The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-16

out That was two years ago. Last
spring it was plainly evident u those
who had hoped for better things that
the recommendations were being ig
nored.
Mems Federation Starts Probe.
Failure Of police TO enforce laws fail
ure Of administrators to redeem pledges
has blocked municipal reform time and
again in America. And time and again,
the moral forces of the community
which fought diligently for this reform
have ceased fighting because they have
had no effective organization to con
tinue That policy of What's the use?'
so frequently the platform Of Christian
citizens in American municipalities, has
wrecked the hopes of scores Of reforms
when patience and foresight would have
carried them through to victory
Fortunately for Louisville, the city
had a Mems Federation, young, Vlrlie
and courageous. II had the courage last
spring TO remind the mayor Of his quot
ed promise to redeem the city from
vice as his own commission had rec
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begin a probe without the aid Of the
police, to show that these recommends
tions were being ignored.
The federation's investigators found
that liquor was being sold in the dens oi
vice; that the Inmates, in violation Of the
specific recommendation of the mayors
vice commission, were permitted 70
move to sections Of the city outside the
restricted zone that the dens We're not
being closed at midnight
From the federal revenue reports, the
investigators found that eighteen wo
men keepers of jisreputable houses in
Louisville. had paid retail liquor h-chs,
fees. although the mayors approved
vice commission had recommended that
no liquor should be sold in these places
They found that last June, within five
months of the time when the commits
sion decreed that the vice zone shou.'
be totally banished. the report Of the
city's chief of police showed lO3 reg
istered houses Of prostitution remaining
! in the city.
The Mems Federation, after publish
ing these findings, encountered th'
| walls Of the spineess churchmen VINO
| on such occasions, are always ready
to deplore mixing in politics TIT
| federation braved the condemnation o
the SNUG citizens who always cry tina
| the city lis being maligned.'
we are not trying to give the ol'
town bad name" the federation re
| piled But we have been promise,
better things: we are entitled to bette
things, and we mean to have them
Publicity Aids the Fight.
Moral forces in Louisville have dis
4 covered that they have a champion
The contagious courage of brave LEAD
ers has given new life to their endeay
ors They viii probably win thei
fight. but even If they lose. they vii
fight on. In the federation they Law
a permanent leader, a group Of mint
men armed and ready for battle whrr
ever need for battle appears.
! Publicity, another ally of the chui q
which only recently is being fully rec
ognized, helps the Mems Fsdcratio
present its case to the people cf I.om'
Vile In the fedcration's publiclt'o
the various phases OF the controvers
were bulletined far and wide to let cit
zens know why and how they wer
fighting. Through the same voice, III
sincerity of their efforts to effect
moral cleanup was publicly manifesto
, in the following
The Mems Federation, backed by III
churches of the city Of Louisville. ha
proclaimed. and hereby reiterates the o
fer. that provision will be made for an
$ women Of the city who, in good fait
I desires to give up an immoral life an