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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1.—Nearly
500 women of the underworld invaded
the Central Methodist Episcopal
church of Rev. Paul Smith today to
find out what he intended to do with
them in his vice crusade. For 30 min
utes Rev. Mr. Smith stood the target
of questions resolving themselves into
“What are you going to do about it?”
and then the women reluctantly trail
ed out of church doors they had not
passed through for years before.
A bit pale, Rev. Mr. Smith opened
the meeting after two policemen had
been stationed at the doors and men
hangers-on from the red light district
had been ordered from the auditor
ium.
“I am not in a crusade aginst you
women or commercialized vice in San
Francisco,” Rev. Mr. Smith said. “No
person in the world has more sympa
thy for you girls than I have. The
problem of commercialized vice is a
man.problem. Men are making the
money out of it. I am willing to be
of assistance to any woman in the
world who is in trouble.
“I don’t know your purpose in com
ing here. I am willing to hear you,
but I must limit the meeting to 30
minutes.”
Woman Takes Pulpit.
Mrs. R. M. Gamble, who led the
women, took the pulpit beside Rev.
Mr. Smith.
“I have operated a house of prosti
tution for eight years and have stud
ied the problem,” she said. She was
dressed modestly and appeared to be
highly educated.
“I want to ask, first, how many of
the women in your church would ac
cept us into your homes—even to
work? You would cast us out—where
to? There isn’t one among us here
who would not quit this life for de
cent work. But we won’t quit for a
wage of $6 or $8 a week. A pair of
: shoes, nowadays, costs $10.
“Every woman here has at least one
child. We are against street walking
and the lives we lead as well as you.
But what are you going to do about
|it?
“I know. I have conducted a house
for eight years. I have been in hos
pitals and institutions and I have
seen the blind and the defectives. I
know what caused their condition.
“Trust in the Lord.”
“T am the mother of a girl of 14.
Another girl in my house is the moth
er of four.
“She was sick. She wrote to her
brother, a Methodist preacher, for
help.
“He answered, ‘Trust in the Lord.’
“ These women before you are prod
ucts of men of shame who buy them.
You say, ‘I don’t want these women
around my church. My church must
be pure.’
“That is not what Christ said to the
Magdalen.
“You and your people say, ‘Our
boys must sow their wild oats.’ All
right, you see before you the harvest
of those ‘oats.’ ”
She said that church women should
quit gossiping and rear their sons so
that they would not debauch women.
“This is the saddest moment of my
life,” replied Smith as Mrs. Gamble
stood awaiting his replv with breast
heaving.
“How many of you have children?”
he asked.
Three-quarters of the women raised
their hands.
“How many of you are in this life
because you couldn’t make enough to
live on?”
All hands were raised.
Laugh at Poverty Wage.
“How many of you made less than
$8 a week?”
Half of the women raised their
hands.
The pastor’s voice shook. “There
are lota of things I would like to
solve, but I am only one poor individ
ual,” he said.
Mrs. Gamble—A girl can’t live on
less than $20 a week.
Rev. Mr. Smith—Men who are
heads of families get less than $20.
Mrs. Gamble—Yes, and there are
prostitutes.
Rev. Mr. Smith (to the girls)—How
many here would work for $10 a
week?
The girls laughed at him. Not a
hand was raised.
There were colored women with the
white and there were cafe entertain
ers whom the minister has attacked
in his expose.
“You don’t mean to class us with
these—’’ piped up one woman who
seemed to lead a group of entertain
ers.
“I did not mean to attack any of
you,” said the preacher. “I am at
tacking the system and if 1 have
done you any harm, I’m willing to
make it good.”
“We are not bad,” said another en
tertainer. “We have to fight all the
time to protect ourselves. We can’t
even stop on the street to look in a
window without some man sidling up.
And when we tell him to mind his
business, he says, ‘Aw quit your kid
din’.’ ”
“I know—that’s the tragedy,” re
plied the pastor.
What Would You Do?
Other girls crowded up to the rail
ing to tell their stories, beginning,
“What would you do if you—” and
then reciting the fortunes that drove
them into the vice alleys of the city.
“I know, I know, I know,” said the
preacher, "my heart goes out to you.”
Some of the women began leaving
the church, streaming past the mov
ing picture cameras in every direction.
They seemed to know the hangers-on
who had been put out of the church
and joked with them.
The pastor introduced Miss Flor
ence Brookman, a helper. She said she
would harbor any who came to her.
“Yes, come to church,” said Rev.
Mr. Smith.
“Yes, but your parishioners
wouldn’t let us stay among their
daughters,” one women hurled back.
“Come and see,” said the pastor.
“I can help one of you to recon
struct your lives,” said the pastor.
