Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 230, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1926 — Page 14

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PROSPERITY IN HD’ INDIANA INUSf YEAR Benefits of Prohibition Set Forth by Anti-Saloon League Leader. . I?y Shumaker, , 'indent Indiana Anti-Saloon League . rohibition "United States is the ' I , ha Piefit Nation In the whole world. Legal liquor traffic "r k!^ 8 countr y as 105 much chance r e * nsr revived as has a humming *>rd to fly from here to the planet ars with the Washington monument on ita bock.” >n s P°^ e Senator Sheppard of Texas in. the Senate of the United tates recently in reply to Senator >ruee of Maryland, who had de-

dared that several modificationists had been elected to the Senate and House of Repreimtatives. Shepard’s statement lay be amplified by a number of ob s ervations in Indiana now in contrast with Indiana in 1917 when the State had over three thousand saloons. In 1917, building and loan us-

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R sets in Indiana | staled a valuation of 572,106,74!*; in 1926 the valuation was 5238,078.201, In increase of 230 per cent. Seven- |® en nev associations were formed the year, making a total of and loan associations in HJat€* of 402, with a capltallza--1,1711 "'of $699,940,01)0. 1 he Railroad Men's Building anTl Savings Association of this city in 11 ' Pad $8,929,129 in assets, now its I assets aggregate 548.000.000, an Jnvi crease ot 448 per cent. . " Building Figures Building permits in Indianapolis, from 1014 to 1917 averaged 5,939 ■ front lJlS'to 1923 the average wr s 10,532, an increase of 4.600 anrg ;l [. ly in favor of the dry period. "p x pendltures on new building e ;t p r ’ prises in this city during thes/i f tvet years aver,aged r ,„ r . Ing the dry years, s3f. ;asi, 4 r,e. Among t.he new building' , whirh have gone up since this, went on the water wagon are: u hamhQr of Commerce, BankGuaranty, Illinois, Kreygg Medical Arts, Meyer-Kiser Ba *k. "Roosevelt. Cnion Title Company, V- F wild & £?:’ a u h, (7 >’timhi,a Club, Klks Club, Circle Me t.- i nn . Postofflee parcel post, ba* -terming! s taCons. track elevation ;lncl lmprove . can T xo n U ' the Amerienn Legion Plaza (i n nroPßHsn

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ing Theater and two Spink Arm Hotels. We do not claim for prohibition all. the credit for this wonderful showing, hut it certainly has been an important factor. Amt these tremendous forward strides have completely disproved the pre-prohi-bition predictions of the wets that prohibition would be followed by business-adversity. The growth of the automobile* business has also been remarkable, in 1917, the people of the State owned 192,195 cars of all kinds; now they own 786,509, an increase of 607x686, or of 314 per cent. There are about 25,000,000 cars owned in the entire world, and at least ‘-'0,000.000 of these are owned in pi 'Hon United States. Life Insura.. < In 1917, there were $697,579,544* worth" of life insurance of all kimfc in force in'lndiana, while one yat;ago this had increased to SI,9W> V 906,903, all increase of $1,262,32"i,(!/i9 or 183.6 per cent. The high schools in Indiana, in 1917 enrolled 77.925 pupils, ip 1926 the enrolment was 120,205, vn increase of 42,280 or of 54 peg cent. High school teachers (in sioned schools) in 1914 received an average salary of $755.83, while, in 1924, these teachers received an average salary of $1,340.19^ If it be said, however, that the compulsory education la jv is responsible for the increased Attendance in high schools, the sa - /Be cannot be said of the colleges, wheFe attendance is optional. In runeteen of these institutions in 1917,, The total enrolment was 11,607; i’a, 1925 the attendance in these schools was 23,694, an increapy, of 13,590, or of 134.4 per cent. Deat’ypi Decrease Public Wa AY . also has benefited in the wake, of prohibition. The following tiffin*show the total approximate decrease in deaths from five in eight dry years as compared with the wet years preceding in this State: Tuberculosis, 6,400; pneumonia, 5,360; typhoid fever, . babies under 1 year of age, S, 400; puerpal causes, 316. Grand total in eight years, 22,156. An/1 ts iese dry years included the "•nv ■ 1 period; too. Better sanitation, be* /er homo conditions, better medio /lon and better nursing were all ! JcYh\ greatly by prohibition. 'The official report of Gen. Lincoln O: Andrews shows the following enforcement nctvities during the year 1 ending June 30, 1926, in Indiana:

