Another chapter is added to the voluminous "and apparently interminable controversy on prohibition, which the United States so bluntly answered by repealing the star has been furnished vy the New York City Alcoholic Beverage Coutro! Board, A questionnaire circulated city and county boards asked when ther economic and. social benefits and the in= troduction of quarters of the county boards replied in the affirmative, declaring there had been substantial" economic benefits and great improvement in the drinking habits of the people, especially the young people who were drinking less and had virtually abolished the use of the hip flask. The most in" teresting phase Is the description of changed drinking habits, contained in the state me "During the days of prohibition ex: cessive drinking' was "noticeable at Social functions of all" types, due probably to the fact that it was cus Tomary "at banque! dinners for people to "bring hele own," and result, ten of twelve persons feated at ihe tame banquet table entire table, and the custom. that no one would ~tinu everything Was. drunk up, and hat nothing waned Erect opposite of this situa iceable the: present time."
Contrasting with the orgies and the distressing conditions which mark~ fed prohibition days these are refults of @ tangible value in assessing the result of America's greatest social. experiment,
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