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

Complaints will
Eleven houses, the sO-called segregated district
and more than thirty three houses scattered over
Atlanta have been closed.
In those houses 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
dollars had been paid the landlords.
The closed doors marked the end.
To-day, the white SLAYER not sell his meal
ticket, ptabe girl in Mechanic Street.
Its 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.
Who then is complaining of Atlanta's immor
atty?
The Underworld-Laugh not!
Continuous concerted clamor is one of the old
est devices of the crook.
BY IT, JERUSALEM'S GRAFTERS crucifed
Christ: their catter convinced Roman PLATE that
multitudes desired the release of murderer Barab
bas and demanded the death of Jesus our Saviour,
The Light of the World, they tried to quench'
but by the Gross they only raised It higher.
Ever triumphant, the risen Lord to-day moves
Following in His steps, Paul pitied the Philip.
plan slave girl men said she possessed with a
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 infirmity
support able-bodied 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
erwlse. And men have not changed
ANN
COME IN THE MIND OF THE PINTP, THE PAN.
DERER THE WHITE SLAYER AND THE LAND
LORDS OF FALLEN WOMEN SINCE THERE IS
NO LONGER POLICE PROTECTED 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 oosson, of
Iowa said
IA segregated district corrupted police
force.
"A segregated district is inseparabIy connected
with murder, rapine, lust, and robbery"
Father o'oallaghan, protesting against segre.
cation, said:
Il do not want to call any city official His
honor the Chief Panderer of the city"
Rabbi Hirsh, adding his voice. said:
Every before he enters-should think of
how he would feel if his sister or his own cous
in were to be held in such thraldom and slavery as
these poor sisters of ours are held
Jacob A. Ris 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
''AIl of the great dailies have already pro.
nounced against it.
And Chicago, like Minneapolis refused tozatuI.
tfy itself by compromise with crime
Therefore, remember: When her masters
saw that the hope of their gains was gone" thew
caused riot in Philppi.
Similar tricks will not succeed in Atlanta You
are on your guard.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Of the Men and BeIiOiOn
Forward Movement