The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-11

These were the. salient points and
suggestions In an address by the Rev.
Nv. a. M. Mortensen, Of New York,
chairman OF the Central committee Oh
inner missions and rescue work. be-
fore the secretarial force oil the T.
~. G. A. In the association building,
Monday morning. The speaker dealt
with conditions call over the United
States. but gave much attention TO
Detroit He has been In the city Tor
some days and has been conducting
m active campaign OF investigation
In regard to the morality OF the city.
II was told on coming here" said
|. the speaker, that the dives In De-
troit we're segregated, that Is, that
they were in a district by themselves.
Investigation showed me, however,
that while many Of the resorts are In
. certain district. there are many out
side of 1t, and 1t is the worst places
OF the kind that are out Of the segrat-
ed zone.
II have also found that there are
cafes where girls are allowed to
drink. Il Is understood that they can
get nothing stronger than coffee In
these places, but when you see girls
coming out hardly able to walk. II Ia
apparent that something else besides
coffee il sold. Moreover, we saw
girls coming out OF these cafes, and,
accompanied by men. going to other
questionable places in the neighbor-
hood. We counted rs couples going
In and out OF one place. In this way
many young girls are ruined. Many
. girl undoubtedly goes to these cafes
with male companion, whom she
trusts and respects. only to find out
that he later works her ruin after
getting her under the influence of
liquor.
In addition to these cafes, much
harm Ii done by disreputable women
becoming tenants In fats, where re-
spectacle people reside. These women
sometimes ply their trade 30 deftly
that II IL some time before they are
found out. In the meantime the chill
dren OF other people living In the
same tenement building come In con-
tact with the women and what they
see and hear does their own morals
no good. Against this sort Of ten
ancy, respectable people must ever
be on their guard. I have known
apartment houses to be tenanted with
doctors and even clergymen on one
floor of such buildings. with dissolute
women renting the flats over their
heads. II may be hard to keep out
such undesirables from respectable
communities, but they never should
be allowed to rest, once their pres
ence Is detected.
81 would not tolerate the presence
Of disorderly places under any CIR
cumstances, but I would rather have
them segregated than scattered while
the work OF lessening the vice Is go.
ing on. don't believe that the vice
will ever be completely stamped out,
but 1t surely can be reduced
to a minimum. II is an unnecessary
evil and should not be tolerated at
all.
1T should also be emphasized that
the parents OF today are not giving
their children as much instruction
along the lines of morality az they
should. The boys and girls of today
know much more than the parents
think they do, and 1t would be much
better II the children got good. whole
some advice from their mothers and
fathers, instead of allowing their
minds to become filed with what they
hear in the streets.
For the fighting Of the great evil
Of the white slave traffic, there IL nc
better medium than education. The
dangers of the evil can not be toe
strongly put forth, for 1t is greater
+ evil than the saloon or gambling. and
' its elimination can be expected only
| by q system of education. No spas
modfc effort will accomplish any