WEDNEs/AY, JANUARY 18, 1022, THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. SC 100% STUDY SPORIS THE JUNIOR BRITISH WHG BIGGEST LITTLE PAPER IN THE WORLD HUMOR PLAY WORK ONE PEEL YAENS i THE FRIENDS OF FELICE Felice was sitting out in front talke "1 don't know ws stever I'll do with that "se ha® such low picking up She calks to the chauffeur and the gardener as if thoy She actually fired that chauffeur when he found he Was a I never saw such a Rirl!" lips It was very hard for her to understand why she shouldn't make ing to an organ grinder, | *Pelice!" called her mother. girl" she Awvtted. wastes. She's urchins or beggars. always were chums of hers. cried "when her father radical. Felice came drooplug. in slowly, her "Tell Marie to bring, you your "We are going to the Bolton Settlement House. I must talk over some plans for the You may go slong." "I love to go thers," said Felice, "But didn't father say we oughtn't neighborhood on" ac wraps," said her mother. charity ball to go into that count of the strike trouble?" "Your father is upset trouble among those fore, plied her mother. much attention." She did pay attention, the heart of the strikers' looked at Felice threateningly. Then the came to a dead stop. There were peo~ people everywhere and not a pe, friendy face among them. Felice looked frightened. For ones 'The her mother forgot her dignity. chauffeur cowered in his seat. Suddenly Felice opened the door of the limousine and jumped out on the "Pedro!" she shout- 'Please come drive us home!" A young man, who seemed to be well known among the strikers, made his running ed way to the fromt. "Sure, I'll drive you home," he sald. chauffeur, up. It was the "radical" The crowd opened a little grin, you might friends?" "He took her for an lce-cream treat, His pretty, blue-eyed Sal, But he fainted when he saw the sign: "Crepm, ninety Sents a gal" TWO YEARS OF PROHIBITION (Continued From Page 3) fiscal year ending on June 30th, 1016, were $247,453,543.562. Those for liquor .amounted to $168,682 439.53, and for beer, L388, 771, 103.- 99. In the year op last June the tax collections on beer and liquor to- talled only $82,624,428.83. Those for Mquor were $82,698,065.01 and for beer $25,363.82, Taking the differénce in be- tween 1916 and 1921, which was $164,829,114.69, and adding the en- forcement appropriation of $6,360, 000 for the latter year, prohibition cost the government $171,170,114.- 69 in a year. = y From that, however, should be wabtracted collections under penalty provisions of the National Prohibi- tion Act, including taxes, offers in ORppromisg, costs and fines amount- ing to $2,152,387.45, leaving a bal- ahce of $169,026,727.24, Re * 000,000 From Penalties. oR of prohibition cost the Intermal Revenue service $1,- 215,188.05. This was for salaries, travelling expenses, rent and office maintenance. New York headed the list of states on the expense list with $204,056.35. Pennsylvania was with $110,090.01. Vermont least expensive state, cost- nly $4,214.30, t must be remembered that the meéney received through the assess- ment of taxes and fines for violations unger these acts comes into the efusury sources from which no rey uld ordinarily be receiv- Bh Lm: such sources as bootleg- gears, illicit distillers of, etc." Com- missioner Haynes stated jn & report to Commissioner of Internal Rev- over Some jout with their big St. Bernard dogs Te- land 'find these *1 really didn't pay however, when she realized that they were in district, Sul- len-faced men filled the streets. The car passed little knots of people who and her mothen Felice looked at her mother and spoke with "Mother, don't you think let me pick my own [THE GRAND OLD DOGS | GRAND OLD DOGS "Wouldn't you hate to be a traveler, Jost in the anow on a night like this?" shivered Clyde. "You bet," agreed Mills. "I was just reading about how in the old days travelers used to get lost in the Swiss Alps and the monks from the monastery of St. Bernard used to go lost wanderers and bring them in to the warm, safe monastery. The dogs would find the way." "Ive heard a lot about those dogs.' said Clyde. "Wish we had one. It's & shame 80 many of them were killed Off when they were used as Red Cross dogs in the war." Mills nodded. 