L.T.L. COLUMN.

White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 289, 18 July 1919, Page 14

L.T.L. COLUMN.

My Dear L.T.L.’s, — Over in Australia the Rechabites are providing Temperance Wall Sheets for schools. Then they examine the children on these sheets, and give prizes. Underneath this you can read the first of the sheets. Perhaps your Union will set an examination upon them, and give a prize for the best answers.

TEMPERANCE WALL SHEET (No. 1), I O R Should Young People Use Alcoholic Drinks (Beer, Wine, Spirits)? I)r Parkcs, a recognised authority on the use of alcohol, says:- “I >tronglv advise every young man and woman to he a total abstainer. I cannot see that alcohol can do any good in the period of growth in healthy persons.

1. It contains no particle of nitrogen. It cannot therefore assist in building ep the tissues of the body. 2. It does not aid muscular force. 3. It does not aid nervous force; it certainly lessens the real power of the mind.

4. It does not increase animal heat; for, though it causes a sensation of

warmth, it does not raise, hut rather depresses, the temperature of the body. 5. A pint of beer costs 3d; a pound of oatmeal would only cost the same. The beer will do scarcely anvthing for nutrition; the oatmeal forms a substantial nourishing meal. (A man , would have to drink a quart —40 ounces of the strongest beer to get one ounce of nourishment.) fi. In the matter of purchasing vital force, alcohol is the most expensive 1 lung we can buy. • 7. We find men who have abstained for years enjoying the most perfect

health. Alcohol is not necessarv. then, for health. 8. Alcohol itself is a stimulant, a spur, nothing more; often useful in *he hands of a doctor as a medicine, hut always dangerous and treacherous as a common drink.

0. Mr Wilson’s statistics show that ‘ if a man becomes intemperate at 20 wars of age, he will shorten his life l>\ nearly 30 years. If he becomes intemperate at the age of 30, he will shorten his life by 22 years. We must remember that this may not he entirely the effect of alcohol, but of the exposure and privations to which the drunkard subjects himself. Still,

the larger part is probably directly owing to the bad effects of the of alcohol on the body.”

NOTES

(a.) Alcohol i“ a colourless liquid produced by the fermentation of gra|>es or other fruit, of malted grain, or of any saccharine solution. (b.) It evaporates rapidly, and burm with a bluish flame. (c.) It is alcohol which makes such liquors as beer, wine, and spirits in toxicating, (d.) A pint of ordinary ale con f ain< about one ounce of alcohol; a pint of strong wine about four ounces; a pint of whisky about nine ounce*. Send the answers to these question* to the Editor of “White Ribbon” before August 10th, and we will give a prize of is fid for the best set of answers. QUESTIONS. 1. Why is it unwise for a person driving in the cold to drink ahoholic liquors ? 2. Describe alcohol, stating some o* its properties. How it it produced? 3. What does Mr Neil son say about intemperance shortening life?