The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-14
A DIFFERENT K. c..
Wartime Prohibition Has
Worked Great Change There.
Only One-Twelfth the Arrests
for Drunkenness Now.
18TH STREET A LONELY LANE
Even the Famous "NOrth End"
an Orderly Community.
Workers Show Up Monday Now
Instead of Wednesday.

Kansas City. No. July 1.-THE po-
lice department blotter reveals some
interesting comparisons in the figures
Jotted down in the damp days before
July ! and during the arid era since.
Arrests for drunkenness now are
only one-twelfth as great as those re-
corded before wartime prohibition
became effective. The city's north
end which formerly abounded with
der .lcis either stee ing unsteady
courses thru the streets and byways
or who had foundered altogether.
especially or Saturday right, is now
Incoming well ordered community
The old haunts, dispensing only a
wccE imitation OF beer and only in
vocational cases hard liquor" seem
almost rhostlike in their darkened
Oh 0'otion.
ra0tic burglar alarms which for
mo~'v reached the desk serseant's ear
at Tho rate Of about half dozen
ni@Ht'y. have been reduced TO two last
week. one OF these was the result of
suoer-th!rstv Individual attempting
70 rob the cache OF provident wet.
Twelfth Street DcsOIatc.
Twelfth street. Kansas City's mar
row but peacocklke white way in
tho old days, seldom went to bed at
all: the new day merging into the old;
only a change of cast was necessary
to keep the play going Midnight now
finds most Of the lights shining-but
little else. The few people who are
met are those returning from the
city's amusement and outing parks
and most everyone has the air of a
person seeking the home plate.
Frce-fur-all street fighting and
wire-beating seem to have gone out
Of vogue when liquor made its forced
exit. Chief OF Police Scott A. Cooley
believes petty crime will be reduced
nearly half
On the Job Mondays Now.
The effect of prohibition on the
city's great industrial plants is par
ticularly noticeable. Pay day sprees-
which usually ran extra innings of two
or three days-necessitated special ar
engagements in the big packing plants.
According to J. A. Mclean, superin-
tendent at the Armour & Company
plant. great numbers of the men regu-
larly failed to show up for work on
Mondays BY Tuesday a lesser num-
Der was absent and by Wednesday
most Of the men were again on the
Job. This process was repeated week
". the mon being paid Saturday night.
The first week of the dry regime found
practically a full force on hand Mon
day morning. other packing house
heads reported similar conditions.
Even the taxicab business seems to
he undergoing a decided change. The
former midnight cruises carrying
home happy but incapacitated fares
have been reduced to a mere fraction
whereas business during the daylight
and early evening has frightened up
considerably. But the motor cars are
spinning out along the city's boule-
wards and thru the parks instead of
honkinE their way thru drab and
crowded thorfares and waiting in front
of noisy cabarets.
BOotlcgger Makes Appearance.
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manifest as he is wont to do in dry
communities. but the persons reached
in this manner are comparatively
small. according to the police.
Illicit whisky sells for $500 a quart,
IT is said. while the better brands bring
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