South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-01-26
REFORM IS MOT
ONE DAYS WORK
Persistent Efforts Needed to
Cleanse Any City, Says Owen
Wizard, Detective, in Address
at High School.

Cleaning up q city Is not the work
OF a day. but one that requires much
effort and persistence. said owen
Wizard. Chicago detective in an ad-
dress at the high school auditorium
last night. The members OF the
board OF safety and the board OF
works. with Mayor Keller and other
city officials were present.
The "Red-BOOks' were used for the
song service. Because OF lack 70 room
a large number OF people were -drned
away going to the First Presbyterian
church where a service was held.
over 1900 were IN attendance, many
Of the people standing at the rear OF
the room The services was conduct
ed under the auspices or William r.
Nitsche Of the Y. ~. &. A.
Wizard showed how the people had
wiped vice out OF many OF the east
ern cities and said that Chicago took
a big step in falling in line when she
stamped out the segregated "redlight"
districts three months ago. Honest
officials IN the office OF mayor. chief
OF police. as We'll as prosecutor are
necessary. he said, in cleansing city.
Officials Impeached.
lie pointed 10 many cases where
public sentiment had compelled the
Impeachment OF some of the worst Of
ficials. Among them he named Sher-
if Samuel Caldwell who was removed
from office by Gov. Odell in Buffalo
a number Of years ago. He pointed 10
the removal OF a former chief Of pO-
lice of Cleveland VINO Il said was TAX
en- from the penitentiary where he
was serving sentence and given the
position by the plots and influence Of
the saloon men.
The detective made four addresses
- H. - fs.1Ir raf
the Trinity NJ r church. In the art
ernOon he gave an address to men and
boys. besides the high school talk. He
will address the Ministerial association
before he leaves the city Monday
Mrs. Wizard addressed a large audi
ence of women at the First Baptist
church Sunday afternoon.
Big Crowd at Oliver.
During the afternoon at the Oliver
theater. Detective Wizard discussed
law enforcement with special refer
ence to the social evil and law en-
forcement
He sketched the history OF the anti
white slave movement in the United
States and told OF numerous exper-
fences as a secret service operative in
running white slavers to earth By
use OF the stereOptcOn he drove his
arguments home In a way that is not
likely TO be forgotten.
1t was the biggest crowd the Oliver
opera house has held for many moons.
Every seat was occupied even to the
gallery. Marvin Campbell presided
L. G. Whitcomb lead the singing.
J. q. Ames secretary of the Y. NJ. G..
A, superintendent the taking of a
collection for the speaker, which
gathered I'm $115.
You can enforce the law If you
go after il and go after it right, and
Lv NF~Ir 70 IL, 4 Tor
ed, but spasmodic enforcement
amounts to nothing. He expressed
the belief that South Bend had started
upon an era of law enforcement that
would last which brought long and
continued applause.
Segregation n Failure.
THE segregation of vice is and al
ways will be failure" Detective
Wizard went on, and he gave numer-
Gus instances Of IL to prove his asser-
ton, notably, Seattle, Los Angeles,
jamestown, y. Y. Winnipeg, Can.
with a fair start in Chicago. and other
places not noted
Segregation can never succeed be-
cause II Is wrong" he went on; "a
case of the public going into partner
ship with the devil"
Whose daughter shall we segre-
gate?" he asked. IF you are willing
for us to segregate yours; make her
the tool Of vicious mans passion and
disease. then II is your privilege to
talk of segregation, but L object to
having my daughter dumped into one
OF those segregated bells. and so does
every man in this audience object TO
having his daughter sent there"
The applause proved the approval
Of the audience OF his position. He
cited the Iowa law, Of which Indiana
has a similar one, enabling officials to
so after the owners Of property rented
for houses OF bad resort. as a most
splendid vehicle for suppressing the
vice. They collect excessive rent
from these premises when used for
hat purpose" he declared. and a
few iniunctiOns, and a few arrests Of
the property owners. will soon wipe
out your vice districts"