Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-04
JAPAN TAKEN As A MODEL
Go 10 Far East for Plan TO Combat
White Slave Traffic.
LIFTING INCUBUS OF DEBT
Results - Fort Madison show Great
Progress I'm Plan TO Make that
Institutaon . Reform
aforY.
lFrom a SAD Correspondent)

From q staff Co~Trespondent)
DIES MONIES. DEC. 1-(special .)-Baffled
in their efforts to combat the white slave
tEaffioe In Dee Mosnes, city authorities
may appeal 20 the legislature when It con-
venes for \ law that will completely put
to route the bondsmon, extortionate mer-
chants and others who have proven a
menace in the city.
II is to Japan they are going for a
pattern for this law. There. where the
white slave traffic grew to such menaclng
proportions. a way was found to give the
women in brothels a chance to reform II
they desired. THAI has been one of the
chief complaints here, that women could
not reform because they were through
threats forced TO make heavy purchases
at srorbitant prices and became 50 heavily
involved financially they could not get out.
The proposed law, IL enacted, will pro-
vide that all debts contracted against a
sdri IN q brofhe are illegal
II has been the law that has been held
over the heads Of these unfortunate women
IN Des Moines that has enabled unprin-
cipled men and women to profit. Investiga-
ton disclosed one OF the most pernicious
methods lust before the red light" district
was abolished and It has been carried on.
a. is asserted, to some extent since. vendor
OF some wares, under threat Of prosecution
becaise OF her business, would induce OF
compel a woman to buy heavily. Then
when her payments came due and she could
not meet them he would tell her It had to
have tn, money and she could borrow 1t
OF a certain pawnbroker. The pawnbroker
would loan her the money. taking a mort
gage on the goods she had bought of the
vendor. who still held title. That was the
trap. After that any break Of the woman
20 dult her life or elude the grasp Of these
leeches was quickly stopped by a threat to
prosecute and send her to the penitentiary
for "mortgaging property that did not be-
long to her"
The proposed law, It is thought, would do
away with much of the traffic that Is now
bothering Des Moines officials.
RefOrmatOry Movement Progressed.
Progress Of the reformatory movement
at Fort Madison. which has been under
the direction of Superintendent ]. c. San
ders since the first of April, is shown In
photographs and pictures received by the
state board Of control today.
The photograph is that of a baseball
game, played at the prison on Thanks
giving day, at which practically all the in
mates OF the buildings were present.
UG lldllNhhl lle haN AeAAAt NAiANAA
shows the life Of the men under the new
regime, was a concert at o'clock in the
morning, with especial singers from Bur-
lington, followed by the baseball game In
which indoor baseball was played out Of
doors. At 2 o'clock an entertainment was
given by Germaine. ut which a number of
the men assisted, and following the lee
ture a basketball game.
Some of the pictures were pen drawings
by the prisoners.
enounc Parcel Post.
Sweeping resolutions denounclng the par
cells post legislation recommended by Post
master General Meyer will be passed in
executive session of the Iowa Implement
Dealers association Thursday morning.
Furthermore a telegram will be sent to
President Roosevelt asking him TO give
the parcels post law no support in his an
nual message to congress.
These steps were made certain this morn
ing at thte open session or the implement
dealers, when President w. d. Hoyt, Man
cester, In his annual address recommended
that the association do ali In its power
10 defeat the parcels post bill, as recon-
mended by the postmaster general"
state Trap Champion.
In one OF the best trap shooting contests
ever held In Iowa, John Peterson of Randall
succeeded in retaining the state champion
ship by defeating b. F. Ebert of Des
Moines at Eagle Grove Tuesday by a
score OF 81 to SO.
A high wind interfered somewhat with
the shooting, Ebert was the challenging
party, Peterson having won the state
honors at the Iowa shoot In Des Moines last
spring. Billy Hoon OF Jewell Junction will
probably be the next to challenge Peterson