Evening star., 1939-05-21
Dr.. Ellison Warns
Alcohol Users Of
lis Bad Effects
Dry Forces Mark SD
Anniversary Of Passage
Of Education Law

DR.. Everett M. Ellison, president
OF the United Dry Forces. flayed
alcohol, alcoholism and all users
of narcotics at meeting of the
Allied Organizations of the Dis
trict of Columbia, Inc, held in
the Grafton Hotel yesterday after
noon. Some 80 members of the
dry forces met to observe the SD
anniversary of the adoption of a
law which requires teaching the
effects of alcohol and narcotics
in the local public schools.
In an enthusiastically received
address DR.. Ellison pointed out the
evil effects caused by the use of
alcohol. He said:
Whenever we resort to narcotics
we make life artificial, and do not
get complete happiness out of life"
Alcohol. he declared, is a poison.
1t has definite uses as an anti
septic and disinfectant, he said,
but so far as its use takes place
for pleasurable effects it works def
mite harm on all bodily functions.
The doctor caused laughter when
he said that only the undertakers
of America have any right to sing
Happy Days Are Here Again"
"Mussolini and Hitler must be
admired for their stand on alco-
hol, since both are total abstain
ers," DR.. Ellison said, and pointed
out that the same is true of the
President Of Mexico and the EN-
peror of Japan.
1T is too bad" the doctor said,
that the heads of other countries
IN the World-our own included
do not set the same example as
the dictators"
No Middle Ground.
To show that virtue is its own
reward, DR.. Ellison declared that
the longest lived persons are those
who were always total abstainers.
There is no middle ground, he said,
between excessive drinking and
moderation.
DR.. Ellison caused his audience to
laugh when he quoted: The Ger
mans eat and drink themselves to
death, the French love themselves
to death, and the Orientals smoke
themselves to DEATH The speaker
observed that the Americans now
ape the Germans and the Orientals.
"Drunkards don't develop over
night the lecturer asserted, and
gave as his observation that of any
ten persons taking the first drink,
three became drunkards."
DR.. w. L. Darby. executive secre-
tary of the Federation of Churches
of the District of Columbia, CO.
featured speaker with DR.. Ellison,
launched an assault upon tobacco.
"The most discourteous people I
ever knew are those who use to-
bacco," DR.. Darby said, and told
how whenever he gets into elevators
people blow smoke in his face II
went to meeting the over evening""
DR.. Darby said. There were Is
people present and II of them
smoked almost necessarily. They
were men and women, and the
women were the worst"
Mrs. Biddle Speaks.
Mrs. Lloyd w. Biddle, former
President of The Federation of
Women's Clubs of the District of
Columbia, told the audience how
she felt, 80 superior" to the woman
who sits in the lobby of a hotel
and smokes all over you" When
it comes to drinking among women,
Mrs. Biddle said that the American
woman, by taking up the habit, has
sacrificed much of her charm.
Before the speaking, the Allied
Organizations adopted a new con-
stitution. One of the provisions is
to the effect that the officers of the
organization must be total abstain
ers from alcohol, tobacco and all
narcotics.