Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-11-27
SOBER THANKSGIVING
The American people give thanks

The American people give thanks
because:
They have emerged from a ma
tional election with assurance of
continuance of prosperity. peace
and prohibition enforcement.
The Sixty-ninth Congress Just
elected surpasses its predecessors
in the size of the ma jority to sus-
tain and enforce Constitutional
prohibition.
The liquor outlaws are being
driven from the seas. Faithfully
public officials and courts are bet
ter curbing the menace in the
combination Of the underworld
bootleggcr and the upperworld
alcoholic addict. Faithless off,
Gals are generally despised and
arc being ousted.
Most policemen and prohibition
officers have proven themselves
loyal. The honor roll of the Pro-
hibition Unit. numbers 35 killed
on duty.
The drunkard . the exception
today where he was once a com
mon sight.
There arc fewer paupeis proper
tionately today than ever in cur
history. as the Census Bureau
reports.
The crime rate has so decreased
that many iails are closed: others
are SOLD and our penal population
is below the average of license
years.
We have reduced alcoholic in
sanity by two-thirds. Today for
eign-born with drinking back
grounds have an insanity rate FIVE
times the native-born ration.
Instead Of crowding 275 drink
cures as in license days. we have
but small attendance at the ~ in
stitutions still open.
By lowering drink caused power
ty. we have saved $4,000, 900
yearly in our charity budget.
Labor has had fewer strikes
and has made more gains than
when drink was factor In indus
trial differences.
We are breaking all records for
home-buying and home building
Realty experts credit this boom
largely to prohibition
We are better clothed than when
Rags and bottles" went together.
as every junkman knew. Clothing
makers say prohibition IS the
cause.
The closing of orphanages and
the crowding of schools registers
the new era for childhood since
prohibition came.
Men walk with God today who
once staggered with the devil. The
churches report membership IN
crease equal to a daily Pentecost
for the last statistical year.
we have doubled the number of
investors In the country since we
quit buying beer and began buy
ing bonds.
We save thirty millions OF the
daily wage of two hundred mil
lions.
We monthly add a bullion dol
lars to our insurance policies. So
her men can get insurance more
easily and pay for It more surely
than beer drinkers. We no longer
need to die to win our Insurance
money. Some of our biggest COM
panies pay more endowment poll
cies than death claims since pro-
hihition cut our death rate.
The saving of human life since
prohibition reduced the deatf, rate
is equivalent TO a million lives.
Our motor vehicles number s.
55e,e77. Henry Ford says we
can't have the saloon and the
auto. Closed saloons make our
roads safer for travel. We, have
enough ears to take the whole ma
ton riding at the same time.
Seven million people find employ
ment through the motor industry.
The tippler who swears OF be.
comes stronger. richer, happier.
wiser and better.
The nation had the same expert.
ence when 1t took the Eighteenth
Amendment as a pledge. For this
and the benegts that flowed from
it, we are thankful.
wATxE 3. Wheeler,
General Counsel Anti-Saloon
League of America.
Legislative Superintendent.
Washington. d. c.