Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-05-18 | Page 18 | This Line Hurt by Prohibition

THIS LINE HURT BY PROHIBITION Drink Cure Asylums Sa Say Dry Wave rave Ruins Their Business I if if- Associated d Pre Pe re Chicago May ra 17 Plans Plans are aro being made b by owners o of more than 2011 drink cure institutions to discontinue business with t the coming of national prohibition accord according according nb to officials o or of Institutions here A few of ot the places may continue continuo Indefinitely as drug cure curo I sanitariums but hut a 3 large majority Is la expected to close within a year car James E. E Bruce Druce an official of or n a drink euro cure corporation that advertises ad it has bas cured more than victims of ot alcohol said tho prohibition wave w had for some time caused decreased business Wo Yo figure there will bo be no for our institutions after the country countr goes dr dry ho said However Howe we ex expect ex- ex I peel peet business s to Increase for a fe few few- 1 f months right after prohibition t no- no e- e comes effective But after that it will rapidly decrease A few ow years rears a ago o we had sixty branches in ope operation throughout the tho countr country Today we wc have havo twenty Drug cases constitute about 25 23 per percent percent percent cent of ot our business tho the number being beIns being be be- I ing Ins about the same samo as before the Harrison Harrison Har liar rison law vent went Into effect five years ago But nut we do not think It would woold pay to continue continuo treating drug cases alone Adoption of bone bono dry prohibition by bya by n number of oC states has decreased business In Business ss I also fell off oft during the war DU out nut in t tall fall It picked l up again about bout the time Ume I of ot the thc influenza epidemic and has been been fairly ever since An official of oC one ono of ot the oldest chains o of drink cures in the country countr expressed tho the view their institutions remain open for at least a year car after tho the coming of oC national tion He admitted that beyond boond that i I the future was uncertain Two years ago this concern operated fifty branches Ioda Today the number has been reduced to fewer than twenty Ho lie said a few of the branches might be continued permanently for Cor dru drug users user who ho finco the passing of oC the Harrison are confined lar largely largel I to the wealthy class and residents of ot tho the underworld I