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One hundred find witc distilleries, 26 stills, 27 still wormk- *253 fermenters, 3,286 gallons ot" spirits, 4,155 gallons of malt liquors, 3,ITS gallons of wine, 44,211 gallons of mash and 9 automobiles were seized, by Federal agents. Besides this, 953 persons were arrested by thf*no agents charged with violating the law. Throughout the entire Nation during this same period of time, *2,227 distilleries, 12,248 stills, 6,974 i .till worms, 130,530 fermentont 1,547.520 gallons of spirits, 14.2U0.5J1l gallons of malt, 808,647 gallons of wine, 12,248,258 gallons of mash, 5,935 automobiles and 187 boat*;, and launches were seized by F<dv*'al agents. These officers also alrfirsted 58,391 persons charged with vic/ating the law and aided State authorities in the arrests of 12,713 additional offenders. Prosecution Results Incomplete statistics gathered from the press shows the following results from prosecutions in the State courts for the first ten months of the year 1926 : Two thousand four hundred and thirty-nine were convicted; 5.013 months as the minimum total of sentences were inflicted, to which were added in fines. Os the months to serve on the State Farm, or in prison, 1,647 were suspended. Os course, enforcement has tad its difficulties, hoth inherent and acquired. However. I think the Ameri can people very generally will hail with satisfaction the declaration of Andrew J- Volstead, author of our national prohibition enforcement law, when he declares that 1936 has been prohibition's greatest year. “Prohibition is advancing toward its goal, - ’ he says, “and obstacles are being swept out of the way. one by one." He also declares: “This year has seen changes in the problem of national enforcement. They are becoming simpler.” STATE LEGION PAPER New Hoosier Publication Will Be Issued Monthly. First number of the Hoosier Legionnaire, monthly newspaper of the Indiana department of the American Legion, will i>e issued Jan. 10. J. H. Klinger, department adjutant, will be editor. The publication will contain four pages, seven columns each. Its purpose is to inform all members of activities of the veterans' organization.

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OVER 12 MILLIONS SPENTJN ROADS (Continued From Page 1, Section 2.) old culverts where roads were wid ened and to build 24 retaining walls, aggregating a total of 3,026 feet. There was built 33,236 feet or better than six miles of guard rails, and 79 temporary or run-around bridges with a water span of twothirds of a mile. Materials Ised Tabulation of the materials used by this division show that during the season more than I,ooo,ooo'cubic yards of stone and gravel were spread on Indiana State highways; 11,000 cubis yards of other materials of a surfacing nature; used 58.000 sacks of cement and 517,000 board feet of lumber in construction

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of guard rails and temporary bridges. The material used also included 3,000 tons of rock asphalt and nearly a million gallons each of tar and ashphalt for resurfacing operations. A survey of traffic conditions will show, it is believed, that traffic increased at least 10 per cent on State roads over the preceding year. The division of bfidge construction worked on a total of 240 structures contracted for $3,484,290.15. One hundred and eighteen structures were completed in fiscal 1926, -and since the commission has functioned there has been completed 576 structures of a total water span if laid end to end of 42,000 feet or better than eight miles. All structures under twenty feet are not built in the bridge division, but are built either by the road contractors or by the maintenance division. The total contract price of all structures awarded since the department was created amounts to $6,700,000. and the Federal Government has extended half the cost for about half the total number constructed and contracted. The commission placed seven

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profit fre-v n: "lons of dollars annually spen by 'ourists. Bur !c:i light on People Commi! sionei-s pointed to the veax s ucl ievements as accomplished without costly burden to the public. The " oad department's finances •ire sololv < , iive.l from three sources, namely f 1 om sale of auto license plates, ga; tax and Federal aid. The department receives but two cents of the thn e cent, per gallon gas tax collected, ,s one cent or nearly $3,000,000 a<Jtar is distributed to the nlnety-twT) counties and in cities, i No prop*. ty tax is levied and unless i one opes res a motor vehicle he does | not contribute one cent to build or | maintain State roads, although his i farm may have been benefited hundreds of dollars in value by the fact it 13 touched by a modern, all-season highway. “We feel." declared Chairman Zeigler. “that we administered fund3 at our command in a way to reap a profit and a permanent bene-

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fit to our commonwealth. Me have placed the road deportment or a strictly business basis where merii and ability count, and we are build ing and maintaining roads at minimum cost.” Other States Investigate Members said that more tha.ij twenty States sent representatives into Indiana to study methods (luring the past twelve months. During the past year the comipisaion contracted for new metal signs for remarking the entire system to conform to the Federal plan of giving a Federal road the Home number in each State it traverses. In order to not confuse the public by this change, temporary numbers wore put up in a day and maps of the renumbered system Issued simultaneously, establishing a record fov such work. Road officials expect to contract 225 miles of paving within the next few months and with ninety-five miles carried over from this year’s program, anticipate the completion of 320 miles by the fall of 1927.