LOSS OF INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS.

Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 32, 4 August 1911, Page 4

LOSS OF INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS.

The industrial, value of a man to society is in proportion to his productive power. If a man is drunk he cannot work. If he is under the influence of drink he cannot work so well as when he is sober. Alcoholic liquors, taken in even so-called moderation, tends to lower the efficiency of the worker, whether the work be that of the brain or the hands. The most interesting and the most recent evidence upon this point is that given in the McClure Magazine of March, 1909, by Professor Rosanoff, director of the chemical laboratories in Clerk University, W.S.A., and Dr. A. J. Rosanoff, physician of King’s Park State Hospital, Long Island, W.S.A. summarising the results of long and elaborate experiments conducted by Kraepelin, Professor of the Science of Mental Diseases University of Munich, Dr. L. Schuyder, and Professor Paul Dubois at Berne, and other competent authorities. The conclusions these learned gentlemen arrived at after patient and thorough investigation were that alcohol impairs every human faculty. The higher and more complex the faculty, the more pronounced is the effect of alcohol upon it. The effects of alcohol are cumulative, that is, its continuous use, even in comparatively moderate quantities, impairs the faculties at a rapidly increasing rate.