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Show ( Ui!CLE Si HAS i BEEN ON WATER CARTFOR rEJIB First 12 Months of Prohibition Wm Declared to Have Been Decided Success jrr r 5000 saloons still ARE DOING BUSINESS (Intoxicants More Plentiful in New Jersey and Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Than Other States BY GEORGE B. WATERS. N E. A Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. July 1 America j fcas bad a year of prohibition. Has II leen a success? John F Kramer, head of the prohi-; bitlon enforcement division here, fays 11 has been a marked success r.tit when I called on hioi he didn't try tr. make me bellev inn' he had all the j saloons closed and all the boot IrRf r.-in r.-in jail. "We have figures to show that there j nre only about S0 saloons running In New York, said Kramer. "Beer seems to-have almost disappeared, except in Pennsylvania Intoxicants are more plentiful in Pennsylvania and NeW Jersey than in any other states ' As to the greatest benefit brought by a year's prohibition. I would say; that it has been getting strong drink f,M r f ; of .. boy? r-nd, rir' y ho ' In e dei i loped no b ppi titea for H " toper with an insane appetite for j liquor will drink up his wife's per-time, per-time, but one never heard of a normal boy contracting the habit of drink by '-cking a perfume bottle. Nor is1 cf aver oil and razo. containing also ln.iVa substitute tor a rondhouse ;o Efe 3 b&UCb by young men and woffl'tn.l fht i whereas nr.uy of the old drinkers .r? I consuming all these preparations B they can get. j "Leave the Volstead law o, -c hocks two more years and drinking ft ft will be a "lost nri." Wjfc-fcC The year preceding prohibition, 'Jtl Americans spent $2,000,(00 000 for1 booze. The Anti Saloon league claim. 9Mh t have figures.' bowing that th pai .ear the drinkers have placed $1,00( v HH i i 0.000 of this in banks, spun $li0,- U00,6p0 of it for candy, and that tie 111 ' other $900,000,000 went lor soft drin! Hty raovinp pictures, theaters tobacco, I bootleg booze, automobile.-, clothes. shoes, groceries, furniture, etc. Bu' I i ihe bulk of thil second billion went: I for soft drinks anil movies j y Kramei sayt i 1 of his troubli I J I have com" from former saloons tbatj kept hanging on to see what the SUES SU-ES I I preme court was going to do. 150,000 SDloor.s Now Only 5000 I Before prohibition there were 150,000 1 HH tl saloons in America, and perhaps njt KTfr 5000 now speakeasies where persons B ' who are known tan drink. The 100,000 persons employed at HE! making beer rnd whisky a year ?go, H have gone into other trades, and there '"it la still a labor si brtagt JBi Probably tt greatest economic sav j Mk - ing has been the sobering up and re-i- hab'.litatlon of 1.500.000 men. who in Kj2 the wet days were Cither incapacitated 'A Hm the "day after" or in Jail or in hosplt 1 ; UUOU drunkards ft Th drys sav thai -.-. .ten-d llgures Dk, " m, phow workmen's efficiency bae been increased 15 per cent, crime reduced H V 50 per cent, drinking M-duced G5 per, cent that 50.000 persons have been m. saved death from alcoholism and ihat Hf ' go.i buehels of foodstuffs were &8S1 diverted from strong drink to other MHH channels. I At Baliimore a movie show was In B9 stalled this ear at central police Hta- KB lion to amuse idle policemen. Prohi H billon cut down their work F At 11 of the principal cities in New KB Hampshire arrests tor drunkenness IfWj numbered 1660 foi th last rdx months of 1920, as againct 9260 in similar period pe-riod of 1917 No Prisonere No Services. I - The sheriff d Carbon county. Pa,' ItBr I Quit holding Sunday religious services j ' a at the Jail because there were no pris-J -J onerB to attend. m In Philadelphia arrests for drunk-, I ennesa were wet July. 1018 7850; ; I dry July, 1919 5088, In Eric. Pa the cost of feeding prls I oners in July. 1918, was $3151 and In 1 July. 1919. reduced to $llsr, despite rising prices Thomas W. White, Massachusetts a t.late supervisor of administration, prohibition cut down court main-J main-J ler.ance b one-half mmt i he government fiscal analysis at Worcester, Mass., shows savings banks "I accounts show an increame of 50 per ft n' s.nce July 1. 1919 KU 1 Knforcer Kramer says Keelev in-ii tu'.es all ovrr the country have had 'Continued on page- Uncle Sam Has Been on Water Cart for Year (Continued from Page 1) to quit, the last one to throw up the Sponge beinp al Columbus. Ohio. The commissioners of ten Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania counties had planned to bulid a Plans for financing it wr,J about ready before prohibition came. Aj meeting vvas held by ihe commission er November 2H. 191. and all agreed that there were no prisoners lo be to it. and the Join organization of com-, miss loners vvas disbanded nnd the plans dropped. Warden Lewis, Philadelphia jail, says arrest for drunkenness have decreased de-creased 80 per cent in his city. Wars den Lee, BalLmi.re jail, says arrests for all causes has been reduced 5o per cent In Connecticut Hie state farm (or drunk ird-' has been abandoned In Boston the arrests from July to; December. 1918. were 28.860 and the, same period in 1919 only 8920, reriuc lion of 19.940. Sheriffs Quit Can't Make Living. Sheriffs all over the country are re- Signing because they can no longer make a living (ceding prisoners. This used to be the principal source of rev-, enue lo a sherilf In Houston. Tex , the city farm thai formerl had from 50 to 100 prison-, . i nil the time became absolutely depopulated de-populated when prohibition hit. It was finallv rented to a Japanese. Many jails over the country are being converted into hotels and departments de-partments to solve the housing short No. prohibition ha-n t COm- pletclj prohibited. But it has ruined John Barleycorn's business. busi-ness. The enforcement bureau bete holds to the theory that the higher the price' goes, the more successful the law Is. Kt the ("hicugo conve Hon booze was) selling at 7 50 to $15 a pint, demand strong Buying it b- the drink one pas about $75 a quurt n New York. in Wichita ; alls. Tex . the oil region, re-gion, it reached the maximum price of $20 a half pint cash, too! Uncle Sam lost $500,000,OHO in revenue reve-nue but m i it UP In other ways That Is of fa .vice by he billion the people saved and twice more by the billion they saved and spent for more substantial luxuries and necessities The cost of enforcing prohibition for the year was $3,000. oOO. Dest we forget. In vvestern Massachusetts Massa-chusetts 176 persons died from drinking drink-ing wood alcohol, and about that many more In New York and eu : Jersey from the same cause But thei 50,000 saved from alcoholism oli'sets that. |