The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-01
DRY LAW Shows
MANY RESULTS
First Year of Prohibition Prac-
tically Puts Out of Business
Booze Sellers
KRAMER is PLEASED
Believes VOlstead Law Will End
drinking Art" If Given
Another Year
(By GEORGE 3. WArERs.1

Washing on, June 30.-America has
had a yea of prohibition. Has il
been a sue ;ess?
John f. Kramer head of the pre-
hibition enforcement dil ision Lert
says it has been a marked success
L ut when 1 called on him he didn't
try to make me believe hat he haC
all the saloons closed and all the boot
leggers in Jail.
"We have figures to show that
there are only about 80 SALE ons
runnins in New York" SAID
Kramer. Beer seems to have
almost disappeared, except in,
re ~nsyh ania. Intoxicants are
"nare p'' Itifut in Pennsylva
aHd NesH Jersey than in any other
.:.stes.
"tnd as to the greatest benefit
brought by a years prohibition, |
wor say that if has been getting
string drink out of reach of the poys
an girls who have developed no ap-
petites for it.
"-> topper with an insane appetite
for liquor ill drink up his wife's
pOi1 'iliCJ Dob OhS HSNtl ucaTO Oh a
normal boy contracting the habit of
drink by attacking a perfume bottle
Nor is c. oliver oil aNd razo, contain
ing lcot Il, a substitute for a road
house debauch by young men and
women, whereas many of the old
drinkers, are consuming all these
preparations they can get.
O1I~ka~L
books two more years and drink
ing will be lost art.
The year pre- 'eding prohibition
Americans spent $4,000 ,00O,0 900 for
booze. The Anti Saloon League claims
to have figures showing that the past
years the drinkers have placed 81 1,000,- -
100000 of this in banks, spent $780,
100000 of it. for candy, and that the
other $900,00,0OO went for soft drinks,
moving pictures, theaters, tobacco,
bootleg booze, automobiles, clothes,
shoes, groceries. furniture, etc. But
the bulk of this second billion went
for soft drinks and movies.
Kramer says most of his troubles
have come from former saloons that
kept. hanging on to see what the Su-
Before prohibition there were
10000 saloons in America, and
perhaps not 5000 now-speak-
easies where persons who are
known can drnk.
The 100000 persons employed at
making beer and whiskey a year ago
have gone into other trades, and there
is still labor shortage.
Probably the greatest economic
saving has been the SOLDERING ,up and
rehabilitation of 1,500, 900 men, who in
the wet days were either incapacitated
the "day after or in Jail or in hospi-
tails. Many of these We're common
drunkards.
The drys say that scattered fig
ures show workmen's efficiency has
been increased Is per cent, crime re-
duced so per cent, drinking reduced
65 per cent, that $4,000 persons have
been saved from death from alcohol
ism and that 6O,000,O00 bushels of
foodstuffs were diverted from strong
drink to other channels.
At Baltimore a movie show was in
stalled this year at Central police sta
ton to amuse idle policemen. Pro-
hibition cut down their work.
At eleven of the principal cities in
New Hampshire arrests for drunk
enness numbered 1860 for the last
six months of 1920, as against $3.50
in similar period of 1917.
The sheriff of Carbon county, Pa,
quit holding Sunday religious SER
vices at the Jail because there were
no prisoners to attend.
In Philadelphia arrests for drunk
enness were: wet July, 1918, 7,1S0;
dry July, 1919, 5,08S.
In Erie, Pa. the cost of feeding
prisoners in, July, 1918, was $3,151,
and in July, 1919, reduced to S1,1S5,
despite rising prices.