SOME POINTS TO REMEMBER.

White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 383, 18 June 1927, Page 12

SOME POINTS TO REMEMBER.

(By Cora Frances Stoddard.) Alcoholic fermentation changes good foods into injurious drinks.. Even moderate amounts of beer, wine, or other alcoholic drinks have been found to impair ability to do good work. Alcohol reduces endurance for sports or hard work. Alcohol impairs the skill and precision required in doing fine work. The drinker’s power of self-control is diminished by alcohol. Alcohol makes the drinker more reck leas in taking ch oices involving danger. Beer may disorder a man’s thinking or acting without making him drunk. The normal man thinks before he acts. The man with alcohol in his brain is likely to act before he thinks. Lven a moderate amount of alcohol impairs the drinker’s ability to judge correctly the quality of his own worn. Alcohol is not a stimulant but a narcotic. A man doing hard work needs good food, hot or nourishing drinks, not beer Alcoholic drink is dangerous to one exposed to cold. Wounds heal less rapidly in the average habitual drinker than in an abstainer. Alcohol impairs the qualities constantly needed by tin* driver of an automobile such as steadiness, caution, ability to recognize danger, and to act correctly and quickly. Modern high power machinery cannot be safely managed by a brain even slightly dulled by alcohol. Alcohol is a habit-forming drug wdiich has the power of setting up the craving wdiich makes the drunkard. The drinker is more liable to have infectious diseases because alcohol lessens the powder of the body to kill germs. Life insurance companies have found that the average insured person who is an abstainer from alcoholic liquors lives longer than one wdio drinks any alcoholic liquor even moderately. The man wdio spends for drink, money needed by his wife and children for food, diminishes their chances for good health.