IT’S THE RACE THAT COUNTS.

White Ribbon, Volume 36, Issue 432, 18 July 1931, Page 4

IT’S THE RACE THAT COUNTS.

Love of home and the desire for tine children have been strong among all the great civilised peoples of history. Even young folks are deeply moved by these powerful ideals. A leohol strikes at the very foundation of racial advance, laboratory experiments have taught us that even small doses of alcohol attack the most highly developed cells of the body—the brain, the nerves, the -adal cells of procreation. These creative cells in alcoholic parent*—if not completely destroyed are degenerated, and the child suffers the fatal consequences

even before birth. The children of drinking parents show a strong tendency toward weakened mentality—there are more idiots and inferior individuals among them. It is even probable that the germ plasm itself —that vital spark which continues on through countless centuries— is so affected by alcohol that the children for generations to come suffer from the sins of the fathers. It is the race that counts, and alcohol is an enemy of its advance. I>r. K. Herman Bouman, noted Dutch scientist and psychiatrist. University of Amsterdam, Holland.