The Washington times., 1914-02-08
'1REDLIGHT" REFORM
NET TO Be EXTENDED
Police Begin Surveillance of
Questionable Houses in All
: Parts of the City.

With the segregated district closed. IN
Uniformity with the Kenyon law, which
Decame effective yesterday. Major Syl'
ester today said a campaign will be
started by the Police Department i'm
.aediately against all questionable
places in other sections of the city.
The police intend TO close up every
questionable place in the District" he
said. THE keepers Of such ~Iaces will
ne prosecuted under the new law. Strict
surveillance Will be kept on all places
suspected
Statements of detectives and patrol
men of the First precinct bear out
Major Sylvester's declaration that the
lid" has been on in the division
since the President signed the Kenyon
bill
Robert 1. Miller, who is counsel for
several property owners in the dis
rrict," said today that one of the houses
he constitutionaIity Of the new law. If
the house is. closed, proceedings in
equity will be begun early in the week
70 have the validity Of the law de-
Cided on.
Counsel Says Laws Conflict.
Miller said that, in his opinion, the
Kenyon law repeals the old law, and
hat the proprietresses Of the houses
cannot be prosecuted under the old law.
Major Sylvester said they would be.
All police action UP to this time, ac-
cording to Major Sylvester, has been
Dredicated on the old law. under which
gublic houses may be abated as nui-
SRnces.
District Attorney Clarence Wilson will
meet inspectors and captains of police
IN Major SylYeSterSs- office, at the Dis
tylcL building, tomorrow, to instruct
hem regarding plans under the new
lsW.
gollce of the Fourth precinct !;isI night
on a charge Of keeping a disorieriy
1aOuse, probably will be the first person
against whom prosecution under the
Kenyon law will be instituted.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels. ad-
dressing the Interstate Y. NJ c. a. at
Greenville, S. c., yesterday, lauded the
kenyon law.
washington owes it TO America to
be q model city, morally as well as
architecturaIly and otherwise" he said
Madame Alice Geubel de la KueI)e,
special commissioner of the French re-
pUblic to this country to investigate in
dustrial conditions, takes a contrary
view regarding the Kenyon law.
Woman SCOTS At Reform.
Your red light excitement, due to
the kenyon bill, is sad mistake" she
said. There are certain women in our
country who sell the freshness of their
youth in factories and shops, there are
others who sell their bodies because
they love the excitement Of the life. 1
believe it is so in every nation and
cannot see. and I do not honestly be-
iteye that your social reformers see, a
possibility Of reforming the women OF
the segregated districts. Segregation is
TIE one method. and your Stanley
Finch. himself, unwittingly voiced the
one objection to the whole scheme of
reform when he said 10 me, Who Will
take the place Of these women" tell
YOU people OF America, from years Of
close observation in my own country,
that your one care should be to protect
-our young women in industrial eStab-
Iishments by giving them = living wage.
so that they are not tempted to fall
into this life. Once they are swept into
the vortex there is no reform for them.
-'T am leaving Washington with high
appreciation Of its culture of its art
and Of the refinement of its society, but
I am shocked at its apparent ignOrSnce
ef life. / am surprised that it has not
taken n lesson from the other great
cities of the world regarding the prob
lem that now seems TO befuddle IT,. Sex
relations have always been a problem
but the cultured nations of the world
have always found conditions such as
Washington proposes to weed out, 10 be
necessary evils"
SeIig BreZ. will lecture on the Ken
yon law before the Collegiate Club az
1901 Eleventh street northwest, at S:15
O'clock tonight.