The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-09

! Or Douglass s, Freeman. Of Richmond has
started a role. He has entered the lists
in behalf Of segregated vice districts. Accord
ing to report in the Richmond Journal he
told the legislative committee having under con-
sideratton an anti segregation ordinance that
the proper remedy is to be found in the train
ing Of children by the parents. The Journal
says:
OR Freeman urged that the proper course
was to seek to impress parents with the impor-
tanee of carefully training their children Of
fkeeping them off the streets Of instructng them
in the houses and thus cutting off the source OF
supply"
DR. Freeman is an educational and health
specialist a writer and worker For years he
has been intimately identified with the health
department of the State He believes in educa-
ition and in the maintenance Of educational In
Itstitutions. and he Iabors that his ideas may
lind expression in a. practical way
/ DR. Freeman believes also in a rcd light
hinstitution. Appearing through that commit
tee before the public--he breaches against a
statute that is designed to wipe away the dark
est evil that humanity ever has known lie
/ says In effect that laws powerless to cope
with conditions and that only In home training
can an cffectual cure be found.
/ Pr Freeman builds edihces and creates cham
nels for the spread of health and education;
for tho development of the human body and
! character. and in the Same breath he strives
Iagainst a practical. straightforward measure
tfhat is intended to lift infinitely higher the
plane of human life.
Dir Freeman knows that segregated dis
! trict cannot exist unless it has profitable pa
! tronage He knows that long as ii thrtVes
lit is the cause of misery, poverty. and crime,
and Vet. if he be consistent, he must speak
and work constantly in its behalf. He must
| proclaim the necessity of the house Of Ill fame
lin every community in Virginia, in villages and
towns and counties we'll as in cities lie
must visit Roanoke county and advise the sal-
pervisors and perhaps the school authorities,
! to pick out site in some convenient valley
and erect there n segregated district where
vicious women may ply their trade and where
boys may learn the ways of depravity
! DIR Freeman cannot be Inconsistent. TX ne
believes what he says he must as a con-
/ ever he writes or says He must extol the hene-
fits and safeguards Of the red light nstitu-
ton. He must plan for string Of dives from
Harner's Ferry TO the Carolina border and for
another string from Norton TO Norfolk and
not precinct in all that territory must be de-
prived by him of the opportunity to protect
titself in the fashion that he DEGREES.
! Go ahead DR.. Freeman! Let the people OF
your State know exactly what idea you pro-
pose Carry your doctrines to a full CONCLUSION
and work that no corner of the Commonwealth
may be deprived of the blessed processes winch
Won recommend You believe in the red
light" Surely you not going to confne your
|he1iefs to any one community If the red
light is a blessing for every homestead in
the State SO 20 ahead. Proclaim aloud the
strength and usefulness of the dive. DO all
that YOU can to introduce its activities and to
advance it's curative powers.--World- News,
Roanoke.