Hammond Times, Volume 16, Number 156, Hammond, Lake County, 22 December 1922 — Page 12

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Ulster Gains Ground in Fight on Religious Feuds

iMERNATiCHAL NEWS SERVICE; . BELFAST. Dec Herd ia Ulster, wiiera blood ehd ia rellg-lous feuds. the breaking: up of any-gangr ot religious murder fanatics is of utmost Importance. Such an achievement 1 reported to have ben made recently by the Ulster Government and has resulted ' In great excitement In Bedfast. Because of fear of reprisals and further rouslny religious hatreds the Government Is .withholding all ftlcia.1 statements. .' .

' It Is understood that the Government succeeded In breaking- up a Be'cret society whose members were pledged to wipe out the adherents of the religion which the yopposed. Three of the members of the secret society. are reported to have turned informers, aivd as the result of their disclosures there, havo been severaJ arrests and larjfe quantities of arms have been teUecL . Tha Ulster .Government is trying to restore: order Impartially, and is using evrry rfrort to restrain rellclous feuds vl'hout frar of favor.

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i.'HJCAGO. Dec 21. Deaths directly traceable to alcoholism and

tho promiscuous salo of poisonous "hootch" have increased more than 100 per cent in Chicago sine the ratification of the national prohibition law, according to Csures complied at tho Psychopa'tlc -hospital and made public yesterday Vy Dr. James Hail, eivaJrman of the medical commission .on insanity for Cook Counfy. l'rior "to enactment of the VolBteaj act the number of alcoholic deaths averajred seven or eiyht yearly, while, accordlnjr to the sta-

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or even in hotels or inns. Nevertheless, we find plenty of tipsy people in tho streets. . "I am mayor . of an industrial town, Charlerol. and my police havg reported four and five times as

majiy cases of drunkenness than in 1913, when there was . no prohibition."

Holding- your breath Is, to a certain extent, a test of. your health. Normally adults "should be able to hold this for from forty to fifty

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Senator. Wesley L. Jones. Senator Wealey L. ."mes oi Washington, chairman jf the senate commerce committee, ia dlfecting the administration's fight u obtain passage- of the ship suiid measii"

t ist ics" offered by Dr. Hall twentytwo persons died from ho effects

of bad booze in the first nine months of this year, at the Tsychepathlc institution. found -Insanity increasing Only recently Dr. Hall declared that insanity resulting from chronic alcoholism had doubled since the passage of. the dry law, more than 150 persons g-olns insane weekly In Cook County, as agalnts sixty to seventy weekly before prohibition. Exception to the percentage of increase fixed by Dr. Hall was expressed by Dr. Georfce W. Hall and Clarence A. Neymann, then members of. the Psychopathic hospital staff.

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