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NEW YORK PUBLIC
DANCE HALLS BE
RULED BY CZAR
GENERAL TIGHTENING UP OF
MORALS IS DEFENDED BY
WOMEN’S CITY CLUB
NEW YORK, Dec. 17—The bath
ing beauties have their censors, the
movies have their Will Hays, and New
York’s dance halls are to have their
czar. For such will be the title of
the city official appointed to regulate
the activities of the Metropolitan
Dance Hall association recently organ
ized here in an effort to make local
dance halls “the proper environment”
for young persons.
The association was founded fol
lowing allegations made by the dance
hall committee of the Women’s City
Club that the light fantastic was trip
ped in an immoral fashion in certain
dance palaces. When the ladies re
commended that some of these places
be wiped out the proprietors banded
together in an effort to improve con
ditions voluntarily.
The association pledged itself to co
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operate with the policewoman who
inspect dance halls and with city of
ficials wrho desire to maintain a high
standard for amusement places where
young people gather. Proprietors of
dance halls who do not line up with
the association’s program will be
blacklisted.
“Closed” Halls Taboo
Stating that they desire to make
dance halls safe places for young
girls, officials of the association de
clared that they would not tolerate
“closed” dance halls, wTiere only men
are admitted. Hostesses, they added,
must be more than 21 years of age.
In a popular dance hall a girl can
make approximately §3 an evening.
She is paid five cents for a dance,
wrhich lasts only two minutes, and can
dance probably sixty times in an even
ing. The large attendance is due to
the desire of men from out of town
to “step around” a bit of an evening.
The dance hall is the only place they
can find partners.
In their yearnings for companion
ship these men often take the girls
out to dine wrhen the hall closes, so
that the girls add to their earnings
by cutting down on their meal tickets.
In addition to the czar, the dance
halls will have a czarina, who will be
a member of the women’s committee
which attacked the dance halls. It is
not knowrn who the czarinas will be,
unless the men who frequent the
dance halls may be called that.
XMAS TREES ARE
BECOMING SCARCE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The real
Christmas Tree problem is: how can
every family have one? Approximate
ly five million Christmas trees are cut
in the United States every year.
Recently H. V. Berry of Fort Plain,
New York, a delegate to the national
conference on forest utilization, urged
a Federal law prohibiting the sale of
Christmas trees. The Detriot Feder
ation of Women’s Clubs also has sent
out an appeal to that end. The Amer
ican Tree Association, however, says
that in extending the Federation’s
campaign to certain Christmas greens
the club women are in the right, but
does not favor abolishing the Xmas
tree.
“Why take the Christmas tree, the
universal sign of the Christmas sea
son out of the lives of the children,”
the American Tree Association asks
in a statement by Charles Lathrop
Pack, its president. “The Christmas
tree is a legitimate by-product of the
forest. The real problem is how can
every family in America have one.
Under proper forest management,
which the Association advocates, one
crop of trees is made to succeed an
other. That is the big problem to
which America must give immediate
thought.
“The proper cutting of trees for
SMUGGLED CHINESE DROWNED
BY NEW YORK RUM RUNNERS
Booze Crews Turn . Human
Contraband Traffic as In
crease of Patrol; Smug
gling of Whisky Harder
[ in via Havana, rne eleven unmese
| were hove over all right, but they
got a swimming chance. The bags
were a screen. There were no weights
as that would be unethical.
NEW YORK, Dec. 17— In the twi
light zone of bootlegging circles is a
story in circulation of eleven Chinese
human contraband, who were trussed
in burlap bags with weights and hove
over the side of a rum runner during
a chase by a coast guard cutter in
New York bay.
In a West street dive where the po
liceman on his beat whistles a tune
as he passes, a veteran seaman of the
rum fleet declared the business was
becoming so hazardous that the boys
were turning to Chinese smuggling.
“A smuggled load of Chinks gets
from $250 to $1,000 a head,” he said.
