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Show H j THE SAME OLD STORY. M Experience Similar in All Dry Cities. H The annual report of the police de- H partment of Battle Creek, submitted H to the common council Tuesday even- H ' ing, shows that there were 347 arrests H for drunkenness from April. 1909, the Hl last year In which Calhoun county H 1 was "weL" For the next year, which H i closed the first of April, 1910, there H I were 331 arrests for drunkenness. H ' This wag a difference of 16, or less H I than 5 per cent. H Is local option prohibition the solu- Hl tlon of the drink problem when it Hl ' means a reduction of 5 per cent in H ' drunkenness? H The police commissioners lnvesti- H gated the ages of those persons ar- B rested during tho year (or tho sake j of determining the effect of local op- H tlon pn minors. H ,, During the year ending April 1, 1909, H ' there were 62 arrests of boys under 1 20, while during the year ending April M 1, 1910, "dry," there" were SO arrests 1 of boys under 20, an increase of IS, H ' or more than 29 per cent. M , Tho slogan of the Anti-Saloon league M is "Save the Boy." m During the Calhoun county cam- H palgn and in many others, we are told H by the Anti-SaToon league that any in- H ( ( crease In taxes would -be more than m offset by the great reduction in H crimes, arrests, prosecutions, cost of M maintaining police, courts, etc. We M were assured that making Calhoun H county "dry" would do away with at B least, half of the court and police H costs, v H Will the Anti-Saloon league please M explain tho advantnge to Battle Creek j of an enormously Increased tax, a fivo H per cent reduction in drunkenness M and a 29 per cent Increase In Juvenile H crimes? Editorial, Battle Creek H 'Moon. |