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Show ( j j Liquor And Crime. M Liquor people arc continually resent- H I ing the statement that drink causes H tho majority of crimes. Thlscharge M of temperance people does not rest up- M nn unsupported assertion. It Is con- H tlnually Justllled by the declaration of 1 oillccrs of the law. Hj For example, .fudge T. M. Hlggcr, of V ; the criminal court, Columbus, O..Jan- H uary -I, In sentencing u sixteen-year- ' . old boy for the theft of a watch while M- I drunk, said: M "From my experience In criminal H cases, I have found that more than throe-fourths of the crimes which M, come before the criminal cuurr. arc M' caused primarily by drink." k Was Judge Hlggcr talking simply for - '. the sake of hearing himself talk, or H was he stating facts? No one who Hi knows him supposes that he was doing l , . anything else than speaking the trull) H' when he made the above utterances H American Issue. |