Show Wet and Dry Territory In view of the wet and dry dr 7 votes to be held in November the facts wil be of interest interest interest in in- terest Nine states which before before before be be- fore January 1 1913 enacted prohibition laws were Kansas Maine Mississippi North Carolina Carolina Caro Caro- lina ma North Dakota Oklahoma Tennessee West Virginia and ergia They have a populatIon latIon of nearly Virginia Virinia Virinia Vir Vir- ginia inia with a population of over went dry in Septem- Septem ber per The law will go into effect November 1 1916 There are seventeen states in which fifty per oer er cent of the population live in o called no-license no territory These rhese re Arkansas Colorado Florida Idaho Indiana Iowa owa South Carolina South Da ota iota Texas Vermont Virginia Kentucky Louisiana Minnesota 1 Nebraska and New which have a population of 5 There are thirteen states cent of in n which twenty-five twenty per the population live in no-license no I territory namely California C Delaware Illinois Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Missouri Missouri Miss Miss- tuf ouri Ohio Oregon Utah Washington Wash Wash- in ington ton Wisconsin and Wyoming At different times twenty four states have adopted the policy of prohibition All but ten for one have abandoned abandon- abandon reason or another ed it for local option or control contro by 1 license cene Of the ton ten dry states fates the majority have been dry but a few years and one Vest West Virginia went dry on July L. L Statewide prohibition campaigns campaigns campaigns cam cam- are arc on this fall in Ohio California Washington and Ore Ore- I gon |