138 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



into the subtle poison of the sparkling 

 glass, they would see the Scylla and 

 Charybdis that beckons and lures them on 

 to their own destruction and weakens and 

 ruins their own lives and those of their 

 offspring and their posterity, as bad tend- 

 encies multiply as they breed on in a 

 greater proportion than good tendencies. 



Its poison not only can stop evolution, 

 but it can also destroy advancement al- 

 ready made. It is possible for young men 

 to keep their bodies so soaked in alcohol 

 that their children and grand-children will 

 be distinctly inferior to themselves in 

 brain force. Physical weakness is an- 

 other curse which children may receive 

 at the hands of alcoholic fathers. Children 

 from such parentage are generally of 

 weak constitutions, have depraved taste, 

 and die early. Many inherit the liquor 

 habit. Where normals pay 100% Life In- 

 surance premiums, those addicted to alcohol 

 pay 174%. 



Our Government reports show that each 

 year we spend $3,200,000,000 for alcohohc 

 drinlcs and tobacco to undermine our health 



