The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-14
|DRFOIK PASTOR
ATTACKS GAMBLING
nnev. b. Lacy Hoge Excortatcd Of
ncials Who Are Ninking AT Evil
In Norfolk.
G.aMBIaNG IN THE HOMES
Declares Those who Participate In
q Law Breaking In Fashionable Par
l0rs Are Not Bit Better Than
Negro Crap shooters.

Norfolk, va, March lS-open &C
rnsations and yelled insInuatons We're
directed at tne city officials with
4 especial reference TO the police by
Rev. II. LACY Hoge. pastor O. opurgeon
h Memorial Baptist Church. in his I'D
\ dress before The audience Of men al
{ che Majestic Theafer yesterday after
noon. AS a climax q MS address, the
preacher read an Anonymous note,
stating that prize !ieat vas 10 be
etAged yesterday afternoon. and that
Y there woGld lie ne interference from
& the police
Later in the afternoon however.
DR.. Hoge informed d reporter that the
prize fight was IN reality being held
n the Fair Grounds, outside the city
limits.
The subject Of Dr. HoFe address
was If Christ should Come 10 Nor
folk. What Would lie See and it
was given under the auspices Of the
% ial evil committee Of Freed IN
Conri. No 3. Of the Guardians Of lib
ATTY. Various sog al and political
practices which pr. Hoge declared
were prevailing In sac city, wefe de-
noun The social evil came ia
4 xor its share Of discuss on. and en-
phasis was placed o. tae Eam6iHE
question
eRecentiy approached a city Of
ffcia1 on the gambling situation. the
preacher stated Il asked him what
Il was done In regard 20 negroes shoot
tngs craps in back alleys. and ne re
4 piled that the police arrested Inc
gamblers. then asked him what Was
done with poker players In the un-
Fashionable sections Of the city. and
4 he answered that they were placed
under arrest | then inquired what
was done In regard 70 gambling among
4ife society women off GhenI ana the
OfYicsal shrugged his shoulders and de
ciared that the police could do noun
Ing lii regard TO that.
.Inder the present police admins
4rAtion. he asserted, the ranAest
kind Of discrimination Is being prac-
efced in carrying out. the law Gam
diers around The card tables IN
J fAxfaIona BILE homes are 80 better than
the negro crap~shogters in back al
1eys. both are thieves. and in both IN
stances IL is the shrewder thief that
gets the Jack pot. et the former are
never touched by the police. Both
classes Of gamblers should fare alike
ursler the laws and we should put
men in Office who would carry out the
laws lndiscrtminately.
S Lin the course OF his address, I)f.
FoFe characterized the ministers OF
che city who are undertaking to deal
with the vice situation fr SLOW,
practical manner, as being N the
same position as Peter before Pente-
cost. when he denied and cursed the
I.ora fIe declared that, according 70
4 both the Bible and State law, the
4 se9reeased district should be sum
marfly disposed OF. and that no half
way measures should be tolerated.
1.-THE men who rent houses for i'm
moral purposes" he further stated.
Aarssno better than the most degrad~
IA inmates Of those houses That eX-
plains in some measure why II is
such a hard matter TO clean up this
city. Some preachers Of norfolk,
he went or to gay are too DIG
towards to preach against the vice
ettuation I'm not calling any names
right now in either OF the above con
necfions, but I can and will do 30, II
Il should become necessary, at the
right time"