!
iblin, statistician of the Metro-insurance Co., showing the eath rate in the United States.
; figures were offered,, in the iable statistics on sickness, as able index to public health, irst of all, that the average r six years of prohibition, from inclusive, was at a lower level the period before prohibition, L917. On the other hand, how-real that the death rate trend dily upward from year to year ion became effective, whereas ,vas downward. Moreover, the rd trend has been due mostly deaths among men. lg a comparison between the 'octor Dublin omitted the years id 1920 which, he said, were irbed by the influenza epi-irefore gave a false picture of mortality.
res, the charts reveal that the y mortality in the U. S. Regis-New York, New Jersey, In-six New England States, dur-Dd before prohibition was at 5.15 deaths to every thousand the mortality was declining at 0 per thousand each year. In after prohibition, the average .58 per thousand, or 16.9 per an before. But instead of a ;, the death rate climbed .09 per year—nearly as rapid an in-5 the decrease in the earlier pe-p insurance policy holders the
Oo O. McIntyre
New York Day by Day
NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—The New York night club is a great social lcvelcr. And a study in social contrasts. The rich roue and the scarlet sister sit cheek by jowl with the silk stockinged youth and the debutante daughter. If one doesn’t like it, he may, well, lump it.
Night club financing comes chiefly from the underworld although there arc, of course, a number of respectable clubs. Bootlegging criminals make a killing, rent a cellar, hire a jazz orchestra and lo! a rendezvous that breaks down social barriers.
One sees Harry Thaw at a table. The Duchess Soandso at another. A pommaded South American gigolo. The dancing star of a music show*. A scarred gunman with his moll. Philandering husbands with dizzy blondes inviting blackmail. Bluebloods, gleaners, racketeers, and such.
The night clubs arc geared to such seductiveness that people who would hesitate to be seen in a second class but respectable restaurant have no compunction about mingling and rubb'ing elbows with riff-raff who have often made murder a fine art.
The clubs are supposed to close not later than 3 a. m.,.but they do not really snap into high speed until that hour. Customers stream! out to their taxicabs at sun-up and must go to Reuben’s for breakfast before calling it a night.
Early workers are so. used to seeing men and women in evening r*W.V»P«: t.hov do not oven turn their