“You may come to me at any time.”
Minister Pledges Help.
“You have raised a tremendous
question, and I pledge myself now to
help you and to work for decent wa
ges. But I don’t think a woman has
the right to sacrifice her purity for
luxury and fine clothes. Christ gave
His sympathy to the Magdalen, but
He exhorted prostitutes to lead a
white life. I have never said, ‘Drive
them out.’ I do not blame you. I
blame the men who take your wages
and the owners of property where
you live. The system is wrong, but it
seems the ‘woman must pay.’ ”
The women clapped when Mrs.
Gamble said in telling of a hat girl in
a hotel who worked for $25 a month:
“How long is that little girl going to
stay pure with a mother and little
sister to support?”
.“There are boys at the University
of California,” said Mrs. Gamble, “be
tween 19 and 22 come to my house
regularly with the money their fath
ers give them to buy women. They
are not fit to be blown to hell. That’s
why women are in my house.
Save Innocent Girls.
“If you want to stop prostitution,
stop the new girls from coming in.
Don’t mind us. We have our cross.
The girls coming in will always be
coming in as long as conditions, wa
ges and education are as they are.
You won’t do any good attacking us.
Why don’t you attack those condi
tions?” said Mrs. Gamble. “We want
to stop it.
“It won’t do any good to drive us
out of the city. Has your city and
your church a different God that you
drive away evil by sending us to other
cities ?
“It’s the men who preach morality
and contribute to churches who take
support from women to whom they
pay wages that drive these women
here into the life they lead.
“We will work for a living wage.”
The church again echoed with ap
plause.
‘The women in the cafes, Rev. Mr.
Smith that you want to pay attention
to are not the prostitutes so much as
the mothers who sit there, drinking
(Fairbanks News-Miner)
What is declared by a number of
men interested in the Tolovana dis
trict to be the most important news
received from that camp in many
weeks, was that which arrived in a
telegram yesterday afternoon from
Clarence Dorfinger, in which he told
of having reached bedrock in a new
shaft on Livengood creek and of hav
ing struck good pay. The news is
important, in that the hole is 500 feet
farther down stream than any other
in which pay has been found.
Last summer Dan Dooling was the
operator who was taking out money
farthest down stream. Several holes
were sunk a short distance from
where he was working, but without
success. Now this pay, found 500
feet down stream, will serve as a big
encouragement to others who are
prospecting in the immediate vicinity
and who were almost discouraged.
One mining man who is interested
in the district said today that if this
paystreak could be continued down
stream for another thousand feet he
is convinced that the output for the
Tolovana will be increased at least 20
per cent larger during the coming
season than it would have had this
new pay not been found.
CHAMP CLARK BOOM FOR
PRESIDENCY IS STARTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 23—
One of the noticeable political currents
since the reassembling of congress is
the well-defined purpose to start a
movement for the nomination of
Speaker Champ Clark for the presi
dency to succeed President Wilson in
1020. One of the interesting features
of the agitation, if it can be said to
have reached that point, is that thus
far the ultra Bryan men are behind it,
and it is said the movement has the
benediction of Bryan, himself. So far
the only objection that has been urged
against the plan is the circumstance
that the speaker will be 70 years of
age in 1920.
cocktails afternoons, leaving their!
children to servants.
“Before yrou go into the vice meet
ing tonight, try to think what will
become of us,” said Mrs. Gamble.
Then the women left.
Rev. Mr. Smith said it was a “his
toric meeting,” and that a minimum
wage law for women was a necessity.
Mass Meeting Is Held.
A mass meeting held here tonight
at the call of Rev. Paul Smith, pastor
of the Central Methodist Episcopal
church, to protest against vice condi
tions in the uptown tenderloin, for the
elimination of which Smith recently
launched a campaign, filled one of the
largest auditoriums in the city.
Rev. Paul Smith was the principal
speaker. Others who spoke were
Bishop Walter Taylor Sumner, of the
Episcopal church of Oregon, who
headed an anti-vice crusade in Chi
cago in 1910-11, and Walter MacAr
thur, United States shipping commis
sioner and labor leader.
At the suggestion of Rev. Paul
Smith the meeting adopted a resolu
tion calling upon the city administra
tion to enforce all existing “vice, li
quor and dancing laws and police reg
ulations,” and requesting the mayor
“to appoint a commission of 25 repre
sentative citizens, modeled after the
Chicago vice, commission, to conduct
investigations and to report back to
him its findings and recommenda
tions.”
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no more money to waste ? Why not open an ac
count here? $1.00 does it. Doing it once a week
for a year means $52 to the good for you—and
the interest we pay you in our Savings Depart
ment. Try it for a few months, you will be sur
prised to find how fast your account will grow.
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