The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-10-15
SEEKS TO
STOP CARRYING
OF ALL LIQUOR.
From One Point TO Another in
State, and Wants Law to
That Effect.


OF amendments to the Nost prohibi-
tior law which would make IL un-
lawful for intoxicating liquors even
to be transported from one point to
another within the state OF West Vir-
ginia and make II the duty or
municipal officers to enforce the
state law whether the municipality
has an ordinance on the subject or
! mot. were advocated by Fred O..
Blue, state prohibition commissioner.
in his report on temperance submit
ted tonight to the Baptist General
Association OF West Virginia now In
session here. The report in part fol-
lows:
Many Benefits.
First, The benefits of state
wide prohibition have manifested
themselves In many ways since the
state became dry, viz. the first dny
of July. 1914. Savings accounts have
largely increased and the deposits in
state and national banks show an in
crease of more than $4,000, 900 as
compared with amounts on deposit
on the thirtieth day of June. 1919.
Twenty-six thousand more men are
employed in industries OF the state
today than were employed therein on
June 80, 1914. The number OF ar
rests for drunkenness, as shown BY
the records of the police courts, has
decreased at least sixty per cent since
July /, 1914. Upon the authority
OF DIR, /. v. Guthrie, superintendent
OF TIE Huntington state hospital.
there has been decrease OF seventy
five per cent in the cases OF alcoholic
insanity coming under his observa-
tion.
ON August /, 1914. there were
l,2G0 prisoners in the state peni-
Tertiary OF Moundsville. On Septem-
Der 20, 1916. the number of prison
ers in that institution was zoos,
decrease of 252. Warden White OF
that institution has made the state
mcnt that he viii not he surprised
II the number of prisoners in the
state penitentiary do not exceed 500
by January ] 1917.
Second: When the prohibition law
of 1913 was enacted, such law was
regarded as the most advanced OF
anv prohibition legislation at that
time. Indeed IL was pronounced by
many as too drastic. Much of the on
position to the drastic provisions OF
that law has passed away, and today
there is a strong demand throughout
the state for the law to be amended
SO as to make 1t more drastic.
Must Enforce laws.
Third; Just as long as the people
OF a dry state take an interest In
the prohibition laws of the dry
state, the law will be enforced. Many
good and many well-meaning people
may be under the impression that
when a state votes dry, the fight
is over The fact is the fight has
then begun. II is the work or the
church to carry forward the work or
education and OF agitation so that
the interest OF the people in prohibit
ton laws may not lag and that those
who demand that the right shall be
left to them to receive intoxicating
liquors without restraint may APP
preclate their duty and their obliga-
tion to society as well as to the man
who Is not strong enough himself to
resist his habit nor to resist the dis
position to be law-breaker.
Therefore. be 1t resolved:
!. That the denomination pledges
itself to aid and assist in the work
of law enforcement.
2. That 1t pledges itself to aid and
assist in the great work OF education
and maintaining public sentiment for
the perfection of legislation, the en-
forcement Of law and the making of
the state a model dry state
3. That the denomination favors
and demands the following amend
ments to the present law.
(a) An amendment making it I'M
lawful for n person to carry into the
state or from one place within the
state TO another place within the
state. any intoxicating liquors in such
quantities that the same can be used
for beverage or commercial purposes.
In other words, creating It q sub
stantive offense to carry into the state
or from one place TO another within
the state, such quantities as can be
used for beverage purposes or with
any profit TO the persOn who intends