The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-01-14


and reliable nursery stock.
Standard varieties; also new early
and hardy varieties such az the
Rochester peach and Vacaville
plum specially adapted to the dis
trict. Prices reasonable. Trees that
grow big. Kennewick Nursery,
pre- prohibition years.
Is prohibition success? Yes,
of course it is very much so. 1
the writer of this article have OBJ
served this much. Where / used
to see from 1000 to 1900 drunken
people before prohibition, / have
not seen one while prohibition has
been in force.
From the Catholic citizen which
the Literary Digest is printing
President John Noble Maxwell OF
Fairfax Hall, Wayensboro, Vir-
ginia, observes: During the two
years Twas mayor of our town,
sitting in person upon al misde-
meanor cases, the public force
obeyed strict injunctions to bring
before the court all cases of drunk
enness. Notwithstanding this, there
is the following fact in one hour
and upon one city block, in the days
before prohibition, have seen
more drunkenness than ! have al
together in 80 states in the last
ten years. With all the faults
iof the eighteenth amendment and
| of it's enforcement / cannot get
around this fact"
Further, the same paper gives
| the statement of William Goodell
Frost, president of the famous
Berea college for the mountain
whites in Kentucky, who writes:
"When / was born in 1854 tw Q
states had enacted prohibition.
have seen all other plans tried
and fail. The liquor traffic will
Override all laws if it can. The only
way is to hit it so hard its power
will diminish. It is easier to Kill
"a wolf than to put collar on his
neck. IF we allow light wine, and
beer people will be drunk. All the
strong drink denounced in the
Bible was light wine, whiskey not
I yet invented and light wine car
be secretly REINFORCED. have seer
the drunken women of Edinbure
an dthe drunken men OF Germany
/ / know that Europe now fears Am.
erican prohibition more than any.
thing else. Europe's drinking CAM
/ compete with American sobriety
I'VE need to remind people Of these
things"
i God save us from the necessity
of having another demonstration
tOf the rum-rule.
Now the wet element says thai
they want the liquor handled like
i Canada does. Just read the follow
4 ing official facts about booze IL
Canada. Since Canada abandonet
wartime prohibition conviction
for indictable crimes have increas
ed from II ,953 in 1917 to 81, 720 IL
1928. The record of summary con
,victions for minor crimes is still
more indicting and they numbered
98,542 in 1917, but with prohibi
!. ton abandoned they began instant
Iy to increase and in 1928 they to
tailed 245,763.
4 Convictions for violation OF tn
Z, dominion iquar and Temperance
act have increased from 5.452 II
,i1915 to 1928. Convictions TO
q driving while drunk have increas
led from 40 in 1921 to 1922 II
1928. The increase in summar,
lconyictions has been terrific from
1885 in 1900 to 245,763 in 1922
700 percent. In the sam
period from 1900 to 1928 convlc
; tions for violations OF the h4uo
and temperance act increased near
" 800 percent. The blunt fac
i about these statistics is that the
are official and they total the com
! Iplete record of all Canada.
The British Columbia booze bi
lis something to make people s.
: up and take notice. British Column
: bia has approximately $4,000
! people. It's annual drink bill, az
cording to Mr.. Appleby, bone DIR
candidate. is $37 per capita or $40
! 100000 per year.
) The state of Washington ha
| nearly three times the populatio
of British Columbia so our stat
e then would spend $60,OO0,000 pc
, year for booze.
r Whoever says that booze use
: to such an extent and none
: suuandered at such rate woul
: give us better times? There
: Something wrong within his uppe
: story. for it will not and cannt
f give us better times.
: Now a few words on the mo:
e vital part is this: | would lik
e everybody to sit up and motto
: listen to this whiskey element, II
e big old rum monster, how I
f ieers. mocks and sneers at tt
lyouth of our country, our boys an
Y girls. our sons and daughters. La
: ten what he says, this rum mol
8 ster. Since we have prohibitie
: all the boys and girls are going
e the bad-everybody drinks.
al Are we going to stand for SUI
n Islander at our SONS and daughter
h which is not SO? Come on "
e fathers and mothers, all OF
d Christians, all Of US church peopl