TO DUNEDIN'S YOUNG MEN.

Evening Star, Issue 14689, 5 October 1911, Page 4

TO DUNEDIN'S YOUNG MEN.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I have been greatly pained lately to notice the maimer in which. the liquor habit- lias been getting hold of numbers of ora 1 young men. The streets last Saturday night toid a. sad tale indeed. May I commend to our young men the words of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne (the Most Rev. Dr Carr)? At a recent meeting of the League- of the Gross His Grace said : "We have just heard hteidly explained the effect of drink on the- InrmaP system. It lias been pointed out that, while, on the one hand, alcohol is not a food, any but the smallest quantity is injurious to .human health. Furthermore, it has been shown that, the temperate drinker, even if he wore sure to remain temperate, cannot promise himself iminanitv from the injurious consequences which alcohol is apt to cause. But above all, it has been proved from experience and from the natural tendency of an acquired habit that few temperate drinkers can promise thorns-elves with any degree of certainty that they will not pass from the ranks of moderaie drinkers to these who are sowing the seeds of a dishonored life and an early and dishonored death."—! am, etc., GEIiTVi-.D PAEKKT. October 5.