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THE
CHEM AW A
AM ERICAN
for fashion, has no higher ideals than make for a life of idleness, of use
lessness, cannot escape the charge of failure.
We believe in a manner civil and courteous, an address which is
pleasing, and a dress of modesty and quiet elegance. Our taste runs to
nothing so loud as to be offensive.
A LC O H O L A N D E F F IC IE N C Y
The use of alcohol is a question that has become one directly relating
to individual and aggregate efficiency of those on whom the nations de
pend in time of peace for industrial progress, and in time of war for de
fence, and has moved out of the domain of sentiment and morals into
that of economics.
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Alcohol and efficiency are absolutely irreconcilable properties. Sci
ence and experience have demonstrated that fact beyond all doubt, and
in this age of stress and strenuousness, when competition is fierce in
every field of industrial and commercial activity, efficiency is of essential
and indispensable importance.
Russia’s edict against the sale of vodka was meant to be only tern-
notary when made a few days ago. But very recently the minister of fi
nance received an order from the emperor that the prohibition of the sale
of vodka should be continued indefinitely after tile war. The order was
based principally on the tremendous improved condition of the country
since the sale of vodka was prohibited.
The German emperior has prohibited treating in his army. Earl
Kitchener has sought to impress upon his soldiers the necessity of ab
staining from liquor, and France has restricted the sale of absinthe.
The Philadelphia North American expresses the view that the posi
tion as to alcohol has been taken because every one of the nations at war
recognizes the supreme need for calling to their aid the vital factors
which make for success, and these only, and the first move was against
alcohol.
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The New York World say the czar’s edict was the inauguration of the
greatest temperance movement in the history of the world.
The strongest testimony against alcohol is that of The Journal of the
American Medical Association, which says.
“ The truth is that the relation of alcohol and fighting has peen squarely
met, and the fact admitted that they are not compatible. It has been sci
entifically demonstrated by experiments in the Swedish army that even
a small quantity of alcohol decreases the marksmanship of the man with
a gun.
“ A squad of soldiers who had been without beer for some time aver-