The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-04-08
FOR SEGREGATION
>AIcAGo's MAYoR-ELEcT WILL
NOT ELIMINATE "REo LIGHT"
DISTRICT.
says Attempt to Abolish Social En
Would Make it Ten Times Worse
believes in Strict Regu-
ation.

Chicago, April -Mayor-elect Car
ar r. Harrison yesterday placed him.
Elf on record as against the scatter
/. lg of the denizens of the so-called
segregated vice districts of Chicago,
recommended by the Brsse vice
commission.
He declared that scattering of vice
ould make it ten times as bad. He
i'll work towards the elimination OF
,e evil, but insists that new plan
ust be offered.
Dispersion of vice will not be ia
bred by me-" he said "'Tnere is no
estion but that every person would
vor any proposition that woulI re,
1t in the elimination of the evil.
J far | have heard OF no Plan that
n bring this result The moment
a scatter vice you make it ten times
bad for then it cannot be con
oiled by the police
AS the Only Solution.
"Wnile vice segregated Is a dali9r
Bile thing, it seems about the only
olution. The problem has beeh up
ince history began. With the vicious
laracters segregated so that they
} not interfere with decent people,
ey can harm only themselves.
ould not favor the abolishing of
e segregated districts and the driV'
8 of the people of the underworld
10 decent communities. They would
lntinue TO lead the same lives in
cir new environments, and as a
'snlt the whole city would be faint
~
If any proposition that really will
rove solution of the problem can
)e suggested | will willingly fight
0 bring about reversal of present
onditions."
Chief Of Police Steward said that
Thile he had not time to carefully
consider the report Of the vice com
mission, he knew that TIE horrible
lecture drawn by the investigators
vas not beyond the limits of fac.
What Has Been Done.
I'VE have done everything in our
over to cHrtail vice." he said. First
e prohibited the disorderly houses
a tue red light district from selling
liquor We then ordered the |
clock closing law strictly adhered
OF course, there are many viola
ons OF the law that escape my no
70.
Chicago, Willie not garden Of
1radlsc, is not the worst city in the
2uauy ! confidently believe that
city is On par mora = WITH a
'ajority Of cities many times small.
II"
Members Of the commission refused
o discuss what mai transpired in the
subcommittee meetings when the re,
sort was being compiled. 1t is known
loweyer, that the ministerial mem
1ers Of the commission strongly advO,
'atel the abolishing of the segregated
districts while the lay members de-
Jared against such a recommendation
- the grounds that the vice uncon-
fclled would he a greater menace
han vice semi-offcially controlled.
Under City Control.
One member of the commission de-
dared that ne had favored the retain
ng OF the segregated districts, bu.
ldvocated that they be placed uder
supervision. If this were
lone, he said, the hotels of i'll repute.
live saloons and low music halls
ould be wiped out.
i believe In the passage Of laws
Uch as Berlin and numerous Euro. |
can cities have he said. "These
avs place the disorderly escorts I'm. |
or direct supervision The inmates
annot roam at will over the streets
s they do in Chicago. All dives and
laces of i'll fame outside of the regu.
'r'y assigned vice districts are wiped
IT BY srch supervision.
Looking calmly at the problem.
ne realizes that since the days of
Babylon, and centuries before that
ime, The social evil has been the
reatest problem which mankind has
cd to face. 1t cannot be wiped out
2 q day. The reports of medical ex-
ert Investigators show that many
srsoas are born low and vicious.
'thers, through weaknesses, become
erellcts.
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