Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-05
SPEAKER AT
 JEWETT CITY CHURCN
( Special to The Bulletin)

tSpeClal 10 The bullelAlt
 Jewett Citv June 4-In an union Sar. vice of the churches tonight at the Meth odist Episcopal church, the speaker was Rev. Thomas J. Steuart, national re- search secretary of the An'i-SaloonN League of America, who devoted special attention to the question of enLorcement of the prohibition laws. In part he salu:
 If you local officials will not stop the illegal sale of liquor in your comm1ni- ty. organize a branch of the Civic Safety League here and the Connecticut Arl-. ri-Saloon League will give you legal advice based Cn conditions here, 1t will formulate 8 program for you to follow and if needful will send a representa- tive here from Hartford who will per feet your organization for you and 6i- rect your campaign against dilatory, inefficient or corrupt officials.
 Too many office-holders today con. slider public office a private matter They will give neither information assistance or attention to the average private citi- zen. Too many private citizens are con- tent that this should be so Every man in public office is your servant. Ii he does not serve you, there is way to get rid of him as you would get rid of any other servant We must rAmoVe from public life the parasites who are praying upon us
 "The prohibition law is as well enforce ed as any other law in city after city. It can be enforced anywhere when the local authorities recognize that their first al- legiance is due, not to a 'rum-ring' but to the decent people in the community.
 Prohibition has made the state farm | for inebriates at the Norwich Stnte | hospital unnecessary. In 1916 there were | 5O9 admissions of alcoholic patients tc the farm. Tn 1919, a prohibition year that fell to 5l ; In 1920 to 13; in 1921 there were 29. Today the farm is found unnecessary.
 "The value of prohibition is shown b! the estimate made by the Connection state board of health that the saving il human life in 1919. as compared witt 1915. was worth S2O. .00O, 900 to the state Other factors besides prohibition doubt less entered into that saving but t i noteworthy that the decrease in the deatl rate which began in 1919 with the ad vent of prohibition, has steadily con tinued Last year the death rate was tn lowest on record. The more perfect tn enforcement of prohibition in any city the lower the death rate for that city ha been.
 You read in your papers, perhaps, 0 crime wave. There is no crime wave The decrease in both misdemeanors ar crimes in practically every City in h country since the coming of prohibition has been amazing. Arrests have de creased to a small fraction of their form CT number. County jails have fewe prisoners. States prisons have tiers q cells empty. And. more significant stiI
 the numbers of complaints rAgistere,i the crimes committeed-is less today i
 every city where a survey has been mad than in any wet year for a long periot You will have just as much prohioitio
 here as you want. If you are satisfe to have your public officers wink at vic
 lation of the law. they will wink at it. , you want your town cleaned up. 1t ca
 he made as free from liquor offenses 3 ? from other law violation. I offer yo
 the machinery, the program and an CT gineer to run your machine for you