Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-03
| DECREASE
In AMOUNT OF
LIQUOR USED D
DR.. Pickett Declares Prohi-
bition is Being Well
T.. Enforced.

Chicago, Jan. s.-Prohibition is ex-
cellently enforced in nine-tenths OF
the area of the country and in the re-
mainder Is sufficiently we'll enforced
to be a very great Improvement over
h license system.
This is the result of an investiga-
ton covering several. months, through
official channels and direct inquiry as
announced today by the DR.. Deets
Pickett, Research Secretary Of the
Board of Prohibition, Temperance
and Public Morals OF the Methodist
Episcopal church. The organization
of the church was used as one Of the
agencies Of information. which was
obtained from 10000 heads Of
of the Q 1000. 600 lay adherents. The
statement includes no figures not
personally verified. DR.. Pickett states.
Much Less Liquor Used.
The investigation showed that
there has been m enormous decrease
in the consumption Of liquor. a de-
crease not less than eiRhty-ive and
possibly moro than ninety per cent"
according, to DR.. Pickett. This has
resulted In a very large decrease in
the number Of arrests for drunkenness
and in a very considerable increase in
the purchasing power OF the poor and
VI Ia oh44ASA ~ Al1omAAANN 81
says the report. Elm San Francisco,
prohibition decreased arrests for
drunkenness in it's first year from IT,
354 to 1914. In Los Angeles. from
1880 to 2.5S9. In Boston. it ~as
from 52,682 to 16.4S7. In Baltimore.
in the last wet October. there were
1,1e5 arrests for drunkenness and IN
the first dry October 119. We have
similar reports from the heads Of po-
lice Of Washington. St. Paul. Lincoln,
Galveston. st. Louis and other cities.
THE fact of increased purchasing
power Is attested by signed statements
of the secretaries Of chambers Of
commerce. real estate dealers. furni-
ture and musical instrument dealers
and merchants Of many kinds.
Fewer Petty Crimes.
There has also been a large de-
crease in petty crimes. In sBoston.
in the number of cases Of assault
from 2,127 to 1878 in one year. In
st. Louis. petit larceny declined from
6,167 to 3.5Ga.
There has also been a decrease in
more serious crimes in many cities
The wet propagandists have spoken
much of a crime wave in New York
T have it on the authority of the
commissioner Of police Of the city q
New; York. that in 1913 there were
II, 611 burglaries.s and int 1920 only
$3.50. He makes similar statements
as to commissions of crime of seriou:
nature on other charges.
Even better results have been OBJ
tanned in rural and small town dis
tricts.
Less Poverty.
There has been a startling de
crease in poverty and financial dis
~tress. The. hospitals have been re
lieyed. In Philadelphia, In six month
Of the last wet yea there were 1.1S'
cases Of alcoholism in general .hospi
tails ana in the same months of tn
next year. 276. Similar reports hay,
been received from other cities Il
ut is frequently stated by alcohd
propaEandists that there is in tn
United States enormous illicit distilla
ton. that nearly every family make
alcohol. Obviously. this is simply a
EXPRESSION Of opinion. In Americs
lonly a, few families Of German extrac
4 ton know how to make palatabl
beer. Whiskey. illicitly produced, !
30 nearly no~n-palatAble that onl
habitual alcoholics can consume 81
Private Oscillation and brewing; Will
1t worries the prohibition officers p
-nacessdtating many arrests. Is an II
significant, factor.
"Prohibitioil is q relative succes
now. and is on the road to coImplef
success"