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This article presents information on segregation in the U.S. If a community takes the position that vice cannot be cured and that nothing better is possible than to reduce its evils and to keep it out of sight, then there is much to be said for the Japanese method of complete segregation; but segregation in the U.S. is not such complete segregation. With, it means toleration of an illegal business within vaguely defined districts which are occupied not only by vice but also for legitimate business purposes and for residence usually by a large number of the poorest and most helpless of the community. Such segregation is no remedy or even solution, but rather tends to interfere with progress towards a cure. If vice is to be tolerated, there is not much to choose between segregation and dispersion, but the disadvantage is on the side of segregation. If one hopes to make real progress toward remedying the vice evils, then segregation is the worst method. Segregation is objectionable, because it is likely to be accepted as a remedy. A man who adopts it is like the one who saves his own loss by passing a counterfeit coin on another. It may be said that neither is dispersion a remedy, and truly; but dispersion incites that public to action while segregation favors neglect. |
