Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-16
PROHIBITION WILL
GO INTO EFFECT
EARLY SATURDAY
Law Becomes Effective at
1901 A. M.-No Liquor Of
Any Kind May Then Be
Manufactured in Us.


storage, and fruit and vegetable
dehydrating or evaporating plants
Many employees of distilleries ane
breweries thus are retained at theil
old places, but at new tasks. Ar
army of bartenders, it is said, has
obtained jobs at soda fountains and
are reported to be "humanizing' the
nut sundae business.
Some OF the things prohibition is
alleged already to have done to
the metropolis and other parts OF
the nation were pointed out here
today by William H. Anderson, sup
erintendent of the Anti-Saloon
league, and others. Mr.. Anderson
said: Five years ago, on zero
weather night, 1000 or more men
applied to the Bowery Mission for
lodging. So far this winter less than
a dozen have appeared on any cold
night. The Municipal Lodging
House, with capacity Of el8, on
not one night in December sheltered
as man as 100 persons. Ordinarily
it would be crowded.
I'VE are getting curious reports
from all parts of the country. For
instance, Harry A. Wrinkle, known
as Dad for 26 years the keeper
of the Philadelphia morgue, says:
Prohibition has most nigh closed
US up. We had as many bodies in
two weeks in 1918 as we had al
together in 1919. Sixty per cent
Of them came here through booze
Some Of them were wood alcohol
victims. The daily average has been
close to 50 per cent of what was
normal before prohibition
Eliminate Small Courts.
Thomas w. White, state super
visor of administration of Massa
chusetts, reports that as a result of
fewer cases many small courts which
are now costing the state 100000
year can be eliminated by one
half. Milwaukee reports a Short
age of labor at the House of Cor
rection. The decrease in cases of
intoxication there is officially given
as 20 per cent during 1919. Two
thirds Of Cincinnati workhouse is
to be abandoned, effecting a saving
Of $4,000 annually, because OF the
recent decrease in occupants.
Charles R. Buchanan, jaifer. at
Hannibal, Mo-, whose position used
to pay him $175 by reason of his
feeding prisoners at 20 cents a meal,
has returned to his old Job of cigar
maker because prisoners are so few
that he cannot make it pay. Mid
dletown, N. Y, which has been dry
now for more than year, reports
unusual prosperity. some OF its
former 81 saloonkeepers having be-
come successful merchants. Sheriff
Joseph f. Davis of Nassau county
informs us that he has only SO
prisoners in Jail and only four of
these are hoboes. Prohibition has
reduced the number Of prisoners 50
per cent
Alcoholic Wards Go.
Bird S. Coler, commissioner of
charities, said that the alcoholic
wards in the Kings County and
Bellevue hospitals are nearly out Of
business. Wood alcohol is claiming
a few cases, but ambulance calls
have fallen off Is per cent A. c.
Baker of the Bowery Mission said:
The war, better wages and prohibit
tion have virtually eliminated the
bum, and the bread line. Is used to
be that you could get 1000 snow
shovelers by visiting a few Bowery
saloons. Now you couldn't find 40
Men who formerly came to US for
beds are now paying their own
rent
Commenting on the fact that As
Of the AZ states had ratified the 18th
amendment, New Jersey, Connecti-