Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-26

beverage containing more than one half of one per cent of alcohol, another to prevent the shipment of more than two quarts of liquor or AS pints of beer or one gallon of wine to any indl- vidual in the state within any 30-day period, and third law to prohibit iiquor advertising, all of which took effect in May, this year. Florida passed a package law which resulted in the ordinary saloons being closed, as it prohibits the sale of liquor except in unbroken packages containing not less than half pint and the drinking of liquor on premises where sold. The Florida legislature, however, defeated a bill for a constitutional amendment providing statewide prohibition; South Carolina, which had abolished it's dispensary, passed a bill making It unlawful to ship more than two quarts of liquor or sixty pints of beer to any individual within any calendar month. The governor would not sign this bill, but did put his signature to the one providing prison sentences for seellng liquor.
 The Mississippi legislature also passed bills to limit liquor shipments, setting the limit at one quart of liquor or twenty-four pints of beer every two weeks to any persons in the state. A test of this law is now being made in the courts. Mississippi also passed law prohibiting liquor advertising in any form. In Massachusetts the prohibition forces were successful in having passed law prohibiting the transportation of liquor from licens- ed community to a no-licensed com- munity, an act for which they have worked for several years. In Ken lucky there was remarkable fight over two bills providing: for vote on state wide prohibition, one fin the sen- ate failing to gain the necessary three-fifths majority, while the house bill died in the committee. Some new restrictions on Kentucky saloons, how ever, were provided by the passage of the so-called Hutchcraft law, resulting virtually in abolishing Sunday liquor- selling and closing saloons tight on certain other prescribed days and hours. Maryland passed a local op- tion law for all the wet territory in the state to be voted upon by the units affected next November. This law will bring the issue before the people in Baltimore, Annapolis, AL legheny county, and number of other places. Virginia passed bill put ting into effect methods of enforce ment of the prohibitory law, passed in 1914, which becomes effective on the first of next November.
 Prison Reform.
 The reform of prison and charitable institutions was another item of pro- gressive legislation in a few states, notably in New York. The way was paved for the practical abolition of the anticipated and unsanitary Sin Sing prison and the building of a new $2,- 000,000 prison along modern lines, re- modelling Sing Sing for use merely as receiving and distributing center. The New York legislature also adopt ed plan under which long-term pris- oners by faithful performance of their work and good behavior may earn a communication amounting to one-fourth of their minimum sentences. Virginia took it's first step toward abolishing convict labor by repeating an act which permitted contracts to be made for the employment of prisoners. A law was also passed increasing the good behavior allowance of prisoners. Another new Virginia law provides for the segregation of the feeble minded.
 New Jersey revised it's laws con- corning the commitment of the insane and the management of hospitals for the insane. A state colony for the care of feeble minded is also to be established. Still another New Jersey measure calls for the destruction of records of conviction of juvenile of- lenders after a certain time. Okla