rf f rU i. .r-u f tf - 1. v The Coiftnioneir v ,1 "V(5L.20,lfO:.9. 14 f' M Prohibition in New York i -v (Henry 33. Gurry, in Now Yoiic Zon ing Post.) "Tbo results of tho disuse of al coholic liquor have been more astounding to my mind, thaTv oven tho claims of the most ardent advo--catos of prohibition." , ' This emphatic tribute to tho local honefits'of the Eighteenth amend ment was offered by Bird S. Coler, Commissioner of tlto Now York De partment of Public Welfare, formerly tho Department of Public Charities. His declaration merited special no tlcofrom non-partisan obsorvors of prohibition developments because ho wus speaking not as; a "dry." but was tolling only what 'he had learned as head, of a groat mlinicipul activity which, in hie own words, "covers every phase of welfare work known to humanity. We occupy the one place ih all the country where tho ef fect of prohibition. can be 'first and best obsorved." For the Department .of Public Welfare is invested with of ficial Care of the city's dependents tho homoloss, tho unemployed, tho partment of Correction upon tho number of local arrests and tho totals pt the local prison population. One learns from tho facts so collated Oiat during the first quarter of the your, despitomany thousands of additional patients cared for dur ing the epidemic of influenza, the -f. 4. idle men were, fewer, war jqpntracttf wore paying' prodigious jprofils iKriu wages; soldiers' families were, receive ing allowances and prices were much lower. v Furthermore, prosperity brings many contradictory eflteet$, as it re lates to welfare nroblems. "Fiftv- ninnber of admissions to tho Kings . fifty." ns Mr. Coler briefly observes. County Hospital In Brooklyn was one- describes such naturalization. Pros- third legs than during the first quar- Wlty, for example, would decrease ,y?p5Le$i Sironic ' Asthm1 tor oi msi. yoiu-r uj urcojuiuiut ubih- tne number ot certain arrests but tal, olio-fifth loss; to Coney Island would increase those for drunkenness Hospital, 15 per cent loss. and disorderly conduct; would dinrh At the Municipal Lodging House inji0ii some imprisonments and auemont East Twenty-fifth street the number others: Would reduce commitments FREE ASTHMA SUFFERERS A. Ttfew Home Metked Thnt Anyone Can Ifre KViOtekt Dtftcenttort o I.omH &t Time. We have .a now method that controls Asthma, and wo want you to try 4t at our expense. No matter Whether, your cuhu s ui uKr m"uujk ur recent UO- of men lodged Muring the same three months) was only onO-sixth of what It was in the same-months of last' year," Tho number of arrests for intoxica tion foil off more than one-half during- tho last sixmoriths ofjast year although onlyuji feoble 'effort was made to enforce tho "dry" enact-! nieutB. The prison population decreased by 15 per cent last year as compared with the preceding 'year, and in tho case of women prisoners, by more than 30 per cent, Patients suffering 'from alcoholism, who formerly averaged! 0'2 each day at Bellevuo Hospital, diminished last uepenuwu cuuurcu una au uep,enu-, m0nth to throo or four per day; at ents who are aged or disabled or in-,Klllg8 Goiiilty Hospital the common juruu or m, iv a tu.u iui urwuou total pf f0rty Such patients was re Tvmun- uuuvuiuih uii iuq uuy uuiuua Hjid city hospitals "Any one sitting in my place," said Mr; Color, "with- its chances for ob serving what works for the welfare Iduced last month to five or six. Ambulance calls received by tho department are often due to drunk enness anu us ajienuaui uisoraer, poj t nnt f-lio Yiiimlrv nf nulla 'tinTiMmlrTrl .of the people and the betterment ot io Beneyue Hospital were 133 In .IrlliMtlon could take no other stand Janu m9 bul only. nlne to Jan. than to make a firm roflolutlon to ' o tWi yeai And the total num. projent the facts to the American b f (1epaJtment ambulance calls, ??lV 2 on0 hving R-t,aFt Mr Color believes, "would haVe been WB IHq O WO BBOPW UB H VUU1H BOUIU L,hnilftniiw1 1iv Kn Ar ftftnf Ht.OA Ttv 4Hy vimimmm Vt X - ww mm v tHfce any other- coui'SQ." Jin