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Intercollegiate News Service of The Intercollegiate Prohibition Association.
“J. boy at the woodpile is worth
two in the street.”
Any university freshman found in
a Madison, Wis., saloon - is likely to
be “run out” and sent home under a
ruling of the student conference of the
University of Wisconsin. And a
strong editorial in the Daily Cardinal
urges upon upper classmen their duty
to enforce the ruling.
The University of Minnesota Pro
hibition Club is out in a vigorous cam
paign for 100 members. The club,
which already enrolls over 50 strong
men, conducts a liquor problem study
class, a series of lectures, and a pro
hibition oratorical contest.
Pennsylvania State College has 28
men in a liquor problem study class
under faculty leadership and 12 men
preparing for a prohibition oratorical
contest.
“No booze for lowa students,” is a
rule rigidly enforced at the University
of lowa. The rule, which was first
passed by the university Senate, has
been reenforced by a resolution of the
state legislature. And now some of
the students have organized a club for
training for future anti-liquor serv
ice.
Do you know that Lincoln said.
“The Liquor Traffic is a cancer in
society eating out its vitals; and —all
attempts to regulate it will only ag
gravate the evil; it cannot be regu
lated: it must be eradicated.”
“Any revenue which is derived by
any government from sources which
tend to degenerate and degrade any
government from sources which tend
to degenerate and degrade any por
tion of the people is bad. Every
source of information, medical, so-
The Physiologic or “Natural” sys
tem of treatment is based upon an
understanding and appreciation of the
Resources of Nature in health and in
disease. “Nature creates and main
tains, therefore, she must be able to
heal.” This is a capacity residing
within.
When disease or disability overtakes
us, it usually means that the natural
defences of the body have been beaten
down by imprudence —imprudence in
working, eating, exercise, breathing,
exposure, drugging, neglect of the bow
els, broken rest, and the many de
mands and perversions of present-day
living, in child and adult. The reader
may accept imprudence as a first cause
of the majority of bodily ills, but con
tend that this does not apply in here
ditary and contagious diseases.
Nearly all so-called inherited diseas
es is not so in truth. The disease of
ten exists in both the parent and child
because the child is subjected to the
same conditions as the parent. Given
a family where several members have
died of pulmonay tuberculosis,
it will usually be found that each one
holds himself in constant terror of
catching cold and then does just the
thing that will give him cold. A
woman has stomach trouble. She must
have inherited it. for did not her moth
er have it also? See if she does not
cook her mother’s way. Look for lard,
pickles, cabbage, etc., on her grocery
list. Note the signs of wear on her
frying pan. Education must solve, in
a great part, the problem of heredity.
As to contagion, nearly every- disease
is “catching” if we are to believe the
ciological and economical, tend to
prove that the consumption of liquor
is dangerous, and that it depreciates
the physical vitality of the consumer,
his mental capacity and his economic
efficiency. This being true, it follows
that our governmental revenue from
the liquor traffic should be cut off,”
was the emphatic conclusion of Mr.
Frank Hickborn of the University of
California in a recent class lecture.
Cornell, California, Minnesota,
Northwestern, Ohio State, Ohio, Syra
cuse, Columbia, Ohio, Wesleyan, De-
Pauw, Kentucky, Florida, Georgia,
Baylor, Nebraska, Nebraska Wesley
an, Stanford, Washington, Wisconsin,
lowa, Misouri and Oklahoma Univer
sities, and Kansas State, lowa State,
Swarthmore and Oregon Agricultural
colleges all have active prohibition
clubs to study the liquor problem.
Active leagues in 206 colleges and
universities in 24 states, is the latest
report of the Intercollegiate Prohibi
tion Association, the virile, efficient or
ganization of the college prohibition
movement.
“Each saloon is a social center of
the first importance in every corrupt
political machine, and is closely allied
in interest with the other two forms
of vice-purveying, the social evil and
gambling,” Prof. T. H. Reed of the
University of California.
