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VOL. 20, NO. G
Rupture Kills
7,000 Annually
Boron thousand persons each year aro laid
ntfny tlto burial certificate being marked
Rupluro." Why? Uociuibo the unfortunate
ones lind neglected thomoolves or had boon
inorcly taklncrcaroof tUonlgn (strolling) of the
affliction and paying no attention to tho causo.
What tiro you doing? Aro you neglecting
yourself by wearing a truss, npplJnnco, or
whatever ntimo you cIjooho to call it? At best,
tho truno is only a makeshift a faloo prop
against u collupningvall and cannot bo ex
pected to act asinoro than a more mechanical
Hupport. Tho binding presifluro rotards blood
circulation, thud robbing tho weakened
muflolod of tliat -which they need most
uourlnlnnont.
Hut. sclcnco lias found army, and evory trans
tmfforor in the laud in invitod to mako a FREE
test right in tho privacy of tholr own homo.
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2.75 Beer and Even
Less Intoxicates
A Washington special to tho Chica
go Tribune, under dato of May 2iJ,
says: Dr. Harvey W. Wiloy, tho food
oxport, today said that 2.7 G beer was
intoxicating and that ho had seen
German students made drunk from a
beer with oven smallor alcoholic con
tent. Tho opinion was obtained by
Rov. Canon Chase, of Brooklyn,
chairman of tho board, of directors of
tho International Reform Bureau. It
was mailed to Governor Smith of
Now York.
Tho statement said in part:
"An intoxicating liquor Is one
which when ingested into tho stom
ach and absorbed into tho blood
creates a toxic effect on any or all
of tho body organs and functions.
That effect may bo unnoticed by tho
subject or those who surround him,
or it may be of such a character as
to render him at once evidently un
balanced in somo' way to those who
might happen to observe him.
"Visible intoxication is not essen
tial to intoxication.
"There are four well markod
stages of intoxication or alcoholic
pbison. Tho first stage marks the be
ginning of tho toxic effect. If tho
quantity of alcohol is small even the
subject may not be conscious of any
toxic effect. It may, however, be
measured by tho delicate methods
now in uso of determining the
changes produced in the brain and
the memory and in the nerve sensibil
ity of the subject. Thosp determi
nations slfow that even in very small
quantities alcohol produces a distinct
ly toxic effect. The functions of the
intellect are at once harmfully af
focted and the sensibility of the
nerves of tho eye and the so-called
knee jerks nerves are to a measurable
dogreo sensibly affected.
"The second stage of alcoholic In
toxication is one in which the sub
ject, if he is at all attentive. to such
matters, feels that his condition is
Unusual. Thoro is a certain feeling
of warmth wholly illusory and due to
a partial paralysis of the peripheral
nerves, which allows a greater Quan
tity of blood in tho capillaries. There
is also a certain feeling of elation
and an apparent' freodom of speech
due to a specific influence of the co
ordinating organs of the brain. There
is at the samo time a great depresr
slon of intellectual ncuteness.- This
condition may or anay not be ob
served by the bystandors just in pro
portion as th.o subject has greater or
loss control of his actions.
"Tho third state of alcoholic intoxi
cation is one in which tho, ordinary
symptoms of drunkenness are mani
fested. These symptoms varv with
tho individuality of tho victim. Ho
may become taciturn and morose, m
he may be boisterous and voluble, or
ovon hilarious. His control of loco
motion and other muscular move
ments aro more or loss disturbed and
ho may display an acuto locomotor
ataxia. All his companions know
that he is drunk.
RULING IN FLOUR CASE
"There is a fourth state of alco
holic intoxication in which tlie victim
sinks into entire insonsiblity. His
face and breathing remind one ot a
person suffering from apoplexy and
in extreme case's death supervenes.
"The Supremo Court in tho Blan
chard flour caso, decided in Septem
ber, 1914, that any amount of poison
that may be dangerous to children
may bo prohibited even though harm
less to the average adult. Therefore,
in defining 'intoxication tho question
is not what' intoxicates tho averago
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weakest and youngest." '
LATEST FIGURES ON, WORLD
CURRENCY, NATIONAL DEBTS
AND INTEREST CHARGES
In an address before the Sales
managers' Club of New York on April
30, Mr. 6. P. Austin, statistician of
the National City Bank of New York,
presented the latest figures of'world
currenqy, national debts, interest
charges, and other governmental ex
penditures,' showing that tfre paper
money of the world (exclusive of that
issued by the Bolsheviki) had in
creased from about $7,000,000,000 at
tho beginning of the war to $40,000,
000,000 at tho date of the armistice,
and $56,000,000,000 at the present
time; also that the nrttiqnal debts of
tho world had grown from $40,000,
000,000 in 1913 to $265,000,000,000
in 1920, while the -world credits, an
other form of inflation, had also
enormously increased. Meantime the
world's stock of gold available for
currency has increased but about $2.
000,000,000. Tho ratio of gold to paper currency
of tho world, he said. whtMi 0,wi i-
1913 at about 70 per cent, was at the
uiubo oi uie war is per cent, and at
tho present time approximately 12
per cent. Especially startling was
the fact that while the increase in
world-paper had-been $33,000,000,
000, during the war period; the in
crease 'since tho close of hostilities
had peen $16,000,000,000', or about
one-half as much' in the eighteen
months of after-war peace as in the
fifty-one months of actual war.
The world budgets are now ap
proximately five times as much as be
fore the war and the annual interest
charges on world national debts now
over $9,000,000,000 per annum as
against about' $1,750,000,000 im
mediately preceding the war.
As to the effect of these conditions
upon world prices, he declined to ex
press his own opinion althp ho had
one-- saying that tho duty of tho
statistician is' to present figures and
leave to others the expression of con
clusions theroon. He quoted, how
ever, liberally from many distin
guished experts who, he said, had
name-1 inflation as the "most con
spicuous" of the causes, and especial
ly quoted from the present British
Ambassador to the United States, Sir
Auckland Qpddes; who, in a recent
address to tho British Board of Trade,
of which he was then President, ex-
prest the belief that prices wouin
show little recession until deflation
could bo accomplished, and that even
after deflation they would still re
main materially higher than beforo
tho war. Literary pigest.
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