The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-03-06
DETECTIVES IN BEReA

which in other communities might
be suspected of handling intoAicants.
They checked up the honesty of the
students conducting the Cooperative
Store. They asccrtained that from
several of the mems dormitories there
was no going out at night on the
part of the young men. They found
that the great majority of students
were no; only free from the use Of
liquor and tobacco. but vigorously OPP
posed to such practices.
They soon began to find, however,
that there were a few students and
citizens of Gn5ther kind. They dis
covered, for example, at the newly
built tool houss at the farm that the
students occupying two rooms which
were seldom visited by teachers, made
there a rendezvous for the use Of to-
bacco and sometimes liquor, and in one
or two private houses the same state
Of affairs was found to exist. Before
being in Bcrea two weeks, new stu
dent, who had professed himself dos-
irous of procuring liquor, was taken
to Richmond and shown thru the red
light district, and two or three days
later led thru the darkness tC a
blind tiger" in the outskirts of Be
rea.
About this time, other evidence, as
Is frequently the case, came TO us
quite Unexpectedly from different quar-
tiers so that We learned of the mis-
doings Of students and citizens. 1t is
heartbreGking, disappointing to find
that some for whom we had had
high hopes have thus fallen. We were
greatly disappointed to find that some
citizens and students, who had not
practiced wrong doing themselves,
seemed ready to shield or apologize for
II, or to speak lightly about II. And
we are shocked t. find that some seem
ed to have played the part OF hypo-
critics In protesting a desire fF
amendment to their teachers while
they were saying to their fellow stu
dents that they only wished to be in
school IN order that they might have
an opportunity for gambling and
other criminal activities. Some CT the
young people who were expelled and
dismissed We shall follow with hope
full prayers, while some who still
remain we must look upon with anX-
iety, II not suspicion. | only wish
that those who have talked against
the college regulations and have tried
TO conceal wrong-dOers, could know
Of the great efforts the teachers
have put forth to interest our young
people in that which is good and keep
them from that which is evil. And |
wish that they could know something
of the anguish of parents and friends
which is occasioned by the downfall
of these young people who might
have been shielded from temptation
until their own good character and in
dependence of temptation was esta-
blished.
The arrest of Mr.. Scott and his
customers was made on Saturday
night. and at the same time the
search OF a number of students rooms
some on suspicion and some merely
to divert attention, revealed many
things which the school authorities
were In duty bound to know.
AS is always the case there is
some attempt to divert attention from
the wickedness of the sins that have
been uncovered by finding fault with
those who brought this evil To light
The men who by dynamite blew peo-
pie TO death In Los Angeles express
ed themselves az feeling greatly
wronsed because they were detected