The evening world. Newspaper, May 19, 1919, Page 14

at Says D Rulers of Ancient Civilization Were Wiser—In Rome Provision Was Made to Give People Not Merely Eread but Need Relaxation as Much as Ever—-The Thwarted Alcoholic Will Indulge in Excesses Far More Dangerous to Society. : By Marguerite Comertaht, 1919, ty the Prem Publishing Oo. (The New Tork Brening World) ‘OW we can acquire alcohol after July Thirst, how we will acquire H aloohol after the same sad date, and how alcohol at Its worst is the least harmful outlet for the ~-these are some of the anti-Prohibition topics Dr. A. A. Brill, famous psychiatrist and Medicine. Street, is ansista! aloohol question, and that a glass of ‘han harm to the average man. “Drinking,” Dr. Brill summed up big most interesting point against Prohibition, “is one of the least barm- ful outlets for the impulses which ruled primitive man and which clvili- zation would keep In check. The dominant. note in the life of primi- tive man was that he did what he wanted to do. Man td-day rarely if ever does what he wants to do, but when he drinks a little beer or wine his inhibitions are dulled and he has least the illusion, for a few hours, that he can do all he desires. It is a tafety-vaive.” Which reminded me of the tale of Pat and Mike who went to the Bilt- more to buy @ drink. After about ‘our or five highballs Pat said to Mike, “Sure, i'd like to buy this hotel!” And Mixe responded, * Let me have about ic Wwe you!” “It cannot,” he replied. “In tho} trist, “was it tude’ fora gray °%% te people always got what! lite, a lite. of they want. But it Is much a costly Gers work. Nobody experiment I hate to s¢ée it tried.” Mkes work. Ihave! never yet met @ professional man Avho honestly enjoyed his labors, who was not glad at any time of an ex- cuse for avoiding them. As for the men who work with their hands, bow many of them hate utterly the monot- onous or exhausting task which sv- clety bas laid out for them! We are oll }ike the children—we hate to go to pebool, And if the teacher is sick we Shout and fling up our hats. “Because have departed so far from the destiny nature laid out for | man, our primitive imoulses must find some sort of satisfaction. trink~ ing, smoking and other pleasures are what keep men at work the rest of une time.” “The Prohibition argument that alcohol impairs eMfciency always has seemed particularly absurd to me,” said, “Who wants to be efficient ty-four hours a day?” Exactly!” Dr. Brill nodded. “Man was not made to work twenty-four hours out of the twenty-four, or twelve hours or even eight hours, ‘The employers of labor who thiak they are going to gain so nfuch by putting the country on a Prohibition Yasis- were never more mistaken. ‘When the Russian people could have thelr vodka they forgot the injust'ce.: they suffered. I believe that taking vodka away from them had much (0 do with their turning toward Dol- sheviem, Of course, working men ip this country are mucd beticr off than were the Russians, and I do not say that Prohibition here means Bol- shevism here, But I do believe we shall have a very great reatiossness, Laovr already a revolutionary wave. ii has shown wha wens it thinks of th EO tee Ci Lot rae attempt to tak away its beer. ancient civiliae In Rome, f example, provision wa made to give th people not mere: bread—sustenans permitted to creep into but circuses! the jug, the result would be the most ! A Dauweston relaxation, T~! delightful anti-Anderson compound BSR. «BY = they = 0294 ever imagined. Those who have tried relaxation @B4@ jt, while not in favor of prohibition, pleasure es much as ever. {have declared themselves resigned to “I know, from my practice and study, that the thwarted alcoholic will ) is: of July indulge in excesses far more danger ous to society, comes @ drunkard is already ab: rink bimeelf into ee Man Not for a Dull Life; Drinking Is a Safety Valve, him to inquire—in the interests of pure acience—about the “roast beef jag” and others which he described at &@ recent meeting of the New York Academy of Dr. Brill, who has an office at No. 1 West 70th New York Post-Graduate Medical School and also the translator of Freud's much-discussed “Interpretation of Dreams.” Dr. Brill frankly believes that not Prohi- bition but regulated control is the way to handle the five more drinks