'People don't appre- ciate those fine dogs, and they don't raise them so much any more, because they aren't very popular as show- dogs. They're the biggest dogs in the world. For Rundreds of years the monks bred them especially for their intelligence, strength and working "Last summer," said Clyde, "TI no- ticed a family down at the beach that bad one to guard their ghildren. The St. Bernards are great water dogs, you know. This old fellow was a regular nursemaid for those kids. He'd chase after them and run with them just like a reguler human being." "They're brave dogs, too,' added Mills, "but they're not fighters. I hope they don't disappear. 1 guess those travelers in the snow storms on the mountains never dreamed that some day we might neglect those 'srand old dog.' TO-DAY'S PUZZLE Form & word chain With words meaning to be 'excited with passion, 8 body. of water, the close of dev, to present, equal, and to snatch away, Answer to yesterday's: Edmonton. Sen enue Blair, Mr, Haynes said that taxes and penalties for the rast fiscal year were a little more than $53,000,000. Secretary of the Treasury Medion, in his report lest July, said: "During the fiscal year 4,248 of- fers in compromise were accepted and 197 rejected. The claims sec- tion allowed 13,051 abatement, re- fund ° end uncollectible claims amounting to $16,055,605.90 during the year and rejected 3,477 abate- ment, refund and uncollectible claims amounting to $5,115,686.561. July 1st there were pending 8.72% abatement, refund and uncollectible claims involving assessments of $20,- 416,129.33. Ag the beginning of the fiscal year 21,372 cases were pénd- ing. During the year 98,349 new cases were received; 51,888 cases were closed as to both, civij end criminal liability, leavi 68,333 open cases in the files on June 30th." $2,870,152,076 Vanish, It_hes been estimated that under prohibition $2,870,152,076.36 in money values disappeared. These consisted of capital invested in the liquor, beer and wine industry, $1,.- 294,683,426; annual disbursements end wages, $453,872,656, and an- nual disbursements other than for wages, $1,121,606,097.36, The fig- ures were taken from the census bureau reports in 1909, They did not include the cost to manufactur- ers of special machinery for the making, distribution and sale of li- quore, or the cost to glassware, bar- rel and cork makers. Totals deposits in national banks increased from $10,877,087,000 in 1916 to $15,142,331,000) in 1921, The treasury departme records show that in spite of {business de- pression last year deposits in state banks, including savings banks, were George Qorilla's claim te looks Nels Muskox gets his funny THE MOTHER OF IT | Littles Johnny Warthog has a most unlovely face, His eyes are much too tiny, and he's lacking style and grece; He has an ugly kind of snout, his teeth are out of pluce-- And yet I'll bet his mother thinks for looks he sets the pace. Felix Hippo has a mug that's--well, let's call it plain; He has a monstrous body and a very little brain, And when his mouth is opened up, onlookers get a paine And yet I'll bet his mother thinks he's handsome, in the main. i] really very small; His chin slopes out, his forehead in, his neck's built like a wall; He drags his hands upon the ground; he's wider than he's tali-- And yet I'll bet his mother thinks his beauty beats them all. Bill Giraffe, you must admit, is hardly made to scale-- Too much proportion in his neck, too little in his tail; He has such silly little horns, as orne. ments they fail-- And yet I'll bet his mother thinks ghat William is a whale. Elmer Camel is a beast that gets no beauty prize; He has a hump, an ugly mouth, and wicked little eyes; He has a funny, rolling gait; he utters squealy cries-- And yet I'll bet his mother lauds her offspring to the skies, looks from his paternal side: He has a very clumpsy walk, and un- attractive hide; When Nature made him all the laws of beauty she defied-- And yet I'll bet his mother views her son with glowing pride, ov in the Barnyard "Perseverance aways wins out," quoted the dnek. "Humph!"" said the hen. "Did you ever try to hatch a doorknob?' mm 499,471,000 in 1916 and $23,616,- 468,000 in 1921. savings banks were $4,188,789,000 | in 1916 and $5,675,318,000 in 1921, but those in savings