The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-28
iNEBRuATIoN and ADDICTION.

iNEBRIATION and ADDICTION. An educated Glass B fool writes:
 To really be mentally alert I find that I have to take stimulant. It seems to give me more nervous energy. If do not take Q stimu- lant l find it difficult to hold my own in q discussion or argument, as ideas and the effective way Of expressing them do not come to my mind as fast as they should. My books of quotations do not inform me who classified fools, but some one piped they belong in (class A, damned fools (class B) and beg pardon (class O.
 There are millions of class E fools in the same predicament as the correspondent describes!
 Class A fools use tobacco, usual- ly cigarets, as their "stimulant." Class B fools use alcohol. And the doubly qualified class use drugs.
 Every one, suppose, finds 1t difficult to "hold his own" in any discussion or argument. Every one, | too, thinks of better answer, q brighter remark or more appro- priate toast some time after the occasion. Most of the natural" wit displayed In such encounters | is the after-thought of previous encounters. Unless one does re- view the whole thing afterward, null the question over in ones mind, debate 1t with oneself. 1t Is plumb silly to enter into arguments or discussions at all. But this hab- 1t of taking stock or reviewing the discussion afterward makes such arguments educational.
 By "stimulant" the correspond ent means alcohol in one form or another, I take it. Webster gives as one definition for the word stimulant "an alcoholic beverage" But Webster is in error if that definition implies that alcohol 's a stimulant in the physiological sense As Webster correctly says, stimuplant Is an agent which produces temporary increase of vital activity in the organism or in any of it's parts.
 If the dose of alcohol Is large enough to cause any apprccinble change in the. circulation, 1t is n the nature of depression rather than stmiulation: Alcohol never acts as q true stim ulant to the brain, the spinal cord, or the nerves. (The two foregoing state meilts are quoted verbatim from Hare's "Practical Therapeutics" ] Hare further observes that "so far as the brain Is concerned, 1t does not increase the vigor of thought nor it's depth. nor does 1t enable q man to work out n problem which is difficult" Hare. mind you. advises the prescribing of alcoiol In many conditions, though not aa a 'stimulant." ,t
 So say that any one who would resort to alcohol for the purpose which this fool descrtbea is one.
 That's how inebriety begins.
 But back of that. believe. is the cigarette habit. Subtle propa- ganda teaches plain fools, young boys and girls, that q cigarette is a good substitute for athletic prowess, physical stamina, or clcv- erness, or that it actually helps one to achieve these things, or that 1t enables one to get by without them This is a ruinous deception and the fact that 1t has made such headway with the young fools Il reproach to popular education | Our educators are afraid to teact the truth, lest they lose their jobs QUESTIONS and ANSWERS. MOrOuity in Family.
 If woman of good ancestrs were tO marry a lSsan whose broth CT Is mentally. below normal: wlial