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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON SUNDAY MORNING,' MAY 24,; 1925 . Discussed Egf ore Professional Men jxctlent Address i Delivered ! at I JVesbrterfan f Church by .Itcr. Carles li Ward, JPastor f Congregational Church ''In Prohibition a Failure", was the subject of an excellent address given at .a meeting of business apd professional men at the Pres byterian church this week by Iter. Charles E. Ward, new pastor of the Congressional church. In developing his theme, Rev. Ward said: - , S6 American who' uses his In telligence beJieves the battle for prohibition -of intoxicating liquors has- been won. in this country. Even the Constitution of our republic Is not respected by many who claim to be "good 1 Ameri cans, ;---: ... :'4i::: i:v? - fThe eyes of - the world are on America watching -tuf experiment in prohibition-, -As M prohibition goes, in America so it will go even tually in 'all the world.- If is de feated here no other great nation will try. It,; if It succeed In thU country cevery -forward -looking people will eventually outlaw a traffic which has long been a curse to- mankind. ,-- r ' '; I-.- We; ; ought not to expecf the Eighteenth Amendment to absolo tely prohibit. ;y?e -hare had the law probibHIcs ranrdtr for thou sands of "Tears, yet deeds of the most .degenerate and unlawful na ture V have been committed - -by Americans within "the last twelve month. , Shalt ,wr say that the law prohibiting murder Is a fail-' tire; and-ought to be repealed or modified? The important -question !:-; "lias prohibition decreased! decreased dunkenness, reduced rrlnie,., improved , living, conditions and ,been a blessing to the- home and.r to the masses?'! U -V ;.,J:, -j, ; T" Taking un briefly the tfeet ef lirohbition oi dtankiiraess let : ua. confeir, with -Judge- Gemmill of 4b .municipal court of Chicago 1 who has - made .rv' extensive study-' of .prison statistics lor 'he-last elght years. .Judges .'CTBcimni - sayffi "There has-been a decrease-in Une number of arrests for, draiikenncas In America of over '6 00,0 00 a year, since prohibition went 'Inta'of fect. The-judge gives the statis tics of several of -the largef cities to prove his 'statements e. g. "Ari rests for drunkenness in New Tovk City -in 1915," 22,635.- In" 1921, 8,16ft; in Ban Francisco 'ia 1919 there were "17,334 arrests - for drunkenness , in 192t 'there were B!y;5.S17; In Detroit inl16 there were lTOa And in 19 2 J only 7,220. But the mosteffective proof of the working- of prohlbk' tlon; is to-be 'found in "its effect on those institutions , operated to cure ';. drunkenness. : Before, the passa ge of the Eighteenth. Amend ment there were SS Xeel institutes In America treating annually ovr 1 1 5,006" casef.- - After- two - years of prohibition' all the Neal insti tutes were closed forllack of- -pat- rons!- There used to! be SQKeetey Institutes Tor the "cure" of drunk ennfrsg. -Most of 4 us' have -heard of the "Keeley Cure.' Today only 12 of the very small Keeley -cures are-- operating! The - ''Inebriate : Home" at Knoxvillc,;iowa had fite grealTbta lid lugs to house its pa- " tienTs before prohibition days. dJul there ".are " no" inebriantes- now ' and the ' property has been sold to the United 'States government for use as -a. hospital and a home for dlsahled was veterans!-. Some of you may have: f. heard of -the ; "Wasbingtontan?-. Home" in-; Chi cago, established ?ln lS63.for .the ; care :of 'inebriate.' Before .prohi bition, days it .hanjkled ' on the ; average 400 cases a year,- In I 117 in contained 995 patients. Ma..rch 1? 13 20-it closed its ; doors and, has since been sold -for other us'7 : In the face of ' these facts cia,any "honest InTestlgator j dec lare the failure of the problbiton amendment? .' . j !;. ''.:' ' ye hear much of , the "nnniber'of - lcEth3 , from I . alcoholism today largely the victims 'of wood alco hol. Dr. Guilfoy, registrar of vital, i statistics of New torkeity say ' thai in 1916 .there idled . In f thai city of alcoholic poisoning j 687 and' from drinking wood' alcohol 2. In 1521 ''there died from al coholic poisoning' 119 and from drinking wood' alcohol j 1 4 f Net gain for prohibition': G 5 6, "and -that "in a city In whlcn little attempt tDGAR L. 