AMERICANS DRINK MILK.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 372, 18 June 1926, Page 17

AMERICANS DRINK MILK.

Americans are consuming more milk than ever before, the federal department of agriculture announcing that the household consumption of milk was 212 quarts per person last year, compared with 200 quarts in 1922.

The Government will endure on the rock of law’ eni jr-esm-iit. t will perish in the quick Finds oC lawlessness. Those who do not believe in our Government and the enforcement of our laws should go to a country which gives them their peculiar liberty.—“ Hon. H.M. Daugherty. Attorney (leneral of the U.S.”

The old idea that alcohol is a stimulant dies very ha id, but <t must die. because medical men all over the world are assuring us that alcohol is t lk very opposite of a stimulant. In J) recent address given to the American Chemical Society, Dr. Reid Hunt classed alcohol with Ether and Chloroform, as a depressed. He assured his hearers that science entirely supports the American people in their determination to abolish alcoholic beverages from their land. “People," he said, “have consumed 10 ounces of Chloroform and lived, or 7 ounces of Ether, but a straight dose of 5 ounces of alcohol puts a man to sleep for ever.”

“All we have got to do is keep on, keep on, fail not. We have many dangerous inarches to cross. We will cross them. We have steep and stony paths to climb. We will climb them. Our footprints may be stained with blood, but we will reach the heights, and beyond them we shall

s m* the rich valleys and plains of the new world, which we have sacrificed so much to attain." Ut. Hon. I). Lloyd George, M l*.

Men boast of all the drink they can stand, but it is the general public that is really standing it.