The Washington herald., 1913-06-11
SEGREGATION DOES NOT
SEGREGATE ENTIRELY

Cal, where disorderly houses have been
entirely eliminated. made a defense OF
his city, which was attacked by Chief
Peterson in his address. Chief Peterson
said that although elimination had .been
tried in Los Angeles. vice was still pres
ent, and that criminal assaults had in
creased noticeably since the enactment
of the ordinance.
Il believe that segregation does not
Segregate. except possibly in the City of
Oakland" said Chief Sebastian. II feel
that IegaIized vice is wrong. and as I
am sworn to uphold the right while in
my official position. ] am compelled to
advocate elimination. The people of Los
Angeles would not stand for segregation
today. The statement OF Chief Peterson
to the effect that criminal assaults have
increased in Los Angeles since elimina
| ton has been tried is untrue when con-
dtions are understood. II is fact
| that OF late there have been a good many
persons arrested in my city for assault.
but in most cases the crimes were COM
mitted in other communities, the Of
| tenders merely being apprehended by
the Los Angeles vigilants."
Because we can't suppress vice alto
gether is no reason why We should
lIegaIize it," said Chief Henry W. Mason.
OF New Bedford. Mass, in advocating
have not a house of ill fame or gambling
Women are entirely safe from insults
on the streets at all times of the day
and night. We haven't suppressed sin,
but we have made the sin illegal. Every
day in the courts We have cases OF rob-
berry. assault. and disorderIy conduct.
but is il any reason because the pro-
hbitory measures violated do not pro-
| hibit that regulations against robbery.
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be repealed? OF course. not"
Conditions in Norfolk.
Maj. c. C. Kizer, chief of police of
Norfolk. Va. said there are $40 women
of the streets in Norfolk. but that they
are segregated and under strict surveil-
lance.
IF should receive some day an order
from the officials of my city to close
up all the disorderly houses and drive
the inmates out. would Immediately
send my resignation and quit. Segre-
CATION is the only feasible plan to fol
Iow."
Chief George Black, OF Wilmington.
said he was in favor of regulation of
the houses of i'll repute. He explained
conditions in his city, declaring it to
have the best regulated houses in the
country.
THE saloons are the cause Of much
vice in Wilmington. as they are else
where" he said. our city is also
troubled with hotel immortality, but we
are working hard to require better
methods of hotel registration. which
would greatly clarity the situation
Chief William Fl. Harrington. of Battle
Creek. Mich, said that his city was free
from houses of i'll fame. He said there
is still some immortality, but that 1t has
been reduced considerably in late years.
Chief Henry D. Cowles, of New Haven,
Conn, where all the disorderly houses
have been closed. said the result OF the
adoption of the method had resulted in
the inmates infesting the highways and
byways in the vicinity of Yale Univer-
sIty and other educational centers of
that city.
Segregation seems to me to be the
only temporary solution" he said. 1T
is impossible to stiffie the passions Of
men universally"
Maj Sylvester read letter from the
chief of police of VIENNA Austria, re-
GREETING that he would be unable to at
tend. and extending his hest wishes to
the assembled delegates. The major also
announced that the National Press Club
had extended an invitation to the dele
gates to visit the clubrooms at Fiji
teenth and r Streets Northwest at any
time Of the day or night. Last night the
delegates went in body to attend the
performance at Polls Theater.
One of the most interesting papers pre-
scented at the session yesterday morning
was by Henry Behrendt, OF Lansing.
Mich. on the subject of vice and the
social evil.
Once a girl has overstepped her bound
AIRY and is found out he said. what
chance has she to reform? She Is looked
down upon by her own sex and is an out
cast Of society. She is pointed out as
creature to be Stunned by good men an6
women. She is knocked around from:
pillar to post, and instead of being taken
back into the arms Of her friends. she is
literally kicked out into the world to
shift for herself She feels the disgrace
and shortly loses all courage, realizes
that she is an outcast and eventually
falls to the lowest depths of shame. Is
this poor unfortunate girl entirely to
blame? -.-..
Let us hope that society viii soor
come to realize the great mistake and
human crime it commits in crowding
these poor unfortunates out into the
world and lend us hand in reforming
them