Show PROHIBITION AND I WAR CHECK CRIME i I Poverty Decreases in City Police Records Sho Show Improved Conditions That prohibition coupled with the world war a great decrease in crime and poverty in this city during tho the past year car Is revealed rc b by p a comparison com corn parison pa of or the records of ot arrests and lodgers at tho the police station during Ja January JaUan Uan 1917 and the thc corresponding month In 1918 These records s show a decrease of or practically 50 60 per cent In both the arrests and ond the number of or ormen men applying for free lodging during the first month of oC each of these years cars The police blotter shows that in January Januar 1917 men mon and women were arrested for Cor various offenses while In the same period of or time In 1918 only arrests were made Tho The register of the tree free night lod lodgers els el's who have haye come como to the police station in search of or a R. place to sleep saw names entered on Its pages in January Janu Janu- amy ary 1917 while in January of oC this thise year e r only 77 such cases were recorded Despite the decrease shown b by the police records In these two instances the Hie register at the Emergency hospital hospi tal tah tells a different story The record shows that cases were treated at this Institution during the first thirty thirty- one oric days clays of ot 1913 HilS while Idle in January Januar 1917 only 64 Gt patients were taken there A large number o of the cases treated there so 50 far fal this year ear have o been for minor injuries Another interesting fact rev revealed aled b by bythe bythe the rc records of or the Emergency hospital Is the decrease In the number of at attempted attempted at- at tempted suicides during the tho year car 1917 as compared with the record for tor former former former for for- mer years In 1917 twenty eight perSons persons per per- sons attempted suicide in this city and eight succeeded In the attempt During victims of de despondency despondency do- do the preceding year re l' l 55 endeavored to end their troubles by b by taking their lives hiVes and 20 of oC them were successful In the latter at least According to city physicians the thc motive which prompted the at attempts attempts at- at tempts at destruction self in the majority majority ma ma- of the these e cases was disappointment disappoint ment meat in love or the loss of some loved one ono The decrease In crime and poverty po is attributed h by hy Chief of ot Poll Police co J J. J Parley Par Par- ley loy White to the fact that there Is Ms a large amount of work In the country He states states' It as his belief that ery very f few Ow w men will resort to crime or poverty If It given ghen an opportunity to work |