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IT Ethat can be said of any alcoholic beverage is thatis dangerousThat applies to beer, of course. Thoughthe danger is not as obvious as it is m theof stronger drinkstv that beer is not intoxicating is ridicuWritten by request.for The ChristianAdvocate, of Cincinnati, by August J.Bucher, Editor of The Christian ApoUy-gist9 the official organ for the GermanspeakingmembersoftheMethodistlonger periods. It is the second stage which makes the beer drinker a danger to others, especially on our thoroughfares in this age of the automobile. He is not dangerous anycaToEpiscopal Churchmore when he is literallyfull,99when he lies34Ions in spite of the report in the Cincinnatiunder the table in the condition of a pig.Hedailies of April 1219339that two “eminent” worse than the whiskey pest9becauseis99■ —is dangerous in the stage of the lion, where he overestimates his abilities and his worth, andbiologists reported to the Federation of Amer- more apt to lead to immoderate drinking.” underestimates his own danger and the dangerfl Pv/if i.L „ T *__• TT_ 1_____.'j.___ «T lt;• , 1 TT /• II- • » • •icanSocieties of Experimental Biology in the Prof. Moebius, of the Leipzig Universityof others. He feels himself a giant, an invinHot(d Gibson at Cincinnati yesterday that ex- know little of whiskey and wine drinkers, cible hero, and owing to the dulling effect of periments with two dogs (!) that they had With us it is beer that ruins the people ” rT'u~ ’ 1 . • .Thebeer on his finer sensibilities and judgment, he proved that 3 beer was not intoxi- famous psychist, Prof. Forel, of the Univer- feels that he can do almost anything, and needIf you want proof of the effect of beer sity of Zurich, says: “One only needs to study not “take” anything! He is irritable, mor-the greattaken, eatingdrinking, go to Munich in Germanjbeer center of that country. According to re- and beer literatureportEmpirein Germany the beer jokes, beer conversation, bidly sensitive of his own “honor,99andisAmong the academic ready for a fight, even at the least provocaof the statistical bureau of the German youth of Germany the drinking of beer has tion. That is the danger of the stage of theinBerl inthehighestdegreeofphysical degeneracy through alcoholic drinks, duced incredible vulgarity.” Bismarck testisurely killed ideals and ethics, and has pro- lion in the experience of excessive beer drinkers.and the highest percentage of resistance to the fied to this fact by his famous remark police powers is not found in Nordhausen in makesPmaBeerWhat is excessive?Thehabitualbeerone stupid, lazy, and indolentia, the German whiskey center, nor in. drinker has no conception of moderateness.For the drinker himself the danger of beer He is like a swimmer that tries to reach thePirmasens in the Palatinate, the German wine lies in the fact of its small percentage of alco- circular wave which he created by jumping in,i 1 . - X. . M m • mr%. m ***, I**, ^1^ 1 ii hoi /A— e— — —A A' ^------ 1 ’ * 1 ** 1 ' nr“centerheartbut in Munich. The morbidbeer* w _ _ _ _ _ m/. w m---^ w(two to four per cent in the German and which continually flees from him. There’ is characteristic of that town. The pe- beers). The beec drinker considers this bever- are few beer drinkers who are not duped by culiar danger of beer lies in the fact that more age as non-intoxicating, and because of the Gambrinus. They look with- contempt uponthan anv other intoxicating! beverage,beertendamounttotheProfconsumptionofexcessivecontinuous increase of his thirst with every a whiskey drinker, and think themselves mod new stein he drinks, he is led to the consump- erate, even then, when they see everythingForEmil Kraepelin, of the Uni- tion of inhuman inebriating quantities; and double and cannot find their way home.: “In the production without exception he furnishes proof of the the reason mentioned, i. e., on account of theversitv of Munich,-m ... , |jg jgr . w % ...^ .. . ^ ^....... v. v ............ ...........of alcoholism in Germany, beer undoubtedly wise saying in the Talmud: “After the first effect of even moderate quantities of alcoplathe chief role. It must be conceded that glass, a Iamb; after the second, a lion; afterhoi9such as they are found in beer, on thebeer is capable of producing typical ‘delirium the third, a pig.” Only for the case of beer ability to discriminate, estimate distances and»»tremensReferring to beer, Prof. Gustav von Bunge,of the University of Basel, says: “No otherwe would have to supplement the wordaglass99byastage.99dangers properly, to control the finer nervesof motion,is to be regretted exceedinglyRight here appears the danger of beer for that under the new law beer may be sold atis so insidious. In Germany it has been the community. The three stages extend over all oil stations.
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The Christian Advocate
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Thu, Apr 27, 1933
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