is 1894 North Thirty-third street I The December number of the White Ribbon is most interesting, containing IS it does Anna Adams Grodon's procia- nation for worldwide prohibition, a ! most encouraging letter from the state president, and excellent reports from the superintendents of some of the uepar, | ments
 l The friends and cow orkers of the state president Mrs. Mary T. Jeffries, will be glad to know that she is well on the road to recovery from her recent Illness.
 Dr. Brice Belden. speaking of tuoer- eulosis victims, says: Alcoholism is an other starvation factor. Alcohol inter- feres with the digestion and assimilation of certain important food elements and also produces effects which have led some scientists, erroneously. to think l hat it had food value when it really eamouflaged a poor state of nutrition. In it's wake follow gastric catarrh fatty degeneration, and host of other vic ous results
 The superstition in respect to the sup
 posed food value of alcohol arose 1T
 three ways. First and almost elemental
 the drinker frequently becomes fat
 which of course, is merely the evil re suit of deficient tissue oxidation.
 The past prevalence of alcoholism il Scotland has been the result of tn, teachings of this once venerated Brown .plus another factor; take a land eA plotted or otherwise debauched society with the deteoritation which results iron bad housing and all the other unhygeni Iconcommittants that go with social deg
 radiation and injustice, and they imbu such society with false ideas as to tn necessity of stimulation, and you get no only alcoholism, but tuberculosis. It is very simple sociological equation So tuberculosis is a matter chiefly 0
 starvation the leading factors of whicl are insufficient air, defective teeth. al
 coholism and unsuitable or insufficien
 food"
 \ Mrs. Martha Allen. who was dele gate from the United States governmen to the Antialcohol congress in London il i 1909, says at that congress Dr. Holitsche
 or Carlsbad. reported on questionnair } which he had sent to thousands of physi