are some among us who are constitutionally weak. (January i, 1906.) Psychic Influence of Food and Drink. The so-called Committee of Fifty* has published a volume summarizing the results of its researches on the liquor problem from the physiologic, the economic and the legislative aspects. In reading this book, which contains a great deal of matter that is of the highest importance to the student of the liquor problem, I am struck with two omissions that seem to be vital. There is perhaps little cause for wonder that these omissions occur. They occur everywhere. They are largely due to the fact that the outsiders who have examined the problem are never quite free from preju- dice, no matter how hard and sincerely they strive to free their minds, and to the other fact that the trade interests concerned have occupied themselves wholly with defenses against the charges constantly brought against the liquor traffic, and have never left their breastworks for any aggressive sallies. The two points I have in mind refer to the psychic influence of food and drink, for one, and to a certain aspect of the evil effects of the intemperate use of *As to the personnel and work of the Committee of Fifty see appendix. 12 Psychic Influence of Food and Drink.