HOW PROHIBITION BENEFITS A COUNTRY.

White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 291, 18 September 1919, Page 2

HOW PROHIBITION BENEFITS A COUNTRY.

According to figtm> cited in Dr. (leorgo Kiltie, Directoi of the Massachusetts Stati' Commission on Mental Diseases, of the total number of le je(lions foi oeivous and mental ills orders in the country as a whole, al cohol wa> responsible for 3.3 per cent. ; in all .New England, for 7 per cent.; in Massachusetts, for 9 per cent.; and in Maine, ha onl\ 3 per cent.

11l Cleveland, Ohio, the hist week of the Prohibition regime, the police records show that onl> six peisons weie brought before the ''Sannse Court." On the preceding Satuid.ix night 214 were ariested charged with intoxication.

Nowhere were the effects of Prohibi lion more marked than on the famous oid Bowery on the tir>t dry Saturdas. Nary a military drunk was noticed on the street that used to be their haven. Ihe saloons that used to be jammed to the doors were sparsely filled. •'New '/oik lleral I,” July 7th. The “Baltimore Sun," in comment ing upon the first dry Saturday night, says that the total number of arrests made by the police of that city was 50, and but three of these were for drunkenness. The number of arrests for the last wet Saturday night v;a 337. Marshall Carter, who has been in the Police Department roi 35 \ear>, is (|iioted as saying that 70 per cent, of the work of the Department in the last six months involved drunks, disorderlv persons, assaults, and robberies, where whisky was the chief cause. v

War-time Prohibition has decreased crime in Chicago 50 per cent., .<l- - to a statement on July 10 bv Chief of Detectives Janies Mooney.