Citizenship Convention and Headache Medicines
By Editor
The International Christian Citizenship Convention meets in Portland, Oregon, June 29 and holds to July 6. It is expected to be a great meeting. It will discuss all phases of social, civil, and religious reform. Our associate editor, Mr. A. O. Tait, will be in attendance, and will report the meeting. We also hope to obtain articles from Mr. W. F. Martin, religious liberty secretary for the northwest. Next week we will tell what the International Christian Citizenship movement is, and who is back of it. The reports of the convention will follow in the next number. The editor regrets that he could not attend this convention; but has been prevented through physical disability. A Mr. Walker, at Macon, Georgia, recently died from having taken some mercurial tablets by mistake for headache medicine. There were two or three similar cases at about the same time in New York. The habit of using headache powders is growing stronger and stronger, and while these fatal results have occurred by taking the wrong medicine by mistake, yet the evil is almost as great from forming the habit of taking headache medicines. They may give temporary relief, but they do not remove the cause of the trouble, and by and by form a drug habit that is as hard to break away from as is the alcohol habit itself. The United States government has issued some very stirring warnings against the "habit-forming drugs," and a good many of them are mixed in the various concoctions known as headache powders. It is better to consult a reputable and competent physician, and find out what the difficulty is, and get it removed, and thus be entirely rid of headaches, and avoid the danger of becoming addicted to drugs.