At Ohio State University and at the
University of California, the men’s
and women’s prohibition clubs are run
ning a hot race to see which shall have
the largest membership.
Twenty-five Presbyterian colleges
last year secured the $25.00 prize an
nually offered by the Presbyterian
Temperance Committee for Prohibi
tion oratorical contests. Prof. Chas.
Scanlon, Conestoga Bldg., Pittsburg,
Our Medical Department—The Physiologic Method.
BY. DR. ROBERTSON (1846-1908), FOUNDER ROBERTSON SANITARIUM.
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF DEC. 11, 1913
health officers. Doctor Charles Mc-
Cormick, of Chicago, remarks: “Judg
ing from current medical literatiure,
the only thing which isn’t contagious
is common sense.” We can not help
ourselves for the germ is everywhere;
food, drink, and air are seething with
countless millions of micro-organisms
whose sole ai mis to torture mankind
with Latin diseases. If our only chance
for the future elimination of germ dis
eases lies in the killing of germs, we
had just as well stop where we are.
The prevention of germ infections
lies in securing highly resistant bodies
through good environment and sane
living. Be assured that corrosive sub
limate is no stronger germicide than
pure circulating blood serum. No
germs can thrive in a part which has
a normal circulation of pure blood.
As for external germicides, let us com
mend the free use of water and old
fashioned sunshine. We are entitled
to from five to eight pints of drink
ing water every day. Air is for breath
ing purposes, and we need as much
in winter as in summer. Let us eat
less, chew our food more, and not
wash it down.
Health is natural; disease is but the
result of treading upon Nature’s toes.
After determining, in the individual
case, what this offense has been, and
to what degree of disease it has led
the Robertson System sets about es
tablishing correct hygienic conditions,
and, getting into the confidence of Na
ture, aids and encourages the ever
willing inward forces of health to the
accomplishment of their task of resto
ration.
Pa., who is in charge, reports keen in
terest again this year.
Annual prizes of SIOO.OO are offered
to undergraduates in all Methodist
schools for the best manuscripts on
various temperance subjects. Since
the articles may be either essays or
orations, Dr. Clarence True Wilson
(Shawnee Bldg., Topeka, Kan.) ad
vises that the competitors write ora
tions and use them also in the oratori
cal contests of the Inter-collegiate
Prohibition Association.
Used in 50 colleges and universities
as a text book, adopted by the United
Society of Christian Endeavor, and
endorsed as the best American book
on the subject in a referendum vote
by the leaders of the anti-liquor move
ment, is the record of the 1913 edition
of “Social Welfare and the Liquor
Problem,” written by Harry S. War
ner, General Secretary of the Inter
collegiate Prohibition Association.
Salem, Ore., the state capital, has
just voted “dry” after a very severe
struggle, in which the Williamette Uni
versity Prohibition Club figured large
ly
Before 3,500 enthusiastic auditors,
who interupted again and again to
applaud telling points, the orators in
the Eastern Interstate Oratorical Con
test of the I. P. A. at Columbus, Ohio,
November 11, fought through a great
contest, in which H. C. Jacobs of
Hope College, Michigan, and John C.
Carwardine of Garrett Biblical Insti
tute, 111., were awarded first and sec
ond honors respectively. Dr. D. Leigh
Colvin, presiding officer, reports the
contest to have been of nearly as high
grade as any he has attended in his
wide experience with oratorical con
tests. Jacobs spoke on “The Decree
of the Century,” and Carwardine on
Our bodies manufacture their own
medicine. One of these is now sold
, over the country like any drug. Its
3 origin is the Adrenal gland which ad-
) heres to the top of the kidney. Its
; office is to assist in regulating the
i blood pressure. One thousandth grain
5 of this secretion will raise the pressure
1 in all arteries very perceptibly. The
i Thyroid gland in the neck is another
- internal dispensary. The liver daily
J manufactures about two tablespoon
fuls of a bitter salt, like Epsom Salts
5 Taurin, secreted by the liver, has been
5 considered a vertible animal quinine
3 and a natural protective against the
■ invasion of the blood by certain germs
i or disease. Normal bile is Nature’s
> disinfectant and stimulate for the bow
-5 els. It is now generally agreed among
. physiological chemists that we daily
■ manufacture enough poisons in our
alimentary canal to kill us before the
I day is over, were it not that these pois
ons are neutralized by the liver and
■ other organs before they can enter the
i blood and thus reach the brain and
: other vital parts of the nervous sys
t tern.
