El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-08
The Waning Of Vice
(BY r. S. H.)

TICE IS being banshed It Is going out Of style Cities
" and Kidding themselves of their restricted
districts, long considered necessary evils and they
trying cope with the problem which always arises
when the districts closed that of keeping houses OF
i'll fame from clendesJne operation n the residence sec
tons and OF preventing immortality from finding refuge IN
rooming houses
The effort is succeeding wherever actively made Vice
IS less popular than 1t has been There Is nope thai
the generation or two may have less contact with ii
than the present.
81 Paso led the southwest IN closing its district Tucson
and Columbus followed, and within the present week.
Douglas has taken the step Douglas reporter talked
with one of the women when the exodus was IN progress
got her point Of view gained from hard experience
This 50 called sporting life is not what it used to be
It has gone Of style The restricted districts IN al
cities being wiped out Ihey VIII soon De thing OF
the past And wOmen2 What IS to become OF u.s.
don't know. None Of US know We are being LETT like
derects the OF humanity II we want 10 continue
our old life there is only course open-to 50 TO
city where we are not known get Toom in lodging house
and become street walkers That's haunted lie dogs
life No woman will follow 1t unless she has to.
81 intend to remain IN Douglas have little property
here that viii bring me a small income But what are
nv prospects? cannot consider moving uptown TO live
the life have been accustomed TO- The police would know
me The neighbOIs would find me out l would
bounded 10 death
q must make some other kind Of a shift and want
TO Quit this kind OF lie forever Perhaps you don't believe
this Maybe you think I'm making the customary fake plea
fox sympathy assure you an not speak from the
bottom Of my heart. I want to change my life If I
q want TO live Ike human being. Already have
spoken 10 d friend two uptown to help get
1Tscgd feel helpless to help myself Scrubbing for
living beats this. 1 do work chambermaid.
know something about cooking am willing to do any
thing If they VIII let alone
4 want to escape from this slavery, to live and
II the bright world about ne know working woman
uptown who kept things for once, and 1 envy
her. She works hard all day but when the days work
over she Is free She do what she chooses for
recreation and amusement If its than 10 50 TO
motion picture show She doesn't live though II prison
She isn't bounded day and night with the feeling that she
IS unprotected
This lie Is the hardest imaginable when you
leave consideration all moral principles involved
1 want TO get ont Of it, You bet do, and believe
viii And this is not gTa1dstand talk"
Baseball fans say the hardest feat is staging ro-ht
game Not If played by armed merchantmen and
submarine five miles apart.
An " W cursed the American flag and a national
guaTdsman bayoneted him. It what might Be called
a cutting retCrt.
-o
When the Germans do nice bit of fighting, Hin
denburg the crown prince gets the credit and the
medals.
No man can plead poverty If he has dozen eggs
and ton Of coal-uness he bought them credit