The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-10-14
Wayne B. Wheeler Reports
That Temperance Senti-
ment Is Prevalent There
Among Mill Owners
and Employees.
VETS SHOW MORE
ARRESTS THAN DRYS
Manufacturer in New London
Offers to Pay Town Taxes If
People Will Vote Out Their
Saloons.

Wayne n. Wheeler. general coun-
sci of the Anti-Saloon League OF
America. has closed a weeks cam :
paging in Connecticut, in which he
spoke at Greenwich, Manchester,
Willimsntic, New Haven, Bristol and
Etratford.
NJ. Wheeler prophecies that many
Connecticut towns will vote no-H-
oenss. That failure of the license sys-
tenn in Connecticut Is SO manifest that
II is converting thousands who never
before voted dry.
At Manchester, w>lere Mr.. Wheeler
spoke at the Cheney Silk company
mills. 10 900 employees, the city rec
ords show that two-thirds of the ar
rests are due to liquor. The mill own
ers and most of the employees are en-
thusiastic for no-license.
Mr.. Palmer, prominent naanufac-
turcr of New London, offered to pay
the amount the city receives from Ii
eense II the city would abolish saloons.
He said IT would be good investment
for his manufacturing plant
Bristol lis manufacturing town
which had no SALOONS for year and
the people are now comparing the
records OF the no-license period with
those of the license period. The po-
lice report for the year ended Sep
TENDER /. 1917, under the license poll
icy, shows .240 arrests for all causes,
more than double the number under
no-license two years ago.
Many For Drunkenness
OF these LAO arrests, 544 were for
intoxieation and unlawful acts com
nsitted under intoxication, or ass per
cent due to tntoxicntion Compare
them with the record OF the year ended
September I. 1915. the last year OF no
license. The total number OF arrests
was SEA. less than half the number
under license. or this number "a
were for intoxication and various UNI
lawful acts committed under intoxiea-
ton. or only 13t per cent due 70
drunkenness whereas during the past
twelve months under license Sas per
cent of tho arrests have been due 70
drunkenness. This means an average
of more than ten arrests a week for
drunkenness during the last year of
license and less than one and one
halt a week during the last year OF
no-Hcensn.
The fac, that the city has grown
very RAPIDLY during the last two
years does not help the argument fer
license Supnoxe Ertstnls population
has grown IS la PER- cent in two
years, and suppose there be added
81 I-3 per cent TO the mum Der OF ar
rests for drunkenness over the num-
Der two years ago, then the total
would by ninety-nine. That would al
low for the growth In population. But
the actual number OF arrests for
drunkenness for the past year was
sx4. more than FIVE times as many as
, In proportion 10 the population as
under no-Iicenxe, HI other words. un-
der the license policy Bristol's arrests
for drunkenness have increased five
times as fast as the population.
The state of Connecticut is making
war supplies. Factories are working
night and day. The managers Of these
plants that are working at high speed
realize the necessity OF sober work
men. The manager of compare
lively small plant said that liquor had
cost his factory $500 in one week by
the mems failing TO report because Of
drunkenness, or coming to the plant
In an UNIT condition to work.
One OF the largest manufacturers
In tho state believes that with the rap
idly growing sentiment against the sa-
loon the state viii vote dry not later
than 1870. II national prohibition does
not como before that time.