Show if THE SOUT HEllI offles more than half of south s territory is dry and rema n ng area restrict sale of liquor washington wave of t on has swept with such remarkable effect the south that the new year opens upon a vast stretch of ter altory absolutely bereft ot liquor calle the area wherein prohibition ests have triumphed marks the bat tie ground tor impending fights on the question more than half the south s terri tory Is dry absolutely and in the remaining area the sale of cants Is restricted it is evident that the cities are the only remaining for the saloons and it la unlikely that this condition will ba modified except through a radical change in political thought through failure to enforce the laws against the traffic and peri aps ob stables which follow in the wake ot prohibition georgia for a year has been with a near prohibition law forbidding the sale of liquor containing more than 4 per cent al cohol statewide prohibition laws become effective january 1 m caro lino alabama and mississippi pro hibi tion advocates in lo 10 asiana have suspended their fight to test the new Gay Shattuck law for the regulation of the 1 quor traffic tennessee is the ch ef center of interest among the other states wl ere state wide prohibition fights are in pio gres the prohibitionists assert that a state vide bill will pass the legislature which they expect to organize and control kentusky Kentur ky the second largeant lar geat dis t nine state in the union with counties has but four in which the sile of liquor is not prohibited virgin a presents a string ol 01 vie tories tor anti saloon elements as no v exists in eighty of the state s one hundred antles in texas where more than half the counties 1 ai e accented prohibit lion the voters soon will be called upon to vote upon a constitutional amendment for prohibition in arkansas two thirds of its area cr seventy five countley count lea are dry and the question of statewide baitlon will tie presented to the voters tor discussion the results of prohibition general I 1 ire gleaned from reports ing a great decrease in the record of arrests for drunkenness an in crease in the banfe deposits of labor ers fewer cases of wife abandonment end a decrease in criminality gener ally the difficulty of enforcing the laws however Is con ceded to be one of the chief obstacles 1 its absolute success in many states |