The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-10
By Ad Carter

'aThe chief Kelley Institute at
Dwight Is closed and has been taken
over by the health department for in
jured soldiers. with accommodations
for 23O."
DR.. Horatio n. Pollock is authority
for the statement that within 2 years
after the eighteenth amendment be-
came operative, there We're no state
hospitals for inebriates, left in the
United States. The state asylum for
inebriates in Minnesota is now hos
pital for mental diseases. The Con-
necticut state hospital for ineioriates
is now a part of the Norwich state
hospital for the insane. The state hos
pital for inebriates at Knoxville, Iowa,
haze become a United States public
health service hospital for the treat
ment of mental detectives. These are
the last of the state institutions for
inebriates to be converted TO other
uses. The New York City Industrial
colony discontinued receiving ineb-
rates in October 1918, and was per-
manentIy closed in December of that
year."
The report shows that two-thirds of
the labor leaders Intercepted by the
Literary Digest-S45 out of 526-an-
swered Yves" to the inquiry as to
whether prohibition had benefited the
working man.
The evidence from the banks is so
voluminous that only sample can be
given. The Peoria clearing house re-
port shows a gain of s32,oO0,000 in the
clearings of the year 1920 over the
year 1919. The comptroller of the eur
rency reports as follows, November s,
1921:
"Stagnated industry, business de-
preston and growing unemployment
under ordinary circumstances would
be expected to reduce the savings de-
posits, but they did not. Returns from
623 mutual savings banks, located
principally in New England and the
Eastern States. show that on June 80,
1921, these institutions held deposits
amounting to s5.575, ISL 900, credited
to 9,619, $50 depositors. One year prev
iously the same banks had deposits of
s5,1S6, 4s5, 900 and 9,445,327 depositors.
This June the average deposit was
s579.5g, and a year ago it was $549.14.
According to these figures there was
a gain OF 1888, $4,000 in the deposits
of these banks and gain of 1898
in the number Of depositors during the
fiscal year In the same period there
was a gain Of $30.45 in the average
deposit That unemployment increased
during the last fiscal year Is generally
known, and that the trend of wages
was downward is undeniable. Under
these circumstances men and women
ordinarily would be compelled to draw
upon their reserves in savings insti-
tutions, and as a result the deposits
OF savings banks would be expected
to shrink Instead they expanded in
the volume OF deposits, the number Of
depositors, and the size OF the average
6eposit"
One OF the most eminent educators
in America, DR.. C. ". Eliot, ex-presi-
dent Of Harvard, said in addressing
the twentieth Century club in Boston.
october %, 1921:
There are three classes whose tes-
tinony / find most valuable-district
nurses, school nurses. and social work
ers OF ali kinds All these can give
testimony to the good effects OF pro-
hioition legislation on families. chief
~ families OF the working men. A
district nurse recently called on
woman who was expecting her on
finemsnt. The woman said to her vis-
stor. 4 have got four children. already.
This one that Is coming win be the
first born above ground The nurse
did not quite comprehend. but the
woman went on: The only way used
to re ahIe @ get money WAS 10 take
1t out or my husbands pocket when