Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-05-20
ARELNyAS BRIEF WITH PROHIBITION
SATISFIES STATE new ORDERHAS COME IOSTAf

est producing copper company Of tre
state, the CoTber Queen az Bisbee,
states that the efficiency OF the work
| ers for that company has been in
creased fully 30 per cent under pro-
hibitioI The shaft foremen and SHIFT
| bosses agree with him in his stare
meats. Other mine heads have made
similar favorable criticisms on the
! working of the law.
Mine Work Safcc. - T..
The mead Of the mine safety depart
ment Of the Copper Queen company
has issued several pamphlets in
which he has II ,ntioned that the haZ-
ards in underground work have been
materially reuGced and he has adj
duCed figures upon accidental injur-
| les that bear out his assertions. The
miners themselves recognize this.
They do not, in most instances, adyo-
cate A return of the saloon and to
wet conditions.
II Is true that the state is enjoying
conditions of unexampled prosperity
because OF the high price prevailing
for copper ana the consequent high
wages paid to the miners and the
larger forces that are being used in
mining operations, and it would be
unfair to attribute this condition to
prohibition Yet in the increase of
deposits in the banks the prohibit
ton amendment has been in evil
dence. -. T..
In the first year under prohibition
the deposits in the four banks OF the
Warren district-Bisbee and its sub
urbs-increased more than go per
cent Savings accounts more than
tripple1 in number and more than
doubled in volume. Men who former
ly were penniless few days after
pay day now have their bank. ac-
counts. Merchants report that their
collections. are infinitely better and
that credits are at the best they have
ever known.
Crime Has Decreased.
Crimes of lesser magnitude have
been materially decreased in the past
Is months. Such offenses as wife de-
seFtion, wife beating and of minor as
sa,ilts are far less frequent than for
merly. AS to major crimes Of yto-
lence, such as murder and assault
with intent to kill have not notice
Eabiy decreased in all parts Of the
state, but other elements have en-
ltered into this and go to explain such
latter conditions.
Police courts have not ceased bust
ness and iails have not been closed
for lack of inmates. There are, how
eyer, fewer cases. and there are fewer
prisoners, despite the large numbers
that have been arrested for introduc-
ling liquor into the state. There are
a, dozen of such cases tried for each
one where the offender is charged
with the actual sale of liquor.
1t is not to be taken that drunken
linen are not to be seen on the streets.
There is less drunkenness than for:
merly but the brand of booze" that
is ohtainable and the impulse to over
| indulge when this is obtained make
plain the cause of this. ~.
Hope for Future. ...: "
: 1t was expected that the legislature
would enact laws TO properly execute
the prohibition amendment. 1t was
directed to do so but became deao.
locked on taxation issues and no leg
isIation was possible. This left points
relative to the law and its meaning
and enforcement in doubt and has re-
suited in more attempts at infractioD
or evasion of the law than would
otherwise have occurred and has in
creased the cost of the judiciary and