The daily progressive-miner., 1916-05-18
 FACTS ABOUT KANSASsON THE WATER WAGON
BY HON. ROYAL E. CABELL. FORMER U. S. COMMISSIONER
 OF INTERNAL REVENUE.
Continued from yesterday.)

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 The United States mortality sta
 tistics for 1911 show that the av.
 craze mortality rate from homi
 eide for the entire registration area
 of the United States was 6.6 Con-
 slider, however, the State. of Yer
 mont, where the homicide rate is
 only one per hundred thousand
 Minnesota, 2.9; Michigan, 2.9; Wis.
 consin, 2.S; Massachusetts, 8; New
 Jersey, 4; Pennsylvania, 4.5. In
 stead of having the lowest rate of
 homicide for any State, the rate in Kansas (4.7) is higher than the
 rate in fourteen of the twenty-three registration States. These figures
 are for different years, because the Government rates for 1912 and 1913 have not been published.
 The rate of suicide for the regis tration area in Kansas, as shown by census report on vital statis- tics for 1911, was 22 per thousand. The suicide rate for registration cities in each of the States is given in the census report Twenty four registration States have lower rate of suicide than has the regis tration area of Kansas, and one has the same rate.
 The lowest annual divorce rate was in 1900, that of Delaware where it was forty-three divorces per hundred thousand married pop- ulation. The highest was in the State of Washington, the rate being 513 divorces per hundred thousand married population Kansas is in the list with a rate of 286, while her sister prohibition State, Maine. had rate of 282 There were just thirty-four States that had low. CT divorce rate than the rate in Kansas, amongst which may be mentioned Kentucky, with rate of 237; Pennsylvania. with. rate Of "A; New York, with rate of SO. The average rate of divorce for the. United States was 200, the rate ris- ing towards the West. The average for the North Atlantic division, in- cluding Maine, was 100, and the average for the extreme Western Division was 356. The. rate of the North Central, including Kansas. was 255. Maine and Kansas not only had averages above the national average, but also above the aver age for their respective geographic al divisions.
 Two of the various causes for divorces granted to wives are drunkenness and cruelty. Neverthe- less, sixteen States had a rate of divorce to wives because of hus- bands drunkenness lower than the rate in Kansas. In fifteen of these States liquor was lawfully sold at the time the records we're compiled. Twenty-Five States hSd lower rates for divorce to wives for cruelty than had Kansas.
 If prohibition prevents crime. then one might at least expect 10 find a comparatively large number of peorle outside of the peniten- tiary Tn Kansas, but the United States records show that the life prisoner rate in Kansas was 449 per 100000 population in 1910 and twenty-one States had lower per centage. This same report shows the total number in 1910, and that in 1910 eleven States had smaller percentage of prisoners than had Kansas, one of these being Illinois including Chicago, and another be- ing Wisconsin, including Milwaukee while yet another was Ohio, includ- ing Cincinnati and Cleveland.
 The moral condition of the boys and girls in Kansas, as compared with the younger generation in other States, is shown in Census Bulletin No. 121, the comparisons being for the year 1910. The Maine rate is -46.34 per 100000 popuia- ton; the New York raH 39.35; the Kansas rate 25.68, and the Nebras- ka rate 11.17. Nineteen States have lower rate of juvenile de- linuuencv than has Kansas