Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-06-16
THE PHYSICAL
EFFECT OF ALCOHOL

This is the second, prize essay Of
9Th Grade
The winners are: 7th Grade. 1st.,
Hortense Guilford, End Hazel Fouty.
Sth Grade: 1st, Herald Roos;
End, Earl Seidner.
Seventy-eight doctors of England
once said, Alcohol, sooner or later,
proves injurious to the human con-
stitution, without exception" Should
we not take stock and believe in
what doctors tell us? If a man has
a broken arm he Immediately sends
for a doctor, but if his will power
is broken does he go to the doctors
office? No, he goes to a place Of
Instruction. the saloora Dpctors
have studied this thing out thor
oughly and they ted US that alcohol
is injurious. Bar tenders who pro-
baby never as much as thought OF
what the poisons which he sold
contained, tells men in the winter
time, "Take a good glass of whiskey
to warm you up" In the summer
he says, "Take a nice, big glass Of
beer to cool you off" Which should
we believe, the man who studies
and works for humanity, or the
other man who works to send weak
willed men to their graves?
In the Bible it says, "The drunk
ard shall perish, but the man who
abstains from drink shall live" is
it not so? We know that the
drunkard perishes on earth, and the
Bible tells us that he never reaches
heaven. Will any man deliberate
lN condemn his soul? We should
think he wouldn't but we know that
thousands do.
In the intestines we find just
about the same effects as we did in
the stomach-
The liver, the most essential dis
poser of poisons in the body, is also
harmed by alcohol which is so much
poison that it soon wears the liver
out. The kidneys are also harmed
by alcohol which produces kidney
diseases.
The blood, the life of the body is
harmed by alcohol. The red cor
puscles, which carry oxygen to the
dAIls, are shrunken and therefore
the cells do not get their strength,
The white corpuscles, the soldiers
of the body, are killed and weaken
ed thus putting efe body at the
mercy of the diseases. The plas-
ma or serum, the part of the blood
which contains the food, is poisoned
and therefore the cells do not get
their food. Thus we see the inside
Of a drunkard.
The outside appearances are not
at all deceptive. The drunkard is
nearly always in rags and without
money. His nose looks like a big
strawberry. His eyes are blood
shot and always watering. His
cheeks are fabby and weak and his
throat looks blue and dirty.
The u. s. had to protect her man
hood so she adopted prohibition.
Even now men WILL get liquors
but it will not be long before it is
.upobtainable.
We know that coaches Of different
athletic teams in colleges threaten
to drop any man who as much as
touches alcohol Why do they do
this7 It is because they know that
alcohol is harmful to the human
body. Perhaps the one drink would
not hurt the young athlete, but
the coaches know that once alcohol
passes q mans lips he is pos
sessed by a demon of desire. Once
possessed by this demon only a
ktrong willed man can rid himself
of it. Many men who have had fine
human bodies have fallen before
the strike of liquor. What causes
this weakening of the body after il
has taken alcohol? Let us follow
it up and see.
When a man is suffering the first
effects of alcohol he is said to be
drunk. When in this stage he is
actually insane. He will commit
crimes he would never have thoughi
Of committing had be been in his
right mind. If the practice Of
drinking is kept up the drunkard
sdon loses his mind altogether
When alcohol is taken we see a
marked change in the stomach
Where before the mucus-mcmbfane
was nice and pink it is now red and
covered with sores. From these
sores comes matter which interferes
with the digestion of our foods. II
also prevents the gastric juices
from flowing freely.
Earle Seidner
DIR. McTaggart, Bryan, treats
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