Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 9, 1920, Page 7

_PAGE EIGHT WOODALCOHOL ‘DEADLY POISON, SAYS SCIENTIST. 3 [Phousands | | The! Journal of Industriatyand ‘Engl-}>* neering Chemistry in its February in- sne publishes a bulletin 6n wood alco- hol prepared at the request of the American Chemical soclety by Dr. Reid Hunt, a-leading American ‘authority-on the effects of alcohol, whosé researches | in this are regarded As having been more extensive than those of any other | > American scientist. 4 “Wood alcohol,” writes, Dr. Hunt; Ss become known as the American poison on account of the ‘frequency with which eases of poisoning have been traced to it in the United Stites, Des. pite this fact, there is still a Inek of} * appreciation of its dangers and of. an| erstanding of its nature, } ~plion of the ol evidently © who drink Snot only amorig’} sell ‘aleoholic’ bev origin, but also. to re drinks containing Je and perlfaps also | who sell wood aleohol to the | , fe CHAIRMAN OF ZIONIST ORGANIZATION Millions of .Jéws: throughout the world are’ awaiting the word that. ‘will permit them to start again an: |) other Exodus to the’ Promised: Land, |; In - every quarter of’ the ‘globe, impatient thousands are waiting with tense ea; nate for. the: great. word which will.enable them to. go to the one Jand where they palese they will find peace. and the spiritual satis- faction \of national existence —the ao of prea. al,“ will come with , the sig the of peace with retee establishing’ ‘@ British man- date over e and Vpetit the Mey for for ue formrtion x a Jewish lometandy where the in- shee pense deal jthese millions of modern Pi i. be realized. There is af Sconntek in the world pritiounigs large a it~ fig with wear wh eo if. Jews wai ce for’ the pened to th Holy Land Tho Zion. ope! ie Ho! e Zion- ist Organization of which is endeavoring to. Sie tty 000, ob | wodd a to thos latter ‘Many consume ep who sell at wood and perhaps some uch drinks seem. to | ohol has such char. es that its presence | can be readily sted by the odor or | On. the. oth nd those who Ke such drinks know that this is not , but believe elther that the! poisonous action has been exaggerated | that the chances. of detection are} vely slight. : Moreover, testimony. a. court a number of y thi manufact . «l heen approdched by dealers | »ohol and urged to make their | ions with it. The fact that al- at that time the bottles bore he} label ‘poison’ was explained as a ruse | to prevent the gov ment from placing an jnternal revenue tax .on wood alco. hol. as offered in empha: | there js/ alcohol, whi! h cannot, be “too strongly ” Dr. Hunt, adc ‘that single property of wood f its poisonous effects, but. a chemist purified wooK alcohol The that‘ its to restrain who hee wilth them = ary ‘ties to distinguish The ait- ed. when | coloring matters | se in the spurious} “l for sale. Not however (great his familiarity with-alcoholic, beverages may be, not trust his own judgment in this matter, but he cannot trust the judgment of an experienced bar or sa- loonkeeper. How Weod Alcohol Poisons. “Now, as regards the question of the poisonous properties ef wood alcohol,” mided the expert: “It is inconcely alike, othat ev had much unable by the: between them with c tleilestanithe of wood alcoho}, continued Dr. Hunt. | “It is as impossible to. prepare non. | | Poisonous wood alcohol as it is.to.pre- bare non-poisonous pr ic -acia. How, Much Is,a:Fatal, Dose. | “Individuals. vary considerably | their susceptibility to . wood, . aleoho Some died or became, blind from amounts which seem to.do no harm .to-others, This {8 ‘true, however, of alj.,poisons: || Death ‘or, blindness, has , resulted , from two teaspoonfuls.and one.to two. table-| Bpoonfuls of the ‘poison, Sixty .to..75 per cent of those taking four, ounces, ' | that is, ‘a quarter of a pint, or jhalt, » that any ordinary} -giaeatut,’ have died, or becoma perma- intelligent person can now be in doubt lentiy plind.. ‘That. wood. alcohol is on’ thin subject, in view: of the: hun: properly placed. jnthe list. of ‘deadly dveds of cases ‘of death and blindness! poisons’ Is eyldent, fromthe fact that resultitig “from ‘its; use, | Twenty years ithe mortality from arsenic poisoning is ago when such cases first began to be! only $0 to'78 per cent .and, that .from | reported there was some reason for r 1 Bichloride af:mercury, {seven Jers, OL a little uncertainty on this subject, group of 130 men awho, drank :a mixture only on the