“Blood is altogether a peculiar
; juice,” and is another one of Nature’s
agents for protection and repair. The
| red corpuscles are the little retailers
[ of foods and oxygen necessary to nu
trition and tissue activity.
The white corpuscles are the defend
, ers or scavengers which absorb poisons
and germs in the blood stream. They
- even pas out through the capillary
J walls to find and destroy their adver-
■ saries.
It is always possible to demonstra-
“The Men of the Melting Pot.” The
judges on Thought and Composition
were Dr. S. G. Innis of Hamline Uni
versity, Dr. Homer J. Hall of Ind.,
and Rev. N. B. Henderson of Chica
go, while the judges on Delivery were
Hon. Richmond P. Hobson, Ala., Gov.
L. B. Hanna of N. Dakota, and Hon.
Joshua Levering of Baltimore. Os
the nine orators eligible to compete,
one, Jones of Florida, was seriously
ill, and two —Moore of New York and
Bruner of Ohio —were stalled in a
snow drift near Cleveland, so only
six actualy participated.
“The most eminent living authority
on nervous and mental disease, him
self a drinking man predisposed in
favor of liquor, has reached the con
clusion that alcohol is the greatest and
most potent of all factors in the de
terioration of humanity. After 25
years of most minute experiment, con
ducted with the calm, unbiased atti
tude of the true scientist, Dr. Emil
Kraepelin, professor of mental dis
eases in the University of Munich, has
demonstrated that alcohol is a narco
tic first, last and always: that tho
stimulation is purely imaginary, and
that one does less and poorer work
under its influence, although, curiously
enough, he thinks he is turning out
more and better work than usual.” —
Dr. F. Bowers, in the Associated Sun
day Magazine of Oct. 19.
Heading the page with “Eight
Scientific Reasons for Abstinence from
Alcohol” and underneath, “First Rea
son,” the Tulane University Weekly of
November 6, devotes 1 1-2 pages to a
discussion of the character of alcohol
and alcoholic beverages. This strikes
us as a worth-while move for a college
paper.
bly increase enther of these corpuscle
elements of the blood by a single ap
propriate Water Treatment. This is
the effective “tonic” for making rich
virile blood. Anemia, or the lack of
good blood, characterizes most cases
of low vitality and mal-assimilation.
Lagrippe, or one of the fevers, may
have impoverished the blood. Malaria
may have wrought an actual destruc
tion of red corpuscles. A blood-build
ing campaign along natural lines is
called for, whenever the blood is found
to be low in tissue building and germ
destroying power.
Science has for centuries searched
the vegetable, animal and mineral
kingdoms for remedies, anly to find
at last that Nature is the True Physi
cian. The enlightened public is learn
ing to throw away nostrums, pills, bit
ters, nerve-foolers called tonics, sleep
producers, laxatives, mineral waters,
etc., which make one think he is better,
but which in reality handicap the hon
est efforts of Nature to restore health.
Some few misguided people still
habitually indulge in tonic bracers,
headache powders, sleeping potions,
calomel purges, etc. They disclaim
any ill-effects and recommend them to
their friends. They are like the man
who jumps out of a twentieth story
window, and calls out at each floor,
“I am all right yet.”
The Robertson Idea is strongly op
posed to the lamentable haste with
which Surgical Removal is advised up
on the failure of medicines to cure any
organ which is not absolutely neces
sary to existence. Major operatien#
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