PROHIBITION LAW.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 10 August 1921, Page 5

PROHIBITION LAW.

(To the Editor). Sir—ln your issue of 9th “J. W. Mason” asks us to. believe that regard to law enforcement Amerhas belied her reputation for celfl 1 and adaptability. -We had infl need to be credulous to accept statements on the working of ilbitiun. The other side is ,l ™ in the New York Times which ‘recent issue attributes to Colfl WiDiam Peart, Chief Secretary We Salvation Army, the., state--1 that the deserted appearance he Army’s industrial home is conp,6 fl” the effectiveness of rrohibition amendment. He says: ‘a the Prohibition Jaw went into e tn July, 1919. Our Ware-rooms,

tpt for those who we always will e with us, were soon deserted, unkards had disappeared, ‘stmas came. That was the time " our halls were always filled " e last square inch with men who B picked up in the streets ni all es of inebriety. But last Christie could hardly corral a handNew York Evening Post quot- ■ (h Kramer Brighton as saying in seven hospitals under his ra l “the ntoxicated lodging house rounder type is now the exion while he was the rule.” ■ e Kew York State Board of In>v has req tested the Legislature SSolv it Bellevue Hospital, New ■ which formerly cared for about 1 jnale and over 300 female al--10 patients monthly, now (Dr. September, 1920) has from 10 200 m “. patients and from J ™ female patients. * Jork in the .first year of ‘ dion had the lowest infantile • in K! > ; yaars. Columns of •'idence i:. before me sufficient ■' time 1c trespass unduly onr space —1 am. etc., WATCHFUL.