The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-09-03
ELIMINATION IS
ONLY REAL REMEDY
~GcE4nnenio Finds Itself Much Dis
onxhcd by Presence of Brewery
Owned Vice Resorts,
SINISTER coMBrS sr4oN
n&or5 OF Grand Jury Foreman 10
nnoes Segregation Brings Ahout
SHARP. Uphcaval of Definite Public
Sentiment.

That experience is a forceful teacher
H. vel manifested in the city Of Sac
California, where, in Tbs
aDeoceas Of present-day activities, the
DEfp ~ sailed LIQUOR and vice interests
lAAs hE~n broken in this Western city
sfGhe jenrihc coast FOR many years
- X6t.s fer it's system of segre-
xAfed vice. The manipulation OF
Ak0hese VICE districts was directed In
ApAtunction with the big brewery in
.}AorrMs. which. through ownership or
stNunfrni nf saloons placed indiscrsm Sc
kmAtek throughout the morally out
JbWwrA sections were Insissent boosters
Aknr sks lllauor trafnc,
i California has heen under a moral
4~RNgeaeration and nov presents in
nary or its principal cities moral ten
t0enckr for the overthrow Of the old
kstI aBsl dttions
EitYffne Aan 81 The worst liquor n
vice prastiees NJ these cities became
necessary rs n result % war depart
menF orders But even beyond This
1.-THE mora tore OF the communities at
ilarEe has been FOR Improvement ef
iccnditsnns
The aviation camp
t1aoSe TO Sacramento has been respon-
f0bie for aggressive action on the part
IAf the war q partrnert to clean up
9condttiens eeT pletely In the city Of
ssHacrafnenao There remain but "a few
nj The ola true liquor and vice con
f1rolled politicians who seek 10 con-,
Etxnue in sobservfeDCe to the demands
2 shess t'eres's
[Of tho sier~orid sections revealed
one 81 1ihsse few remaining people on
the coast who advocate segregated
vice. II IS interesting to note how
this Is received by the people gener-
iAEy as expressed in the Sacramento
union.
.@rhe spectacle Of the foreman OF q
eSrand jury, who Is by law clothed
with CERTAIN temporary legal powers.
NdeIibersteiy putting INTO his report a
Recommendation in favor OF the
Wholesale and deliberate violation OF
I&he Law, in pot inspiring.
Possibly Foreman CasseImau does
bSsnt know that the Law makes prosti-
tution illegal. Possibly he never
kls6ard OF the statutes making the
tana%intenance of such resorts a crime.
He may not even know thai there
- such a statute as the redljght abate-
ksnenf law.
His recommendation AS to the
gRtApINIItIlfill I'll a segregated UlStrIHL
50y which the city would be made the
RpArtner of vice merely reflects his own
l0pinion and proves quite conclusiveiy
mat he is denselY ignorant of the his
and development of the methods
OF handling the vice problem.
1t liz unfortunate that a man placed
an a position II even petty responsible
ity should be SO lacking In dissertation
common sense and a proper spirit
OF patriotism IS to seek 10 recommend
the violation OF law and seek to dis
&credit the policy adopted by the
Fkinifed States army and navy In light
r1ng for the suppression OF vice.
apparently the mind OF the fore
man OF the grand jury Is built on the
marking backward plan. He has no
VISION of a Cleaner, better sacramento.
We particularly desire 10 call at
| tention to the fact that the opinion
M the foreman, although contained
I'm d report. was personal. and it
ssCan not Re construed as The action OF
l01~ssrnsIss TOR
The expression Of this sentiment Of
me grand jury, We are informed, is
MS personal view OF the matter and
warning Is sounded that it should
De accepted tas such and not as an
t~Axpression OF the grand jury at large.
The elimination Of these institutions
H&1S1tAIs nIclltass tR4o remedy fer s@Fra-
cation with failing regulation offers no
satisfactory relief to these California
eomn nfttes, which ara now striving
by aid Of h government and
g&nrough their own local enterprise TO
RMUOrk "a a better moral standard. IL
Interesting aS an incident in the so
mt1on of the problem that the first
/ ufGpE taken have been The elimination
Sof the saloon and brewery controlled
E4xfnking institutions.