Evening star., 1934-09-20

Just what District school children
will be taught on the subject of drink
ing. a h-discussed question since
repeal, was learned last night at a
meeting Of the Board of Education,
where text book was approved.
What About ALCOHOL" is the title
of the volume which is profusely
illustrated. 1t ends with the state
ment, regarding liquor, that You can
see for yourself why it is wise for you
to keep away from it," and cartoon
showing a whisky jug in full flight.
The book, printed this year in Los
Angeles for the Scientific Education
Association, a temperance organi-
zation, will be taught in the Junior
and senior high schools. 1t will not
be used as a separate course, but will
be presented more or less incidentally.
Its use was suggested by Supt. Of
Schools Frank w. Ballou and unani-
mously approved by the board.
Declared Outline of Facts.
DR.. Emil Bogen, California re-
search physician. and Lehman w.
s. Hisey, journalist and field secre-
tary to the Scientific Education AS
sociation, are co-authors of the book.
The title page bears the descrip-
ton, AN illustrated outline of scien-
tific facts about alcohol and alcohol
drinking" DIR. Haven Emerson writes
in a preface that When you have
read and understood what is here de-
scribed of the well-tested facts of
science, you will be able to make your
own decision as to what is best for
you to do personally in the matter of
using alcoholic drinks or not
The authors begin their treatise
with simple, but detailed, exposi-
tions of the nature of alcohol and of
the functions of the human body.
Gradually, and step by step. they in
dicate its effects on the muscles,
nerves, judgment, emotions and SEN
ses of the user. arriving at the con-
clusion that alcohol is harmful when
taken as a beverage. either in small
or large quantities.
Medicinal Uses Cited.
The pupil is told, however, that
alcohol has legitimate medical use
as a sedative and is beneficial when
applied externally.
With cartoons and terse phrases,
the book attacks the so-called pop
ular fallacies about liquor.
The claim that alcohol has useful
food value is succinctly denied in a
cartoon showing on one side a basket
labeled Foods that build tissue,
muscle, bone, ETC." and on the other
side an animated jug from which
issues the remark, II don't belong to
that class"
The cartoon is backed up with
figures of alcohol's actual food value,
indicating its maximum value can
not exceed that of two Jumps Of sugar
per hour. Indeed, habitual drinkers
are subject to ailments accompanying
malnutrition because the excessive
use of liquor takes away the appetite,
the books states.
Beer Held Fat Builder.
Beer, on the other hand, contains
fat-building materials, and the habit
ual beer drinker "is often quite fat
and the fat may be stored in places
where it is not wanted and harmful, !"
state the writers.
The popular theory that alcohol is
stimulant is exploded with the state
ment that it is not only depressant,
but in ancient days was used as an
anesthetic.
Alcohol makes the user think he is
warmer whereas it lowers in fact,
the blood temperature, and thus
often causes him unnecessarily to ex-
pose himself, the reader is informed.
Calculated to influence the active
boy is the statement that, I'm every
form of sport, alcohol weakens en-
durance." This is said to be caused
by the fact that alcohol slows up re-
moval from the muscles Of the Tactic
acid generated in physical exercise.
The old idea that liquor is good for
snake bite is ridiculed, as is the con-
tention 1t Is good for pneumonia
patients.
A drawing of two 20.mule teams,