Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-05-18 | Page 33 | White Slavery Flourishing in Berlin Cabarets

WHITE SLAVERY FLOURISHING IN BERLIN CABARETS, By CARL O. OHOAT. BKRIJN. Ifay IT By L P-V "White alavery" flour tehee In tha Bight life Jolnta of Berlin. Hundred of women are held In strict bondage In these haunts, where high priced champagne of doubtful quality bubble aa, plentifully as spring watar. Thea women ara aold body aad soul to the night-life eatabllahmems-They eatabllahmems-They ara under atrlct direction, dare not leave the dance hall or har or cabaret, whichever the eetabllahment may be, under penalty of diamlaaal and blacklisting' In other similar ea-tahMahmenta. ea-tahMahmenta. ' Then- principalajoooupatlon la to Induce In-duce wealthy cufiomTt to buy of the foul liquor and champagne, and then buy more, until tha pocketbook haa been well drained. I In some aetabl.eha.enta. they pur- aue pocket plcktnr aa a aldrllne. The "high grade" nlgit placea frown upon euch occupation, but aa a part af the girl's weekly attpend, aha iiaa the prtvleae, after cloefng hoari, of ac companylng the gueat "home. Home" for thn Intoxicated patron provea generally to be one of a chain of queatlonabie roominr bouae which dot the "Friedrtchatadt." and there the guest of tha pigitt joint ta relieved of the balance of his pocketbook. The owner of the fly-bynlght hotels generalv are lit "cahoota" with the a-avee of the night -Ufa palacea, eo that a gueet, who aober sufficiently to realise what haa happened to blm, geta acant aatlsfuctlon. Women employed aa whlt aUve by the niarht aetahllahmenta do rtot regia-i regia-i ter aa a rule, with the police like their ' si at ere of the Friedrlchstraaaa. But j tha more "select" night-life resorts I boaat that they maintain an Inapec-! Inapec-! tlon and control e yet em better than the rigid regime of tha Pruaeian police.