V 85.2.AI 1
Documents Regarding
Alcoholic Liquors and
Prostitution in the
Neighborhood of
Military Camps
and Naval Stations
GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
UNIV. OF WASH. UBRARIES
SEP 112017
U.S. DEPOSITORY COPY
War and Navy Departments
Commissions on Training Camp Activities
Washington
f I k‘ ' lo
This Letter was Sent by the Secretary of
War to the Governors of all the
States, as well as to the
Chairmen of the State
COUNCILS OF
Defense
COUNCIL OF NATIONAL
DEFENSE
Washington1
May 26, 1917.
Dear Sir:
I am very, anxious to bring to the attention
of the State Councils of Defense a matter in
which they can be of great service to the War
Department. In the training camps already
established or soon to be established large
bodies of men, selected primarily from the
youth of the country, will be gathered to¬
gether for a period of intensive discipline and
training. The greater proportion of this force
probably will be made up of young men who
have not yet become accustomed to contact
with either the saloon or the prostitute, and
who will be at that plastic and generous period
of life when their service to their country
should be surrounded by safeguards against
temptations to which they are not accustomed.
Our responsibility in this matter is not open
to question. We can not allow these young
men, most of whom will have been drafted to
service, to be surrounded by a vicious and de¬
moralizing environment, nor can we leave any¬
thing undone which will protect them from
unhealthy influences.and crude forms of temp^
tation. Not . only have Ve an inescapable re¬
sponsibility in this matter to the families-and
communities from which these young men are
selected, but, from the standpoint of our duty
and our determination to create an efficient
army, we are bound, as a military necessity,
to do everything in our power to promote the
health and conserve the vitality of the men in
the training camps.
I am determined that pur new* training
camps, as well as the surrounding zones within
an effective radius, shall not be places of
temptation and peril. The amendments to
the Army Bill recently passed, a copy of which
I enclose herewith (Sections 12 and 13), give
the War Department more authority in this
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matter than we previously possessed. On the
other hand, we are not going to be able to
obtain the conditions necessary to the health
and vitality of our soldiers, without the full
cooperation of the local authorities in the
cities and towns near which our camps are
located, or through which our soldiers will
be passing in transit to other points.
Will you give earnest consideration to this
matter in your particular State ? I am con¬
fident that much can be done to arouse the
cities and towns to an appreciation of their
responsibility for clean conditions; and I
would suggest that, through such channels
as may present themselves to you, you im¬
press upon these communities their patriotic
opportunity in this matter. I would further
suggest that as an integral part of the war
machinery your Council make itself responsible
for seeing that the laws of your State and of.
Congress in respect to these matters are strict¬
ly enforced. This relates not only to the
camps established under Federal authority,
both the present officers* training camps and
the divisional training camps soon to be
opened, but to the more or less temporary
mobilization points of the national guard
units. It relates, too, as I have indicated, to
the large centers through which soldiers will
constantly be passing in transit to other points.
As I say, the War Department intends to
do its full part in these matters, but we ex¬
pect the cooperation and support of the local
communities. If the desired end can not other¬
wise be achieved, I propose to move the camps
from those neighborhoods in which clean con-
<iitions can not be secured.
In this connection let me call your attention
to the Commission on Training Camp Activi-
fies which I have organized to advise with
me on questions relating to the moral hazards
in our training centers, as well as to the pro¬
motion of rational recreation facilities within
and without the camps.' The members of this
commission are as follows:
Raymond B. Fosdick, Chairman
Lee F. Hanmer
Thomas J. Howells
Joseph Lee
Malcolm L. McBride
John R. Mott
Charles P. Neill
Brig. Gen. Palmer E. Pierce, U. S. A.
Joseph E. Raycroft
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It is possible that the chairman of this com¬
mission or some of its members will consult
with you in regard to the activities which they
have in hand. I bespeak for them your ut¬
most support and cooperation.
Very truly yours,
(Signed) NEWTON D. BAKER,
Secretary of War and Chairman of
the Council of National Defense.
This Letter was Sent by the Secretary of
War to the Mayors of the Cities and
THE SHERIFFS OF THE COUNTIES IN
tpie Neighborhood of all Mil-
iltary Training Camps
WAR DEPARTMENT
Washington
August 10, 1917.
My Dear Sir :
In anticipation of the military training camp
soon to be opened in your neighborhood, I
am sending herewith a copy of the regulations
recently issued on the question of the suppres¬
sion of prostitution and the sale of alcohol to
soldiers in uniform within a given radius of
military posts and camps. These regulations,
which are based on sections 12 and 13 of the
recent Army Law, do not, I believe, need
comment, and I am confident that their en¬
forcement will help create a wholesome en¬
vironment about the military camps.
