The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-01

For passengers and seamen alike, 1t IS place to break long sea trip. But today the impossible has hap pened.
 Not a prostitute, an obscene photo graph or a gambling house is to be found anywhere in the European quar- ter. I say this advisedly. It applies not only to the streets, but to the best hotels. If there are loose women in 1 the European quarter. they are not women who make their living by vice. l If there are obscene photographs sold, they are not sold to strangers. If there are gambling rooms about ' | have discovered none of them. i The Rue de Babel in Port Said is 1 now as silent after night as Gates avenue, Brooklyn. You can't even get l a glass of beer, except between the 1 hours of l and 3 p. m. and and 9 l. l m Port Saids cafes have no back l rooms.
 Martial law has done it.
 You can't run a war nowadays with out conserving your human resources. | When the troops came to Port Said and they came from England, France, Italy Greece, Australia, South Africa, Algeria. Indo China, Madagascar, In | dia, China and Japan-Port Said had l to be made safe for them Big tram | sit camps sprang up on the desert all around Port Said, before the war was very old, and pre-war conditions in | Port Said would have sent the hospital rates soaring.
 HOW IT WAS DONE | As soon as Port Said became a m:ii- | tary base Colonel P. G. Elgood, C. N. G.. the base commandant, started 10 clean it up He told me today how he | achieved the most remarkable thins;
 that has happened during the war"
 
 when war was declared, so I was never troubled with them. My biggest prob lem was the Rue de Babel. All the houses in it were owned by foreigners
 all of whom were under the protec- tion of their consuls. Many of then had their life's savings invested in the houses in the Rue de Babel, and it was
 not an easy thing to root them out. T gave them notice that the women would have to get out
 We told them they could either
 leave the country or move to Cairo or
 Alexandria,. We didn't think the wal
 would last then as long as it did, or il
 is possible that we might have giver
 them the single instruction to get ou'
 of the country. It was easier then te
 get out of Port Said by sea than it i;
 now.
 "In this step I had the approval o1
 General Murray, then the commander
 of the Egyptian expedtionary force
 General Murray is devout Christian
 and in his attitude toward the vice
 problem and it's relation to the troops he tok the ethical view that vice
 should be put beyond the reach of the
 men. Throughout my long fight to
 clean up Port Said I had to deal with the two schools, the school which
 looks upon vice as wrong and the so-
 called practical school which believes
 that vice, being necessary, should be
 regulated. The latter school, from the first. deplored my closing up Port Said They said I would merely force the men into the Arab quarter, and far | worse results would ensue.
 Port Said is sharply divided into tke European quarter and the Arab quar. ter. I determined to drive out the last vestige of vice from the European quarter and then I put the Arab quar- ter out of bounds to the men. That is the condition which prevails today So far as I know, there is no vice ir the European quarter there may be l there doubtless is an occasional Wo. man who adds to her earnings by vice
 but I have not considered that her ex. l istence has any relation to my task 1 of making Port Said safe for the troops. There is not a single house of prostitution anywhere in the Eu ropean quarter. Of that I am certain You cannot buy an obscene photograph
 anywhere in the European quarter, ol if you can the man who sells it tC you will first take a sharp look LII