'cT'PftOCrlNtX.tf ; NEW AtlSTKlAN "TNVOYU -CALLS AT.VI'TTC !tOUS' r -: r m u This phote?raph of the new Au Srfan Minister to the United Stat-s vis' taken as he called at the White Hotise to present hi$ credentials and :a f onrally enter upon his new du ties. He was formerly counsellor at has been made to enforce prohi bition; ' Wir-'I'r, v-' 'i" 'r':'T Dr. Doane, medical director -of the Philadelphia General hospital states 1 that admissions into : alco holic wards in 1918 I were 1 2326 in 1921 f were 702 ' net gain for prohibition 1624 : ; Has prohibition -had any effect on crime? or course" we" must state in all fairness to prohibition that many bf the crimes such as banditry, burglary, ' theft, etc may have no relation to drink and o continue as before.- Yet there are some interesting figures avail able on this-point et. crime reduc tion as a result of r prohibition: The assistant warden of the Pitta burgh -prison when- interviewed on this- matter two years ago -said:' "We have 840 cells and : before prohibition we had as many as 940 prisoners, today ' 315 - cells ""are empty. "The state prison of UUh found' its prisoners reduced from 287 In 191C to 129 in, 1931. In the famous Bridewell prison, CbU cajfr- there - were in 'f 1 9 1 '7 1 7 ?l 4 & prisoners in 1921 thfre were only 9,653: - la 'this ;Urldeweil prison Chicago there were iacarceratei In 1917 for Wlte and child' aban donment - 6 I : fn 1 S 2 1 for wife and child' abandonment 1. Ket gaiii lor .prohibition -660. IA gala in this line ought especially to ap peal to the women! 1 f - - - . ' Toquote Judge Oemmiil again; Twfntxtjwo per cent of the Jails ln ; tueptrntte'dHes: have : beai i-tthoutlprtsoners i Blnce . prohl bion went intoBtfe'ct and" in 'SO pfcr eent of the Jails the number ori"i prisoners has been reduced from tl 'per; cent to 80 per cent. tWe; should not be misled by newspaper headlines Into thinking that prohibition is causing. a mul titude of deaths. It is saving many times as many lives as it Is cost ing. ' Tn 1840 when a , Quaker, Robert Warner, sought jlfe insur ance in an English life insurance' company the directors - required him to pay 10 per cent more than the" ordinary premium because, they sail "he was thin and men- f tally cranked la that ie repudiated the good -things ef God as found in alcoholic drinks!" Today most life insuranee companies are chary about accepting a drinking man at any premium! In 1914 at a convention of presidents of large life Insurance -companies held in New ; York city, Mr. Arthur Hun ter; chairman of the central bu reau of the Medico-Actuarial mor tality investigation representing 4 large companies and covering 2,000,000 individual cases over a period of 25 years, classed liquor dealers among the "most hazard ous risks," end even ' moderate drinkers as "decidedly unsafe.' According to this investigation a total abstainer in good health at twenty years of age may expect to live to be sixty lour; the moderate drinker in good health at twenty may , expect to live to' the age of fifty! one;' the Bard drinker in good health at twenty may -expect to live to the age of thirty five! -;JIa prohibition effected pov erty' A survey made by .the American association or social welfare -work "of Newr York city and by the Boston welfare society revealed that the number of fami lies seeking aid as the result ' of the'-use of liquor' in the home decreased 75 per cent in the years 19 L7-1921. This investigation was I conducted in the 1 7 largest cities In ;the United States. ; -c ' : Itei m obt b' misled i by the. stories or the press. As onelxiewa paper editor -said; "Violation of law -makes news, -while obedience to lar is not aews ! Habere were more liquor consumed today than before prohibition went Into effect all the liquor men in the country would be boosting for prohibition! ; In. a little village near Berlin there is an ancient graveyard,1 the visiting" JPlac of many tonrlats The graveyard is kept- locked but on the gate is this notice: "The key to -the graveyard is to le found, In the tavern!" That is what the majority of ; Americans believe! j ' ' DRAIfiAGE ASSOCIATION PLANNING ANNUAL TBIPi COOS BAY DISTRICT 1 SCO BE r VISITED JUNE 4 TO O Sam H. Brown, of Blarion. County, -j. President; ! Reeervatlona I Being Made .J The annual field trip of the Ore gon Drainage association will be held June 4-6. - The trip