Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-15
BOYCE TELLS WHAT
PROHIBITION HAS
DONE FOR STATE
He Claims That il Has Been
Highly Beneficial, According
TO Records.
ADDRESSED w. G. r. u.

The benefits which have already been
felt as n result Of prohibition. and the
difficulties in enforcing prohibition were
narrated today bv W IrIxtou Boycc.
State prohibition director before the fnal
session of the Women's Christian Tenn
perancc Union of Delaware, IN Harrison
Street M T. Church MIR Boyce stated
that discussion Of prohibition work ~
now not one Of what will be done, but
Of what has been accomplished
Ile declared that one Of the chief results
10 be noted was n decrease III the criminal
population of the New Castle County
Workhollse While in 1917 a project Was
under way to construct an addition ~ The
workhouse, this proposition has not only
been discarded, but according 10 a recent
report of Warden Plunmer, there has bccn
a large decrease IN the number of prisoners
within the last clght months There is
also a very marked decrease IN the number
of arrests made by the police department.
Mr. Bovce affirmed There arc fewer
lrssanc caaes. and according - the report
of the State Health Department, whlle
/ there were , deaths IN lqlsfrpm alcoholic
causes there were hut four IN 1919. and
i hope there will bc none IN the report Tor
/ 1920 A,thouph We atl know that drinking
! still continues in spite II the efforts q
] prohibition officers. the old treating sys-
i TEN has been eliminated Under that
! system a nan might enter saIocn and
1 be treated by friends until he became
/ drunk against his own viii
Congress has mot supplied tho nCces-
snrv money tO enforce tho Vnistead act.
j Delaware has but three agents. and ~
! these have ~ hc tesilfying IN court about
! half the tune the result Is that there Is but
ono and half 81 the Job The city of
| Wilmington itself has over 100 policemen,
vet We have but three FIR the en'ire St8te
One half million dollars IS spent N Della
ware N enforcing prohibition, wftie
| Congress hns appropriated only Tour
tifnea this amount to enforce national
prohibition Under present laws II IS not
easy to arrest and convict bootlegger Tor
selling huuor. The agent must not only
know thnt the man lsscllnR liquor but he
must taIy such hduor, have 1t tested and
do 80 IN tho presence ii witness lhc
greatest difficulty is sometimes encounter.
ed m getting an undoubtable bOotlcggcT
TO sell lqtior 10 agents In spitc Of this W
made - arrests on one day the latter par
OF September
AT present more trouble results from
dealers m liquor for medicinal purposes
than from ex-saloon keepers, and i Il
my advice 10 YOU voters, NOT ~ char q
the laws The Delaware prohibition IaV
il more stringent than the NoLstead &c
itself Stand together to keep the Law that
We now have
W hat Is peedcd most IS a strong sentl
ment behind the prohibition movement
because as il stands now, great numbe
OF people will not inform on an Illicit liquo
dealer, whI they certainly would On
thief
Mrs. :. VI Keen. IN = brief talk 70 th'
convention on the subject Of Young men
declared that IN some cases education
means lotseresss Of character, and tha
education Of the mind without morals I
! \ menace 20 the community She atlrIne'
that training Of children IS therefore hlgh
" important