The Monroe journal., 1921-05-24

with others TO a special New York
city committee on vice. This is one
OF many and the drinks in such dives
cost you double what YOU pay for
them elsewhere.
In New York the old places Of
prostitution have disappeared but We
found that some OF the women who
used 10 run them snugly tucked
away on the high-up floors Of grand
apartment houses. One place we
visited had its hooks on at least nifty
women but very few 0f them were
ever seen in the building in which
the manager resides. To gain en-
trance into one Of the elite dens OF
iniquity a man must be properly in
trodueed. ana have a pocket full Of
gold.
Gambling in New York is done
under cover You can lay all the
bets you like on horse races. base
ball. or wheels OF chance but IL is
very difficult TO make a beginning.
Mr. Pringle was very much sur
prised that liquor cost more in Nor
folk than in New England towns.
"Holyoke was the wettest place OF
its size in the country, said he.
when we arrived in that city every
saloon (that is what they called
theml appeared to be selling booze.
Thirty-two out OF the thirty-iour
places were at IL. We secured legal
action against twenty-nine. two oi
which sold drugs. also. Whiskey was
the leading liquor. and YOU could buy
IL over the counter or table for from
fifty cents to senyenty-hve cents
drink, and in bottles, for from two
TO three and half dollars a hall
pint. In Norfolk we paid ten dollars
/ piut for common moonshine whis-
key. We (my two men and myself)
got drinks with great ease. Any
suspicious looking person was told
by the clerks in those places that
they had no strong drinks TO oner.
MIR. Pringle will 80 to Holyoke to
testify and aid in the prosecution oil
nine persons taken in gambling raids
under the direction of his forces.
I'VE went to Holyoke on invita-
tion." said he, Ito get information
for business men. who expect TO use
il in movement TO rid the town
of gamblers and others who make
the community bad. Pleas OF guilty
have been entered in most OF the
cases we worked up
'The baseball pools, said MT
Pringle. "are unlawful in nearly all
of the forty-eight states, as lotteries
on the anticipated results of groups
of competing baseball teams. during
periods OF one to seven days. llckets
are sold the week before the lottery
period. and also during the lottery
period il they are of the sealed va
| riety. BY which the ticket holder mas
an opportunity of selecting the pal
teams on which he gambles. I'M
players are mostly young men wh'
procure from one TO ten tickets pei
week in their vain quest TO draw th'
first high or first low which may
be $1,000 to $4,000, although I'M
advertised awards in some OF TN
purely local pools may run as low al
81 TO $50
In recent letter TO Mr.. Pringl
Judge Lands said: Il am interested
in the suppression of gambling D.
means of baseball pools Indeed TIM
is one of the most vicious influence
in our social life today, for the rea
son that II draws money from thos'
who can least afford TO lose II. i
addition to this, Il is most offensivel'
crooked. in that is is SO organizes
and administered that ii simpl.
amounts to fleeing the victim.
After examining the twetny sys
TENS of baseball pool in eight states,
declared Mr.. Pringle, Il estimat
that the scores of systems known !,
exist in the United States are col
lectng about s15,OOo,Oeo annual
from the plavers,"