The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-03-06


mercialized vice outside the former
aggregated districts. They have made
efhcient officers Of the law more eff
eient by providing them better means
OF enforcing the law and a better law
TO enforce and they have forced ineffi.
cient and dishonest officers OF the law
70 live up to their sworn duty under
the law by the pressure of public opin-
ION backed by an efficient law.
iThey have forced the landlords
to take a lively interest in their pro.
Perty, and become familiar with the
names and the businesses of their ten.
ants and see to il that their property
Is not used for immoral purposes.
without the abatement laws il was
easy for landlords to escape this duty
and the landlords were notoriously in.
different as to who their tenants were
provided they could get a high rent
9TH no question asked. 0't....g'
cit is frequently said that the
eibatement by injunction law affords
easy opportunity for blackmail. but
under the law as II is proposed for
Hawaii, q citizen must secure the per.
mission Of the attorney .egenral or the
city and county attorney before he
can start suit and the permission Of
he court must be secured before suit
may be dismissed by the plaintiff.
And the experience of every state
where such law is in force refutes
this argument. ~ q
" There are three courses open for
this community in dealing with the
commercialized vice problem. II may
hide its head ostrich-like and refrain
from stirring up the foul depths of
the subject for Gear of dirtying its
hands in the destruction Of the evil.
II can pursue the policy of segrega-
ton, as has been pursued for many
years without advancing, retaining
all the present evils without removing
the real evil Or, it may adopt the
policy of eradication by the passage
Of the abatement by injunction law
now before the legislature "
r. Hobby Discusses Diseases
At the close of Governor Frear's ad.
'ress, Judge Dole called on anyone in
he audience, who wished to uphold the
leghtive of the question and speak In
'ayor Of segregation and against the
bntement law to come forward. At
hat time, Doctor Schurmanu walked to
he front and took his seat on the stage.
Meanwhile Doctor Hobby was intro.
'uced by Judge Dole.
IL is not an agreeable address which
am called upon to make" said Doctor
lobby, "but il is subject, disagree.
be as it may be, that touches the
iery heart of the problem. .s,e
Syphilis and gonorrhea, the two
particular diseases spread from segre
.nted districts of commercialized vice
With which We will deal, have been
cnown to man, so history records, since
thousand years before the Christian
"a.
innocent Ones Afflicted .
A great many acquire these dis
,ases by direct infection but many more
contract il innocently and indirectly
Doctor Hobby then mentioned the
'ase Of nineteen year old boy wht
vent blind within twenty.four hour,
1fter wiping his eyes on a towel used
W one who was afflicted with syphilis
He cited an instance of two littl,
sirls who contracted the disease in thu
same manner. A third example of how
innocent persons may become victim.
# the disease, he told of, in reeitinl
n outbreak of syphilis among grouI
If young people in Philadelphia thai
vas traced to a kissing game in Nwhicl
INC young man had kissed six girls.
'F1fty per cent of the cases of ster
lily can be traced to these diseases
aid Doctor Hobby. Thousands o.
tables are blind because of these dis
oases-not born blind, but made blind
Seventy five per cent of the gyne
Geological operations are due to thes,
diseases, Innocent, pure, health,
'oung women are daily paying witt
heir health, their happiness, thei
lives for the sins of their husbands
committed before the women had eve
net the men. Miscarriages, stillbirths
discussed children are attributable b,
he hundreds to these diseases. / coulC
mention a score more Affections ant
he list would not be complete =
NOW does segregation really con
troll these diseasesi Figures give tn,
answer. 1t does not. -. ..,.
For the 100000 public prostitute
known to be within our segregated dis
tricts it Is definitely known that Their,
rre ten times that number of clandes
tine prostitutes outside these segre
yated districts, without even the mea
ger farce of medical examination tina
segregation purports to give. As fas
as these prostitutes die, whether with
ir the restricted districts or not, thei
places are filed by girls recruited iron
homes. N'r h,.
All Prostitutes Affected
CAN of these prostitutes are af
fected by syphilis or gonorrhea. Of
both. Sevehty-five per cent of then
are always so diseased. And of tn,
100000 young men in our country Of
the age that patronizes these prosti
tutes, seventy per cent of them are con
taminated by one or both of these dis
cases before they are thirty years old
and many of them are thus afflicted
before they leave high school
segregation does not regulate pros
titution nor diminish its danger of con
taminating the community with diseas,
nor has IL ever worked as a means t.
this end. ..t p. ...,
Segregation regulates about one
tenth of the women engaged in com
mercialized vice. Paris with its 60,OOC
prostitutes had 10000 within the regu
latiOn of its restricted district q