"Dry" America

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 47, 27 March 1930, Page 5

"Dry" America

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death rate cut down Testimonies To Prohi= bition's Success • ' T- X: GOVERNMENT CONTROL FAILS

(Eeoeived Tbis Day. Noon.) WASHINGTON, March 26. At the conclusion of the House "Dry" hearings, Mr Lentz, president of the American * Insurance Dnion, testified that prohibition had cut down the nation's death rate. He said that tluring the five yeais prior to prohibir tion, 1914 to 1919, a survey of 77 insurance companies showed that the rejation of actual to expected mortality was from 60 to 63 per cent., but the ayerage for 1921 to 1927 was only from 53 to 54 per cent. ^ Dr. McBride, general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, - stated, "Prohibition is a success, is popular, and can be enforced." He added, "The answer to this wet frenzy is the speedy enactment by Congress into law of the Bresident's programme, with such appropriations as will give prohibition a chance. ' ' Mr Drury, ex-Premier of Ontario, stated that the Government control had failed to reduce drinking, crime, or bootlegging in Canada. / "Government control is not the remedy. Effective control is indeed impossi'ble. The Angle-Saxon temperament will not stand for the inquisition necessary into private affairs to establish any effective control.'? _ He gave extenBive statistics purporting to show the increase of lawleSsness in Ontario. ,