The Washington times., 1915-05-28
:CABARETS UPHELD,
MOTHERS BLAMED
careless Parents Need Police
Guard More Than Young
Girls, Says Miss Marbury.

,NEW YORK. May 2s.-Miss Elizabeth
sierpury today denounced the attacks
pelns made on the New York cabarets
as cradles of iniauity.
It's absurd said Miss Marbury,
ecorning the suggestion Of police sur
Vehiance for girls attending these
amusement places
MISS Marbury, together with Mrs. w.
n. vanderbilt and Miss Anne Morgan.
successfully managed the afternoon and
evening dances at the Strand roof ~ar-
oen during the past winter. Miss Mar
pury said that through this experience
she mad learned a great deal of the
character of such places or harmless
ainusenent as she termed them.
admit there may be cabarets in
town In which I should not care to pass
an attel noon, but that is a matter of
sa,, TASTE, and any girl properly brought up
would scarcely crave for such enter
'"'iiheht, said Miss Marbury.
Protect Careless Mothers.
iohce courts. to my mind, can do a
girl great deal more harm than most
caparets. and IL we are going to have
ponce protection, let's have it for care
Tess Inothers. If there Is great need
for police protection somewhere, as the
.uhee nu1th,.ilitee or fourteen thinks, this is
PROBABLY where 1t is most needed
III tnere are girls who require con-
stant protection, then they should be
kept at home, for in this event they
VIII need protection anywhere they may
happen to go. Why, many of our girls
meet in our fashionable drawing rooms
young men who would find 1t difficult to
acter.
Talk about male parasites! Why,
LOOK at many of our international mar
riages. What would you call the hug
5pir ri
NOW, girl who needs protection
going about to afternoon tea dances
Will require the same protection, tho
same constant chaperonage at evening
drawing room affairs and at church,
An attractive girl told me lately Of
an attempted Irritation in church. While
she was praying a young man who oc-
cupied the same pew with her slipped
a note INTO her PRAYER book asking her
TO make theater engagement with him.
!f we are going to have police pro-
tection for a certain type of girl, whose
mothers cannot protect them, then by
an means let's throw 1t around such
irresponsible persons in theaters, i'm
craving rooms, in church. school and
nome. as we'll as in cabarets.
why blame cabarets! It's absurd,
Ihls wave of righteousness may result
In the appointment of few inspectors
at good salaries. but can the police req,
ulate the morals of the community and
protect a certain type of girl from her
Self?
Mrs. Henry Moskowitz, chairman Of
the committee on amusement resorts.
today said that evidence which closed
the old Haymarket was weak in com
parison with evidence against seven OF
the most popular and fashiona Bile
dancing resorts on Broadway now in
possession OF the committee.
Lid Lightly Down.
AT this moment our investigators
aren't working,~ BECAUSE the Kelly case
naturally has frightened the tango
boys and dance proprietors," said Mrs.
Moskowitz. Dancing Broadway Is
quieter now than it was last Saturday,
when Mrs. Kelly tod her story in
court.
why. the committees agents, oper-
ating each unknown to the other, have
that what might be called
tango flats have grown out of the
dance craze. The agents, men and
women, have gone to dancing places,
have met strangers to them and have
accepted invitations to go calling
after the dancing palled
Then, in taxicabs, they have been
whiried from one fiat to another,
meeting more young girls or more
young men. as the case might be. and
receiving offers from persons In charge
or the flats to summon other girls by
telephone.
The fiat situation is up to the COM
mittee of fourteen, and I might saw
now that | am not fighting the dan
cing places as member of that COM
mittee. 1t has not met since the Kelly
case; and has reached no decision to
act"