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Show TAKE YOUR CHOICE fl As Viewed From Georgia. H (From Summerville, Ga. News, Dec. H 10, 1914.) B "Satisfaction with the new state- m wide prohibition law of West Vir- fl glnia Is general throughout the state. M Prosperity Is on the Increase and H drunkenness and crime are materially Hj lessened. Citizens, some of whom B Wero formerly license advocates, are H not slow, to see the change. Concern- m ing the decline of drunkenness and H the reduction in the number of arrests m for this cause, Mr. II. B. Leo, a resi M dent of Bluofleld, explains that 'be- m fore the abolition of the liquor traffic m in this city, the average dally arrestj IB for drunkenness -were from four to 1 ten. Now the average arrests for m drunkenness are three per week, and m these are persons who became intoxi- M cated in Pocahontas, Va., and left J there too soon. Personally, I have not H seen a drunken man on the streets H of Bluofleld for thirty days, probably H longer, while it "was formerly a fa- H miliar sight M "In telling of bankruptcy in West H Virginia, Mr. Lee makes the following H statement against the liquor traffic: H " 'Sinco July 1st, there has been H filed in the courts but ten cases of 1 bankruptcy.' " H As Things Look On the Spot. H (From Parkersburg, W. Va. News, H Dec. 23, 1914.) H "The situation in Wheeling, accord- M ing to the commissioner of prohibition H and the unofficial newspaper reports H is not a happy one. There has been H almost wholesale disregard for the H Yost law and there has been illegal fl whiskey selling on the streets and in H the alleys in an amount that has M istirred the state authorities to un- Hj usual activity. The law is being H openly flouted and the illegal traffick- H ers are almost sneeringly defiant. H "The fact that the criminal court of M Ohio county has failed to convict 1 offenders has rendered the law prae- Mflj tically a dead letter. The Wheeling M Intelligencer openly declares that the M law has 'become a farce.' If all that H has been said and written about con- H ditions in Wheeling is true there is H no doubt that the new order is a Hj travesty on justice. H "It is time for the state authorities H to take decisive steps in the care of H Wheeling, which aside from Charles- H ton has offered the only serious re- B sistance to the new order, so far as H wo are aware. The well being, and H good order of Wheeling not along de- H pend upon such an action. It is 1m- H portant to the whole state that the H law shall triumph. Its continued ex- Hj istenco depends upon just that." |