part of the public Dut of! of. wood and-grain alcohol, all. but, 32 chemists and of those physicians wh0} aica or became blind. were not familiar with certain -phar- “at.the pi it time when the manu- nachological experiments on. dogs. The| tacturei me sale, of-genufn iajcoboe,mey odor, taste and other properties of PUre! bevel iges ores ijlegal.. the only -safe wood alcohol are so like those of or-| ‘from. buy- ry alcohol that chemists were in-' ing, drinking , or, déaling:.in’ anything ed to attribute the bad effects “of purporting ‘to-Be! such’ a, beverage. the former to the presence of impurj-| ties in the commercial samples. But none of the impurities in the latter poisonous or cause the same ef- as the absolutely pure wood alco- if. macologists, moreover, from ex- ments on dogs, had, years before, | in upon the animal organism was funda- mentally different from that of ordina-| cohol. This difference may be} summarized. When ordinary al-| cohol is taken into the body it is rap-! sain converted into water and carbonic: which are , harmless sub: lways present in.the body, and, of which is promptly elimi- the kidneys and lungs, Wood} I. on the other hand, Instead of| i - into harmless substances YOSEPH E.- RENN, WHO 0 CHAL| that are eliminated, remains: in| LENGES TLODGE—Former. member. of the body as such fo considerable | the Society. of Paychieal, Research, who time and then is slowly conyerted into! took part-in the exposure of Paliadino, another poison—formic acid—the acid) and has-made-a hobby for. years of: ex- which is found in ants. These poisons posing = so-called ©. supernatural» phe- and p a third formed trom the/nomena,: and) who" has chalienged - any- wood alcohol, formaldehyde, attack the /one,-and Sir:Oliver Lodge in’particular, death|to furnish préef of sapernatural feats. 'He has_posted, $5,000, which he will pay, inherent quality, to anyone doing this. rave _/founth deaths was “that *6f #° daughter, -| double ‘funeral for’ the’ two daughters $$$ ———— ne 3 ! HER: Fou UNGER ag this mass-migeation, w which threatens | at any time to break throu Bie start. es the Holy Land. |: have been received telling of Jewish men and women arriving at. Con- srentinopl a Odes , and Trieste, many o! om have’ trekked across Siberia, Russia, Poland and ¢ Aust, ire she S: Heked thei an ave Ti eit |: lives in small fishing ‘smacks sailing from Odessa or Constantinople, hop- DEATHS OF TWO ‘SISTERS OCCUR ae i a again Saddene a Crosswait H. iy fee ane a we a tek pind enn het sho tive pte bs prom Chen, “and four |! hem bi or ys eey ai with- ae oH a 4 ized 16, ‘oO and Maly, 2 hours of each other” fat 2 a ft. Son, ‘Clarence, aged’21, died February 1. The :NeHie, which: oceurréd’ last“Spring. pneumonia and arrangements: for a have’ not beer completed, The | fu- neral will. be held from the Bowman chapél. t Beside their.,.parents,. several brothers and, sisters survive. ‘other - EBENEZER CRAIG Y DAY MORNING Ebenezer W.. Craig;. aged 59, died Sunday morningiatithé home of his, son, corner “Walhat street?! y after. a. lonik survixi ; vite cana son Effort to. Reach F é ane. ta, smug, terranean have been drowned in this mad en- | terprise. ae tibn: , | that oan desires to to. riyatae id,” 80, + ania as’ well as Tasasods a leading ee (pen fois on pair Se the entire Jewish po; tion in the 9,000 German and Austrian prisoners of. wae are in Siberia. country and Gana Tt States many women have” ministrative. ent 134 different ere ae rang- Mrs. Crosswait! is) Seriously” in with |! ILLINOIS OOGTOR 1S NOW GIVING. IT TOHISFRIENDS Dr. B. H. Elder, With offices at 310 Shradski Bldg. *Peoria, T.,. who has been ee nouve practice for over forty | i Medion!” “gelence bas never before produted.a medicine that brings results) like Tanlac. I haye been. prescribing it’ some time with remarkable results, Personally I had,sufferet for years from stomach trouble: and rheumatism and had devoted my best thought tryhig: Xo find relief but to no avail. After eating, gas would form in my stomach - |and affect my heart, causing, poor cir- 4 culation, cold hands and feet, dizziness, | peculiar feelings, terrible headaches and cramps. The rheumatism pained me 80} I could hardly, stand to move my legs! or arms. “T had a patient who had also suf- fered for years ‘with the same trouble as mine, and .oltho I did all I could; for him he got no better. One day, af | ‘}ter he hadbeen nayay for about six! months, she~came to my. office sand) never'in my life haye T seen a man