The Connecticut labor news., 1924-06-07

MT. OOnperS-DOn De so sure, Sll !! There are many persons eating III things as innocent looking as pumpkin pie the same things the worker asks in his bottle of 2.75 per cent.
 MT. Larsen (Rep., Minn. )-What to the philosophy of Blackstone that law is to make it as easy as possible to be good and as hard as possible to be bad?
 Mr. Philosophy? You call that philosophy? That is sophistry
 And as the cheers died away, com mitteemen looked at each other as ii wondering whether 1t were best to ar gue with factory boy who in one breath talked of nutrition in 2.75 per cent. beer, criticized Blackstone and spoke of philosophy and sophistry.
 First in the sequence of medical tes- tinony on alcohol and insanity came Dr. James Whitney Hall, head of the Cook county (Chicago) lunacy commis- sion.
 Insanity from alcoholism has in creased 1000 per cent in Cook county during prohibition" he told the com mittee.
 Has It In Black and White.
 He read tables of figures showing the number of cases each year.
 That's from drinking poison hooch moonshine and such, isn't it?" asked Congressman Yates (Rep., Ill.) one of the chief drys of the committee.
 Why, my God, congressman, you never heard of man going insane from drinking good liquor, did you2" was the answer.
 The present situation is a national menace" Dr. Hall continued. The sa- loon was terrible Then we had the drunken bum. Now it's worse. We have the alcoholic psychiosis becoming a murderer, a robber. That's because prohibition has brought insanity-pro- ducing moonshine. Whiskey must age five years. Moonshine doesn't age five minutes"
 Prescribes Bees Remedy.
 II- 11cti SclId iiS was iIot olISIIlIS a remedy-simply presenting facts of today" But Dr. William Lorenz, dis tinguished service medal for service in France, professor of mental diseases at the University of Wisconsin, and state head of psycopathic institutions, did present one.
 The solution lies in turning from a whiskey drinking nation to a beer drinking one," he answered a question 1 by Representative Larsen (Rep. Minn.). T never heard of beverage beer causing mental or nervous dis ease"
 He presented figures showing a 20 per cent. increase in all insanity in AZ states in the last three years, against a stationary level prior to prohibition
 Youth Is Going to Hell.
 Before prohibition alcoholic insan- | ity cases came i'll persons whose age averaged from 39 to 45," he said. "To- day the average age is p to 28. That is the real danger-undermin the ' SOIlO1 1ol IL lS oui Iu- ture. Give the nation harmless, low content beer, light wines, and 1t will, in time do away with poisonous hooch."
 He explained that when his outfit was confined to beer and light wines in France all disciplinary problems ended"
 And then came the Rev. Roland Sawyer, pastor of the Ware, Mass, Congregational church, fully attired i'll the cloth of his profession.
 "Prohibition-as at present-has wiped out 80 years of work toward temperance" he said. Tt IS not the eighteenth amendment we quarrel with, it is the Volstead enforcement act. It IS unenforceable. It IS unpopular. It Is wrong ethically, morally, and socially. Tt is to help the 18th amendment, to give 1t a chance, that we seek a sensible and just enforcement act. l True prohbitionists sought tenn IperanCe and were well on the way to 1t with the 2.75 per cent. wartime beer, but now we have a period of vile moon shine, craze producing, home breaking society destroying, youth undermining
 'In olden days, the boys and girls of my town used to go to a clam bake with a keg of 2.75 per cent. beer. There was no drunkenness. Now they tane bottles of moonshine. There is drunk enness-and worse.
 "We have tried Volstead for four years and have proof that we made a born to admit that mistake and try to correct it?
 A Parallel to Think of. Are Wayne Wheeler and Andrew