El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-01-19
IS LESS
IN DRY DALLAS
Big Business Man Says Elk
tinetion of Saloons Not
Adverse to Commerce.

Decrease in crime, especially the
old time police cases. has been most
notable since the adoption of prohibit
ton of the liquor trade in Dallas"
said Charles W. Davis, district man
ager Of the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing company Of Texas,
who stopped in FL Paso Friday on his
way to California There has been
no adverse effect in commercial bust
ness. The places formerly occupied by
saloons, rooms which have real COM
mercial value, have been rerented to
stores, soft drink stands and restau-
rants, those in the large hotels hav-
ing been quickly taken for other pay
ing enterprises.
Better People Arc Pleased.
THE police force formerly worked
IL hour shifts. day and night. Now,
the same men are divided into three
shifts OF eight hours each, which is
better for the men The lusher.' who
can't live without his booze has to go
to Fort Worth for il, for nearly all
the counties adjacent to Dallas are
dry The ordinary social drinker in
Dallas has already outgrown the IL
Quor habit The better class Of peO-
pie are pleased and gratified- Only
the saloon men, brewers and their en-
plOyes are kicking. and there is work
for the men who waited on booze
counters than men to fill them. in the
restaurants and other nonalcohohc
places that have opened No man who
wants to work is out Of a job in Dali
city Doesn't Blow Up.
'sThe antiprohibition argument that
q CITY will blow up as soon as its sa-
looms are closed recalls the gamblers
wall in FL Paso years ago, when the
people were seeking to close gaming
here. The truth is that with saloons
and gambling wiped out. grocery bills
will be paid better and children VIII
have shoes who never had them. we
all see how 81 PasO prospered and
grew as soon as the gambling incubus
was removed It will grow faster yet, /
under prohibition.
DR.. COpass Arrives
DR.. 3. A Copass, representing the |
Antisaloon league Of Texas, has ar !
rived from Dallas and will make /
number Of speeches during the cam I
paign in the city. He will speak at
the First Baptist church Sunday I
morning. at the meeting at Clint sun 7
day afternoon, and at the calvary 1
Square Baptist church sun I
day evening.
ness men in Juarez sent over for pro
hibftion literature Saturday morning. ]
They had heard Of the campaign for I
local option and wished TO get some ]
Of the literature, they stated Their /
wants were taken care Of.
Paul Barnhart and E NJ. Whitaker l
viii be speakers at the First Christian I
church at 7:45 o'clock Sunday even /
Ing.
Mexieans In Canvass.
4 house TO house canvass IS being ]
made by members Of the Mexican /
committee, and IL was stated at pro- /
hfbition headquarters that much en- Z
was being receivcd-
It was reported that an informal /
Caucus Of prominent business men I
was held Saturday morning TO dis
cuss various matters connected with /
he cempaign. No details OF the /
meeting was given out at headquar-
ters. however.
That many negroes employed as i
porters and in various ways BY liquor 4
interests were anxious to vote dry I
but feared they would lose their en-
ployment. was the statement made Al I
prohibition headquarters by Rev. n I
A Wells. Saturday.
Bert Blessington, cartoonlst Is max
ing pictures for the prohibitionists.