Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-04-20

VI
Careful reading of the story too
often brings out the fact that the
boys had been visiting q night-spot
or two before the crash. Survivors
will tell the police they couldn't
have been drunk, they had only had
a few beers. Well, you don't have 10
be drunk to let car get out from
your control. This writer personally
has observed driver who had had
exactly one beer run car right off
the pavement in broad sunlight.
Gets MOnOtOnous,
Doesn't 1t?
X SEX CRIME is committed by
"A middle-aged man who sheds
tears over it afterward and can
hardly remember anything about it.
II never would have done IL if l had
been SOBER" he says 3. A girl is
found murdered in a mems room
ing-house, a nice girl too.
Nobody was drunk-they had
only been taking a few drinks
A 27-year-Old woman was
, shot and killed during an argu-
ment with her sister-in-Iaw. The
shooting, 1t was claimed, was
accidental. They had been hav-
ing some friendly beers In q
nearby tavern "fOr a couple Of
hours" before the shooting.
After they got home, there was
an argument. One woman got her
husbands revolver out to scare the
other woman. and the first thing
she knew. she was being arrested
for murder. Her husband told the
police that when sober his wife was
.'deathly scared2 OF guns.
tBeer, the brewers adstell us, Is
the friendly drink, it is the drink of
moderation; Beer Belongs" 1t
does indeed. but where?, Possibly
that unfortunate killer-woman had
believed what the ads told her) :. {.
esH&.
The Truth About Liquor.
WELL ~. this could be strung
w out to the length Of several col
umns, without h a If trying. The
above items are not from some
chamber of horrors conducted by
the W.C.T.U., not from sermon by
some Anti-Saloon league preacher,
but gathered from newspaper items
from a few days papers in city
which certainly is not prejudiced
against liquor.
The truth about liquor can
never be learned from the adj
vertising pages, 1t can be better
learned from the news columns.
Better yet, II you want TO know
the truth about II, ask the law
yers, doctors and ministers you
know. Ask the lawyers If their
business would be brisker or
slower II liquor were not in ex-
istence.
Ask the doctors whether steady
drinkers have stronger or weaker
resistance to disease. Ask the min
listers il they know Of any troubles
in their congregations due TO liquor.
(And il even church people have
troubles with it, what about people
with no religionO
Drink and Doom
TT is NOT TRUE that il liquor
Awere totally abolished from the
earth, all the troubles OF mankind
would vanish. Man has too much
meanness in him. A sober scoun-
drel is one of the worst But 1t is
true that liquor lends itself all toe
easily to all sorts Of troubles, all
sorts OF sins. When Amos thunders
against the evils of his time, drunk
enness is one Of the sins prominent
on his list. y
Remember that in Amos time
there was no whisky, no bran
dy, no distilled liquors, only
mild" stuff like wine. Every
denunciation Of drink In the
Bible Is directed against what
would now be called light wine
and beers.
One thing is as certain now as 4
was in Amos time: A nation thai
insists on having its liquor is moi
the nation God will insist on saving
when its day Of doom arrives.
Copyright by the international council
OF Religious Education on behalf OF n
Protestant denominations. Released b,
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Yawn Too Wide
Danville, Ill. - While prepar-
ing to reture, Mrs. Arthur Smith
yawned. dislocated her law, had