South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-06-02
SAVE THE HOUSING SURVEY FROM FATE
OF THE VICE INVESTIGATIONS.

cleanup of the Keller administration clean-ups re-
ported to proposed in the more lay circles
where men Of affairs who believe in public morality
have grown weary of perpetual bluff. and going off
-hsIf-coeked that has marked the administration
processes such cleanup. might be such
bad thing even though opine that tie idea origi
mated in editorial brain of esteemed contem-
porary.
So far as anyone else having suggested it,
as the aforesaid contemporary represents grave
doubts but If we help mite in fostering the idea
heres to its The expediency with which open
deHances law involving saloon violations, and other
vices overlooked. while the administration goes
on exploring dark recesses and bringing forth skeletons
which in most cases it seems unable to identify, is get
ting to be almost bore. about time that some
body lifted the veil We wish our contemporary with
as much assistance as it can get business
otherwise would tackle the job and tackle it quick
Aside from lending nhueuce-whateyer that may
be--we have about all do TO keep track of
what appears like dodgng ramihcations incident
TO our own little campaign for better housing. While
We supported the housing survey appropriation ap-
proved by our contemporary and by series of exposes
aroused public the point where the
was demanded and the appropriation made possible,
recent developments to be exploiting it as
mere vehicle lodging correction of conditions plain
Iy visible without any survey-very much it is now
apparent that Quilhot and OlmsteadDiber sleuth-
iEg expeditions exploited.
Understand This is not going back on the housing
survey nor decrying desrability of it. is not
saying that an expert-even a government experts
not a desirable person make the survey. Certainly
someone more expert in housing sanitary methods
than .sleuths' Olmstead Dibler police
ters ought for the job. The point is that
while pursuing the survey delaying it, in order
that an expert may be secured the the
and ordinance necessarily suspended, and
it is not necessary overlook violations of them
with regard housing sanitary matters accepting
the forthcoming survey and provision for it, sufficient
for corrective purposes. What South Bend
results the survey followed up will those
suits more complete, but meanwhile there condi
lions that need correction which survey
sary
Our complaint has do with the evident in
cinaton of our city administration TO overlook
bunces in order pmp,e. Surveys and sleuth
ing be of synonymous terms Judging from
way they are considered at city hall The
audacity Of the defiant less secretve law
breakers appears Of stupefy city ocialdom
and then 10 detract attention from it's stupidity
thing or other it goes after the more tr1id and
ashamed. rounding them up dark corners and then
trotting them forth in groups amid display OF
trumpets-indictments. or somethlng.-whereupon the
populace is supposed TO blinded forgetful OF
everything else. It's a great system as long as it
works but it doesn't always work forever This isn't
saying that isn't essential TO the
maintenance of order and decorum; perhaps even in
rounding the mere openly defiant. but is a sort OF
childish curiosity and love Of adventure inciines
us TO relish those thngs that are hard to get
OF difhcult md.
South Bend wouid never begrudg4 ouiIhot OImstead
Dbier an that been paid them had they brought
rssuits. had they al least h.,s ncludeA l. their s1