El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-07
ENGLAND HAS
REMEDY FOR
VAGRANCF
"Way Tickets" Are Solving
the Tramp Problem in
Great Britain.
GOVERNOR ORDERS
WOMEN TO DRESS UP

London. Eng, Sept. THE tramp
problem in the British Isles is in a
fair way towards solution. The way
ticket method of dealing with vag-
rancy is accomplishing a revolution.
The latest reports on the working Of
the system indicate that within a very
few years the ranks Of the ragged
mendicants on the highways Of the
United Kingdom will be reduced al
most to vanishing point
The object of the way ticket is to
give a better chance to the unem-
ployed who really want work. and to
make the way of the professional
tramp as hard as possible. The man
who wants to work but is compelled
to take to the road is taken into the
poorhouse at night and released next
morning instead of suffering the usual
period of detention. When leaving he
is given a ticket which entities him
to a certain allowance of bread and
cheese along the road he intends to
take. He is also put in touch with
the local labor exchanges and every
thing possible is done for him II he
shows a genuine desire to obtain work
Short Shift For H1bituaIs.
On the other hand, the habitual
tramp obtains short shift. After
spending the night at the poorhouse
he suffers the usual period of deten-
ton and gets the allotted task Final
" he is given the way ticket so
that he has no excuse eornib gg
that has no excuse for begging. Very
soon the poorhouse masters begin to
look askance at the man who persist
emily presents the ticket. and his jour
poorhouse to poorhouse in the coun-
ties where the system prevails is not
made any too smooth The tramp
finally seeks county where this
method does not prevail, so these sane
tuaries are beginning to adopt the
system as selfdefence.
The system only becomes successful
when the househoIders cooperate. Cir
culars are issued instructing them
that, since all Migrants have access to
the bread tickets, there is no excuse
for giving food to beggars, and the
tramps who neglect to provide them
selves with the tickets are beginning
to learn that the circulars have not
fallen on barren soil.
Troubles of n Governor.
The difficulties Of the clergymen
and social reforms of more enlight--
ened countries in their efforts to COM
pei the fair sex to put more cloth into
their skirts pale into insignificance
beside the troubles of the local gov
ernor of Inhambane British East At
RIGA. who has almost caused war by
ordering the native maloenS TO attire
themselves in European garb.
The order particularly insisted that
the native women should not appear in
public without skirts under pain of
some grave penalty not specified
Never was an apparently innocent
sumptuary law received with such an
outburst of rebellion. The commercial
council resigned in a body and the in
dian storekeepers who deal in the ar
ticles of attire favored by the native
ladies threatened to shut up shop in
protest The native belles took even
more drastic action by refusing to
come near Inhambane at all, with the
result that the town was soon in dan
ger of famine in vegetables, eggs,
poultry and other necessary food sup
plies. The women who lived in town
prepared to leave.
The opposition became too hot for
the governor who withdrew the OBJ
noXious decree, and the bellies of In
hambane again go about in their scant
native costumes
Another Tablet to Shakspere.
The London Shakspere league is busy
with plan for erecting in st. Leon
ards church. Shoreditch. a tablet to
the memory of the Elizabethan actors