New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 25, 1916, Page 6

Carnegie, Eighty, Not Il | He Says, Orly He is ““Tired” UOR TRAFFICIN | USSIA DECREASES Result Savings Reach Almost Unbelievable Figures year half of prohibition Russi may id to have successfully abolished | iquor traflic. The sale af intox k since Emperor Nichol: put his | ture to the ukase forbidding at the very outset of the | llen from nearly a billion 0,000,000) yearly to ap- mately four per cent. of that This four per cent. largely con- } i of the sale of liquors for medi- purposes although pd also a limited traffic in wines ! [Which there is a restricted per- ion in cert parts of the o it is in- bdka, formerly the most ea pble commodity in Russi has me as rare as whiskey in the most tly prohibition community in the ed States. Wines are still to be surreptitiously for the most part, | lalso in some cases and under pre- ped conditions, with the know- ! of the authorities, but at prices | \ | h limit their sale to people of th or woeful extravagance, It is | ible, in Pectrograd and Moscow, finstance, where the ban, even on is strict, to purchase wines in n hotels, but they may be served | in private dining rooms, and the | leges enjoved by these institu- | s are frequently interrupted by | police for some Infraction of the} fctive rules. i | ne of the most noticeable results | he almost complete suppression odka naturally is the disappear- | <37 - > toxicated persons. They have be- | Z=h. £C E BE5S e so rare as to be more or le a| BT b e Reports from Bar Harbor, Me. | He leaned heavily on the arms of his it of curious surprise doubtless | where Mr. Carnegie has been spend- | atte nts as I alked to the auto- impulse among the majority being i mobile, and he was noticeably ex- onder how he managed it. This hausted. “I am not sick. I only feel B S fairs oers o remirkablc| tired,” he told questioning friends. rast to the ante-bellum condition | the Surf, for two weeks Mr. Carnegie | Mr. Carnegie cclebrated his eightieth In drunkenness amgng the lower | @nd his part arrived at Bar Harbor. { birthday on November 'J;hc ac- kes of society presented a most| Mr. Carnegie haa great difficulty in | companying picture is made from a bus problem. Tt is a well-estab- | Stepping from the launch to the pier. | very recent photograph. ba fact that cach one of the sixty = holidays, irrespective of Sunday. n business houses and factories e their doors, used to mean a pling of business activity on the pwing day and often for two suc- ing days because of the sprees Bh attended the holiday celebra- . It is sald that the saving to workingmen in this respect alone k into prodigious figures. In one ory in the Tula government, em- ing 1,000 men, there were 600 lost king days in three months during For the same months in 1916 e reduced to 49. ing some time,, say that he is looking feeble. After cru in his vacht, The emperor is rever- | hounded by the police sa that the ently referred to as ‘“Nicholas the| practice has failed to assume propor- Temperate.” A peasant is quoted as | tion saying: “We have now one common| The vacuum left in the lives of cnemy—the Germans; formerly every rmer vodka consume: gradually 1an was his own enem A director | being filled through the e of a glass factory in Moscow said that | in towns and rural ffty years more of drunkenness would arodny ' doms” (peaple’s houses) have lost to the Russian people all| where stereoptican and moving pic- capacity for resistance and the nation | ture productions are becoming popu- would have fallen an easy prey to}: forms of amusement. Lecturers | Germany. re also being sent out by assaciations A typical example of the recon-| which are working for the betterment struction in progress is to be found| of the people. The Duma has voted 5 i g among the Ostyaks, a large popula- | 1,000,000 rubles ($500,000) to pro- 'ning Capacity Increases. tion in eastern Siberia in the govern- | mote temperance work by city coun- ze carning capacity of the people | ments of Tomsk and Toklosk, whose [ cils, the church and other organiza- ars to have outstripped the ad- | chief industry is trapping and fishing. | tions. Card playing is reported to be e in the cost of living, with the| Formerly they fell easy prey tocn the increase. It that savingg deposits have, traders who filled them with vodka nted up to an almost unbelieve-| and drove sharp bargains for their P extent, the peasant is living bet- | products. Many branches of thiy : r than he ever did before and he is| people were gradually becoming ex- effect will be continued after the war. iring a sclf-respect which he| tinct from excessive use of alcohol | P. L. Bark, minister of finance, who Bler possessed in the old days of | Today they are said ta be completely | department of the government wa ka domination. revolutionized. Instead of easy vie-|most serious affected by the stop- mong the benefits observed by an | tims, they are becoming clever bar-| page of rcvenue formerly derived ependent investigator, A, I, Fare- | gainers themselves who know how to | {1om the sz\u_o of vodka, has definitely . who recently travelled through a| get full value for their furs and fish. } CXb >4 himself in the afiirmative. n a declaration in behalf of the gov- ber of the central governments, Evasions Negligible. | In a dec t a noteworthy falling’ off in the | ernment which he made recently to ber of domestic rows; a lighter| That drunkenness critics of the gavernment’s policies, fi more hopeful- spirit among the | that many substitutes for vodka are | he “I find itimportant to cate- bple, a decrease in arrears of taxes; | employed, cannot be denied. By | gorically announce that all suspicions ds better tilled and a growing de- | comparison, however, the evasions of | that the government intends to renew nd for agricultural machinery; a | the prohibition decree are negligible. | 1the sale of vodka are unfounded. I rease In alcoholics in the charity | Colognes, cosmetics and even v categorically announce that the gov- Epitals and other institutions; and a | nishes are submitted to proc | ernment will support prohibition and ease in crimes and in the number | whereby the alcohol in their com- | that there will be no return to the beggars. According to this inves- | position is extracted for consumption; | former state of affairs. I can stato ation the peasant, instead of feeling | but the extent of this practice is| with authority that the sale of vodka t he has suffered an Injury by the | barely comparable with the “blind | will be prohibited forever.” A mes olition of vodka, is grateful for pig” and drug store abuses practiced | ure is at present under consideration ing had a temptation removed | in American prohibition comwmunities, | in the Duma to make the vodka pro- ich he knew he himself was power- | Illicit manufacturers are constantly | hibition perpetual. c There has been much speculation as to whether the prohibition now in still exists and GUARANTEED 3,500 MILES ' 109% OFF DEALEFRS LIST Non-skid ....... $13.23 Non-skid ....... $19.35 Non-skid ....... $19.76 Non-skid ....... $21.02 . $27.45 32x314 Plain ....... $11.48 33 4P| o) NS . $16.38 3x4 Plain ....... $16.74 36x4 Plain ........ $17.82 35x4l4 Plain ....... $23.27 Non-skid . 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