There are one or two matters, however, in
connection with the enforcement of the regu¬
lations, to which I would like to call your
attention. In the first place, the purpose of
these regulations is to put into effect sections
12 and 13 of the Army Law recently passed,
so that the Army itself can cooperate with
the local authorities, if necessary, in their
enforcement. The regulations do not in any
way lessen the necessity for police vigilance
on the part of local authorities. The presence
of large bodies of troops rather increases the
responsibility of those whose duty it is to
preserve local order, and I am confident that
the War Department can rely on you to the
utmost to see that the regulations are rigidly
enforced.
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In the second place, while we have fixed a
five mile radius about the camp, in which
prostitution is strictly to be put down, the
War Department will not tolerate evil resorts
of any kind within easy reach of the camp, even
though such resorts lie without the five mile
zone. If places of bad repute spring up out¬
side the five mile limit, but fairly accessible
to the camp, I shall not hesitate to insist upon
their elimination. Of course, it would be
possible to extend the zone, and I shall not
evade the responsibility in case of necessity.
At the same time, if the zone is drawn with
too large a radius, there is danger that the
number of soldiers required to police it will
be beyond the ability of the Commanding Offi¬
cer readily to furnish. In such a case, there¬
fore, it might be easier and cheaper to move
the canip to a more desirable locality; pro¬
vided, of course, that clean conditions could
not be secured through any other course.
Finally, let me say that the War Depart¬
ment will not tolerate the existence of any
restricted district within an effective radius
of the camp. Experience has proved that
such districts in the vicinity of army camps,
no matter how conducted, are inevitably at¬
tended by unhappy consequences. The only
practical policy which presents itself in rela¬
tion to this problem is the policy of absolute
repression, and I am confident that in taking
this course the War Department has placed it¬
self in line with the best thought and practice
which modern police experience has developed.
This policy involves, of course, constant vigi¬
lance on the part of the police, not only in
eliminating regular houses of prostitution, but
in checking the more or less clandestine class
that walks the streets and is apt to frequent
lodging houses and hotels.
I have appointed a Commission on Training
Camp Activities to advise with me on matters
of this kind, and through this Commission I
shall keep constantly in touch with conditions
about all our army camps. If you have any
questions relating to the enforcement of the
enclosed regulations, I trust you will not hesi¬
tate to get in touch with me or with Mr. Ray¬
mond B. Fosdick, Chairman of the Commis¬
sion. Meanwhile I am sure the country is
looking to us to cooperate effectively in this
matter and to make the surroundings of our
camps worthy of the fine spirit of the nation
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which entrusts these young men to us to be
trained for service in a great cause.
Very truly yours,
(Signed) NEWTON D. BAKER,
Secret ary of War.
Prostitution—Army Regulations
WAR DEPARTMENT
Washington
January 17, 1918.
Bulletin No. L
Under authority of Section 13 of the Act
“To authorize the President to increase tem¬
porarily the Military Establishment of the
United States,” approved May 18, 1917, which
section reads as follows:
“That the Secretary of War is hereby au¬
thorized, empowered,. and directed during the
present war to do everything by him deemed
necessary to suppress and prevent the keeping
or setting up of houses of ill fame, brothels,
or bawdy houses within such distance as he
may deem needful of any military camp, sta¬
tion, fort, post, cantonment, training, or mobil¬
ization place, and any person, corporation,
partnership, or Association receiving or per-
mitting to be received for immoral purposes
anv person into any place, structure, or build¬
ing used for the purpose of lewdness, assigna¬
tion or prostitution within such distance of
said places as may be designated, or shall per¬
mit any such person to remain for immoral
purposes in any such place, structure or build¬
ing as aforesaid, or who shall violate any order,
rule, or regulation issued to carry out the ob¬
ject and purpose of this section, shall, unless
otherwise punishable under the Articles of
War, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000,
or imprisonment for not more than twelve
months, or both/9 the following regulations are
established by the Secretary of War and shall
supersede all former regulations issued under
the aforesaid authority and continue during
the present emergency:
1. The keeping or setting up of houses of
ill fame, brothels, or bawdy houses within five
miles of any military camp, station, fort, post,
cantonment, training, or mobilization place is
prohibited.
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2. Five miles from any military' camp, sta¬
tion, fort, post, cantonment, training, or mobil¬
ization place, is hereby designated as the dis¬
tance within which it shall be unlawful for
any person, corporation, partnership, or asso¬
ciation to receive, or permit to be received, for
immoral purposes, any person into any place,
structure, or building used for the purpose
of lewdness, assignation or prostitution, or to
permit any such person to remain for immoral
purposes in any such place, structure, or build¬
ing, as aforesaid.
