The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-09-08
NY TEMPERANCE PAPERS
IN THE French LANGUAGE
Shows People Realize Danger of
Alcohol Menace to Beloved
Country
IN Their COUNTRIES
Numerous Journals in French in
Belgium and Switzerland;
All Glasses Reached
CONTINUED from last week.
(By Ida A. Green)

The Frank Speaker Gle Franc-Par-
1eur) says that it aims to speak out
frankly what others only whisper. It's
Offices are in France and Switzerland.
1t has been published for eight years
and claims to speak the truth, not only
concerning alcoholism but also CON
cerning pacihsn1, war, the social evil
and woman's rights.
In the July number there is an
. article on the reconstruction of the
world. The Franc-Parleur says the
greatest obstacle to this reconstruc-
ton is the daily press, whose propa-
ganda rules the people, The paper
carries Quotations from Victor Hugo
and Guy de Maupaissant and is more
literary than some Of the others.
The Liberator Gle Liberatcur), the
organ of the French temperance socie=
ties of the Blue Cross and of Hope,
was founded in 1898. The Blue Cross
Society is a member of the World
League Against Alcoholism and is
represented on the Permanent Inter-
national Committee of the League by
M. Etienne Matter.
The Anti-Aleohoiic Public Records
(Les Annales Antialcooliques) is a
monthly pamphlet which is the organ
of the French Societies of Abstainers
and Prohibitonists, of the Good Tenn
plars and of the Society of Medical
Abstainers. 1t is published under the
direction of DIR. Legran who is the
president of the French Anti-Alcoholic
Union, member of the Superior Coun-
ell of Public Assistance, Head Doctor
of the Insane Asylum of The Seine
and special physician for the War
Councils of The Seine. The program
of this magazine beginning with the
postulate that fermented drinks are
not hygienic and distilled liquors
dangerous has for its end Prohibition
approved of and entirely agreed to
by the electors.
In the June number of the Records
we find report on women's So
ciety in Zurich which has for its
work the establishment of temperance
restaurants. This organization was
organized in 1896, and has at the
present time Is such restaurants.
Notice is also given of the forma-
ton on the 10th of May of League
of Christian Abstainers in Paris who
say that inspired by the example of
America they are going to enter into
the fight against alcohol and hope in
time to abolish its use entirely.
In an article on wine alcoholism in
Italy it is stated that alcoholic in
sanity in Italy increased in the three
years from 1909 to 1911 compared with
the three years from 1908 to 1905 from
81 for every million inhabitants to 6S
per million.
The International Review Against
Alcoholism is printed in three langu-
ages, English, French, and German.
This magazine is published every two
months and gives a review of the In
ternational movement against alcohol
ism, publishing scientific studies and
documents showing the physiological,
pathological and economic phases OF
the alcoholic question.
The Review is edited by DR.. R. Her
cod whose office is with the Inter
national Bureau Against Alcoholism
at Lausanne, Switzerland. DR., Her
cod represents also the Swiss Total
Abstinence Federation ON the World
League Against Alcoholism and is a
member of the Permanent Inter
national Committee of that League.
He is in the United States now and
will be present and address the Inter-
national Convention in Toronto,
November oath to 10Th.
ITO be continued)