Acworth's early 20th Century Anti-Saloon League

Acworth's early 20th Century Anti-Saloon League

By Larry Felton Johnson Unless you were an organized crime figure, the attempt at imposing prohibition on a national scale in the early 20th century was a dismal failure. If you were an organized crime figure, it brought fabulous riches (or maybe an early, violent death, depending on how successful you were). But despite the failure of that social experiment, the movement to prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages at every level of government r…