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Ladies and Gentlemen, We have come here today to to express the feelings of several county families r:igariing lengthening the the liquor selling extahlishments selling time by one hour. Although many things have been, and will be said in favor of this move, much more can be said against it. It is our belief that Alcohol from a statistical viewpoint is the most important of all ad'icting depressant drugs, Dr. Barris Isbell M.D., Research Branch, U.s. public Health Service Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky is the author of th-it statement. It is of little wondar, then, - that moderation in the use of beverage alcohol begins a habit which -nay create many problems and lead to chronic alcoholism. Dr. Marv -In A. Block, chairman of the committee on alcoholism or the American Medical assoc. and vice-president of the National Council on Alcoholism, said recently. The requirement of our society -.that--drinking is a social obligation to which one must conform is one of the principal causes of alcoholism. If I wars to put my finger on the twogi-eatest contributing factors to the prevalence of alcoholism in this country, the first would be the acceptance of drunken behavior in our society, the tolerance of it; and the second factor is the social pressure for drinking. Everywhere you go, you are offerer liquor, even during business hours at luncheons, meetings and conventions. The idea that it gives one distinction or thet there is such a thing as one beverage being safer t an another is erroneous. Dr. Seldon Bacon, of Rutgers Univ. acid" '4're the only nation in the world where it is not a disgrace for someone to be sloppy drunk in public. No one can cite any instance or give any evidence where the 1 liberalizing of liquor laws has improved the control -of liquor or helped law enforcement. NOV 171977 ; ' a 6 We have come here today to to express the feelings of several county families r:igariing lengthening the the liquor selling extahlishments selling time by one hour. Although many things have been, and will be said in favor of this move, much more can be said against it. It is our belief that Alcohol from a statistical viewpoint is the most important of all ad'icting depressant drugs, Dr. Barris Isbell M.D., Research Branch, U.s. public Health Service Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky is the author of th-it statement. It is of little wondar, then, - that moderation in the use of beverage alcohol begins a habit which -nay create many problems and lead to chronic alcoholism. Dr. Marv -In A. Block, chairman of the committee on alcoholism or the American Medical assoc. and vice-president of the National Council on Alcoholism, said recently. The requirement of our society -.that--drinking is a social obligation to which one must conform is one of the principal causes of alcoholism. If I wars to put my finger on the twogi-eatest contributing factors to the prevalence of alcoholism in this country, the first would be the acceptance of drunken behavior in our society, the tolerance of it; and the second factor is the social pressure for drinking. Everywhere you go, you are offerer liquor, even during business hours at luncheons, meetings and conventions. The idea that it gives one distinction or thet there is such a thing as one beverage being safer t an another is erroneous. Dr. Seldon Bacon, of Rutgers Univ. acid" '4're the only nation in the world where it is not a disgrace for someone to be sloppy drunk in public. No one can cite any instance or give any evidence where the 1 liberalizing of liquor laws has improved the control -of liquor or helped law enforcement. NOV 171977 ;