CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2325, 5 December 1914, Page 9

CABLEGRAMS

[Reproduced Messages.] SOME ASTOUNDING EFFECTS It ; was reported that tie United States Navy had been declared "dry" by Mr. Daniels, the Navy's Secretary. Some time after the new order was made the following cablegrams, which ■ are now reproduced with supplementary comments, appeared:— \ APPENDICITIS U.S.A. ■ SAILORS AFFECTED. By Telegraph—Copyright. New York, August 26. Appendicitis is increasing at an alarming extent on American battleships, and the disease is now being classed as "an'occupational disease." The order for a "dry" Navy has since been annulled. This disease is more prevalent among teetotallers than among the moderate lasers of alcohol, as witness the following cablegram:— • ALCOHOL AND APPENDICITIS MEDICAL PRESS ASSERTION. By Telegraph—Press Association—o jpyright , " Paris, September 29., The Medical Press Association asserts that teetotallers are more _ liable than non-teetotallers to appendicitis—the alcohol acting as a Eupeptic Prophylactio (aid to digestion). One in every f ten water drinkers is predisposed to appendicitis as against only one ill 200 users of alcohol. « • Teetotalism of recent years has made considerable headway in Great Britain and America and the results are apparent fifcm the following cablegram:— PROHIBITION DRINKS AN ENORMOUS WASTE.. ' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright . (Rec. May 8, 6.40 p.m.) ■ London, May 8. It ie calculated that Great Britain spends £109,250,000 annually on teetotal beverages/. -. ■ . ■ THE DRUG HABIT FIFTEEN THOUSAND VICTIMS IN NEW YORK. ' By Telegraph—Press Aeeocia tion—OoDyrlab I New York, November 24. The effects of ' prohibition in the United States are'becoming apparent in the spread of cocaine and morphine habits. There are 15,000 victims in New York alone, the mass of whom have come from prohibition territory. Nearly half of the inmates of United States prisons are drug-takers, and onethird of the serious crimes of America are traceable to the drug habit. ; LUNATICS IN ENGLAND INCREASE IN NUMBERS. By Telegraph—Prees Association—Copyright London, January 18. The census for 1911 shows that lunatics increased in number from 132,000 to 161,000 in the past quinquennial. The spread of prohibition In the United States and the spread' of.NoLicense, in New Zealand has not .promoted either sanity or domestic peace. Insanity is greatly on the increase in America, where No-License and Prohition has captured more than half the territory, and dominated about half the people. DIVORCE EXTRAORDINARY INCREASE. Byyelejrrauh—Frees Association—Copyright Washington, February 4. • In the United States Sennte, Senator Randell, Louisiana, pointed out that 9000 divorces were granted in 1867, or 27.. per 100,000 of the population. Seventy thousand divorces were granted in 1906, or 86 per 100,000 of the population. , Allowing for the increase .in popular tion, divorces had inoreased in 40 years', said Senator Randell, by 319' per cent. INSANITY INCREASING. (By Telegraph.) • Auckland, February 13. At the Medical Congress the Inspec-tor-General of Mental Hospitals quoted figures to show the rapid and alarming increase of insanity in Now Zealand. DIVORCES IN NEW ZEALAND. (By Telegraph.) Wellington, November 12. The increase in the number of divorco cases in New Zealand is an outstanding feature of recent domestic returns. In 1895 Cwhen No-License made the first district diy],, .there v/ero eighteen divorces. Last year there were over 200. In ten years the number had grown in 1904 to 99, so that witjiin the last ten years there has been a further increase of 100 per cent. It will therefore be'seen that prohibition is not good for the health, the morals, or the domestic happiness of any people: and although Lord Kitchener advised the troops not to give way to excess in either wine or women, be has just ordered the first instalment of 150,000 gallons of rum for the troops now fighting for liberty and civilisation against tho road hogs of Europe and their treacherous friends, the prohibition Turks. HOW A V.C. WAS WON GALLANT LIEUTENANT AND i! BRANDY. : SCATTER THE GERMANS. By Telegraph—Press Aeeocdation-Oopyxighl (Rec. November 3, 8.40 a.m.) Paris, November 22. • Lieutenant Dimmer, who has been awarded the Victoria Cross, and' commanded four; M a simß, was ordered to check the Prussian. Guards, whose attack was supported by a hail or shells, dismantling three Maxims. lieutenant Dimmer nearly fainted from his shrapnel wounds, and a comrade gave him brandy.. Ho mowed the advancing Germans down. All his comrades ' were killed. Lieutenant Dimmer swallowed the rest of the brandy, and' then emptied three belts of throe hundred cartridges beforo he fell unconscious to the ground. The decimated Germans lied, and Lieutenant Dimmer was picked up after the battle. • Lieutenant Dimmer is not a Prohibitionist, and it is probable that the decimation of tho Germans by him, supported as he was by a valuable stimulant, turned the tide of battle and saved hundreds, if not thousands, of our Allied troops. All who have the welfare of their fellow-men at heart will striko out tho bottom line on both ballot-papers on election day.—Published by arrangement. ■ ' : i