PROHIBITION A FAILURE (?)

White Ribbon, Volume 28, Issue 325, 18 July 1922, Page 3

PROHIBITION A FAILURE (?)

PROHIBITION KILLED HIS BUSINEMB.

The following letter appeared in the “San Francisco Examiner" Sir, —What has Prohibition accomplished to date? Here are facts not generall) known. 1 am President ol 6.') Neal Institutes foi the treatment of “drink habit" that were located in the principal cities of I.S.A. and Canada. During the 12 years before the Volstead Act became effective, we treated more than 126,000 drinking men and women. Chicago and Cleveland Institutes treated more than 100 patients a month. Los Angeles and Ain F'runcosco averaged 25 to 30 a month. Neal Institutes have closed from Jack of patronage, and 1 am now devoting all my time to another business.—Sincerely, B. E. NKAI* AI D.

PROHIBITION AND ECONOMY.

“Since the date on which Nutional Prohibition went into effect the savings deposits of this bank have increased approximately 10,000,000d01., or 30 per cent. There is no question but that Prohibition has contributed very substantially to the increase of savings in the I’pited States, and therefore has been of great economic value to the country.”—Mr John Jay Abbott, VicePresident of Continental and Cummer eial Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago.

SALVATION ARMY ABANDONS •BOOZERS’ DAY.”

So says Commander Evangeline Booth, because Prohibition has cleared out park benches of drunkards, and the money that used to be spent feeding and clothing these men was spent on entertaining 5000 boys under 14 year* old in New York (Ity. The Commander says that since Prohibition was enatded “drunkenness among the poor has a I most entirely disappeared.” And this in New York, which used to Is* the wettest of all wet cities. Everywhere the Salvation Army has found a marked increase In thrift and prosperity, and a marked decrease in drunkenness

THOMAS A. EDISON SPEAKS. “Prohibition is the greatest thing in America today. Drinking whisky is a rotten habit. Just like opium and co

came. Everybody ought to help protect themselves against the sale of whisky.”

SIR ARTHUR NEWSHOLME. Sir Arthur ha* been in U.S.A. for the last two >ear*. He was principal medical officer to the local Government Hoard of Great Britain. His testimony is that lour out of five physician* in tiic l .S.A, have not taken out permits to preacribe alcohol ,und in 21 State* no physician can prescribe it. “Rescue work in the large cities lias, in considerable part, been replaced by preventive work. Drunkenness and admissions to hospitals for acute alcoholism have shown remarkable decline.”

PROHIBITION REDUCES DEATH BATE. Thirty-seven leading American Insurance Companies, who transact 8u per cent, of the life insurance business of the P.S.A., report that the year 1921 was the healthiest in the history of both Canada and United States. The figures for the first ten months indicate a lowering of the death-rate among policyholder* from 5).8 in 1920 to 8.21 in 1921. Death* from pneumonia showed a decrease of 50 per cent., and tuberculosis also had a large decrease.

PFX )RIA H 1)1 STILLER! EH. In Peoria, Illinois, the 13 distilleries and three breweries are now used for other purposes, chiefly food products manufacture. The bank clearings have increased 16,000,#00d01. since Prohibition. The internal revenue collected wji* over 35.000,000d01. a year, the heaviest paid. The Revenue Collector said recently that he had opposed the coming of Prohibition. “I fought you hard, but now lam with you. The change in industries has helped, and not hurt Peoria.”