FIVE PROHIBITION YEARS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1925, Page 4

FIVE PROHIBITION YEARS

WHAT STATISTICS SHOW. NEW YORK, Sept. IT Alter live years. I’roliibitiun is still "it irtrial. with the final results in doubt. Bad as well as good eli'erts are evident. I’lte-e tire the ran lesions ( ,l the first attempt tn make a i ompreltensive survey nf i he results of Prohibition undertaken hv the Kesearih Department nf Hie Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, ait iiitetdeiiomination organisation in which all sects except Roman Catholics are represented.

The first seel ion of its .10,000 words report, published to-day. finds that there is increased drinking among yninis peoole and also a {treater disrespect for the law, hut that, economic conditions hnye improved, that wives are receiving greater proportions of their husband's earnings. that health in the homes is better, ami that there has been a decrease in invade delinquency.

It confesses, however, its inability to differentiate clearly to what degree these better economic conditions at attributed to the tremendous prosperity whicb, has raised wages and reduced unemployment to a minimum. It further admits the extreme difficulty of obtaining reliable statistics.

Its figures were obtained , through questionnaires sent to 11.700 social welfare workers, and tlie report says that 90 per cent of these declined to till in the forms.