South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-10
MOTHERS AMI LOCAL VICE CONDI-
TIONS

Something about Dan Pyle's address before the
Mothers club at the Lincoln school Wednesday
perhaps ought be said If no other reason than
because it revives some unpleasant recollections
He recommended resort to the injunction as one
Of eradicating the brotheI and the booze
joint, and it is well that he made it to mothers
mothers OF a district like that Of the Lincoln
school. In some other sections Of thA cay 4here
mothers with husbands. who despite tAeir so
cial financial and even churchfed fesbdtta5ilit
profit too well from these vice connections. to jus
tfy anticiIations Of their aggressiveness-in seeh
campaign. once the facts them known
Happily the mothers Of the Lincoln district are
in the main OF that great middle class-snce So
ciety has taken 10 measuring responsibility by de-
grees OF wealth.-whose husbands little or no
downtown other property available for vice pur-
but who still the heart and soul every
community OF whom Lincoln said. God must love
them" mothers of the common people, best be
cause He has made many of them" An organiza-
uon of such mothers. would indeed. be a powerful
force for good. particularly when they get the
ballot already quite assured them for the next
municipal election. at Ieast.-though meanwhile
extending a moral support, back Of law enforce
ment program. whether by injunction. otherwise
they might have appreciate influence
The proposed injunction process is not entirely
to South Bend. Pros Schwartz tried it or the
booueggers. and heavens what support he re-
ceived Brought to the attention of the Minis
terial association there, instead backing him up
in the interests Of public morality certain of the
members seem TO have greatly preferred fol
low the advice OF the administrations graft col
lectors. with whom they Immediately went into
conference. Assuredly the word of a pettyfosging
police court lawyer, and rronteer from vice cases
generally recognized as the official holder of the
bawdy- house and bootlegging concessions ought to
take better with clergymen than public official
who Is trying % do his ALPHABETICALLY If that
public official should happen not TO be Of the poll
teal faith OF such clergy men. and the clergymen
Of the same political faith rs the city administro-
tion upon which a law enforcement program might
cast unwanted reflections
The mothers we anticipate. should they under
take the work suggested to them. will be more
womanly about il than the clergy has been ut the
least And the term WON anly" is not used in any
offensive sense Womanliness in more instances than
million. has been, when dealing with questions OF
morals infinitely more manly than some brands of
manliness Not half the story South Bends
and immoralities was told by Mr.. Pyle. and wom,-
an uninauenced by man. would. once understanding
the situation not stand it for minute. 1t is ia
dealing with such conditions this quite as Mrs
George Bass OF Chicago put it when addressing
the local Franchise league recently. that woman
viii do her pest work-n tolerant she will be Of
the misuse OF public trusts reposed in public
officials.
More mothers clubs should hear the story told
by Mr.. Pyle at the Lincoln school and more moth
ers should themselves the conditions with
which their CROWNS children are surrounded They
should he taught consider also. that
alone Che vices complained OF but the commercial
ization OF those vices. prodted from by gen
orally regarded eminently respectable that gives
them their foothold and often protects them
from the Official hand We need a little OF the
white life for two" sentiment pumped into the
hearts OF the mothers wives and daughters of We
men-and considerable OF it pumped into
the hearts OF we men.
nautics to expose immoral con-