Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-04-02
ASHAMED OF
GAY NIGHT LIFE, IS
NOW URGING REFORM
| Claimed cabarets, Dance Halls and
Drinking Places Are c%orruptins
Young Men and Women
of Germany.
For e a Berlin

Berlin. Special: For a Berlin
strove to become the greatest all night
| CITY in the world. Now when it boasts
that distinction there are widespread
| appeals for putting on the brakes.
out of the 443 members of the Prus-
sian diet $40 have backed the assertion
that the city is a den of vice, and have
petitioned the minister of the interior
to ward off the dangers to which the
bodies and souls of youths are ex-
posed"
The 40 members of the progressive
party in the diet nave not joined in
the petition, but their spokesman de-
clared that in a general way 1t ex-
pressed their desires.
Baron Schenck zu Sc~hweinsberg,
speaking for the conservatives, made
a bitter attack upon conditions In Ber-
lin. The number of dissolute women.
he said, was increasing tremendously,
with all the evils that follow in their
train. Berlin by night" had become
an advertising slogan. known through
out the world. AS a matter of fact,
Berlin by night was 'the darkest spot
in Prussia an. in the German empire"
Cabarets. dance halls and dangerous
drinking places We're destroying the
youth, and when a move was made
against them the cry went up that the
police were threatening business. The
baron also attacked the cinematograph
as a factor in Generalization.
"A free conservative representative.
Herr Voster seconded Baron Baron zu
Schweinberg's statements. The city's
night program, he said, is made up as
follows: From 8 to II, theatre; IL to
2, wine restaurants or dance halls, 2
to 4. bars, n 4 to 6, might resorts"
h advocates Of all night revelry, he
said, defended their attitude by de-
ola rirr fhot parljr So oro op tho uor1Jp.
great cities n must cater to visitors
from abroad. They overlooked the fact
that the public places in London close
at midnight and on Paris boulevards at
l o'clock.
H who knows our night life knows
what decentralization it causes among
our YOUTH" said the deputy.
Representatives Of the clerical and
national liberal parties also attacked
existing conditions. DIR. Schroeder OF
the national liberals deplored that fact
that these conditions We're not confined
to Berlin. The smaller cities. too, are
becoming infected, he said.
Johann Won Dallwitz, minister of the
interior, declared that there We're great
obstacles in the way of a successful
against the dangers OF pres
ent conditions. He said the govern
ment was trying to reduce the number
OF doubtful resorts and had actually eff
fected a considerable reduction in the
number of places holding all night H.
censes. 1t was hoped eventually to
aoollsh entirely the so called 'anima-
ton bars" where female Mattresses
urge the guests to drink as much and
as often as possible, and he expected
much from the new measure about to
De lald before the %reichstag for the reg
ulat1on OF the liquor traffic throughout
the empire.
NO earnest defender of the night life
OF German cities in all it's phrases has
as yet replied to the attacks in the diet.
put one apologist has directed atten.
Ton to a reason justifying later hours
.1r estaurants and cafes in Germany
than In other countries. This is the
manner in which the working day is d.
weed. The average business house
suspends operations for from one and
one-half to two n one-half hours at
noon, when the big meal of the day is
tahen, and close only at 8. This forces
the employees to work into the even
ing, and II they wish to visit a theater,
moving picture show or concert they
must go directly from their place Of
business without pausing for supper.
n after-theater supper is not a luz.
ury for them but a necessity, and they
make up a big part Of the crowd that
flls the public eating and drinkina
places from II until 2 o'clock.