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tire; and-ought to be repealed or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'
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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
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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
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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
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