Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-18

Complaints will
Eleven houses, the socalled segregated district
and more than thirty-three houses scattered over
Atlanta have been closed.
In those houses a seven hundred thousand dol
lar year business had depended upon the betrayal
of sufficient girls to supply the trade
An annual rental of sixty thousand and more
dollars had been paid the landlords.
The closed doors marked the end.
To-day the white SLAYER can not sell his meal.
ticket, ptable girl in Mechanic Street.
It's doors and windows are boarded up
And its former denizens know of no place in
Atlanta where under police protection trapped girls
can be bought and sold.
atty?
The Underworld-Laugh not!
Continuous, concerted camOr is one of the old
est devices of the crook
BY TT, JERUSALEM's GRAFTERS crucifed
Christ their chatter convinced Roman PLATE that
multitudes desired the release of murderer Barab-
bas and demanded the death of Jesus, Saviour.
The Light of the World, they tried to uuench,
but by the Cross they only raised 1t higher.
Ever triumphant, the risen Lord to-day moves
Following in His steps, Paul pitied the Philip
plan slave girl: men said she was possessed with
spirit" to-day you would probably call her de-
generate
Her owners, men, made money by her weak
ness
Paul cured her. No longer would her infrmty
support ablebodied These, her masters, re-
belled. They threw the city into an uproar with
their cries. They said
''These men trouble our city"
Their loss of dirty money doubtless did seem
to them civic catastrophe Honest knew 9TH
erwise And men have not changed.
ATLANTA's MORAL DOWNFALL HAS
COME IN THE MIND OF THE PIMP, THE PAN
DEFER, THE WHITE SLAYER AND THE LAND.
LORDS OF FALLEN WOMEN SINCE THERE IS
NO LONGER A PoLICE-PR0TECTED PLACE
WHERE THEY CAN PREY UPON WEAK
WOMEN
The hope of their gain" has gone hence, the
clamor.
So loud was it in Chicago that her city council
appointed nine of its members a committee to con-
slider reopening their recently closed red light dis
trict.
To this committee Attorney General Cosson, of
Iowa said:
"A segregated district corrupted police
force
"A segregated district is inseparably connected
with murder, rapine lust, and robbery"
Father oCallaghan, protesting against segre-
CATION said
81 do not want to call any city official His
honor the Chief Panderer of the city"
Rabbi Hrsh adding his voice, said
Every man before he enters-should think Of
how he would feel if his sister his own cous
in to be held in such thraldom and slavery as
these poor sisters of ours are held"
Jacob A. Riis wrote: FIGHT IT TO A FIN
ISH THE ONLY Way
Graham Taylor reviewing the situation in the
Survey" says:
There has been surprising rally of public
sympathy against restoring the suppressed disorder
ly resorts in the former segregated districts.
"An of the great dailies have already pro.
nounced against it,
And Chicago, like Minneapolis, refused tozstul
tify itself by compromise with crime.
Therefore remember: when her masters
saw that the hope of their gains was gone" they
caused riot in Philppi.
Similar tricks will not succeed in Atlanta You
your guard.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Of the Men and BeIigiOn
Forward Movement.