Show NATIONAL PROHIBITION SIX YEARS OLD TODAY SUCCESS OR FAILURE OPINIONS DIFFER i-cT- i S k 4 v vI I 5 r c r APP PA NATIONAL N prohibition Is celebrating its s sixth i birthday today To signalIze the occasion the leader Jeader o of the drys drS dry and the leader of ot the wets Issued statements for Cor publication They are in direct conflict Wayne Vayne B Wheeler counsel o of the Anti Antl- Saloon Anti Saloon League Leacue of ot Ame America says In his state state- statement ment went National prohibition has has a record of ot six years ot of the most notable achievements achievement of or any governmental social policy poliy In spite ot of o the or- or or organized resistance of a minority opinion It has increased the volume ot of o popular support for Cot this measure augmented the demand for tor better enforcement educated new adherents to ob oh- oh ob servance ot of the law aw become a primary factor In Inthe inthe Inthe the economic prosperity of the nation decreased death rates Insanity and Industrial accidents lowered art ests and commitments for drunkenness and offenses allied to drinking cut pauperism to the lowest ratio in our his his- history history tory and eliminated the greatest source ot or po- po political po political corruption the saloon and the brewery interests 1 Captain W V II Stayton chairman o of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment says In ill Ills his statement Prohibition In the United States is dying SIl ce the prohibition law was placed upon the statute books Intoxication and crime in general hive litre Increased to an alarming extent During arrests arrest for drunkenness III In Increased creased approximately per cent over the figure for the year ear 1919 1913 the last wet et year There can cnn he be no successful enforcement or of ora ofa o a law that has ha not the popular approval of ot the people and nd thus today when prohibition passed 1 I Its sixth milestone we look upon a statute that Is surely dying because of ot the open contempt contempt the people have for tor it The dry forces of the nation have struggled vainly to keep Its utter failure allure from the peo- peo peo people pIe but wholesale violations of or the prohibition law are too apparent and every ery man and woman knows through personal observation what harm barm harmit harmIt It has brought about Increased crime drunk drunk- drunkenness enness insanity and corruption millions million of ot dollars dol- dol dollar lar lars of o the taxpayers taxpayer money expended In 8 futile attempt to enforce the law The people people have ha awakened and Bre aro ro demanding relief J |