look | hetter or seem to. feel better that he} did. He told me Tanlac was what had) brought about the wonderful change, I began trying the medicine at once with the result that a few bottlesre-| Ueved me entirely of stomach trouble, | Sheumatisn and all other ailments. Al-| tho T am fn éxtra hea: pater nothing @ver disagrees with- rhe any more. I have prescribed Taniac in cases of rhe ye kidney-and_ bladder disor- ition. with Reauits, and “I! feel that 1 WHIT! “4 R tt their way into Pales- lack Sea and the Medi- tine via the No one knows how many Plans have eens made .to handle world-w ‘tion throu ch hagen, mda and Haifa, ign ue nf tahtion Interna: : xn Hole in coh ay 000 pa isonere of--war ian’ Jews, 20,000 in ary and» ote er double that num- ustriee 000 engineers of the zs my. and over we ula- Fast East, as well as In addition, there are lar; ups Persia, Moroeee. , Aiptera, ‘unis, ia, AERO, -. - Slavia, ized ‘as ela Tending every European in’ the United erat oie men and ices in setablishing services .in eat ry prec: Meda 6 fitst 5,000 ap- is Tepre- the mark. Capitalists who find tax evasion prof. table refer to. the “Gertham economic risix With a shfiig 6f,the shoulders and ilay the blame to the government(and | {nancial politics, The ‘Vorwaerts states that German Icather specially has been -sold, abroad at prices less than in Germany. and with no other object than to. transfer the producer's fortune to a place where it will not be taxed: “For their own sakes several thou- sand jilegal: traders. and capitalists are | mobbing, their country and committing ie? theft of food” by driving prices. up- ward,” thé).paner. charges; “Through. pressure on the rate of xe ange, German.war bonds can be bot | L. Switzerland for ten marks and the kcan, is’ bot, up in quantities by: those %20, realize that. Germany ‘must ulti- plicants froi je body will (0, for. Pe: — + Mf ‘ts. i yu e 4 hol 1 atl i eve . Mis thé sl for ind ner ‘Phe purchaser of war lonn will: then Krausse ae ERE The pat: | ™tke;50,,per cent instead of 5 et cent Deirers ‘were Dr, ‘Bibi, Hugh Patton. | “the investment. : R. L. Mitcnatt Joh ne dai BE. E. ‘The newspaper declares that some Crathes anid 3 Bub pepe must be found for be pete a bai rE rately be given help, mie that the mark | Mexico “pis ate ears in unaee | stood the latter INE now 1, | reaamn center Railway ; 7 AESUMPTION OF BAITIGA “RELATIONS WITH MEXICO PROSPECT NER FUTURE (By United Priss.) MEXICO CITY (By Matl.—Tollowing e return frém Europe of General Candido. Aguilar, Mexican secretary of !foreign relations, there has heen }in- s creased talk of & resumption ‘of diplo- etree matice relations between Mexico andj ROISR, Tdahe (By Mail.—Dean P, a. Great Britain, Miller 6f the University of Idaho ha, Aguilar declared the ollier ‘lay that | regornmender) the-setting apart of lana he believed offictal intercourse betweem| adjoining Payette Takes as a “rccreq. the two nations would be resumed at ar} tional state park,'* arly date. While in England, ‘he said, he jconferred ‘with.a numberof (officials who’ expressed the desire that relations be resumed. 7 Should BritaM renew recognition of \the Carranza government, itis predicted that her action would he followed by-an Jinflux of British capital into Mexico and an intensive commercial drive. The iris Theatre LAST TIMES TODAY WOULD IN U.S. LONDON. —Winntng. the first pring tat an Tiford “Whisidnive” a woman wa, given the chaise l6t=m bottle of why, key or a pair of ‘nile stoc! HBS. After considerable hesitation: those the whiskey, The world’s famous pene fe oe 2 days enacted by an all-star cast in scenes-of vivid realism, ers, In- dians and ‘sweethearts of the’old West. ae ie MACK- SENNETT COMEDY— “WITH” BEN TURPIN, CHAS. LYNN and MARIE PROVOST. “UNCLE TOM WITHOUT THE CABIN” ADMISSION—10 and 30c TOMORROW: Good bye, scrub-brush,.so,Jong pots.andipans! Never again! You ought ‘to see ENID BENNETT As ‘the’ nég! idles 5 eeicad tome of peters whent she. g _“STEPPIN' G OUT”. it is encouraging ‘German internationat | tries. It concludes. with the statement that while the government is painstak~ ingly, spending 40,000,000 or 50,000,000 Marks for oils’ and fats, 400,000,000 Seria Rade Sik “Rie, ‘Rags: anes, Mart With Resultant marks’ worth of French. perfumes, Customers, .‘Slamp in Mark, Coniments NOTICE! in soaps and modes have arrived. The en- tente, says the paper, must realize that Boche'! ‘Newspaper ‘Ansddlated Press.) 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