SUPERINTENDENTS' LETTERS.

White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 231, 18 September 1914, Page 13

SUPERINTENDENTS' LETTERS.

PEACE DEPARTMENT. Dear Comrades in every Cnion, Will you i all on every mem Ur to pray fervently for peace throughout thj world. Not a peace which is veiled war, but the true peace which con.es from real love to God, and love to our fellow-men. This awful war is such a devastation of women’s honour, homes, and hopes, that we well might supplicate the Cod of our salvation tor peace. —Yours in deepest sorrow, BESSIE LKK-COWIK, Peace Supt. MEDICAfOI’EMPERANCE. Dear Fellow-\\ orkers, Mrs Martha M. Allen, our World’s Superintendent of this department, publishes, in leaf let form, the objections to alcoholic liquors, both as beverage and medicine, of leading medical men of Kurope and America. Sentiment against the medical uv* of alcoholic liquors has grown very rapidly of late years. 1 his i- quite apparent in hospital reports. The i hange of view as to the value of alcoholic liquors as remedies is clue to increased knowledge of their real nature. Formerly, alcohol was ranked as a valuable stimulant; now it is known that its stimulating power is of very brief duration, and 1- followed by deep depression, so that alcohol is now placed in its true category, that of a heart depressant. That alcohol hinders the liver in its work of destroying poisonous waste matters generated in the body, thus permitting these poisons to gain access to the general circulation, has shown it to he an unfit drug for u-e? in all infectious diseases. The hardest blow which science has dealt to alcohol was that which showed it to be a paralysant of the white blood cells, which are the natural defences of the body against disease germs. So we fnd alcohol, once king in the medic.ul world, now dethroned, dicredited, well-nigh forgotten as i

drug by well-equipped practiticners. Hut, like all dethroned monauhs, alcohol -till has a considerable following. There ale people, both in and out of the medical profession, sc jiv judic ed in favour of strong drink that they appear to think that every <a-»* of recovery where whisky was given would have surely been a case of death but for tlu* liquor. T hat some* persons have enough vitality to icc over from both disease and whisky does not appear to enter into the minds of those obsessed by the whisky delusion. There is no work which can effect greater results for total abstincru .* and prohibition than to teach that alcohol i- not necessary as medicine, but rathe r i- really dangerous. I appeal to every Cnion and to every mernb r to study this lite rature, and to c ire ulatc it as widely as possible, so that the public may be edu cated to know that the old ideas of the usefulness of alcohol as medicine* .ere* now known to be blunders, due to lack of scientific instruments, by which the effects of drugs < ould be studied carefully. If these teachings, and other- of like nature contained in the literature of the Medical Tempe r ante Department, were diligently brought to the* attention of the public, there would soon be no ex* use left for the internal us- of alcohol.—Yours, for God, Home, and Humanity, CLARA M. XKAL, Dominion Supt. Medical Temperance Leaflets. (Per Dozen.) How c an the Medic al T emperance* Department ll<Tp to Bring National Prohibition, 4(1. Save the Babies, 4cl. Recent Medic al Opinions and Findings I’pon Alcohol, 4d. British Doctors Aga list Alcohol, 3d. Why Patent Medicines Should Not Be Advertised and Sold, jd Deaths, Poisoning, and Drug Habits Result from Taking Patent Medicines, 3d.

Safe Remedies, <VI. Medic al I empc ranee Quiz, 4(1. Medical Opinions of Alcohol as a Remedy in Disease, 4c!. Medical Men and the Alcohol Question, 4d. Alcohol, the \oung Man’s Greatest Enemy Why? 4<l. i-'or Hi taking injures Health, 4c!. Alcohol and Nursing Mothers, 4(1. Alcohol Injures Children, 4d. Alcoholic Degeneracy, 4(1. Alcohol Shortens Life (Life Insurance Companies say so), 3d. A New York Physician’s Arraignment of Alcohol, 4d. Alcohol Drinking Hinders Business Success, 4(1. The Appeal of the Insane to the Nursing Profession, 4(1. Do Alcoholic Liquors .Aid Digestion? 4d. Do Weak Hearts Need Alcohol? 4d. Why Headache Remedies aie Dangerous, 4(1. What Can Nurses Do for Temperance? 4(1 Trained Nurses and Alcohol, 4d. How to Avoid Constipation, 4d. Patent Medic me Quiz, 4d. Alcohol in the TreaHnent of T u’ercu-lo-is of the Lungs, 4(1. Special Medical )irection to Women, 4d. West \ irginiu State Medical Society Against Alcohol, 4d. Why the Alcohol in Patent Medicines is Dang nous, 3d. Some Revelations about Medicated Wines, 3d. Alcohol in Medicated Wine- (a po>t card), 3d. Alcohol in Fainting Fits, id. Booklets (each). Medicated Wines; Their Mediril and Legal A spec t, id. The Medicated Wines F raud, id. Bible W ines, id Sample packets, containing one copy of each of the above, price is -’d, post free, from MRS CLARA NEAL, T’roc adero, ’’ Palnatua.

lIOMK SCIENCE DKPT. To the Secretaries of District I'nion-. Dear Fellow-Workers, I would be very much obliged if each District I'nion Secretary would let me know, a> soon as possible, whether her I'nion has appointed a Superintendent of Home Sc ience for its district. In the case of one being' appointed, will you kindly send the name .md address on to me as soon as possible, as it is not easy to make any progress with the work until these officers are appointed. f 'hc four large centres, at ic.ist, should appoint them, even if the smaller places do not, for there is much that might now be done in carlying on work made possible by certain provisions of the new primary school syllabus, and which need not interfere at all with the higher educa lion of girls, as at present understood Yours in the work, K. B. TAYLOR, N’.Z. Supt. Home Science. Cashmere, Christchurch.