Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-01-01
CEDAR RAPIDS RECORDS SHOW
CITY IS CLEANER MINUS
SALOONS.
MARKED DECREASE
IN POLICE EXPENSES
Fewer Arrests Permit Of Reduction Of
Force and Saving Of Nearly $4,000 in
Salaries - Arrests Fall OF Nearly
One.HaIf and lntoxication Is Re-
duoed by 375 Per Cent.

Cedar Rapids. Jan. l.-When the re-
peal of the mulct law by the last state
assembly wiped an item of $4,000 sa =
loon license from the city treasury,
city officials as we'll as taxpayers were
at loss to know how the deficit
caused thereby was to be made up. Re-
trenchment in every branch of the city
government was imperative, and heads
of departments at once set about SHAY
ing their payrolls and reducing their
fixed charges of operation.
And figures for the first calendar
year of a saloonless Iowa, compiled
on the 3s5th day of 1916, show that the
net operating, expenses of the police
department has reduced the deficit D!
S., 065.45-almost 10 per cent of the to-
tai.
That is the answer-in terms of dol
lars and cents-to the question OF ell :
fective prohibition in Cedar Rapids
Crime has leSsened in the same pro-
portion and the cost of clean Guy
has likewise decreased, until the Pc
lice department can prove by figures
most one-tcnth of the loss from liquor
revenue. ,
The exact cost of crime not prep Oh
the saloon would be almost impoSFplc
to determine Then one would nt>cs-
sarily have to take into account the
expense items incurred in tho" llStlce
courts the district courts. the ttunty
Jail, the office of the attorney Gderal.
and ,be whole would resolve itself
into an unwiedy. indigest!hi" MISS OIL
figures Tho it would be safe p as
sumo a proportionate decrease p inc
count, without a proportionate deficit
incurred in IFS Golfers, let the ltatis-
tics of the city of Cedar Rapif SUI
fee for the present.
Arrests Decrease Half.
Ii has been a clean city. krrestS
have fallen off by nearly ONT hali--
1856 ia 1915 against l.O1' in 10 Is
the rronortioo. but of these aSproXi-
matelN 600 have been for Vhulcai
violstions of preventative city katutes
traffic fire. sanitary and conperciai
Jrt,xica.ior has been reduced BY SO
per cent: gambling and the ofratloh
of disorderlv resorts has beenheld TOT
tho minimum which characterized the
administration Of a former 4lef Oh
police while many Of the nfe ser
ions crimes are missing entirjy from
the years compilation.
On the other hand. bOOtleSaig mas
been on the increase during pc year
Twenty six arrests for this o1fenSe |
were made in 1916 and fourier Tor
ne n,e,,ntenance Of "a. liouor ulsance--l
forty arrests in all for GaFlsposi-
ton Of liquor as against l4e boot
logger in 1915. But this was he loSl-
cal outcome OF the dry wavPn Iowa
and its numbers shrink init signiti-
canoe when compared with ItatiStics
of other cities which have bee inclined
to fiaunt the laws of suppresbn.
Law and Order Not CSIy.
And this is the record set D by the
department while operatinglt a cost
much less than that of 1919. Jaw ana
order has cost the tax pa PRS $50
S54S6 Last year they pai' E39'"Sl.o6.
Receipts. derived from tinc}and pen
allies have been S5.449.6i IDeccmber
approximately and O.40fSpectlNe-
ly, leaving net expense fo1l9l6 va
405.21 as against 3l3I066FSt year,
OF this reduction the gftest item
has been that of salaries. lurine 1919
the department malntaineFn average
footing of thirty four md at a cost
for the year of $30.65S.0J Retrench-
ment saw tnt reduction othe depart
ment TO minimum footi1 of twenty
five men Who drew total hnual sal
aries of $o5,193. SS-a cled saving OF
$4,S64.17.