this year will be over the Coos bay section P. E. Price, extension specialist in soils, is planning with the help of the county agents, to-make this the best trip ever held by the asso ciation, j ' A meeting will he called in Co-I quille "Thursday evening. ' Friday will be spent in going over drain age projects in the Coquille'valley bay section around Marshtield Friday night the party will stay at 'Bandon.' Projects will be in-l spected . in Coos county Saturday morning and the; return trip will begin - at noon. ' ",:.ii'. ' ' ' . Officers of the association -and others planning to make tbe trip are Senator Sam H.Brown, presl dent of- the . association ; W.-- L. Powers, secretary; ; James i.Kyle president of the Oregon Irrigation congress; .H. S. Rogers, reclama tion engineer at the' college; and R. U. Etillquist of the Oregon qlay workers association. - s It .la' th.ejja.uty' of every; patriotic 1 Persons Interested In drainage American to stand byconstltntion-i wTLo'i "Wish to makelhe"t"rlp are ask- ed to commuicate with'W. L. Pow efs,-secretary ofTGe association at CorvaIis. ... " ' L J V RED BAND rmUSntmtA J3D 4 ifcgaga . -;r 1 . sr Plan 3NOWS6t Yoiif Vcafion May, June, July or August butihree or four mcnths until vacation time is here... . ... . ,.:. Why not plan NOW lor the financing: of the trip you want to,take this year. I It only means a. dollar or two put away in a special Vacation Fund Account here at the United States National every week. But let us opeti your account now or the problem of financing perhaps might prove burdensome. , 1 United States National Banlc Salem. Oregon, t II l!( m - .!rr " irn...l. Jp. ;Sg 'T.:ji-: icflizi Organ . Wf V 1 . 1 has. beauty a charm, and a fit- - F,E j tlrncsa ihat.makes it almopt an ;h i SA .csntbl part of the modern fu- ; TggEN .1 :neral director's service. 1 ."Jf 1 llfej .1 i, .-'. iivv- i r 1 1.5 1 xr - I I : 1 Our new pipe organ is another - ..'i -Slyi J BtepTforward -aciark of the-pro j'i ' l--r" """ ' V" '! ressive spirit 'that has always A t" - I V , u i 'bctnitypieal-of this organization. -;Jf ' SS '"(j j 1 ' . - ..11 1-; M'ri WEBB'S rfM XCX FUNERAL PARLORS ( lv.'. M5fcHAr ' "Superior 'Mineral Service" x M j fTr-j 7 V'205Sa Church Street S Jj - icVi J' WEBB'S FUNERAL PARLORS "Superior uuncral Service 205 Sa Church Street WORLD'S LARGEST CHAIN DEPARTSIENT STORE ORGANIZATION b' 571 DEPARTMENT STORES RELLVCLE QUALITY - r cooas Always at LOW PRICES 160 North Liberty Street,' Salem, Oregon Off Jpirai Tr? . E77371 My i Week 7 Wife n ise iiiieiii Honor Muslin ' , Snpieow Value This .is our r"Honorw Muslin and it J we feel honored v to sell such splendid quality at. such a low price - The yard, Unbleached - BlMclkd 18c Brassieres JUbtevlhe Price! s -' Masterfully tailored of fiod : material, t h esc rassicres are noted for their splendid "fit and fine: wearing quality 1 : 59c " . Contrasting the Old With the New! t When the caravans went into Egypt, carrying the products of the Red Sea district, . "buying from one another" had its ori gin. - - L , When Mr. J. C Penney-art rtved at Kemtrterer, Wyoming, in the Spring of 1902, economi- 1 cal, modern-day, national distri bution of goods through ; the channel of chain department stores, had Its inception. TTbe ; history of F the growth aikl success of the Stores that bear the name of Mr. Penney reads- like a book of romance and fiction, but in all details it is a corroborative narrative of Right Dealing, Value and Serv ice. , : ' ' It marks an era of progres- sive storekeeping'. cpS .? - r : . F Ramona Cloth SVhenyoaWanf Strength For House dresses; thfl-' Hren's clothingp, .nurses', nniforms, and fancy: work, we - endorse Ra-l mona Qothl You will find this splendid material only at tthis store. 36-" inch width, the yard, 29c Thousands of yards vot snowy, billowy j White Goods 1 For all those thousandsof Household needs.. For Bed Linen, 1 .Table Linen, Towels, Curtains, Underwear, etc, you will find this Store well equipped to satisfy your . needs. ' - Of course, our prices are lower. Our 1 571 -Store Buying rower assures that! Willi! Wainoopk Gowns Buy Your Summer Supply iv . . v. 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Lay in a supply of Turkish Towels, at, each, . - 12C : rine ioveln Doable Thread Bleached, double thread Terry Towels. Only. . 25c Ficne HO