The Moderate Drinker's Great Crime

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 4, 1914

The Moderate Drinker's Great Crime

While a man may drink moderately all his life and not become a drunkard, he imparts an inherited appetite for liquor to his children, which they may not be able to control: and, besides, he subjects them to physical, mental, and moral deformity.

Scientific Investigation

has established the fact that liquor-drinking parents are responsible for the majority of the deformed, epileptic, idiotic, and incorrigible children of the world. Only 23 per cent of the children of drinking parents are found to be proficient, 77 per cent are dullards, and 76 per cent suffer from some organic disease.

The Temperance Instructor *is needed in the homes of all moderate-drinking parents. It will lead them to repentance and to the forming of better habits.