The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10


men during the war showed a proportion
of only one in three unfit for general SER
vice.
Personal and National Liberty.
Prohibition is essentially measure of
national defence. Health is the basis of all
efficiency, and when we are asked to consid-
er the drink question we should not think
merely Of personal liberty, so called, but of
the national liberty which we must defend
alike in peace and in war, by our healthy
lives. / had the good fortune to witness
the experiments of Prof. Stockard of Cor
nell in his New York laboratory. BY merely
being submitted for hour daily to breath
ing in alcoholic fumes the guinea pigs of
mis- experiments died in every instance.
How much sooner would these animals sue
cumb il they were given the stuff to drink?
81 shall tour Scotland shortly after my
return home. In November that country
will for the first time have the opportunity
to pass on local option. i want to per-
suade Scotch men and women to pattern
after the States, but / do not know how far
the argument you offer them will persuade.
The Scots are the best educated citizens of
the United Kingdom; they are possessed of
a superior intelligence, and this may be
called into play. But however wise In his
daily life and however dligent in business,
when 1t comes to his whiskey Scot is
BOBBY. It's evils very well known
there they are apparent to everybody, but
they are condoned by public opinion
THE Nonconformst churches of Scotland
are alive to the racial poison, and do what
they can to help eradicate it from the body
polite The Established Church of England,
on the contrary. is Laodicean blowing
neither hot nor cold We are trying to
rouse them to their duty to help in saving
H. hat
what is the mission of the churches? Moth
ing that matters.
Il am not myself religious. Perhaps ]
would be best called Spenceran in religion,
but know as we'll as the most devout per-
son what a wonderful influence for good the
churches may be and should be. Their
founding is for the purpose of serving the
world, and when they serve it-better II,
mean-they serve themselves. / cannot but
feel that all the churches in Great Britain
will eventually be brought into our fight
where, of course, they will figure brilliantly.
Wine and Beer Under Same Ban.
When you ask me IT, In my personal
battle against the forces that are destroying
the races, include wine and beer answer
most emphatically do. Italy sees in them
a grave menace to public health and would
welcome steps to Danish them. In Spain
their menace is so grave that Blasco Ibanez,
their most brilliant living novelist, has en-
ployed his talent to aid in eliminating wines
and beers from the social life Of the PENN
sula. Go to Bavaria and listen to what men
will tell you how much harm has been done
by the beer drinking habits Of that country
Neither on beer nor wine does a man get
drunken, necessarily, but he dopes up, he
soaks his body with a poison and that poison
affects the children he assists in bringing
into the world. To its degree these lighter
drinks add to what We are combating, a
racial poison.
ut Is hard to find neglected children in
New York; 1t is very easy to find them in
Madrid, in Rome, in Milan In Munich. In
fact, you can't escape these poor little I'M
fortunates They exist because of the spread
of the racial poison of alcohol. They will
continue to be found until the new race,
freed from this faint, can be developed"
Over the prospect of which he took almost
visual cognizance Of a total disappearance
Of maternal and paternal intoxication In this
country, DR.. Saleeby expressed great jubi-
lation:
"These dreaded evils shall be no longer a
real problem in your great country. Happy
and safe the country. happy and safe the
race of which this can be said"