--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Woodruff, J. Lloyd collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 24 number: 1 published: 1920-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Woodruff, J. Lloyd, "The Awakening," *Improvement Era* 24, no. 1 (November 1920): 5.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2401unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2401unse start_page: 5 end_page: 5 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2401unse publication_year: 1920 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1920, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The Awakening AN EXPERIMENT ON CAFFEINE 5 thing which common experience shows us not to be desirable when it is necessary to do an important piece of mental work. The results also indicate that those who had had a con- siderable amount of adaptation to the use of caffeine were not so much affected as those who had not been in the habit of using the drug in any form; although it is worth while to note that these habituated people were always very much more affected than they thought they would be. The experiment in- dicates that a certain amount of adaptation takes place through the repeated use of the drug over a long period of time, yet this adaptation is considerably less than the average person is likely to believe, and in some cases is scarcely discernible. The Awakening A glorious banner is unfurled, The Stars and Stripes majestic wave; Freedom and justice, truth and power, Her right, a tottering world to save. What though the despot, blind with rage, Plans in his heart our certain fall, Chains forged by hate are plaited straw, His sure reward, wormwood and gall. Pleasure and peace, like sunshine played Over Columbia's broad domain, Hark, from afar there comes a cry: "Help, or we die, and die in vain!" Startled we raised our tardy eyes, Gaunt wolves of terror scourged the land, Widows and orphans done to death, Murder and famine, hand in hand. Girding our loins we dauntless rose, Stretching our hands across the sea: "Succor and life we bring, fear not, Brothers in arms, we haste to thee." No more the eagle rests at ease; Soaring, her nestlings rule the sky, Striking for Freedom, blow on blow; "Victory or death!" their battle cry. After the din of conflict dies, O Lord, we pray thee, hear us then, Usher thou in thy reign of Peace, "Glory to God, good will to men." /. L,loyd Woodruff.