A letter in the newspaper was written by an unhappy woman who complained that her husband thought it funny to make her pet cat drunk by pouring gin into its milk. The distressed woman complained that the cat would dance like mad, stagger around in circles, and finally fall in a heap in the corner, and go to sleep. Besides the cat was losing all of its hair as a result of this “diet,” and what would a cat look like without any hair?

Immediately, letters poured in to the newspaper from aroused readers all over the country denouncing the husband and suggesting various degrees of punishment for a man who would be so cruel to animals. Perhaps I have a warped sense of humor, but the reaction of the readers struck me as ironically funny. Give an animal liquor and you are cruel! Give a man liquor and you are “the life of the party.” Let the animal reel, act foolish, fall in a drunken stupor and immediately readers from coast to coast howl in protest. Let a man reel, act foolish, crash into an innocent family, and fall in a drunken stupor and we simply ignore it. You can’t cause an animal’s hair to fall out without protest, but you cause a man’s liver to rot out and nobody says anything.

We shouldn’t give liquor to a pet. It is inhumane. But, we shouldn’t allow it to be given to our sons and daughters, business associates, and friends, either. With all the advertising media at our command we continually urge them to drink it. If it is NOT fit for a dog or a cat, it is certainly not fit for our children. - Roy McNew

"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise" - Proverbs 20:1