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Title: Commercial recreation
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Moley, Raymond, 1886-1975
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Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Foundation Committee
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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nguished from the restaurants whichare primarily eating places. If this were done,licenses could be issued to restaurants and coffeehouses which furnish recreation and a reasonabledegree of control could be exercised. Unquestion-ably strict legislation should be provided by thecouncil at a verj^ early date. With this method ofcontrol, coupled with effective police activity, thecoffee house problem would probably be reduced to aminimum. Properly conducted and regulated theycan go far in supplying the middle aged males ofthe foreign-born groups a wholesome substitute forthe saloon. SALOONSFrom the beginning this Survey has pursued thepolicy of considering the saloon in its capacity as arecreation center. With the rights or wrongs of theUquor question it has not concerned itself. As isindicated elsewhere a large amount of the investiga-tion of the Survey was carried on during the year1917, two years before the advent of prohibition.Statistics collected at that time indicated that the 108
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collateral services of the saloons of Cleveland wereof great significance. These services were of such anature as the cashing of checks, recei\Tng of mail forcustomers and telephone service. All agencies con-cerned in the problem of furnishing substitutes forthe saloon should give careful consideration to theseservices which in many sections of the city actu-ally did make the saloon a poor mans club. At the advent of prohibition Cleveland had about1400 saloons. A considerable proportion of thesehave continued in business selhngsubstitutes andoften secretly dispensing portions of a left overstock. If we except the gains from illegal sales ofliquor the profits in most saloons have been reducedto a fraction of what they were. This is true in spiteof freedom from taxation and from rules againstSunday selling. About 800 of Clevelands saloons remained openthroughout the summer. The reasons actuating theircontinuance were numerous. ^lany hoped to fiveuntil aid came from the November election

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