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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18233, 18 November 1924, Page 10

Despite Prohibition, the insurance companies in the United States still continue to list alcoholism, as a cause of death. The latest returns for the first half of 1924 show a slight decline, and it is stated that deaths from acute poisoning by wood and denatured alcohol appear to be decreasing in the industrial world. In experiments done on guinea pigs comparatively recently it.was found that after several generations the descendants of alcoholio parents wore super-normal, apparently because alcohol weeded out the weaklings from the stock. The returns are eitent as to whether, as a result of Prohibition wood alcohol has already killed off mast of the susceptibles, or whether it is ceasing to attract drinkers. The National Anthem, 'believed to be the work of Henry Carey, came first into fame in tlie autumn of 1/ 40, when it was sung, and encored with repented huzzas, at Drury Lane Theatre, as a loyal retort to the proclamation of the Pretender at Edinburgh. s authorship has been discredited by several good authorities. One story p-oes that the anthem was sung in Latin in James ll.'s Chapel, and was preserved as a Jacobite hymn, the music from an air composed by Dr. John Bull, first Gresham Professor of Music. Carey died, after a life-long struggle for existence, leaving a family in want; yet he had given us a blessed heritage in the ballad, "Sally in Our Alley. He added to our language the expression "Namby-pamby, a title of some of his verses.