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

Complaints will come
Eleven houses, the so-called segregated district,
and than thirty -three houses scattered
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" pitiable 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.
Who then is complaining of Atlanta's mmor
alty9
The Underworld-Laugh not!
Continuous concerted clamor is one of the old
est devices of the crook.
BY IT, JERUsALEM's GRAFTERs cruoiAed
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: said she was possessed with
spirit" to-day, you would probably call her a de-
generate.
Her owners, men, made money by her weak
ness.
Paul cured her. No longer would her infrmity
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 men knew 9th
erwise. And men have not changed.
ATLANTA's MORAL DOWNFALL HAS
COME IN THE MIND OF THE PIIP, THE PAN
DERER, THE WHITE SLAYER AND THE LAND
LORDS OF FALLEN WOMEN SINCE THERE IS
NO LONGER A 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 Cosson of
Iowa said
"A segregated district corrupted police
force.
"A segregated district is inseparably connected
with murder, rapine, lust and robbery
Father o'Calaghan protesting against segre.
cation, said:
II do not want to call any city official His
honor the Chief Panderer of the city"
Rabbi Hirsh, 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. Rs wrote: FIGHT 1T 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.
'AI of the great dailies have already pro.
nounced against it."
And Chicago like Minneapolis refused to stuI-
tify itself by compromise with crime.
Therefore, remember: when her masters
that the hope of their gains was gone" they
caused riot in Philipp
Similar tricks will not succeed in Atlanta You
your guard
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Of the Men and BeIiGiOn
Forward Movement.