answer to a request by tho Evon iutf Post jhat lie make public the of flcffel facta upon which ho based his announcement Commissioner Coler has obtained reports from the loading Institutions in his charge and has (supplemented these repqrts with re lated data, obtained through t'he Be- Let Your BUSINESS TRAINING Be of Uni versltj 6tte Tha urKatned of bualnM today for Mental ani Kotbod you cm got. in your epwe time athoms !ati-MUxr)l (ixaeotlvea, nnnjceni and uapevt Boncaj vpeciaiins. unuer tnnuaaftuei'robleia hr avail, under exDert euld&nea. (nlnliti tklitrk ' ' . - . : -. --' .'i--: -, - ; -..t "-.v""."" veriiift accuai DUBineanrprocuce. 'xneunivar enrolled members on any builneaa quftfltlon r probloni. This is aorvlco not obtalnnbla Xrom any other educational institution. wcltryour namft (and nddraa nt th battoffi and wail today. We will send toll In Xormation and book of remarkable records of adyaricoment mado by LaSallo trained men; kto our intareatin book, "Xtn Yeant i'ro motion in One." Low cout and convenient caonthly terms which anyonocanaEford. Money reminded It dlsaatlnned upon completion off eosrse. More tbnu 22G.O00 liaya onrollod. Find what LaBftUe training can do tot your. CUek ana uaU the coupon MOW. OntUwen: oand without obligation to m nattoa rMrardlnof course indicated balo w. altc yo?iafratIn ftoolt ."Ten Year1 Promot LtiSAtLC EXTENSION UNIVERSITY tin Unct VmktH tttMmc Iwlitalis in (at WefM l.K-503 Chicago, Ilk o Infor- ICODVOf loninOno, QHIglHrr AccowntLa nnanttng Hd Fiaaacd pCoacitjf forCP, A. A QUualiveiK letter KwtExteaUoB riwJr,V,,g.K xn . -WttteMatfewoflt owica,Shoorctory DT1 MaMCeweot- O Commercial Salrti " fX d Someatie uiHt Boekkata DLrvfre!tIt DEMecUveSpeakUHJ DCcJalt DJBuaiawwKstflkik JPreat lBttIoa, WwRft . i rSftA... i .,. ..... .. j i , . "1 P 1.1- nntl nvnAnt rTi tlin PTii' epi(foThic,, rfnd they were, in fact, despite the epidemic, reduced by 30 per cent. Commenting upon the remarkable improvement in condition Mr, Coler said: , "The Municipal Lodging House is practically vacant. With a capacity of 900 beds'they have only forty 'cus tomers.' The type ,of peteTfeq go there - ow are old-time vagrants who are properly work-houses cases. The man r woman who lost a job thru ex cesses and vent to the lodging house to sober up until he or she could got anew flace this type has entirely disappeared. "The alcoholic ward lit Sellevue Hospital,, as Buch, has been closed. Formorly they treated in, this ward thousands of patients every year; of late the average number lias been on ly fifteen or twenty per month. "About 700 vacanoies for tubercu losis patients are now reported ln our department, hospitals and 300 more in .private hospitals. According to Di DHlingftam of St. Joseph's Hos pitai; .this decrease is largely duo to prohibition. The man who drank much and ate little contracting con sumption and "developing hemorr hltgeB,' 'has practically disappeared. s "There's a marked decrease as well in "tlie-1 .commitments of "children to homes pecauso of poverty. v "Our omployeos, moreover, are holding- their places- more Bteadlly, There are nUny loss than the X5,000 changes which formerly occurred in our personnel eachjyear. iPay day at present doesn't moan a drunken ex odus." Tho effects of general prosperity, to which aro attributed many current ameliorations, should hot be "unfairly credited nHtli benefits more truly due to prohibition. In the first place, none of the chunges considered in this; article dates pack further than last year; .yet prosperity was even I . X Lxxnlmrl !'1 (1117 A ) -1A if) ...1 to some homeg, but, as explained later, would add to tho number of tht feeble-minded children so committed. Prosperity would lessen sidkness duo to destitution, but would extend the, sickness due to alcohol. Except, therefore, that prpsperity had reduced the sum of suffering consequent on destitution in the pri vate homer and so lessened the amount of 'outdoor relief, 'little ef fect would be recorded, updn condi tions reported by the welfare depart ment even