Show MONTREAl f TREAL DECLARED DECLARED HAVEN HAVEN OF DOPE PEDDLERS RED LIGHT DENIZENS AND WHITE WE SLAVERS Soldier Physicians Revelation of 0 f Criminal Con Con- Conditions Conditions Condition Stirs Church Folks to Take Action Police Department Is Flayed tic BY KY JOHN JOm G c I COP CopyrIght rIght l inn i 1 I by The Tho Jan 13 13 Montreal center of ot the drug drue traffic on the th orth American continent Is about to be cleaned up and Ith this clean clean- Ing cleanIng it Is belle ed that drug druc running Into willbe the th United Stales t virtually will wll be at an end Montreal today hangs hang Its head In shame It has been pilloried by one olle of Its own on 0 n people headquarters Headquarter of oC the bootlegger th the silk smuggler and d the dope peddler this metropolis o othe the tho Dominion of Canada has attracted also the painted pain led lady ady and earned for Itself a very tery ery una reputation Ice vice conditions here hate ha been scathingly indicted b by Major Dr Ha superintendent of ot tho general hospital ho In a special report he has declared Montreal to be one of the fe few cities left on this continent to flaunt launt Its red lights lichts in the th face ot of tho the general public In denouncing the thu toleration t f commercialized vice Ice t Ice through the In Inaction In- In Inaction inaction action of officials and the Indifference Indifference ence once of ot citizens has chen gh en full tent ent to his feelings and it must b be admit dmit- dmit ted that for the first time In th the his history his his- history tory of ot the Pans Paris of North Amer Amor- America America ica the bombshell thus exploded has has- has Ia r F stirred up public and official feelings official feelings to tho the limit Montreal has become the tho rendezvous ous for tor leaders of the th un- un un underworld orld der from every ery part of ot the west west- western ern era hemisphere CHURCH WANTS WA CLEANUP So deep has hos been the feeling stir stir- stirred stirred stir stirred red bv by the special report that today the Right Richt Reverend Re John bishop of ot Montreal pledged the full support of the Anglian church to the thu cleanup demanded by Major wood Hay hay hay- haywood wood This Is taken to mean that Montreal's reform wave wate Is on In earn earn- earnest earnest est ext This reform It if carried out will ha hate 0 a far ar reaching effect In the United States The early earl traffic In drugs passing pasting through h this city has amounted to more than according to Major Haywood Mon Mon- Montreal treal treat naturally Is In a geographical situation to Attract such trade J Ia addition to being a I seaport and tho thi terminus of many Canadian and United States rall railways ays It is also with with- withIn withIn within in 35 3 f miles mUes of the tho American horde border with the best of highways connecting I It with th the largest American cities Major Haywood makes no attempt at rhetoric no effort to thrill or to paint conditions In a mor more lurid lIght than the facts warrant Statistics quoted were with th the extreme care and accuracy and th the examples quoted were largey argel fro mth personal knowledge whIch the superintendent of ot a large larce city hospital Is naturally In unique post post- position position tion to secure Not one man In ten thousand knew until the th Major Haywood report came out that so much depravity depra and shame sham existed in la the th vicious areas of ot Mon Mon- Mon iseal The Th doctor soldier charged the th oUt oUt- officials of ot Montreal with In Indifference In- In Indifference difference to conditions and even con connivance con con- connivance He placed many of the po po lice and officers of the e force under a shadow with his ret re HARBORED His Hla evidence Indicated a close lose con connection con con- connection connection between vice tico Ice and drug druc traffic traffIc fic tic and pro proved ed that tenderloin resorts resort allowed to openly carry on their no- no ne nefarious farious Industry ere vere wr harboring thieves murderers al aid criminals criminal from every vry part of ot the th United States and Canada Montreal was wa-s characterized by him himas himas himas as the th worst city on this continent calmly allowing white whito sla slavery ery the drug traffic and crime of every avery tur na-tur na- na nature nature ture to thrive without even under tinder th the protection of ot officials paid by th the people to keep th the city clean 1 There was a touch of ot pathos In the th octor's report when h he drew a pic- pic I tur ture of th the wretched Inmates of ot the houses virtual prisoners morally and physically Major Haywood wasted no words in his report The drug druc traffic he be declared had found Its principal con con- center conter cen center ter of ot propagation In and around Mon Mon- Montreal Mon Mon- Montreat Montreal treal treat Nothing was being done ef- ef effectively ef effectively to deal t with Ith these hotbeds hotbed ot of degradatIOn Laws are ar pas pasted pas ed declared the mA- mA mAjor major mn-jor mn jor to close these places up but laws provided with loopholes to at once render th the closIng up process Inet met met- The pollee police departments are flayed Tho The policy polley of ot the tho Montreal po- po police palice po police lice Dr Haywood Ihy said Is to toler tOler- tOlerate tolerate ate these houses bouses The magIstrates let the offenders go co vuth Ith a R paltry fine If It the chose they could clean up the red lights lichts In II a month But as It Is Montreal la Is II a city which boasts of ot a district pro pro- protected pro protected and allowed to run openly against the law These commercial commercial- commercialized commercialIzed vice thee Ice establishments turn out drug addicts criminals and derelicts at an alarming rate Wh Whit Wh t can you do when a Montreal e has his telephone address nt at one of ot the most notorious of ot these dens of Infamy Chief of ot Detect Detectives es Lepage has ask ash asked ask asked ed for a public Inquiry Into Dr Hay Hay- Haywood's woods Hay woods wood's charges and this was nas definitely definitely definitely arranged todD It Is proba- proba probable proba-bl proba ble bhe thata that a witnesses will bo be brought from all 1111 parts of oC the United to give rive evidence of crime traffic |