In the beginning, Henry Joy thought alcohol prohibition was a good idea.  One of the founders of the Packard Motor Car Company and something of a Renaissance man, Joy thought that eliminating booze from the American scene would cure a whole range of national ills.  For one thing, he felt the increasing complexity of the factory demanded a sober work force.  The newly conceived assembly line was no place for drunks.  What’s more, the money that working men would save by not buying booze could be used to buy other things—toasters, washing machines, homes, cars—and once free of the sodden drag of alcohol, the economy could surge forward.  But more important than the economic benefits would be the social rewards for the poor and downtrodden.  Decades of fire-and brimstone from the temperance crusaders had convinced most of America that the focal point of evil was the saloon.  Shortly after the Anti-Saloon League was formed in 1893, Henry Joy and his wife Helen came on board with time and money.