Arizona state miner., 1925-05-16
CHASING THE DOLLAR
Crude Usages that Despoil Humanity and
Seriously Affect City's Growth

and Riverside, where they don't have
any pants at all, ought to be forced
to add a more elaborate costume de-
partment to their show shops. / was
directed the other evening to an ele-
CANT car rolling up side street and
every once in q while picking up some
scantily clad chicks, who were rushed
down to the dance halls to be soon
lost amid the mazes of jazz and con
fetti, but all helping some poor boob
get rid Of his weeks wages. Some
of these girls were in the hands of
white slavers who assisted in help
ing them to pick up a live one Now
this might be perfectly lawful tran
saction, if the poor chick got the
benefit Of the dough that the boob
spent. But if she dared to take the
boob away and work him for herself,
would that elegant car pick her up
on the street and rush her and her
lover down to the dancing pavilions
the next night? Not that anybody
knows of. The chances are that the
amusement combine would see to 1t
that her hubby would be fired, yank-
ed up for white slavery and sent to
Fort Leavenworth and she-deported
to some institution for deficients
Over in Mexico young chickens" are
peoned to the dance halls and not
free to come and go at will. I am
told it is SO in Phoenix where they
are whisked nightly out of town to
rural resorts. The Give ones" fol-
low and the money they spend is lost
to legitimate trade in uptown enter
prises. Sporty" women are not in
favor, or employed around these bug
houses of jazz and joy, because they
might attract the live ones away
Special cops soon locate them and
they are warned out. While the
whole city Is attracted out of town,
they have to sit in lodging houses
or go to bootlegging for a living.
Now, I don't believe there is any
more depravity in Phoenix than in
any other town of it's size anywhere
If there is, it Is due to this big syndi-
cate which has Phoenix by the throat
in amusements and herds every loose
simoleum into certain groove where
1t cannot get into legitimate channels
of barter and trade. When combines
in trade are not kept in subsection by
law enforcement, they soon become
arrogant and are able to purchase i'm
munity from laws enactment The
result is that the city is kept from
growing along moral and social lines
Here is seen the reason for fraternal
and social organizations building their
own auditoriums in Phoenix The
theatrical and amusement trust is
keeping reputable road shows from
booking at Phoenix because there is
no place to get into except the Shrine
Auditorium that is booking independ-
emily.
Quasi-amusements in the hands of
a trust or combine can never become
a permanent asset to the city, be-
cause the sporting element is always
migratory. They are birds of passage
and have to keep moving. Millions
of dollars that might become invested
in legitimate enterprises and channels
of trade, realty, homes, etc., by per
manently employed people of Phoe.
nix, Is lost because the whole town
is nightly depopulated and deported
to out Of the way resorts where they
are herded until a. m.
Nobody ever hears of bootlegging
or bOOzing at the dance hall resorts
but every one can see the effects of
it on the dancers.
If Phoenix wants to realize thai
100000 population so long prayed for
she must erase combines that are re-
sponsible for Fleeing and grating
the public by birds OF passage, and
allow that money to go into legiti
mate channels Of trade and building
homes for permanent population.