The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-14
DRY AMERICANS
FLOCK TO JUAREZ
Mexican Border City Filled
With Saloons and Gam
bling Joints
MANY SALOON MEN
ARE AMERICANS

| Drunkenness and RibaIdry Common $500
Mexicans Dislike Effect Upon Their
Children - Huerta FavOrs Dry Zone
| Along Border.
CHIHUAHUA, Mexico, Oct. 14.-Tia
Juana's famous road to hell is dupl-
Gated in the city of Juarez. Saloons,
gambling houses and other vice joints are
wide open. Hundreds of dry" Ameri-
cans, both male and female, daily visit the
border city in search of liquor and ex-
element.
In a study of the number of saloons one
finds that in a space of 1000 feet, from
the custom house to a gambling hall
where hundreds play the old game of keno,
IS saloons exist, all owned by Americans.
These saloons range from pretentious
mahogany fitted bars to the small, dirty
hole in the WALL hidden under the side
walks. Only one or two real businesses
not connected with liquor can be found
in all this stretch of street.
The famous gambling hall now used as
a keno home is crowded daily. Society
women, mixing with III pasoS most nOto-
rous demimonde. rubbing shoulders with
drunks, crowd the tables, eager to make
Wagers.
One of the chief complaints of Juarez
is that men not connected with the
| booze industry-croOks, pickpOCkets,
strong-a arm men-have taken up residence
in the city. DRINKS are common sights
on the street after dark, and the police
are kept busy preventing drunken rows.
Fistfghts are common.
As a result of the lid" being off,
Juarez has been compelled to buy a
motor police wagon, which, as the driver
oil iE or aiY
DRINKS, who are almost entirely Ameri-
j cans.
! Although President de la Huerta has
stopped licensed gambling small boys on
the streets offer theif services as guides to
poker and wheel games. The saloons are
said to be used as headquarters for a
large amount of smuggling across the
border. Cocaine and morphine are SNUG
gled into the United States by returning
visitors, who on agreeing to take small
packages receive promises Of open credit
for fresh drinks when they return to
JuareZ.
y number of Juarez officials blame the
United States for this condition as they
say that while they have no objection to
visitors who can take a drink without
abusing it the government officials in the
United States should refuse to give per
mits for crossing to those who are known
to be habitual DRINKS.
Juarez business men are concerned
about the influence on young children
who, through constantly seeing drunken
men and women and open gambling find
it easy to earn 30 cents in running err
rands for saloOnkeepers. and are becoming
degenerates. Many of the best people Of
Juarez refuse to leave their homes except
when visiting FL Paso in order to shield
their children from the sights usually
common to a boom mining town.
Many of the Americans who come to
Juarez to drink say that, while they are
glad to be able to get liquor. they are on
posed to any resumption of the traffic in
the United States so that their children
may not learn to drink
General Oregon has stated that when
he assumes the presidential Office he will
restrict the traffic in liquor, and he is said
to favor dry belt of considerable depth
along the border. 1t is expected that
nothing stronger than light wines and
beer will then be sold in Juarez.