The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-01
VIC. |. !. DEPARTMENT
Mrs. Maude B. Little, Editor

Mrs. Maude B. Little, Editor
We are happy to announce that for
the coming year we have secure as
editor of the w. C. T. u. depart
ment in this paper, Mrs. M. NJ. Little,
of Ocala.
We consider the educational work
of the press among the best and most
important factors of temperance.
Mrs. Little is an experienced de-
partment leader, having for several
years edited the Epworth League
Young Peoples Page in the Chris
tan Advocate. She is also a fine,
strong, interesting, original writer,
so our; readers may expect the best.
We hereby express our appreciation
and thank Mrs. Little in advance for
taAeingEup this great work.
Mrs. E. Van Hood.
Prohibition has Helped DesM0ines
Miss Marguerite Porter, now Wis
iting her sister in DesMoines, Ia, is
as much interested as any in the sue
cess of the temperance cause. low
has been dry for some time, and Miss
Porter, believing that the effect OF
prohibition in DesMoines would be o
good gauge to Judge what its effect on
0caia would be, wrote to the mayor
OF the lefty, asking for his opinion.
She received the following answer:
DesMoines, Ia, Oct. 26, 1915.
Dear Miss Porter: In answer to
your inquiry, | have to say with en-
Phass that prohibition has not hurt
DesMoines. No doubt some individu-
al Inconvenience has occurred and per-
haps also some individual loss, but
business as whole and the welfare of
the entire city has certainly been
greatly improved. If you have been
noting reports as to the number of
arrests, as TO costs in the inebriate
asylum and as to charity cases you
will, of course, have observed at once
that there is big saving in every
en- of these activities. / have no
doubt that when winter comes on, the
cases of poverty and suffering will
also be found to be very much alle-
Waited throughout the city.
Yours very truly,
James r. Hanna, Mayor.
The mayors opinion is borne out
by the Daily News of Des Moines,
which says:
Closing Saloons Benefited Des Moines
1.-THE closed saloon has benefited
Des Moines 1t has decreased the
number of Migrants in the city, re-
duced the number of arrests for in
toxication, larceny, assault and bat
terry and disturbing the public quiet.
It has caused the building of more
homes, Increased savings deposits,
bettereg collections and has helped
business in general.
"That is the statement of City
Treasurer Floyd F. Miles, backed by
statistics and opinions from promi-
nent men in the city prepared for
Judge A. L. Sutton, of Omaha, candi-
date for governor of Nebraska on the
"dry" ticket.
Taking the period from Feb. 16
1914 to July Is, 1915, and comparing
the number of arrests with those OF
the same period year later wher
Des MONIES was dry, the city treas
urer finds.
Crime Comparisons.
"That of 2,578 arrests made during
the wet period, 1851 were taken fol
mtoxication. During the same dry
months a year later there were
272s arrests, only 939 cases of which
were intoxication.
"For the first seven months of 1911
: 1853 persons were held for larceny
For the same months in 1915, IA wer.
arrested for that offense.
Assault and battery cases decreas
ed from ia for the. first seven months
OF 1914 to 80 for the same months
this year.
"The public quiet was disturbed b.
234 persons, according to police rec
ords, from Jan. 1, 1914 to Aug. tn
same year. During the same perio,
this year only 1872 persons were hel,
for this offense.
"Vagrancy decreased from 81
cases for seven months in 1915.
Gains in Building