The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-05
GAMBLING HIT
 BY YALE DEAN
CLARES TT GOES ON IN NEW HAVEN WITHOUT POLICE AC- TION-SAYS CITY HAS 300 PLACES.

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 There are 800 places in the city ol New Haven where gambling goes on unmolested by the police.
 T am informed by a personal let ter from a very reputable citizen that on Nov. 16 he witnessed 8 game in which were thirty men, unmolested by the police.
 The man who writes me the letter, said that last Saturday night he was in a place where thirty men were gambhng, all students, presuna bly. He reported this case to the police under whose very noses it took place, and they refused absolutely to take action
 were made last night to the New Ha- ven Federatio of Mems clubs at it's meeting in Harmonic hall. by Dean Charles R. Brown, of the Yale Divin- fty school, in the course of his talk on Civic Righteousness.
 The speaker disclaimed any inten- his lecture, for he said that civic righteousness should not be secured by newspaper campaign of illumin- atfon as to the evils which exist in the city, but men should give their sup- port to honest officials of the city who are working for its betterment. who gave this testimony in a letter was such, he said, as led him to have no doubt of his veracity. He could not dfvulge the name Of the writer because the letter was of a private nature, but he said he would be glad to attempt to secure the writer's per- mission to make his name public lat
 The central station. where the con- platnt is presumed to have been reg istered, was in charge of Sergeant last night that no such complaint had reached him.
 No, Vice Regulation.
 In the course of his talk Dean vations, chiefly that in his opinion vice could not and need not be reg ulated, that prostitution could be blot ted out as was done in the city of Oak mems clubs. He instanced the city of DeG Moines one in which the wiped out the evil. by forbidding such women the freedom the city, and printing in the newspapers the name and picture of every person renting his house for unlawful purposes.
 These women weren't scattered to the tenements. either, to prey upon our youth, as has been done in other cities.
 ''In San Deigo.'' said he, t'the police authorities went down in wagons and loaded the women of the underworld ative of accepting respectable. posi- tions which they proffered or of leav- ing the city. All but six left.
 Trust Moral Forces.
 ''RighteousnesS' said Dean Brown, 'is the supreme need of every city, and the desire for 1t is not peculiar to any religious denomina tion, therefore you men of the Federation should work hand in hand for that result. There is at present a tendency in ev- cry line of endeavor to federate, and why not have a trust of moral forces. such as this, working for the greater afficiPncV of the Citv2
 From the story of Abraham beg ging the Lord to save Sodon, if only he discovered 45 honest men in it, I gain three lessons: first, Gods inter est in the city; second, the cornn1o n disposition of all men to secure a good bargain, as evidenced by Abraham's s pairing down the humber of good men to suit the demands Of the Lord; and thirdly, if even ten righteous men can be found in a city, we have much to
 "If a city could be found to have a mayor impregnable to the onslaugatS of henchmen; if. it could have an ir- reproachable chief of police; if it would not glory in the fines he inn posed, but in the men he had paroled; a board of health head; a Chamber of Commerce president; a president of the Board of Education who would not bestoW the positions in schools as gifts to his henc11men as spells; man who would show the same fearlesSneSS and honesty as Professor Moore of Yale, when he told the New York Board of Educat ation that they were all wrong; a head of a Central Labor Union who would realize that workinsmen have rights which should be respected, and that capital likewise has it's rights; a capitalist who would have regard for human and financial gains; and a heal of a church who would recognize the reeds of his fellowmen-this would be