Show I Rum Tl Thirst hirst Replaced Replaced- ace By Thirst for BOOKS City Librarian Says I By Selma Miller UT of Utah's crucible of or prohibition prohibition pro pro- OUT 0 there now comes a citizenry with burnished morals and a greater sense of ot the moral obligations obligations- to the state and to the nation The fact fact- gathered from the various angles of or the problem Inthe in inthe inthe the second year of ot prohibition In Salt Lake show this to be true What has become of the saloon saloonkeepers saloonkeepers keepers of Salt Lake A small per percent percent percent cent have remained In business dispensing dispensing dis dis- dis soft sort drinks conducting pool- pool I halls etc Oth s Othe s have moved to wet cities and towns and started again In Inthe Inthe inthe the liquor business One former booze dispenser of this city according to acquaintances here is preparing I Ito to go as an aid to a missionary to the i orient The ranks of ot the machinist I merchant carpenter and shipbuilder I have received one or more of these men Each is far more contented and happy than ever before I I What has become of or the saloon frequenters frequenters fre fre- fre- fre themselves With no corner I II saloon to gather in they now stay at home evenings with their wives wives' and children or go with them to the theatre The circulation of pf the I libraries of the cities testify as to the increased reading in the homes of these men On Sundays the families of thees men and also the men themselves themselves them them- selves in a great number of instances attend church according to the minIsters ministers min mm- of or various Sabbath flocks Of ot most importance is the increased joy of living for the wives and children dill chil dren of the former Cormel saloon hounds Wives Vives are buying new furniture new clothes for tor themselves and children I and more groceries for the table since I he state te went dry because the money I formerly spent on Saturday nights over the bar Is now placed In the mothers mother's hands This sense of obliga- obliga I tion to the women of the homes in inI I I furnishing the necessities of life Ufe Isa is isa isa a marked characteristic of ot the post I prohibition period Furniture dealers department store officials and grocers testify as to tha Increased purchases of ot articles by that class of people i iThe The change has greatly benefited the children phildren of Salt Lake School Schoolteachers Schoolteachers I teachers say that the clothes worn by children of drunkard fathers are arenow arenow arenow now of better quality and more often otten I clean Better school lunches are brought by them now and morally mentally and physically they are ImI Im Im- im- im I I proving I Credit associations of the city have I i several specific examples of families which are paying up long standing I bills since the advent of ot prohibition I Miss J Joanna anna Sprague city li librarian II- II i says that the reading rooms rooms' are now packed wi with h those men who seem to have developed a thirst for tor I knowledge i The police r and juvenile courts of Salt Lake also have a testimonial as asto asto to the cleaner moral tendency Crim- Crim has greatly decreased the records of the police department show and a decided Improvement morally among Salt Lakes Lake's young folk is revealed by the juvenile court One of the strongest testimonies of what the absence of ot booze has done for tor the majority of drinkers and families is furnished by the Salvation Army Before the epidemic of or influenza influenza enza came the number of charity I cases was much less than at any time during the wet days |