POSTERS WARN FRENCH CITIZENS AGAINST ALCOHOL.

White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 263, 18 May 1917, Page 3

POSTERS WARN FRENCH CITIZENS AGAINST ALCOHOL.

On the walls of every post office in France is to be hung a poster telling of the evils and dangers of the use of alcoholic beverages. This is being done by'the French Society for Action Against Alcoholism, of which M. Raymond Poincare, President of the French Republic, is Honorary President. The poster, which is illustrated by one of the noted artists of France, reads, in part, as follows: THE ALARM i To French Women end to Young Frenchmen; Drink is as much your enemy as Germany. Since 1870, it has cost France in men and money much more than the present war. Drink tickles the palate; but it is a real poison that destroys your constitution. Drinkers age quickly. They lose half their normal life, and fall easy victims to many infirmities and illnesses* The cordials of your parents reappear in their offspring as great hereditary evils. France owes to cordials a great many mad men and women and consumptives, without counting sufferers from gout, scrofula, rickets, premature softening of the tissues, and most of our criminals. Drink decreases by two-thirds our national production ; it raises the cost of living, and increases poverty. Mothers, young men, young girls, wives ! Up and act against drink in memory of those who have gloriously died or -suffered wounds for the . ; Fatherland! You wil Ithus accomplish a mission as grandiose as that *f our'herbir soldiers. '