PROHIBITION IN AMERICA

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9162, 20 April 1926, Page 3

PROHIBITION IN AMERICA

NOTED INDUSTRIAL LEADERS’ COMMENT. BENEFIT TO WORKERS Rec. April 20. 8 5 a.m. | New York, April 18 j Mr Mayne Wheeler, of the anti- | Saloon League, published a series jof statements from noted indusi trial leadeis commenting on the j effects of prohibition, j Mr Ford said troublesome drink- | ing among his employees had cte- \ creased from one hundred of each j five thousand, to ten. j Mr Ford continued : "Our men I are working belter, wasting less, j and having more. 1 favour onlv i enforcing the Volstead Act and it can be enforced.” Mr W, Storey, President of the Stantope railway, said : ‘ We feel that there has been less drinking | among our rank and file since ! prohibition was effected, although ! there is still a great deal o( booti legging. Mr Rockefeller (Junior) said there had been a very general impression that the effect of prohibition had been a great increase in morale. Judge Gary, of the United States Steel Corporation, said: “I have no hesitation in saying with em phasis that the Volstead Act has been very beneficial to the industry cf the United States and the workmen and their families 'i here has been a noteworthy decrease in the number of gaols, asylums and hospitals. There has been a large increase in savings bank deposits.—(A. and N.Z.)