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THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD
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The Moving Picture Educator
aCOHOL, THE POISON OF HUMANITY" (Eclair).
r-^HIS latest addition to the pictures intended to expose alcoliolic dangers is most extraordinary in character. Instead of dealing with the drinker or the immediate
e'cts and attendant miseries of alcohol, it passes on to the
s ond generation in its purpose to show alcohol "as the
p'son of humanity." :n this drama of life the father is a drinker and the son is
n'.; nowhere in the entire story is the son ever known to
velops into a mania, and he shoots and wounds his young wife. The lawyer engaged to defend him naturally seeks for some cause for this mental and physical disorder and so visits the young man's parents. The old father is a driveling drinker — a mental and physical wreck; here is the solution of the problem: the young man is a victim — not of drink — but of the poison and depreciation of the human faculties through parental sin.
The trial is held. The lawyer draws vivid word pictures
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ti|ch the poisonous drink; yet his life is beclouded with a t:^edy the cause of which is traced to him, the victim of hi father's sin.
Visiting the sins of the father on the children" would be aruthful title to this sad story, but it is better only as a sii-title, otherwise the value of the teaching of the heredity evils of excessive drinking would be lost.
• eginning in his boyhood days the son is a victim of headaijes and dizziness not common to the average healthy boy.
of the fits of brutality, even wife beating, in which the drinking father was accustomed to indulge. The old man is in court, a picture of idiotic, senile debility.
The lawyer then draws another picture of the son repeating in similar form his father's viciousness, claiming the poison of alcohol had made an unwilling victim of the young man. The court accepts this view and acquits the young man of culpability. The scientific teaching of the story will arouse much comment in educational circles. It is not the
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Scenes from "Alcohol" (Eclair).
*:n of intellect and capable in his business as a young man, n becomes the inventor of an important machine, which °igs him to the notice of his employer, whose daughter y'^'mately marries. Living in evident prosperity with %uh and luxury he becomes suspicious of his wife, seem"jly more from a disordered brain than from real cause. I"'"g a gentleman caller at his home his distemper de
teaching of hereditary tendencies being repeated, but the results of those tendencies prejudicially aflfecting the next generation. The story and the claim is a wonderful one and will both do much good and arouse much interest. The crowds may not understand it and so it may not please them. However, if accompanied by an explanatory talk, it will make one of the most helpful pictures of the day.