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Southland Times, Issue 19513, 12 May 1922, Page 6

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WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTS THE CHILDREN TO KNOW.

The following extract from Special Education Report No. 13, issued by the N.Z. Education Department, shows what the Government thinks the children ought, in their own and the country’s interests, to know:— “The feeling of well-being induced by alcohol is due to its narcotic effect and the consequent dulling of sensations of discomfort and anxiety. The feeling of stimulation is purely subjective and false, and is due to a paralysing of the control of the [ emotions and of the powers of self-criticism. I The partially intoxicated person appears to ! himself, and to others in the same con- ( dition, to be brilliant and skilful; but scientific observation has invariably shown that his mental power, judgment, memory, and skill in action are impaired. It must be emphasised that alcohol causes a weakening of self-control, and therefore of real power and that this is more even of small doses. It has been proved indisputably that alcohol is never a stimulant, but that its direct effect upon the nervous system is always to depress or suspend its functions —that it is from first to last a narcotic drug. Owing to its blunting of intellectual self-criticism, alcohol, according to susceptibility and dosage, gives rise in the drinker to (i) uncritical self-satisfaction with his own performances; (ii) loquacity and argumentativeness; (iii) disregard of matters normally evoking caution of act and word; (iv.) trespass of rules and conventions previously respected. “It is well to remember that it is the higher and more refined functions of in-tellect—self-control and consciousness K>f duty—which are most sensitive to the effects of alcohol, and it is these which are paralysed first. It is an obvious fact also that these alterations of judgment and behaviour are likely to be fraught with serious consequences for the due discharge of responsibilities in all matters of practical life. Accuracy, avoidance of accidents, tactful handling of colleagues and subordinates, observance of discipline, punctuality, reticence in matters of confidence, are all liable' to be jeopardised.”— N.Z. Alliance Publicity (39).

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