Weather Forecast   Let’s pay attention to that toxic liquid
weapon called liquor   Today people are talking about gun
control, while citizens are hurt of killed by that readily
available toxic liquid weapon called liquor, or alcohol. Toxic?
Yes, according to Owen S. Parett, M.D., “alcohol is a drug and a
poisonous drug at that. The one who drinks a glass of beer is
intoxicated as truly as one who is in a state of helplessness
... the brain wobbles long before the legs wobble.”  In an
article entitled “Shall we repeal the 18th Amendment” published
in 1933 by Alonzo Baker, “The automobile casualty rate for
countries that have legal liquor is much higher than Prohibition
America. Instead of 32,500 deaths, we would have 182,000. The
repeal of Prohibition will prove a boon to emergency hospitals,
casket manufacturers ... morticians ... but to us, who own
automobiles, it will prove many times more costly and deadly
than the shot and shell of Flanders Field.”  During the war, a
German seaman displayed unusual keen v