if prosperity had' increased' in the last ten months which 'was not'the case. ' . r. It is happily true that prohibition, which has been largely a woman's vic tory, has; in proportion, conferred more-benefit upon women than upon men,even outside of tho domestic circle. Relatively speaking, there has been larger decrease in arrests of women since liquor became scarce; an'd as compared with .the male pa tient's, the number of1 female ''alcoh olics" in the hospitals has showa a greater falling off Generally spealcing the econdmlc benefits of prohibition have been manifested through the improvement in the service of municipal employees as well as in the reduced number, of institutional inmates. The employees "have taken oh a new mental at titude," to quote Medical Superin tendent Vivasour" of the City Children's-Hospital. They are more self- respecting, they are beginning to save fin Hay Fever or Chronic, Asthma, you should .sqnd for a free fcrlaV of our method.. .No matter in- wjiat- cllniate you tiv no matter what your age or occupation if you are troubled with asthma, our, method should relieve ,you promptly. w . We -especially wlmt- tp send it to those ap'parentlr li6peles' cases," whero all forms of inhalers, douches, opium preparations, fumes, "patent smokes," etc,, have failed. We- want to ?. show everyone at ouf expense, that this new method is designed to end all dffflcult breathing', all wheezing, and all thoso terrible paroxysms at once.' . Thl& free "Offer is too Important to neglect a single day. Write .now and begin tho method at once. Send no money, Simply mail coupon 'below. Da it Xodajv 'a MMM Fitrjte 'tuiai. cotrvok . FRONTIER A&THMA . QQ4J ;R0om 47& 1C " - s v "' Niagara and Hudson-Streets, Buffalo, N. T. ' , v ' Send free trial of y6ur method to: 8 j t 14- i... :...:. fi i & ti '-f RUPTURED? TRY THIS FREE New XjaveikM Sci om M IT' Trial Simply send me yQUr name and J will send you myrriew copyrighted rupture book and measurement blank. When you return the blank X Will send' you my now invention fob rupture. When it arrives, put Jn on and wear.lt. . Put it to every test you can think of. Tho harder the test the better "you wilt Hko. It. Ybu will "wonder how you ever got along With the- Old style -cruel spring trusses or belts with- leg straps' of i torture. Your own good, common sense proved," saysuporintendant Bacon of the City- Hospital, Yet at certain institutions neighboring facilities .still enahle the employees to "get It," with more or less frequency, and with aU te former-- m results an out come, of course, due to the reverse .Of ' promoition. Ana one superintendent half complains that, the "higher spirit bl independence" in his more soher employees has supplanted the "sur liness" that formerly reacted upon the patients with an "arrogance" that distressed the executives. As to details, the City Hospital re ports "a decreased patient . census, patients arriying less frequently- in a dirty, degraded condition," and nly half as many employees dismissed in the first twojnonths of 1920 as in the corresponding months of 1919. Metropolitan Hospital Fewer "al coholics," great reduction of cases of delirium trsmons following surgical shock, influenza and pneumonia. Kings, County Hospital Total number of cases admitted one-third less, January I to March 15, 1920, as compared with like period, last year; "alcoholics," same poriod.less than one-fifth as many men, only one twentieth .as many women. Groenpoint Hospital Admissions first quarter of this , year and last year show reduction from 904 to 722 Coney Island Hosnital Artmttl I slons',vfirst quarter, 1920 reduced by xo per com; accment cases, "mainiy due," .says Mr. Colet "to intoxicated auto drivers." reduced ono-thini- ootr ..,.,",;,..?.. vmpfc inarkedin1917 and JLftl, when1 era! former "worst offenders" amohg ova1 l(Min ATitn wlrrhr itrCII a11 ril If I a money, they do not so often change I the only way in which kyou- can ever their joha. i expect a cure. 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