"DRY" LAW PRAISED
METHODIST BOARD'S CLAIM MODIFICATION OPPOSED WOULD DESTROY PROSPERITY {Australian ond N.Z. Cable Association. NEW 7 YORK, October 2. The Methodist Board of Temperance Prohibifion and Public Morals declares that a modification of tho prohibition law would destroy 1)2 per cent, of tin; country's prosperity. The board publishes a list of benefits accruing under prohibition. It is claimed that the death rate has declined from .18.1 per .1000 in 19LS to 11.81. Tho death rate from alcoholism dropped from b'.S per 10,000 to less than 2.0, and intoxication arrests from 193 per .10,000 to 147. It is slated thai; prohibition is not responsible for crime, but has aided good government. The prison population dropped from 121.2 per 100,000 to 9L7. Afore, men and women are going to college, the numbers being 372,000 in 1917 and 850,000 now, and juvenile delinquency and pauperism are decreasing. Tlu> savings deposits have increased from 4.1)0*3,885,000 dollars in 1014 to .5,43 , .).8,").i,000 dollars in 1024. Building loan assets increased from .1.347,709.000 dollars in 1914 to 3.942,940.000 in 1924.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17155, 4 October 1926, Page 7
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