Efficiency Demanded

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 1, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 34.

Efficiency Demanded

WHETHER the slaves of drink appreciate it or not, the fact is that the great commercial concerns of the country are shutting out of their employ the men that drink. They are doing this largely for three reasons,—efficiency, reliability, safety. Alcohol makes a man feel that he is more efficient, can do more and do it better. Actual scientific tests demonstrate to the contrary. It is the old fact told centuries agone by the wise king, "Wine is a mocker: . . . whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." The man who drinks can not do as much nor do it as well as the same man sober.

The man who drinks is unreliable. He serves two masters, the one for his daily, weekly, or monthly wage, the other as a slave. And the slave-driver is the dominant factor. The word of a drunkard can not be relied upon, even if he intends to speak the truth. His mind, his faculties, his senses, are