AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] U.S.A. CONTROVERSY. NEW YORK, April 13. Mr May no Wheeler, at the AntiSaloon Leaugue, has published a series of statement from noted industiial leaders commenting on the effects of prohibition. Air Stopford said troublesome drinking among iiis employees had decreased from one hundred out of each five thousand to ten i heir men were working better, wasting less and saving more. He '.added: I favoui only the enforcing of tljrf? A’olstead Act, and it can be enforced.” Air. W. Storey (President of >SUntafe Railway) said: “AA’e feel there has been less drinking among our rank and file since prohibition was effected, although there is still a great deal of bootlegging.” Mr. J. D. Rockfeler, junr., said: There has been a very general inipression that Prohibition has becu a great increase for morale,” Air. Gray (of the United Steel Corporation) said : "I have no hesitation in saying with emphasis that the Volstead Act has been very beneficial to industry in the United States and to workmen and their families. There bus been a noteworthy decrease in the number of gaols, asylums and hospitals. There has been a large increase in savings hank deposits.’‘