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Show Keeley Cure Patients Show : Big Gain Since Prohibition Mor Seleamen, Fewer Farmers Seek Drink Cur r UCI CATTON NIA aery's Wrrtir TVvVltiHT. III. April If Ih prohibition pro-hibition la w ha rut lrn th meant ef heavy drinking thai gnee e In America, lha newe haan't yet reached Ihe Keeley Inetltule headquarters head-quarters here. or hall century lha Keeley In. etlteteeSe been famoea a lha hotin of lha "Keeley rare" a proceea by which confirmee) alcoholica are put mi thalr feat and alven chanr to hake art In hahlt ef esceeelvs drinking. AM lha Keeley Inotllui rlit Raw hi doing blegsr business than It eyer 414 before. I It ta doing such a biff buslne that If prooewt auertere ara to amall. Tha en helming K now c-mpkai c-mpkai la la ba replace) be thraa w enee Juet a aoon aa they ran ba mode reodr. lent year tha Inalllula ha 4 more liquor than In inr ether ) ear af Ha exlelenr except IIM. . In tha flrat lt month af thla year It ha4 thirty mora resee than H bed In lha corresponding period ( la at er imci prohibition figure compiled In tha1 effle at fH. Jamee Henry Oughton. preal-4ml preal-4ml af tha Inatllul, aha that tha number ef patient hee eteadily In-rreaeed In-rreaeed alrx-a prohibition anlll It S5" 31- VsV ' taking tha ears nowaday. In ITIT ' (, . j . """V Ih.ra war 111 farmara at tha In- ' ( K t stliute: laat yee thrre r only ' fT (2 s thraa. , .V O C? I -Thst mar nt neeeeearlly maan T that tho farmrra ara 4olng la fjlAMv rl "I 4rlnklfi.' aata l"r- Uuahlon. "" 'I IMI.y r VAi mar simply ba hfraoaa of lha arl- fJCVwt'r . 'a lm rullural d'Prraalnn hh-h haa nrnlr I-T 1 farmara haa ahla. flnanrlallr. althrr I J ml in drink, haarlljr at to par (or th TtlHpp02 oihrr rlaaara cf tl.a D-.pulallor. "lb tAV C ' f-uTTl ' a ha. a lnrraari. "iMmril he VOuOC HON " laka tha rora haa lnrraa4 from XX U7SO It In ! ta IS In !:. Mwhanis , now tops tha average for prenra-htMtton prenra-htMtton yeare. To get a fair comparison It hi neceeaer to gn ba. k la ll. the Uet of the "normal" pre pro hi bit Ion yeara. In that year lha Inetltuta here had 477 Caere for treatment. In l.-t It had fit cases. And thla rear's record I running ahrad af lat year s. It la Intereetlng ta survey the figures covering the years from 1114 onwerd- In HIT th number fell off lo Its. "In the last sit months of 1 IT. evplalns !r. Ougton. "the number tell olf berauee of tha draft. The drlnbera were going Int th army. Homo of them, who had reached the point where they needed I taks tha cure, enlisted Instead. In Itl4 tha decrease continued, with 41 patients. In tsit Ihs number was 4:4 and In 1K4. the flrat prohibition year, II dropped I tat WHAT riGUM M0W Then It atarted up. Tha figures for tha nail nine years follow: ! it: 4tt t: it:; ;. t7i nil i !: in l:t M if.t lit im tsr "War crowded right now." bays (V. Oughton. "War putting ap new butldlnge acroee the street to take car of our patients." flos essmlnstinn of Dr. Ougn-ton'a Ougn-ton'a figure yields oome Intereat-Ing Intereat-Ing facts. taking th crs nowadajrs. In KIT lhar war 111 farmer at th In-atliute: In-atliute: laat year there er only slstv. three. "Thst msv not neceesarlly mean that the farmer ere doing leas drinking." sat It. Oughton. "It I may simply bo because of the agricultural agri-cultural depreeelnit. whl.'h haa made farmer leea able, financially, either to drink, heavily or to pay for the cure." tuner clseeea cf the population have - Increased. Heleemen who laka the rura have Inrreeeed from 14 In I'lt ta 4 In !:. Merchenis have rln from 42 In Hit la Tl In l:t Newspaper editor have jumped from fir a la 114 t 14 In 143. It. Ougton doesn't pretend to know why tliea cleeeae have In creased. He knona that they have, and preeenta lha flgurea for what thev'r worth. Two reaeaurlng facts stsnd out In hia figure. Th Institute hi not getting any mora women paltente than It uerd to. and the average ase of Ita paiirnia has not rhsnged slm-e prohibition. If tl.imlng youth Is drinking more than It uaed to. It at least Ian I taking tha cure any oflener. The averuge age of all pa-tlenia pa-tlenia la still what It used I be 41 year. "There'a op peculiar thing." says IV. Oughton. "A greater proportion propor-tion of our alcoholic i-aeea now show msntsl dieturhsnces than was tha rasa In lha old day. Thla msy be because the quality ef the HouoV now la worse, or II may be beraii men get drunhar now thsa they us4 to. I don't know. I do know this: Men wh hs Isken the cure, gone horn and Ihea reeumed drinking heavily. o that f they hv had lo com bark to ug for anothay course of treatment, tell ma that It a hsrder to ley oft of liquor now than tt used to be They're offered more. Tha whol business cf drinking la dona differ entlr. "Take a ealeamsn. for essmpls. In tha old days lied spend a few 4 hour with a customer, wind ap a deal and. nisb. If lha customer had lha time, thayd drop Into a aaloon and have a drink to anal tha bargain. Hut now either tl selasman or the customer, or both. Will have a bottle on him. They'll gat Ihe bottle out and they won't . take one drink the chance ara lhav'll kill the whole hotlle. . |