DID YOU EVER?

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11129, 8 February 1922, Page 3

DID YOU EVER?

Did you ever hear of a gaol being closed Because more pubs had teen opened ? Spencer Miller, late sub*warden of the famous Sing Sing Prison,. U.S.A., said: “Prohibition has already emptied 200 of our gaols and is keeping 19 out of 20 from coming in," On July 4th last. Professor of Sociology, J. L. Gillin, addressing the National Conference of Social' Work, said: —“The number of empty gaols throughout the United States is increasing and this condition is undoubtedly due to prohibition." Here are some examples: JJolmesburg 1000 empty Cells, Chicago Bridewell 600 empty cells, Cincinatti 830 empty Cells, Pittsburg 740 empty cells, and so on. _ Did you ever know of less crime because more pubs had been opened? Ln 1917 under license there were 129,000 commitments to the .State Penitentiaries in New York. In 1920, in spite of all you have been hearing about crime waves, there were under prohibition, only 59,000 these are official figures. In Chicago in 1918 under license ! lhe County gaols and* Bridewell received 19,656 offenders, and in 1920 under prohibition, only 13,781. Boston under prohibition showed decreases in 1920 as compared with. 1919. as follows:—Assaults with intent to* murder 40 per cent, less, robbery, 50, per cent, less, failing to- support, 35 per cent, less, breaking and. entering, 33 per cent, less, manslaughter, 20 per cent' less. The same can be said of very many other places in the U.S.A. Did you ever know of an Inebriate s Home or Hospital closed because more pubs had been opened? In New York State there are now no State inebriate Hospitals. The 65 Neal Institutes, which treated more than 125,000 drinkifeg men and women, have all closed for Jack of patronage. Keely Treatment Homes hav© closed. The famous Washington Home, Chicago, founded in 1863, where more than 200,000 inebriate® have been nursed back to normal, closed in March. 1920, and has now been sold. , .. . . In the U.S.A. they find Prohibition a good exchange for license. Prohibition in N.Z. i 9 worth a trial.—N.Z. Alliamce Publicity (24). (Published 'by arrangement.)