New-York tribune., 1922-04-22
w omen Call
For Open War
On Jazz Dens
Cabarcts and White Light
Rendezvous Are Indicted
at Pan-American Conclavc
as Vice Breeding Places
Clean Up Cities, Is Plea
Mrs. Bowen Opens Drive:
Mrs. Pankhurst Speaks;
Mexican Flag Nanishes
BY Emma Bugbcc

and cabarcts came in for scathing at
tacks by the dclegetes to the Pan
American conference or women to-day
at the conclusion OF the round table
session on the prevention Of traffic
in women
Mrs. Joseph 7. Bowen, the Amer-
can delegate, denounced cabarets and
| appealed to the women voters to use
their political power to enforce their
/ demand for clean cities and clean
! amusement resorts.
/ '.lt is not enough to abolish the red
1 light district,' she said. eve must
/ clean up the so-called Jazz palaces
where young people procure liquor in
defiance of the law and dance all night
clasped in each others arms. There is
no need of disreputablc houses when
these cAbarets are themselves dis
reputable houses
Urges Women to Clean Up Cities
"You women must go home and clean
up your own home towns. You must
visit the commercial amusement
houses and make sure that they are
proper places for young people to visit.
fou must make your Mayor appoint
women police officers, good, reliable
women who arc known to you. You
must present a program of whole
some amusement to the poolroom keep
ers and dance hall proprictors, and
YOU must see to it that the standard
of dccencv is maintained # Won have
any difficulty in cnforcino the law -
your Mayor and police officials do not
cooperate with you, you must 90 to
the polls and put them out Of Office
nc "I,oI "ooN program was devoted
countries Of North and South Amer
('' uu' many OF the deIegates from
1.o IaV.IL american countries SIDE
ESLDtPPen l0c Pf1T|lIege OF speaking on
l"iS S"VJeV' nose VINO dld respond
""Ilnco lhe work OF rescue homes and
SocietleS Tor the safeguarding Of young
women.
Nine Jaime {. DeNoyra, tho dele
gate from tho Philippines, declared
that Manila was the cleancst city in
the orient.
There is no red light district in
Manlla, she said. and although it
has meant a great loss Of money. it
has never been possible to restore it.
Al the last attempt our Mayor dc
cIared he would res gn if the move
mont were successful.
"The native Philippinc women arc
of high moral character and modest in
behavior. The flirt is as rare as
sncwhaII among nv noonla Tlo
women walk alamo tbc e4rno+s ,,;.l
their ewes straiqhf bnfo,n tbo,, od 49,,
aspects 50 severe tha. NO ,,,om ,ro,,id
dare address thom Tbo,- nro no4
much in ovidonco j., ,,,>1; w., W.
they arc aIwoVs 70 y" ho o0nf mn'rs Gut
Mrs p,a,ai;., ''0''tN ,'"'
''''''e''n' 'ahNnnrst Speaks
ne last speaker was Mrs Emmeline
fNnNhuFat' former English militant
sun raglst, VINO is now resident Of
NancouEef and connected with the Ca
madam bureau Of Social Hygiene The
convention gave her a rousjng greeting
and the eyes Of the South American
delegates bulgcd with interest as they
gazed tor the first time in their lives
on the woman who was at one time tho
most famous suFraEist in the world.
" hlte- haired, gracious and digni6cd,
She was tar different being from the
1erocIouS, pohceman scratching virago
thry mad pictured her.
ana thlS. 1t may he pointed out, is
!uSt one OF tho many thlngS the con
terence IS teach!he the women OF south
America ne iorma' program is only
,ho;r pp' '1U., Gs - o one cav "UNeleure OF
these delegates. 1t was, in fact, the in
tention Of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait.
Mrs. Maud Wood Park and others who
planned the convention to give the
visitors from the south great deal Of
leisure in which to cultivate each
others acquaintance and to talk things
over informally with their American
hostesscs
"If they learn to be clubby,' said
Mrs. Gait, ut VIII DO them moro good
than lectures. so the dark eyes
/ sparkle beneath the black lace wells,
ano the sehorltas' WIN thef pretty
( cIotn@s ana thc'r sou voices are 60
ing aoou' III a "n'lI}hg o. teaS' Iuhch-
sons receptions ana N!9lS 10 famous
na!tlmorG re, Sno w ASnImglon lnstlto-
] ]taonS' ~ oi "nItn 4;1ta ."eS mean 70 mn
Vate III tne'' tnaC"''' '0'"e o'''eS a9
S01i ea tho o,,to l
nra f,!. w. ae . Vno' .Ie nas
4n,nr;can yon,on ~ forn, nnr,onnon+
n,i+tno 81 +hoir a, eo ~ t,,.
of the yon,en nrohon,e Sonorita M C%uS Cra
cioIa Vandniapo NO. doIoaa+o ~" trnn,
Cbio said tbat che ;nterdod tn s,,.dost .,os't
80 no cnrfornrcn ,bo+ ~ forr,
rIoron+ orc.e1iga+;o, ~ Jo4,,o4o oo." ~.
nn+hTs;osnt az tis 20 'l'
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MeNican rag NanisheS
The only flaw in the serenity of the
conference connected itself this morn
! ing with the appearance and the sub
sequent disappearance of the Mexican
flag over the platform. This flag was
displayed yesterday By the five women
/ from Mexico, as the gift of President