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...Even though facts show that alcohol is both a food and poison, it is a poison that steadily progresses. In cases of pneumonia alcoholics are almost surely doomed, and no one is immune from pneumonia. The deaths after prohibition have decreased from 80 percent to 35 percent. In cases of tuberculosis the decrease is just as marked, and deaths from cirrhosis of the liver went down one-third after the prohibition...
...tabulations, which do not include the Medical and Dental Schools, distributed the 5,125 students into 37 religious groups. The largest total was the Episcopalian, 1066 or 20.8 percent, and increase of 92 or .6 percent in respective percentages over the figure for 1929, when, however, only 4812 students were tabulated. The Hebrew total of 765, or 14.9 percent, an increase of .6 percent over last year's figures, is followed by the Roman Catholic, 726 or 14.1 percent, Congregational, 537 or 10.4 percent: Presbyterian, 469 or 9.1 percent: Methodist, 431 or 8.4 percent, and Unitarian, 364 or 7.1 percent...
...remaining 16.4 percent is divided among the smaller denominations as follows: Baptist, 188: Protestant, 163: Christian Science, 87; Lutheran, 82, Christian Church, 54, Reformed church, 42: Universalist, 27: Quaker, 27: Latter Day Saints, 22: Greek Orthodox, 20, Union Church, 10: Evangelical Church, eight, United Church of Canada, six, Swedenborgian, five: Buddhist, four: Church of New Jerusalem, three: Ethical Culture, three: United Brethren, Mohammedan, and Hindu, two each: Russian Orthodox, Humanism, New Church, Plymouth Brethren Bahai. Armenian Church, Church of God, Laurentian, Seventh Day Adventist, and Church of Christ, one each...
...prior cut in rates made by the Cordele authorities. The rates established by the Cordele authorities were not based on the cost of rendering the service or on any other proper basis. They merely took this company's rate schedule and made a horizontal cut of ten percent under this company's rates. Even the phraseology of this company's rate schedule was duplicated on the published rate schedule of the Cordele authorities. In addition to cutting this company's rates, political, social and economic pressure was brought to bear upon pur customers in Cordele...
...easier to borrow 85 percent on an automobile and repay it on the instalment plan than to buy a home on that basis. . . . The whole process of purchase and finance involves a ceremony like a treaty between governments...