Show DRINKING AND JOYRIDING PET VICES OF WASHINGTON Police Figures Show One Arrest for Every 24 Inhabitants and Capital Wonders Y Just What Real Situation Is By V M SOV SO o Special of or The Ilie I Standard Copyright 1924 by The Thc Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated dated Press WASHINGTON July Tuly 12 The national Is capital capital is It the mot moet a city In the States Slates or r merely the bet best poll d That ThatIs ThatIs Is 18 the question mot most d debated here heren n no 0 bv by everybody e from congress congress- congressmen men Inca down dOD as a 0 result of or police statistics sho showing leg Ing one arrest for tor e Cr 2 24 Inhabitants In ir the tho three o months of ot tIre ear year tar At this rate one person tor for every s1 gliot of time the population will I 1 ave avo known durance lIe Mie Ite before the year t ear ar end ond ends a Liquor and joyriding apparently are tho the ret lc vices ice 1 of the capita The statistics show that In the first three months of the ear persons were arr arrested ted for tor snakIng maUng a mocker mockery of or the stead ol t ol- ol stead act while 2 2591 2191 91 were ere tak taken n nin in to for tor speeding and for tor to other of the traffic laws labs la s The total number numbe of nf arrests for tor forthe the tho three months wa- wa 19 02 out of a population of Besides the hooch hound and the auto fields time the police nabbed elx Ix persons tor for murder murier seven for manslaughter 49 for tor robbery 90 for hoino breaking for tor grand larceny and 23 for mAintaining public nuisances Violations 01 lesser regulations accounted accounted to 10 o the first total The figures tor for liquor law vio violations lo- lo lations apparently hear out con con- conw con contentions that drinking Is la on th the w increase e since the advent of pro pro- pro prohibition Of Ot the tho 36 j 9 persons ar- ar arrested arrested rested ar-rested rested to for liquor violations 2418 were accused of et Into Intoxication an Increase ovie ov r 1923 of ot ere ero accused of ot Illegal possession of liquor an Increase of or were ere accused of kerving hersing Ing liquor an Increase of ot were wee ac- ac accused accused ac accused of operating a vehicle while Intoxicated an in Increase of 13 and 43 were accused d oC cot thinking di In public an Increase of or 14 In pre prohibition days das da only the dregs dregs of ot humanity human It siere ere arrested to for Now police officials SO sa sai a large proportion of ot those arrested are scions ot of o proud an and wealthy famIlIes And an equally start start- startling startling ling I op of ot those these commit commit- committed committed committed ted to Institutions to b bw hi cured of the liquor habit If It possible come from the tho so-called so elite ebo ho ne neer e touched liquor before or at least ne never neier er got arrested lor for It It Meanwhile Washington Is la dl- dl di divided vided into t two wo camps camp over the campaign arrests More and and more moro arrests until the city Is mide m clear elear t I Is the battle cry of the tho faction action now In InI control v whose hose members member go dill I dill dill- dili diligently I gently about the city searching for lor people who may be arrested as com corn com I I examples to the rest ot of the The oth other r faction which p presumably presumably sum sum- ably Includes all alt those on en whom tile the hand of ot the law ha has fallen as well as many supposedly reo re- respectable re respectable who tear fear it may maybe maybe maybe be their turn urn next claim the arrest Is going to demoralize the tho nation by making it appear thit th the tho seat ot of otI I the tho government is no respecter ot of Its its laws s |