ALCOHOL AS DR. EVAN EVANS SEES IT.

White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 291, 18 September 1919, Page 8

ALCOHOL AS DR. EVAN EVANS SEES IT.

HAD FOR THE INDIVIDUAL, THE GROUP, NM) THE RACK. • r Dr. Evan Evans, of New York, is attending physician, Roosevelt llos pita!; consulting phy.sici.in, Lawrence Hospital; consulting physician, Babies’ Hospital; consulting physi (ian, Mt. \ ernon Hospital; consulting pnysician, Englewood Hospital; consulting physician, H«*th Israel Hos pital. In a statement published in the “Globe and Common ial Adver tiser," May 28, Dr. Evans say s: — “l am in favour of the National Prohibition Amendment. Personally, 1 am as adverse as anyone to interfer cncc with my personal liberty. Ido not like the visitation of the t..\ col ice tor; I do not like the periodical in spec tion of my private l*>oks by the income tax man. But 1 accept these* uncomfortable intrusions upon m> private affairs because 1 realise they arc for the greatest good of the gieat cst number of people. It is the same with Prohibition. Personally, I rather enjoy an occasional glass of wine. However, 1 believe that Prohi hition would be the best thing for the community at large, and am therefore ready to sink my personal prtfeience in the larger good. ‘Alcohol, in my opinion, is had for the individual, the*, group, and the race. In a medical practice of twenty-five years, ministering to all classes, from the tenements to the homes of the wealthy, I have veen very much of the* evil effects of alcohol. “Twenty-nine years ago I graduated from Princeton. In those days Princeton men were hard drinkers, though 1 have reason to believe theic was not as much drinking at Princeton a* at Yale and mav.y other colleges. However, many of the* finest college* men, as is often the case, were drink ers heavy drinkers. 1 have sat at the dying bedside of too many of those fine fellows, gone before their time as a more or less direct result of alcohol, to express anything but hcart\ endorsement of the Prohibition amendment which will remove alto gether from our life * and especially from the lives of the young these temptations that lead to the unneres sary evil of alcohol.” “American Is- >» sue.