The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-04-20

mean anyhow. ami that all hi
meannesses got worse when he wal
drunk. One wonders: Did she know
him very well before she married
him?
Every day the papers carry re
ports Of cars that ''went out Of con
troll with serious or fatal results
Careful reading Of the story toe
often brings out the fact that the
boys had been visiting e night-spo'
or two before the crash. Survivors
will tell the police they couldn't
have been drunk. they had only had
q few beers. Well, you don't have tc
be drunk to let a car get out from
your control. This writer personally
has observed a driver who had had
exactly n beer run q car right of
the pavement in broad sunlight.
Gets Monotonous,
Doesn't 1t?
n SEX CRIME is committed by a
"a middle-aged man who sheds
tears over 1t afterward and can
hardly remember anything about it.
II never would have done IL if ! had
been SOBER" he says =. A girl Is
found murdered in a mems room
lng-house. q 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-law. The
shooting, it was claimed, was
accidental. They had been hav-
ing some friendly beers in .
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 scared" Of guns.
(Beer. the brewers ads tell us, IL
the friendly drink, it is the drink OF
moderation; Beer Belongs" It
does, indeed, but where? Possibly
that unfortunate killer-woman had
believed what the ads told her.) -.
The Truth About Liquor
yxYELL this could be strung
w out to the length Of several col
umns, without half trying. The
above items are not from some
chamber of horrors conducted by
the W.C.T.U., not from a sermon by
some A~nti-Saloon league preacher.
but gathered from newspaper items
from a few days papers in a city
which certainly is not preludiced
against liquor.
The truth about liquor i
never be learned from the adj
vertising pages, it can be better
learned from the news columns.
Better yet, If you want to know
the truth about it, ask the law.
yers, doctors and ministers you
know. Ask the .awyers If their
business would be brisker or
slower If liquor were not in cx-
istence.
Ask the doctors whether steady
drinkers have stronger or weaker
resistance to disease. Ask the min
listers If they know of any troubles
in their congregations due to liquor.
land if even church people have
troubles with it, what about people
with no religion?)
Drink and Doom
TT is NOT TRUE that il liquor
. were totally abolished from the
earth. all the troubles Of mankind
would vanish. Man has too much
meanness in him. A sober scoun'
drel Is n Of the worst. But 1t IL
true that liquor lends itself all toe
easily to all sorts of troubles. al
sorts of sins, When Amos thunders
against the evils of his time, drunk
nness Is n Of the sins prominen'
on his list.
Remember that In Amos time
there was no whisky, no bran
dy. ne distilled liquors., only
mild" stuff like wine. Every
denunciation Of drink IN The
Bible ID directed against whss
would now be called Hight wine
and beers.
One thing is as certain now as J
was In Amos time: A nation tina
insists on having its liquor Is no
the nation God will insist on savfnd
when its day Of doom arrives.
Copyright BY the International council
! OF heliglous Education on behalf o. 9
! 1rStestaht denominations Released q
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Maness an