El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-14
SPASMODIC CLEANUPS FAILURES;
LET US STAND FOR A MORAL CITY

II7HEN Nature made rattlesnaes she was fair enough
to make the rates to 90 with them that might
fists who thoughtful enough put poison labels
bottles filled with DEATH humans seem to be more neg
ecul than nature vas about appending warning signals
20 Dangers II Iael we seem 10 Tear the rattle OF the
snake than the bite in the matter Of social evils
Every large city in the world has vice That IS of
the penalties city has paid for size. So when
formed by the military authorities that we have large
quantities Of here childish to get squesmish about
the publicity that may follow for IN that respect We are
exception 10 the rule The thing for to do is to meet
the facts face to face honestly and publicly and ezter-
inmate the cause Of complaint
Denzens Of the demi-monde fear publicity much as
they fear the law, for they realize that aggressive enforce
ment Of the law invariably follows publicity. What they
do know is that without persistent publicity the officers
Of the law often 60 TO sleep On the JOB Of fighting them
and their viciousness The fault lies with the good cit
Most Of Us, as long haven't got an immoral
character in fat block, don't what hap
think that If can't the crimson fIagraucy Of
vice, it doesn't exist We get rghteousy indignant
sonay and rse up and drive the evil doors out Of town
Then we subsde and go way while the criminal and
drift back and begin their old practices.
There IS scientific way to combat vice. Spasmodic
crusades VII not do Government county and city must
cooperate Women everywhere who live BY immoral prac
tees mentally defective. This IS high flung theory
OF social refoEmers but sociological and pathological
fact known the medical profession and to others who
given the matter thought. Instead Of chasing
moral women from one town 10 another whence they drift
back again, these should be nterned IN colonies
at various places the country by the government
The government recognizes the interstate features Of
why not in this instance? By corraug and treating i'm
women, the time putting them to work at
useful things can change their viewpoint and posi-
bly, prevent them when cured, from going back again to
menace the communities they from A like treat
rnent should qiven immoral and perverted
traffic in unfortunate women
We have never believed laws could make women
moral and clean. Laws, if scientific aid But laws
mean little to the who has wrong environment
And the effects Of this environment her character and
health can't be by adriving her Of town"
Size simply goes to another town where @things have
quieted down" It is well enough emergency measure
landlords who derive their incomes from the vice their
properties house This ought to be done by al means for
the plague reached such proportions that every
and IN town is threatened the decent along with
the indecent Most Of the people good people They
would tolerate the conditions that exist If they knew
them And prudhness should prevent al Of the people
here from knowing those conditions, they be armed
10 cope with them
And if as Gen Howe says $50 families waiting
homes because immoral persons take up the they
need that too, matter demanding the firm and prompt
action Of every Official entrusted with the enforcement Of
the law.
Meantime, let rs worry less about what people VIII
think Of e Paso and about what FL Paso really IS
One Of the most remarkable things IN psychology is
the patience Of and they entitled to thrice the
impatiencs Of
When we begin to have women on juries wives VIII
have quit numbering their husbands especially if they
dress fashionably.
The allies favo- plebiscites IN all German provinces
where the result Is certain to be unfavorabe TO Germany