banks with capi- tal stock showed a great difference. They were $909,248,000 in 1916 and only $445,680,000 in 1921. The dif- ference was largely accountable for by the fact that some 200 less banks made reports in time for 1921 tabu- lation than did five years previously. Other Savings Records. Postal savings balances to the credit of depositors, recorded month by month, were highest during the calendar year 1916 in the month of December, when the total was $112 N69,191. The highest figure last year was $163,656, 350. The prohi- bitionists point to that increase. But after January there was a steady tailing off in the monthly totals until at the end of the year the amount was $16,000,000 tess, and the wets made a notation of that. The drys attributed it to loss of employment. At thé census bureau it was learn- | ed there were more mortgages on | homes in 1920 than in 1910. The ten-year periods are the only ones for which records are kept, Mort- gaged homes increased from 15 per cent, in 1910 to 17.5 per cent. in 1920. Ownership of homes was tabu- lated as follows: 1820 10,866,980 6,522,119 4,059.5 Erumbered era 2,831,695 923 The increased mortgages were re- corded before the business depres- sion began to be felt generally, Illiteracy decreased in the census report. In 1910 5,616,163 persons ten years old and over were unable to write, That was 7.7 of the en- tire population. In 1920 the num- ber of persons had decreased to 4,- You are entitled to the benefit of the doubt . Why n not take advantage of it? The law is very careful in harmed by tea and coffee, and aml Rr How about the Law of Com- ay Sense ang and the you man who dount committed an error only ? To th Lihis 8 youd Place sa ue Where many: have been Posting Jor Health --"There's a Reason" Canadien Postom Cereal Company, Limited, Windsor, Ontario be harmed, isn't it well to put the benefit of the doubt on your side before beyemmes an unpleasant approximately the same, being $23, | Those ip mutual | % nearby that virtually are parts of it, {Size of police force. 12,816 12,239 |. AGOOD ONE 50 Your Sor VU'RE CUT or helps | Theduie {oo adi fired 931,905, which was of the population. 6 per cent. Infant Mortality Declines, There aloo was a decline in infant {mortality in the birth registration larea. Deaths of children under 1 year old per one thousand births de- creased in twenty-two states record- ed from 101 in 1916 to 86 in 1920. There was a drop to 94, however, in 11917, which coulud not be credited {in any way to proh bition. School attendance, the census fig- {ures showed, was less among older children in 1920 than in 1910. The tabulations were: | 1920 | Total 20 yrs 17,646,877 21,873,978 | Percentage o 643 Percentage--16 42.9 14.8 | Percentag mt hi Child labor stat $ ~ the coun- |try showed increases in eighteen |eities and decreases in nine, com- | paring the 1916 statistics with those {of 1920. The number of children who received employment® certifi- {cates increased 12 per cent. A re- {port covering Baltimore, Boston, Bridgepor:, Buffalo, Cincinnati, In- {dianapolis, Jersey City, Louisville, | Manchester, Minneapolis, Newark, {New Bedford, New Haven, New Or- | leans, New York City, Paterson, { Philadelphia, Pittsbung, Rochester, Francisco, St. Louis, St. Paul, Springfield, Mass.; Toledo, Water- |bury, Wilmington and Yonkers, ishowed an increase from 101,948 to 113,879 children employed. In 1916 also an increased number of children were employed in war contracts placed in this country. {Heavy increases were recorded l everywhere in that and the following year, Then:when we the war the drain of older members of the family into war services caused. more children to be taken into industry, But after the armistice the indus- trial reorganization resulted in a sharp decrease in the number of young persons in gainful employ- ment. It was expected that the de- jcline would continue, but it turned |and the figures shot upward in the following year. In the Department of Labor's Bu- reau of Statistics wages and hours |ot labor are recorded as of May each {year. They show a steady increase |in hourly wages, with those last year imore than double what they were in 11913, the pre-war year, Full time declined steadily until last year it was 94 per cent. of