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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 10 November 1919, Page 7

IMR ARMSTRONG & “ALCOHOL’ j . The amount of reliance that can' be [ placed on Mr Armstrong 1 !! arguments j may be inferred from his extraordinj ary treatment of th c Advisory Comi mittee’s report entitled “Alcohol,” | which though couched in calm and | judicial language, is a most - ■ 1 POWERFUL INDICTMENT |of our drinking Ijabits. Mr Armstrongs , quotations wci©- verbally correct, but* ; torn from their contexts, were misleading. Thus tho sentence he quoted about ! he direyt action pf alcohol on the respiration, the circulation, the digest'd* and the muscular svstem being ■negligible, is immediately preceded by <tli e following passage which Mr Armstrong carefully omitted: “Apart from flio results of its continued ex:esfrivo use, the main effcgis of alcohol that have any real significance are due to its action on ’the nervous system.’’ What the complete passage emphasises is obviously the fact that he action of alcohol on the nervous system is direct, and that its action on the other organs is mainly through tlfe medium of the nervous system, and therefore indued. This and no more. Put on pages 39 and 40 th ( . 'following pertinent statements appear:— “Without signs of intoxication in the full ordinary or in the legal sense of thp term,, the bearing and individual attitude of mind suffer temporary change as an effect of the drug; and those in contact with the person so affected have for the time being to deal with x an altered individual whose mind lacks temporarily its normal factor of judgment and conspicuous elements of its self-control.” These changes “are likely to be fraught with serious consequences for thc due discharge of responsibilities in all walks of practical life.” Similarly, on page 130: “We have found ample reason to conclude that, he taking of alcoholic to promot 0 such efficiency 1 ’ (i.e., working efficiency), “is not only useless o r even detrimental in immediate effect, but is also likely to be, in its ultimate results, seriously injurious to health.”' Garbled quotations arc a confession qf a. w<*ak case. Strike out, Ihe TWO TOP LINES.*

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