Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-30
THREE MONTHS OF PROHIBITION.

Three months of statewide prohibit
ton has demonstrated beyond any
question whatsoever. that prohibition IS
what the country needs.
1t has been proven in the last three
months by actual test that prohibition
is productive of greatest good, both
from moral and economical stand
point and that no good ever came of
the sale of whiskey. And the strange
point is, that when we stop and con
slider the great good that has been &C
ccmplished in the three short months
nearly past, we wonder why we were
so long in seeing and understanding
what prohibition meant to the people.
Encouraging reports of the benefic-
ial results that have come from the
enactment and enforcement of the
law, come from all sections of the
state. In some instances we are told
the police courts have been practically
put out of business. In some cities
where under the old order of things
drunkenness and crime was rampant,
now peace, order and sobriety prevails.
Thousands of men and boys all over
the state who were addicted to drink
and who were thought to have passed
the period of redemption, have been
made to sober up, have gone to work
and are now travelling the road to
success and good citizenship.
And again, homes are being made
happier, the stigma of having drunk
en- husband or brother is being remoy-
ed, mothers, wives and sisters who at
one time bowed their heads in shame
solely because Of dissipated loved
ones, no longer do so, but go about
looking the world in the face and pro
claiming the grand and glorious re-
suits of prohibition.
Aside from the moral side of prohi-
bition great good is acruing in a ma
terial way. Men formerly addicted to
drink, and lettering, spending their
time and money at the places where
drink could be had and the low dives,
have braced up and re-entered The
fields of human endeayor, have be-
come men once more, with an ambition
to do and to conquer.
Not only this but employers have
been benefited, as a result of prohibit
ton. Labor is more reliable and de.
pendable than ever before, and from
all over the state the welcome news
comes that labor conditions are i'm
proving and feeling of confidence and
cooperation exists now more so than
ever before between the men who hire
and the men who do the work.
Other states, those in which whiskey
is still being sold, are watching Geo.
gia. And news comes from these that
s. far they are we'll pleased with the
example set.
Drunkenness has been a matter Of
much concern for years among the
manufacturers, railroads and the en-
ployers of large numbers of men They
have been vigorously working TO
suppress the use of alcohol by their
men while on and off of duty. They
are still aggressively at work on the
same lines, from an economical as
we'll as moral standpoint, iiscouraging
in every possible way drinking on the
part of their people. The railroads If
the country are pursuing this course in
order to safeguard the running of
their trains. They are going so far as
to discharge their employees who drink
when on duty or when off duty. The
whole country is waking up to the
fact that the whiskey traffic is an econ
omical waste, and that it is by far one
of the greatest burdens that this ma
ton has toe AIRY. When the people
begin to see things in this light it is nc
small wonder that the people of this
country are turning to prohibition as q
relief from the baneful conditions that
have existed.