The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-10-22
BLAME
GILL FOR VICE
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ulated. explained trowthcr.
Chief Rockingham says he has
been explicit In his orders To stop
immoral women from congregating
In houses and soliciting men on tho
streets. and that when he finds Of
ficcrs not carrying out his orders.
he has removed them aud put 9th
ers on their beats.
Contradiets Mayor and Chief
III the chief has issued such 81,
dcrs. his policemen nave so little
regard for their chief that they
utterly disregard him
The mayor says dance halls are
under strict regulations.
what are the regulations
zone ls that intoxicated persons
shall not be permitted To dance.
Last Tuesday night | saw intoN.
icated men dancing In four dance
halls. and there was policeman
standing In each place No protest
was made by either the policeman
or the manager.
Another regulation is that no
smoking shah be permitted In tho
dance hall proper.
Women Hug Pastor
"But dance halls below tho line
are blue with smoke. and | saw
women smoking cigarettes. but po.
licemen there made no protest
THE regulations say there shall
be no undue familiarity.
Here Is a question OF standards,
"But your pastor wasn't In one
dance hall four minutes until he
found the arms OF one OF those
women around his neck
The mayor tells us regulations
are enforced. and the chief says
amen.
III YOU were to take n motion
picture OF what happens In those
dance halls below the line. II could
not pass any censorship board this
side OF hell. But here We can see
the real thing.
Couldn't De More Vulgar
"if dancing could be more vulgar
than II is down there. ! don't know
how IL could b. made SO. ! called
tn. attention OF an immoral woman
10 something that was going on. and
even she said. Pretty raw
"Your pastor was able 10 make
appointment with women In every
hall 10 meet them AT n certain room
al certain time
Men are taken into booths and
charged from 81 to $3.50 for a 10
cent bottle of grape Juice"
Rev. Crowther declared that the
mayor and chief are either ignorant
Of conditions or they are misreprc-
sentinE the facts
No More Police Needed
The dance halls. he said. were the
vsstiaul.s 10 worse conditions. and
that he was summoned 10 Join a
woman IN her room when she called
from window two stories above
while a policeman stood by and did
nothing
We don't need any addition 70
the force OF 49, policemen" he said
"but We need a new kind OF police
man In place Of some OF those we've
got"
Tacoma. he pointed out. didn'l
have anything to do with represent
Ing conditions here. when Prose
cutor Lundln assembled evidence
for abatement notices on zoe
houses.
Disease Among Soldiers
A physician AZ Camp Lewis. hs
said. had told him tina, there were
is cases OF an lncurable disease
among the men from District 10
alone. In Seattle.
Forty soldiers. he said. visited
one woman afflicted with this dis
ease in one Seattle hotel in one day
Rev Crowther even limited hts be
lief that there might he a pro-Ger
man program OF saturaiing Amcri
can troops with this affliction
1T il for us to see that These
boys have square chance for theii
health" he said
who IL right in this thing. Mai
Gen. Greene or Mayor Cili7
says Greene is Right
Gen. Greene Is absolutely right
Mayor Gil and his chief are dcat
wrong
"Ans n conditions aren't changed
/. for one. will be one 10 see tina
We have a new---a better-adminis
tration."
Rev. Crowther told how he wen
TO one Of Seattle's finest hotels. go
on the elevator. whispered TO thu
Japanese elevator boy. and was lee
direct to the room OF an lmmora
woman and admitted.
He said that he saw half-ola'
women I'm the Railways OF other no
tells. and saw men turned over TO
woman. after asking one question o
/ the clerk.
Smith Calls Gill "Hedeer"
Adding the title "IIedRer" 10 tn
many acquired by Mayor GIN II
his long political career, Rev
Leonard y. Smith. OF the Protes
tant Methodist church. devoted hi
morning sermon Sunday ~ expos
| Ing vice conditions in the city AM
| rallying his flock to the support o
those who are demanding a clean
mp.
More than a month ago ] wa
I told that a member OF this churcl
had expressed surprise that ~
I soon after coming TO Seattle | hai
been roped into n vice crusade AM
that he didn't think II was YER
Christian thing anyway to driy
immoral women from this city 4
other cities" said Or. Smith.