Show 18 18 Years of the Amendment S By Dy DR OR FRANK CRAN January 16 16 1928 was the eighth birthday or of the thi prohibition amendment to the constitution Many pe peoples people's ples Idea of at the success of ot this measure asure has been obscured by reading the newspapers S The newspapers print news and as Alexander Alexande r Black once pointed out news as printed In the dali dally daily V press pres is not a an Indication of at the state of ot the fa facts ts ii iia In Ina Ina I VI a community For Fr Instance if H a Sunday school su au superintendent su runs away with a member of ot his school 1 that is news But it is only onty because e It Is Js occa occasional 1 unusual The unusual Is news bec because uso It I Is a Interesting and striking but it Is not typical S So every vlot violation of ot the tIme prohibition law has been beci a played up as news while the vast good that ha has haa a abeen been done has not been beep especially noticed The question has cea ceased ed to be a religious s an and 3 sentimental one but has become commercial and p po I It Is these aspects that are summarized In the first place the corner saloon has has' i never to return There are very few people in th the e I United St States tes that want It back This alone helps help S Sa a good deal for alcohol Is not not publicly exposed to ti 0 sale to lure the tho youth of at the country Very few v decisions and those In the strongholds stronghold 5 of the wets have been handed down adverse to th the 0 law Jaw Decisions Decisions' mostly have gone gone one way Th The They y IT uphold tho the law The amendment nt is c considered strictly V legal by the tIme Vast preponderance of ot Judicial opinion I. I lh rho prohibition code was ratified by three fourths S of at the state stat legislatures S During the time since sinco this code went Into effect C the tIme country has had baa an au unparalleled period of at pros pros- This may mayor or may not be due to the pro amendment but It is to be remembered that tha t the wets declared that the amendment would ruin rut a business S B Baboon t the e statistician estimates that while e was formerly spent for liquor or each year not more than tenth one-tenth of ot that sum now goes for io r it lt Twenty three million more people had saving s accounts at the close of or the five years of or prohibition prohibition tion ion than a at t the beginning and over o 0 of or Insurance a u month has been purchased by th the e people The Tha sale ale of small homes has tripled dunn during g these eight years I S Three out of every four lour at atthe the largest employers employer 5 have o replied favorably to the prohibition question Only one In ten condemned the amendment t. t Deposits Deposit In labor banks carried last la a year There were no labor labor- banks eight y years ars ago It was said that without booze hotels would b be e ruined but 40 ne' ne news 8 hotels costing were e built during this period including the largest hotel holi i In the world at a cost of at During the three thre e eyears years ending 1925 the nation increased 0 in wealth and during the lust last six years yean 5 Seventeen and tenths seven-tenths per was tim the e decrease in the time penal population In the United States and drunkenness fell from per er in 1910 1010 to 1923 1023 Dry American ships have hwe proved popular and have Deen well veil patronized These are some economic facts that are hard to get around Prohibition may be Immoral and unjustifiable ac according nc- nc cording to many writers in the press ress but there thero is no doubt about Its economic efficiency 1 |