and I'll goll it to “Man,” contin- wed the psychi- “The rulers of tion were wiser. careful) ‘The person who be- CONCRETE SLEEPERS FOR CARS. ormal or defective, When he can ibility he obec, r. Brill, Alienist Relaxation—To-Day They Mooers Marshall unfettered impulses of primitive man alienist, discussed when I called on nt professor of mental diseases at the beer with his dinner does good rather | not get alcohol he'is likely to beat his wife or take to some form of} crime which harms others. I mywelf cured a woman of alcoholism—com- pletely cured her, Sho promptly te- came @ heroin fiend and her morals deteriorated to the point where she | was ® social menace.” Dr. Brill believes that when the | laboring man cannot have the vc- | castonal drink he wants he will be- come, in effect, a lean and hungry Casnius, of whom Caesar said, “He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.” “I want to make tt clear,” the doo- tor told me, “that I do not believe in drinking to the extent to which it has been carried. But you cannot pro- hibit human impulses. “The way to deal with alcohol ts to regulate tts use and sale, If you prohibit you have glaring hypuc- risy and the incentive to all sorts} of law breaking, such as hae been proved to exist in the prohibition states of the South.” “WAIL It last?’ I asked, ‘The specialist smiled reassuringly. Meanwhile, as Dr. Brill himself pointed out to the Academy of Medi- cine, @ man in a dry country may get a perfectly good jag by absorb- ing six or seven pounds of roast Deef at a sitting, (Now I know why ‘a certain man of my acquaintance would never, if he could help it, have anything save roast beef for Sunday dinner), Swallowing several va- table salt had an equally exhilarat-| ing effect on an- other’ patient of the doctor's, He said a wom-! an had attained a state almost idon- tleal to drunken- ness—personally I wonder how she missed attaining the state of tm- mortality—by oat- ing in one atl spoonfuls of hour the following: Four pleces of toast with straw- berry jelly, two cruliers, one boiled eg, one roast beef sandwich, one pound of almonds, three sliced cu- cumbers, six bananas, two frankfur- ters with tea, three nut cakes and ono pound of chocolate candy, And here's another tip, although not from the doctor. Strip your lawn of dandelions, ‘Then follow this recipe: Two quarts of dandelion blossoms, no stems; 1 gallon of water, Let it simmer, don't boil, Silce three or- anges, slice three’ lemons, Add both and let the concoction steam for twelve hours and then strain it! through cheese cloth, Add two pounds of sugar and boll for twenty minutes. Then add a quarter of aj yeast cake. Put the result in a bot- tle or @ jug and forget it for six woeks, If you keep that bottle or jug well corked you will have by July 1 a harmless decoction which whi take the place of friend grape juice, ice cream soda or whatever you like to call it, But! if there should be the slight- est vent in the cork, or If the air should be n e O) rl ry e y ry anything that may happen after the . eo WEE WARES Wied we a REAL FILLET a. The FLOWE First of a Series | INSTEAD of the FOR! FASHIONABLE PINK., THI NEGLIGEE COSTUME. IS of PALE BLUE SATIN With FRENCH EM SO ey, RROLEE PINK and_ BLUE and The RIBBONS ORCHID COLOR. . THIS M FOR aN yan A and FORGET ME-NOTS. The June Bride’s Trousseau I—Negligee Costume N fel MABLE’S LOVE LETTERS TO HER ROOKIE. By Florence Elizabeth Summers Mugtrations by Natalie Stokes. ERE DILL: D I may not get to write often next week for a Chantauque is comin to town an Roy got us tickets, He got them give to him com- Diimentary for sellin them to the leadin business men. A Chantauque ain't a kind of auto-j mobile, Bell, though one of the big bugs Roy went to sell Uckets to seemed to think so, Roy asked him if he was goin to support the Chan- -| An Italian raiiroad is experiment- ing with interlinked sleepers of re- inforced concrete, so formed and! 7 conjunction with wooden as to afford resiliency, tauque an he said hed done bought a Cada- lack, I dont know exactly what it is myself, but it must [pe some kind of show if you have to have tickets for it. I know tt aint an automobile anyhow, Wasnt that rich? Ive got a new dress, Its pretty nifty but I guess you aint interested in womans clothes, Too busy dopin out that plan