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The "Noble Experiment"

by H. Bruce Brougham, Irving Fisher. 492 pgs.

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Contributors:

   H. Bruce Brougham, Irving Fisher

Publisher:

   Alcohol Information Committee

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1930
Subjects:   Alcoholism, Prohibition--United States
Table of contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE TO THE "NOBLE EXPERIMENT" xxi
PREFACE TO "PROHIBITION STILL AT ITS WORST" xxiii
INTRODUCTION xxvii
I. AS TO NEED FOR RELAXATION? -14 3
WET VIEW -8 3
Starling's Conclusions 4
Danger Begins With Intemperance 5
Alcohol Causes Partial Paralysis 6
Artists Need No Alcohol 7
DRY VIEW -14 8
Other Means of Relief 9
Mass Existence Transformed 10
Effect of Focusing Energy 11
How Nerves Are Relaxed 12
Hazarding New Habits 13
II. IN A HIGH-POWERED AGE? -36 15
WET VIEW -26 15
Prohibition Enforced by duPonts 15
Assents to Prohibition by Employers 18
Mr. duPont's Personal Payroll 19
Question of Drink Before Driving 20
Most Drinking Is After Working Hours 21
Drinker Escapes the Law 22
Mr. Raskob Notes Lack of Respect for Law 23
Pleads Personal Liberty 24
DRY VIEW -36 26
Menace of the Moderate Drinker 26
Power of State to Prohibit 28
Not Practicable to Prohibit Drinking 29
Motor-Car Heads Support Prohibition 30
New Diversions Supplant the Saloon 34
Moderate-Drinking Driver Menaces Safety 34
III. IN ITS EFFECTS ON YOUTH? -54 37
WET VIEW -45 37
Lessened First Convictions in Pre-Prohibition New York 37
Arrests of Minors in Washington, D. C. 39
Testimony of Salvation Army Officers 41
DRY VIEW -54 45
Wet in Sentiment, Dry in Practice 45
Fewer Drunken Fathers and Criminal Youth 48
Drink Not a Problem in High Schools 50
IV. IN THE ATTITUDE OF PHYSICIANS? -71 55
WET VIEW -61 56
Physicians Equally Divided on Alcohol as Medicine 57
States Had Determined Question 59
Majority Opinion of Court Is Challenged 60
DRY VIEW -71 62
Alcohol Discarded as a Stimulant 63
Few American Physicians Prescribe Spirits 69
V. IN DEATHS FROM ALCOHOLISM? -89 72
WET VIEW -79 72
World Death Rates from All Causes 73
Rising Death Rate from Alcoholism 74
Alcoholism Deaths in the United States and Canada 75
Poisoned Beverages Alleged Poisonous Quality of Liquor 76
DRY VIEW -89 79
Aged Liquor More Poisonous Than Unaged 81
Death Rate Highest in Nullification Area 82
Alcoholic Mortality in the United States 83
Prohibition Lightens Mortality of Women and Children 85
Alcohol Characterized a Slower Age 88
VI. IN POVERTY, CRIME AND DISEASE? -106 90
WET VIEW -96 90
Reports of Increased Crime 90
Reports of Alcoholic Diseases 93
DRY VIEW -106 96
Alcoholic Diseases Lessened for Nation as a Whole 97
Crime and the Eighteenth Amendment 100
Less Alcoholism, Less Poverty 104
VII. IN INCREASED DRUNKENNESS? -128 107
WET VIEW -114 107
New York City Comparatively Sober 108
Increasing Addicts and Drunken Drivers 112
DRY VIEW -128 114
Enormously Increased Price of Drinks 116
Increased Strictness of Police in Arrests for Intoxication 119
Drunken Drivers and Keeley Cures 123
VIII. IN EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRY -149 129
WET VIEW -135 129
Economic Gains Not Exactly Measurable 130
Economic Waste of Bootleg Traffic 132
Loss from Illegally Diverted Alcohol 133
DRY VIEW -149 135
Six Billion Estimate Still Seems Safe 136
Recent Reports on "Moderate" Drinking 139
Alcohol Diversion Cut Off 146
IX. IN CORRUPTION OF PROHIBITION AGENTS? -166 150
WET VIEW -156 150
Record of Shootings and Corruption 152
Telephonic Eavesdropping 154
DRY VIEW -166 156
Dry Unit Now Divorced from Politics 161
Old Prohibition Force Not All Bad 164
X. IN APPROPRIATIONS FOR ENFORCE- MENT? -183 167
WET VIEW -175 170
What Price Enforcement in New York? 171
Prohibition Agent's Experience 173
DRY VIEW -183 175
Federal and Local "Passing of Buck" 180
The Promise of Changed Conditions 182
XI. IN SMUGGLING AND ILLEGAL DIVER- SION OF ALCOHOL? -197 184
WET VIEW -190 184
Detroit as a Port for Contraband 185
Estimated Liquor Turnover in Detroit 189
Rum Shipments into New York 189
DRY VIEW -197 190
Dwindling of "Rum Row" 193
Commissioner Doran Testifies 194
Illicit Industry Now on Small Scale 197
XII. IN A TYPICALLY DRY STATE? -223 198
WET VIEW -206 198
Before Eighteenth Amendment, Dry North Carolina Did Well 199