what it was in 1213. Greater New York, or rather, the so-called "metropolitan area" which includes this city and the places 5 to | San {has been probably the most import- {ant testing-ground the prohibition |laws have had. | The population of this area, em- bracing the five boroughs of New York, Jersey City, Hoboken, Newark and their outskirts, makes up ap- proximately one-twentieth that of the entire country. It includes all rac- tal strains, all circumstances of life. How hes prohibition in its two years of existence affected the peo- {ple of this area? Herewith are figures from official sources setting forth conditions in [1921 'as compared with 1918, the last full year before wartime prohi- bition led on to constitutional prohi- bition, | Metropolitan Area, | (Greater New - York, and Newark, Jersey City and Hoboken.) 1921 1916 rien for /drunken- 8,934 Moc for disor- ' derly conduct... 30,193 Arrests for violat- ing liquor laws (whether state or federal) ..... 11,480 Average population in jails, prisons and workhouses 20,803 24,094 1,496 4,070 5,410 6,966 3,838 5,666 Savings bank community total, $2.- 047,209,604 in 1921; $1,434,737,- HOOCH Fo ~' Ove reached Qe conclusion ok one resolution turbing, or were helpless because of the liquor they had taken. The man able to navigate homeward was not, as a rule, disturbed. The arrests for disorderly conduct as such were gfeatly more numerous, as the table ghows. Many persons suggest that the increased disorder is merely in lines with the general letdown of conduct that followed the World War---part of the laxity, the wildness, the unrest, that has pre- vailed everywhere. Others suggest increase of population as reason, but in.four years disorderly conduct has increased by approximately 25 per cent.--to 30,000 from 24,000 which is the proportion of popula- tion increase for the whole census period of ten years. The third question, dealing with arrests for violating the liquor laws, requires no analysis. In 1916 the chief violations * were perhaps, against the Sunday laws and for selling .liquor without a license, whereas in 1921 any selling of liquor was an offense, The only thing that may possibly be surprising is that there were only about ten times as many arrests last year than in 1916. The figures given in The World's table includes those arrestéd by pro- hibition agents as well as by the po- lice, Jail--Population Decreases, "There was a marked decrease in the average population of the jails, prisons and workhouses of the met- ropolitan area. This was a daily average, reported by correction offic- fals. Roughly speaking, about 1,- 400 fewer offenders were serving time in prohibition's second year than were serving time in the so- called good old days. As for the population of public in- stitutions 'of welfare, although times are hard from a business standpoint, and poverty therefore should be more prevalent, 2,474 fewer men, women and children were wards of the public last year than were in 1916, In the Domestic Relations Courts there has been a' similar decrease. There were 1,830 fewer such cases in ts metropolitan district last year than in 1916, despite the increase in population, The final index to general condi- tions is to he found in the savings banks. The increase here over 1916 is $602,000,000, a little more than 40 per cent. HAS ATTENDED COLLEGE FOR FORTY-ONE YEARS This Student William Should Have "Some Knowledge" by This Time. New York, Jan. 18--Forty-one years ago William Cullen Bryaat Kemp became a student at Columbia University. To-day he is still a stu- dent and hasn't missed a semester. Having studied everything worth while and exhausted all of the "ologis," Student Kemp, who is over fifty but not yet sixty years old is spending his time this year learning all about the paleogeographic devel- opments of North Amerca. Student Kemp has all the degress one ever heard of, including a '"'D.P. M." (doctor of perpetual motion conferred by his fellow students Some gay that William wouldn't study when a boy, so that a wise uncle left a will providing for him as losg as be was a regularly snroll- ed university student, Student Kemp won't talk oaiy 'to say: "The moro you learn, the more you kwow."" 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