MODERATION
V\hat is moderation in the use of hquor anyway? Is it the constant slight use of alcoholic beverages? Is it an occasional slight use? This thifig is almost sure: that the constant “moderate” use of alcoholic beverages will probably become a greater use; either a greater use of quantity, or a greater use of absolute
alcohol by shifting from beer and wine to distilled spirits. Even the chronic effects of the long-term “slight use” of alcoholic beverages are certainly not fully known. These effects cannot be good. As a social policy, the occasional “moderate” use of alcoholic beverages is more questionable for this reason, that it is comparatively easy to abstain
always, hut it is difficult to say yes today and no to-morrow’. Well-bred persons certainly do not on any social occasion press alcoholic beverages upon those who are known abstainers. But the man who tries to abstain occasionally or to restrict his consumption to only small amounts, is very much more liable to he subjected to social pressure. -—The Voice.
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White Ribbon, Volume 19, Issue 4, 1 May 1947, Page 7
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172MODERATION White Ribbon, Volume 19, Issue 4, 1 May 1947, Page 7
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