The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-07-08
Random Remarks

HdrVey's Weekly, New York jour-
nal, which hits many nails on the
head" in last weeks issue had the
following:
I'm one of his most effective Bar
rack Room Ballads Kipling protested
against the Widows Uniform being
made the soldier mans disgrace We
should hate to think what Uncle
Sans uniform may come to mean if
credibly reported practices in New
York are permite to continue.
There, we are told the vice
squad of the police department send
out decoys in army uniforms, to at
tract the attention of unescorted girls
on the streets and engage them in con-
versation, and then hand them over to
the uniformed police as guilty of 'solic-
iting;' and in this way numerous en-
tirely respectable and innocent young
women have been entrapped and locked
up as prostitutes. We do not know
whether members of the vice squad
are under orders to make certain
number of arrests each day or night,
as the traffic police are, that they have
to resort to such methods; but we do
know tn at it would be difficult to i'm
agine anything more disgraceful than
some recent episodes, which have not
been denied nor satisfactorily explain
ed. 1t would be scandalous in any
case thus to inveigle girls into COM
promising circumstances. To make
the uniforms of United States army
officers the bait with which to entice
the victims is an offence so monstrous
that we should think the War Depart
ment at Washington could scarcely re-
strain from taking no tice in pretty
sharp and effective way. The SUPPOSE
ton is that such uniform is the mark
of an officer and gentleman. 1t would
be intolerable to have it become the
badge of pimp."
Mount Holly has had little of this
experience. There is positive assur-
ance that men in uniform committed
unlawful acts and then got off so far as
the civil courts were concerned. In
one case soldier openly confessed his
crime in court in order that the wo-
man might be found guilty and when
counsel asked that the man in uni
form be held on his own admission the
states counsel objected because the
man was not subject to the civil law.
and he was hustled out of court by two
officers who protected him until he
was hurried.out of town in an automo-
bile. In another case an officer insult
ed ladies at dance. He was taken
before a weak-hearted justice who al
lowed him to depart and it was prom
Used he would be contaminated.
Perhaps he was, In other instances
women have been punished for acts
with men in uniform when it was
known that the soldiers were sent to
get the evidence by actual experience.
The comments in Hdrvey'S Weekly are
not at all too strong.
1t may we'll be doubted whether the
reception of Bordentown's new men,
Der, DR.. LIE Jambre, will reform or re-
generate the Burlington County Board
of Freeholders, though we have
scriptural Authority for the statement
that "a little leaven Ieaveneth the
whole lump" Something more is re-
quired for the protection of the tax
payers. 1t may be found in grand
jury investigation and indictment.
Such whitewashing as was given to
members of the Mercer County board
will not suffice. DR.. LeJambre has
shown himself to be resourceful man,
and there is prospect that the politi-
cal highbinders and their dupes may
once more be given lesson. 1t should
not be too late to investigate that
bond transaction, in which several
thousand dollars that should have
gone into the county treasury in prem
iums, got away. The present board
has few more months in which to
operate. During that period it will
need Trenton Times.