Change for Worse After 1920 201
Arrests for Intoxication in North Carolina 202
Amount Spent for Enforcement by the U. S. Prohibition Unit in North Carolina 203
Evidence of Increased Violations of Law 204
DRY VIEW -223 206
Dry Majority Approves Results 208
Improvement of Gaston County 210
Phenomenal Statewide Progress 212
Records of Decreased Mortality 216
Total Mortality and Mortality from Certain Causes 217
Death Rates from Alcoholism and Cirrhosis of the Liver in the United States, North Carolina and Connecticut 220
XIII. IN A TYPICALLY WET STATE? -245 224
WET VIEW -230 224
State Opinion Rejects Prohibition 225
Hostile Courts and Juries 227
A Demoralizing Business 229
DRY VIEW -245 230
Reduction in Death Rate 231
Statistical Exhibit--Connecticut 237
XIV. IN THE NATION'S CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL? -290 246
WET VIEW -256 246
Estimated Consumption--Year Ended June 30, 1926 (Estimate by Hugh F. Fox) 248
Rejects "American Brewer" Estimate 248
Estimate Based on Hop Crop 249
The Hop Production (Estimate by Hugh F. Fox) 250
Wine Consumption (Estimate by Hugh F. Fox) 252
Adopts Buckner Figures as Basis 252
Production and Consumption of Distilled Spirits (Estimate by Hugh F. Fox) 254
A Post-Prohibition Increase 255
DRY VIEW -290 256
1918 Not Normal Pre-Prohibition Year 256
Hops Used by Home-Brewers 260
Estimate of Probable Consumption of Malt Liquors in the United States 265
Estimate of Probable Consumption of Wine in the United States 277
Distilled Spirits 278
Estimated Total Consumption 286
Estimated Per Capita Consumption of Absolute Alcohol in Beer, Wine, Distilled Spirits, and Aggregate 287
Estimate of Aggregate Probable Consumption of Absolute Alcohol in Malt Liquors, Wines, and Distilled Spirits in the United States 289
XV. IN PUBLIC SENTIMENT? 291-307
WET VIEW -296 291
Hysteria Produced National Prohibition? 292
State Referenda 293
Wet Prospects in Light of Popular Votes 295
DRY VIEW 297-307
Alfred E. Smith as Wet Champion 297
Increased Dry Majority in Congress 303
The "Wet Fringe" 305
Prohibition "Waves" 306
XVI. IN EDUCATION FOR TEMPERANCE? -322 308
WET VIEW -313 308
"Unscientific" School Textbooks 308
Scientific Experiments 309
The Pearl Experiments 310
Modern Experiments Recording "Benefits" 311
Temperance Teaching 312
DRY VIEW -322 313
Instruction in Schools 313
Counter-Effects of Liquor Campaign 316
A Modern Temperance Program 317
Shortened Life of "Moderate" Drinkers 319
Professor Westergaard's Criticism 320
Teaching of Total Abstinence Justified 321
XVII. IN THE LIGHT OF CANADA'S EXPERI- ENCE? -360 323
WET VIEW -333 323
Intoxicating Liquors are the Goal 324
Hours of Sale 327
Permits 328
Interdicts 328
Licenses 328
Local Option 329
Taverns 330
Consumption of Liquor 331
Sales of Spirits, Wine, and Beer in Quebec 331
Imperial Gallons 332
Consumption of Alcohol 332
DRY VIEW 333-360
No Leeway in Scientific Definition 333
Increased Sales 336
Bootleggery 339
Night Clubs and Road Houses 343
Law Loosely Observed in Cities 344
Cancellation of Permits 347
Experience in Quebec 347
The Government Stores 348
Convictions for Indictable Offenses in the Provinces of Canada 350
Health Conditions in Quebec 352
Motor Accidents 356
Prosecutions for Violations of Liquor Laws 358
XVIII. IN THE LIGHT OF BRITISH EXPERI- ENCE? -376 361
WET VIEW -370 364
Convictions for Drunkenness in England and Wales 366
Death Rates from Alcoholism and Cirrhosis of the Liver in England and Wales 367
Consumption of Absolute Alcohol in the United Kingdom 367
DRY VIEW -376 370
Per Capita Consumption of Spirits, Wine, and Beer in the United Kingdom 371
Rates of Arrests or Convictions for Intoxication 372
Death Rates from Alcoholism and Cirrhosis of the Liver in England and Wales 374
PART II--WHAT SHALL WE DO ABOUT IT?
XIX. CAN PROHIBITION BE REPEALED? -397 379
WET VIEW -387 379
Substitute for Prohibition Is Offered 379
Rights of Wet States Asserted 381
Smith Makes a Promise 382
Appeals in Behalf of Parents 383
Referendum Frown on Prohibition 386
DRY VIEW -397 387
"Keep Liquor Away from Them" 388
Forty-six States Hard to Move 389
Legislative Majority Votes Dry 391
The Question of Fair Play 393
Dry States Confirmed in Their Dryness 395
XX. CAN PROHIBITION BE MODIFIED OR NULLIFIED? -415 398
WET VIEW -406 398
Object Is to Nullify the Intent 399