“Liquor is tough to get into the^coun
try now and there are 12 revenue cut
ters for every one a year ago. They
are using airplanes to bring in whis
key now. The price has advanced $15
a case in the last ten days.
“Smuggling Chinks is an easier
graft. We make a deal with each
Chinaman that in case of trouble he
dives over the side and takes his
chances. Most of the Chinese come
Christmas use in most cases permits
sturdier trees to attain greater growth.
True conservation of the forest re
sults not from leaving trees to grow
old and die, but from their wise use
when they are needed, in whatever
size, by man.
“The foresters, whose profession it
is to manage and protect the forests,
assert that the use of the Christmas
tree is proper and wholly justifiable.
Prof. Ralph S. Homer says five mil
lion trees a year in one space would
require ten thousand acres of land.
“The United States Forest Service
ing forests of all sorts are being cut
has recently stated that ‘our remain
at the rate of about 10,000,0001 acres
a year.’ Ten thousand is one-tenth of
1 per cent of ten million. Even if it
took the clear cutting of that area to
furnish us with Christmas trees each
year, it would be but an infinitesimal
part of our yearly1 drain on the forest.
For the north and east and even as
far south as Washington, D. C., the
forests of northern New England,
northern New York, and eastern
Canada furnish the supply of Xmas
trees. It is a definite seasonal indus
try. The trees are graded as to size
XMAS SPECIAL
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$3.00 THE BOX
Three pairs to the box;
Black and Colors
TOYS! TOYS!
Gifts for the entire
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me unmese oureau ui uie immi
gration department said it knew that
Chinese were being smuggled in, but
it was difficult to detect them. The
bureau official declared if eleven Chi
nese had been drowned it would be
impossible to gather any evidence. He
said it was common for smugglers
to arrange for Orientals to swim for
the shore if the vessel was pursued.
Thirty-four Chinese were deported
last week. They had attempted to en
ter the country on a ship from Bos
ton. Most attempts to smuggle Chi
nese in heretofore were made by pad
ding the crew lists, it was said.
Lieut. David Sheehan of the New
York harbor squad, scoffed at the re
port of the eleven Chinese being
drowned.
“I don’t say that it did not happen
or that smuggling of Chinese is not
being done. But I never heard of it.
Bum runners do not bother with any
thing but rum running.”
The United States Coast Guard re
ported the finding of 25 burlap bags
containing liquor washed up on Oak
Island off Long Island.
and condition and shipped in carload
lots.
Many towns and cities have in late
years taken to planting well-develop
ed trees in a centrally located park
as Community Christmas Trees.
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
BOA CONSTRICTOR FOUND
IN BUNCH O FBANANAS
DENVER, Dec. 17.—When a custo
mer dropped into a grocery at East
Thirteenth avenue and Clayton street
and asked a clerk for half a dozen
bananas he did not know he was or
dering snake on the side. The clerk
reached for a fresh bunch that he had
just uncrated and hung up. He yelled
and jumped back.
He let go of something he had hold
of—and it was not a banana. It fell
to the floor with a thud, and writhed ,
there at the customer’s feet.
The snake was found to be a young
boa constrictor three feet long, and
it was hurried to the museum of nat
ural history at the city park.
The snake, sluggish because of the
cold Denver weather, has bright green |
eyes and is mottled black and green.
It was not poisonous.
FORTUNE TELLERS OF
SAN FRANCISCO JAILED
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17.—The
San Francisco police department had
before it a mass of evidence the oth
er day, including “spirit” letters, cer
tificates of ordination, crystals, robes
and other paraphernalia, seized last
night in a series of raids on fortune
tellers, psychists and others alleged
to have been operating throughout
the city.
Search warrants were issued here
by Superior Judge Timothy I. Fitz
patrick after evidence had been laid
before the district attorney and the
foreman of the county grand jury.
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Bath Brushes, 50 cents at J. L.
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