to stop the war, eh Bill? Hows it comin? I guess if you really did get it down wed have more green blinds in that how than weve planned for. I wouldnt marry ® man for money, Lill Im not mercenary or worldly, but it makes it mighty nice for a girl when a fello shes picked out happens to have some. I sent my pome to the home news- paper, They sent it back, Couldnt appreciate it. They said the dedica- tion wasnt appropriate, It was dedi- cated to you. I reckon maybe the dedicashun has to be to somebddy dead but I didnt know that before. Maybe you would be before it got printed though, the way they usually do things in the newspapers around here, The news is always stale when we get it. Maybe you noticed It though. Broggins has got so he goes every where with me. All the girls are wild about him, Wish you could see him, Till you come home " MABLE GIup. “I'VE Qarvrreus y01t ail GoT A NEW DI R PRETTY NIFTY: y Proderick A. ee fad | |and the French Provisional Govern- | : ment ordered him to leave the capital. EGLIGEE of PE ESS, its ‘oes Co.) LA, lettern MONDAY, MAY 19, 1919 Ex-Kaiser Not Only Ruler Who Had to Stand Trial Law or No Law Napoleon Was Imprisoned—Louis XVI. And Charles I, Lost Their Heads. Only Effort Ever Made in American History to move Chief Executive Was Attempt to Impeac! Johnson, Who Was Acquitted. By J. W. T. Mason ; N’ precedent exists under international Jaw for the trial of William Hohenzollern, ex-Emperor of Germany, by a court of the Allies, nevertheless this will not be the first case of a monarch, “above the law,” brought to punishment by extra-legal means. ir t When Napoleon began to be deserted by his soldiers in 1814 d of his friends with the work of negotiating terms with the Allied enemy powers. The Allies insisted upon Napoleon's on behalf of himself and his heirs as Emperor of France and King of Italy. Napoleon consented. The Allies thereupon id not bring him to trial, but continued the negotiations. In the end, Napo- leon was permitted to keep the title of “Emperor,” with an allowance of $900,000 yearly. Chiefly through the influence of Czar Alexander, Elba was ‘created a principality for him, and he was sent there ostensibly as its ruler, but in reality a prisoner. | After Napoleon's escape from Elba, and his defeat at Waterloo, he be- came, in effect, an outlaw. He fled to Paris from Waterloo and abdt- cated again. The Prussians were marohing toward Paris, intent on making Napoleon a prisoner of war, bers prudently remained away, anti! there were only about fifty in at- tendance. ‘This body was the famous “rump Parliament.” On Jan. 1, 1649, tt de- clared Charles guilty of treason. The House of Lorde refused to agree, and the Commons resotved that the right . of legislation was a possession of Commoners atone. They also declare they could make laws without th! King’s consent. Then the rump ‘established « high court of justice, comprising some 150 members, to try Charles. The mon- arch announced he was above the law, and asked for the authority of his judges, He was told he was be- ing tried by the authority of the Eng- lish people, who had elected him Charles retorted his title was hered!- tary, not elective, and had been so for a thousand years, The eminent legal authorities of England supported the King’s claim. ‘ but the soldiers of Cromwell had no! interest in legal technicalities, thongh | many of the judges refused to go on! with the trial, At the final eession only sixty-two were present. They unantmously declared Charles guilty. Jurists down to the present day have held the verdict illeral, but Charles was led to the block in Whitehal! Jan. 30, 1649, and lost his head at a single blow of the executioner’s axe. The only effort that has been msde in American history to remove the Chief Executive was strictly legal A bill impeaching President Andrew Johnson was passed by the House of Representatives and was sent to the Senate on March 4, 1868. The pring pal accusation was that Johneon be disobeyed the “tenure of office”, which prohibited the removal trem office, without the Senate’s vonseh!, of any person whose appointment bad to be con“rmed by the Cenate. In reality, the impeachment followed a bitter quarrel between Johnson and Congress because of Johnson's lenient reconstruction pulicy after the Civil War. Johnson was brought