The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-20
AS TO PROHIBITION
(By Rev. H. E. Greening.)


 where the wind blows all the fences down. In this particular section, a certain farmer put up a fence three feet high and four feet wide so that l if the wind blew it over it would be a | foot higher than it was before. make bold this statement that when the vets get through overthrow ing prohibition, they will find a sim | liar situation.
 The Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegra has just given to the public some remarkable figures as the result of prohibition in that city.
 | In the first six months of 1919 there were 7.463 people in the jail under aggregate sentence of 103,324 days. During the last six months of 1919 while prohibition was in effect, there were only 3,125 jail inhabitants under | penalties of 59,139 days.
 In the first six months of the same year, (wet) there were 57 murderers in jail, the second six months, (dry) there were 16. There were 55 cases in the jail | hospital during the first six months and only two during the second six months.
 | There were ten deaths during the | first six months and none during the second At the present time, about | 300 of the cells are reported empty. The city of Rochester, N. Y, having a population of 300,0O0 had for the | first time in. it's history, no arrests from six o'clock Saturday morning tc six o'clock Sunday morning. February | 1st
 | On recent day there were eighty prisoners in the Cincinnati (Ohiol work-house. A year ago there were | 251; and on a recent day there were no trunks in the work-house at all There is only one prisoner in the workhouse for failure to provide for | his family. When the saloons were open the average number in the work house on this charge averaged 15. In the Cincinnati infirmary, the number of inmates is 150 fewer thar year ago So in spite of herself Cincinnati likes prohibition.
 In Columbus, Ohio. prohibition has just cut in half the work of the juvenile court.
 Not Remedy For Influenza
 Dr. John D. Robinson, Health Com missioner of Chicago, has issued 8 warning to the people that 'Whiskey ;d nt o1,y far I,,fI Facts" he says, speak for them selves" At the county hospital VI had Il deaths from alcoholic pneu mona in September of this year, as against 230 in September 1918 and and 235 in September 1917.
 Colorado. undoubtedly, is not sick of prohibition for she has denied the vets appeal to submit the fedora | ratification to a referendum The St. Paul Pioneer Press gives facts as follows. concerning the first six months effect of prohibition or | the city of St. Paul and the county | It reduced the number of patients | in the city hospital almost 1,00t | during the six months and reduced the applicants for admittance to the | poor house during the six months forty percent Reduced suicides, ac cidents, assaults and the like about 90 percent. Depopulated the work house at times so that it may be closed and the prisoners kept in the county jail. Reduced the number oi prisoners in the county jail more than 200 for the year compared with 1918 Made fewer drug users rather than increased them, as was predict ed, and last but not least, the typical bum is becoming obsolete.
 Helps Wine Growers
 Earl w. Gage. in an article in the Christian Herald of February Fist entitled Prohibition Profitable tc | Farmers says, California grape growers thought the 'drys' took theil last hope of prosperity away when | they killed the wine industry which consumes 100000 tons of grapes an nually. The growers received an average price of from $16 to SIS per ton for their crop: what are they re ceiving under prohibition?
 Tn 1919 the price of grapes aver aged between $50 to $50 per ton net to the growers, or from two to three times more than the 'wettest' season ever paid. Tn the old days. wineries paid to growers say $15 ton for wine stock One ton of average grapes gives winemakers total of 175 or 1S0 gallons of juice per ton The winemaker paid the grower about eight to twelve cents per gal Ion. He passed this juice through few processes adding volume in the form of water and chemicals, and pro bably had a total of 200 gallons ton for which he paid the grower from s15 to SIS This he bottled or bar reled and sold on the market, realiz ing clear profit of from 800 to 2,0O0 per cent
 But under prohibition. the mar