New Britain herald., 1930-03-26
for the day nursery.
 The 1929 record had not been completed.
AN7I.SALOON HEAD
 SAYS VETS FAIL ' ID PROVE POINTS
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(Continued From First Page) hotel bedroom. No longer is drink a mans vice. Women and children are exposed to it., The home is the last place in the world where liquor should be consumed. Crimo is in- creasing, drunkenness is increasing, motor accidents are increasing. Whatever the solution of the drink problem may be, is not government control"
 After weeks recess the hear ings were resumed by the house committee, with John J. Lentz of Columbus, O., testifying that v in- surance companies had found that the mortality rates had been low cred under the dry statute.
 Wants Two More Days
 Before the hearings got under way, r. Scott Mcbride, general su- perintendent of the Anti-Saloon league, announced that the drys would like to have at least two moro days in which to complete their case.
 He said, however, it had not been decided how long Chairman Graham desired the hearings to continue.
 At the outset Representative Had ley, republican, Washington, read a telegram into the record from J. J. Donovan of Bellingham, Wash, de- lending the Dollar Steamship line from what he termed charges by Representative LaGuardia, republi- can, New York, that liquor had been dispensed on the line.
 Donovan wrote he had travelled on the Dollar steamships in differ ent parts of the world and had not seen liquor served or dispensed aboard them. The telegram also praised Captain Dollar, the S6 year old head of the line. as valuable citizen of the country.
 Representative LaGuardia inter posed he would place into the rec ord a report of the fines imposed on the Dollar ships for violations of liquor and narcotic laws. at the proper time.
 "I want to show that men aboard the ships have disregard for the law" the New Yorker said. Pershing Testimony Cited
 The testimony of General John J. Pershing before the house mili- tary committee years ago favoring abolition of the liquor dispensing army canteen was injected into the prohibition hearings by MT. Len.z, former member of the house.
 Eentz said that when he was a member of the military committee years ago, General Pershing, then young officer, was asked to give his opinion of the canteen. The Ohioan said Pershing stated at that time most emphatically and with the clearness which only personal ex- perience can give, that he was in favor of the abolition of the army canteen. That sober men made the | best soldiers; that it was not neces- sary to have an army saloon to keep the soldiers out of the low dives in whatever territory they might be located"
 | With the abolition of the canteen Lentz said, Pershing had demon- strated that young men in the army are no more in need of a saloon than young men at home ill the peaceful pursuits of life"
 Lives of People heightened | Asserting that since prohibition something has happened to lengtl,- | then the lives of our people," the former house member said, that the lower death rate insurance companies had arrived at ''mears thet the llvNs of liquor drinking, in- sured people, were heightened as a result of the abolition Of the saloon."
 Figures which he presented to the committee, he said, show th.t the expectancy of life was plainly increased. and if human beings are worth while, it is certainly worth something to have them stay out of the cemeteries and remain with their families several years longer.
 Lentz took his figures on deceas- cd mortality from 77 insurance companies, comparing pre-prohibi- tion with prohibition years.
 Tn the years prior to the effect of the Eighteenth amendment" he said, 1914 to 1919 inclusive, the death rate ranged from 6l to 63 per cent. xxxx While the average for the years 1921 10 1927, incl,l- sive, ranged as low as 50, 52 and 5s per cent, and only once did it reach as high as a point as 54 per cent"
 Lentz read from a prepared state ment. He contended prohibition had saved the American people millions of dollars.
 Lentz quoted former Premier Lloyd George about prohibition, in which the Britisher held:
 The abolition of the saloon is in part the cause of Americas pros ,operity." Catholics Against Liquor
 The witness added that the Methodists and other Protestants had repudiated the saloon and al coholic beverages while the Cath. olic church, through some of it, most noble leaders, has spoke- against the liquor traffic.
 For instance" he went on, 'tht -i Belgium. spoke upon the subject in these heroic words:
 Universal prohibition woult save more lives than general dis armament
 He also quoted Right Rev. lame: E. Cassidy, vicar general of the dio cees of Fall River. as having spoke