to trial before the Senate, as provided for in the Constitutioa, It required a two- thirds n. ; ‘ity to convict, stood thirty-five for viegion nineeteen against, one leas than tte Napoleon was advised to try to escape to America. He got as far as Roche- fort, on the French Coast, hoping to find an American sailing ship there. The British man-of-war Bellerophon, however, was in the harbor, and es- cape was impossible. ‘The French royalists were now pur- suing Napoleof, and rather than fall into the hands of his own country- men, Napoleon boarded the Bellero- phon and surrendered unconditionally to the British, The Bellerophon took him to Plymouth. From there, he was sent to St. Helena, by order of the British Government. He was stripped of his imperial dignities, as | punishment for his escape trom Kiba, and thereafter was known not as the Emperor Napoleon, but as Gen. Bona- parte. Louis XVI, who lost his throne by this act, fell under suspicion of con- spiring to restore the monarchy. A charge of treason was brougat against him, and he was brought to trial be- fore the convention, Pan, 19, 1793, A | majority vote alone of the convention was declared necessary to. convict. |On Jan. 20 the convention voted 387 for conviction and 338 for acquittal. There was no authority in French law for this procedure, but that fact didn’t save Louis's head, and he was guillotined Jan. 21. The English had greater dimculties in evading the law before they suc- ceeded in beheading the last of their own absolutists, Charles I. Charles had attempted to intimidate the House of Commons into doing his will by storming the halls, sacred to the, elected representatives of the people. Nevertheless, when Cromwell's sol- diers captured Charles and called upon the House of Commons to pru- ceed against him, the sense of lawful procedure was too strong among a majority of the members for them to act in so unprecedented @ case. ‘Thereupon, the Cromwell warriors under command of Col. Pride, em- a swan ae Jol.nson ba ployed what was after called ‘Pride's ? ; oars after \purge.”” They forcibly expelled 143 | irrmed Mi’ tree ere be was elected to the United States Senate from Tennessee, but died within « few weeks of this vindication. TWO MINUTES OF OPTIMISM By Herman Jy Stich Copyright, 1919, ty the Prem Pubiivhing Co, (The New York Bening World), “Acres of Diamonds’’ it tag good old opportunities of Yesterday—BALDERDASH! TO- | members of the Commons who were favorable to Charies, Other mem- DAY the Road to the Top is far less steep than in any Yes- terday, So many have travelled it they've worn down slope and left it almost a dead level. | If you will but stretch your legs and stretch out your hands you can take advantage of more advantages than were accorded im former centuries the next of kin of royalty. All America is virtually virgin territory. We haven't yet begum to tap Naturé’s treasury—the bosom of her hills and vales and moun tains, her mysterious vasts above, her strange enchanted seas below. You can, if you will, absorb more vital information in six months | than was ever exploited by the sages of former ages, But you won't | take the trouble to acquire what your “lucky stars” require, Opportunity goes a-begging. And while you disregard your heritage or bewail its inexistence millions of immigrants uncouth and uncultured, ignorant victims of lands of benightedness, men and | women who could neither read, write, speak nor understand a syllable of our tongue are backing up their three-thousand-mile voyage by their determination not to back down. Their names invest with | magical power the” stationery of America's colossal concerns— financial, manufacturing, technical or industrial. Walk on any street you will and you are flanked by the towering peaks of monuments wrought of their thought and of their ambition, of their brain and of their brawn. You are treading on acres of diamonds—acres and acres and acres of them, But you've grown so indifferent, you become ee callous and so complacent, you've so long stared in the face blazing sun of opportunity under which you were born, that blind to its revelations. You're treading on acres of AND YOU WON'T EVEN STOOP TO RISE, nes | | | ‘saw his hopes of final victory vanish, he intrusted Marshal Ney and others abdication % The vor || to || |