3. The directing, taking, or transporting, or
offering to take or transport any person, for
immoral purposes, to, or the assisting, by any
means, of any person for any such purposes
to find, any house of ill fame, brothel, or
bawdy house, which is located within five
miles of any military camp, station, fort, post,
cantonment, training or mobilization place,
with knowledge or reasonable cause to know
that the same is a house of ill fame, brothel,
or bawdy house, is hereby prohibited.
4. To enter or reside in for any immoral
purposes any house of ill fame, brothel, or
bawdy house, located within five miles of any
military camp, station, fort, post, cantonment,
training or mobilization place, is hereby pro¬
hibited.
5. All prior violation of former regula¬
tion and all penalties incurred thereunder
shall be prosecuted and enforced in the same
manner and with the same effect as if these
superseding regulation had not been estab¬
lished.
(250.18, A.G.O.)
By order of the Secretary of War:
John Biddle,
Major General, Acting Chief of Staff.
Official:
H. P. McCain,
The Adjutant General.
Liquor—Army Regulations
WAR DEPARTMENT
Washington
February 8, 1918.
Bulletin No. 5.
III. Under authority of section 12 of the
act of Congress “To authorize the President
to increase temporarily the Military Establish-
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ment of the United States,” approved May
18, 1917, which section reads as follows:
“Sec. 12. That the President of the United
States, as Commander in Chief of the Army,
is authorized to make such regulations gov¬
erning the prohibition of. alcoholic liquors in
or near military camps and to the officers and
enlisted men of the Army as he may from
time to time deem necessary or advisable: Pro¬
vided, That no person, corporation, partner¬
ship, or association shall sell, supply, or have
in his or its possession any intoxicating or
spirituous liquors at any military station, can¬
tonment, camp, fort, post, officers’ or enlisted
men’s club, which is being used at the time
for military purposes under this act, but the
Secretary of War may make regulations per-
mitting the sale and use of intoxicating liquors
for medicinal purposes. It shall be unlawful
to sell any intoxicating liquor, including beer,
ale, or wine, to any officer or member of the
military forces while in uniform, except as
herein provided. Any person, corporation,
partnership, or association violating the provi¬
sion of this section or the regulations made
thereunder shall, unless otherwise punishable
under the Articles of War, be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine
of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment for
not more ' than twelve months or both’’—
the following regulations are established by
the President and the Secretary of War, to
continue during the present emergency, and
shall supersede all former regulations issued
under the aforesaid authority:
1. There is hereby established a zone five
miles wide, circumjacent to the boundaries of
every military camp, except that within the
existing limits of an incorporated city or town
the zone shall not include any territory more
than one-half mile from the nearest boundary
of such camp. Alcoholic liquor, including beer,
ale and wine, either alone or . with any other
article, shall not, directly or indirectly, be sold,
bartered, given, served, or knowingly delivered
by one person to another within any such zone,
or sent, shipped, transmitted, carried or trans-
ported to any place within any such zone:
Provided, That this regulation shall not apply
to the giving or serving of such liquor in a
private home to members of the family or bona
fide guests, other than officers or members of
the military forces, or to the sending, shipping,
transmitting, carrying or transportation of
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such liquor to a private home for use as afore¬
said : Provided also, That this regulation shall
not apply to the sale or gift of such liquor by
registered pharmacists to licensed physicians
or Army Surgeons for medical purposes, or to
the administering of such liquor by or under
the direction of such physicians or Army Sur¬
geons for medical purposes, or to the sending,
shipping, transmitting, carrying or transport¬
ing of such liquor to registered pharmacists,
licensed physicians or Army Surgeons for use
as aforesaid.
2. Alcoholic liquor, including beer, ale and
wine, either alone or with any other article,
shall not, directly or indirectly, be sold, bar-
tered, given, served, or knowingly delivered
to any officer or member of the military forces,
except when administered for medical purposes
by or under the direction of a regularly li¬
censed physician or Army Surgeon: Provided,
That this regulation shall not apply to the giv¬
ing or serving of such liquor in a private home
to members of the family or bona fide guests.
3. By the term “military camp” as herein.
used is meant a camp or cantonment now or
hereafter established and used for the mobiliza¬
tion and training of divisions of the Army of
the United States, for the training of citizens
or civilians as candidates for commissions in
the Army or under authority of section 54 of
the National Defense Act, approved June 3,
1916, a camp at a port of embarkation, a camp
designated as an embarkation camp, an ambu¬
lance camp, an aviation camp, a quartermas-
ters’ training camp, an ordnance training camp,
or a medical officers’ training camp.
4. All prior violations of former regula¬
tion and all penalties incurred thereunder
shall be prosecuted and enforced in the same
manner and with the same effect as if these
superseding regulations had not been estab¬
lished.
Approved January 26, 1918.
(250.12, A.G.O.)
By order of the Secretary of War:
John Biddle,
Major General, Acting Chief of Staff.
Official:
H. P. McCain,
The Adjutant General.
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Prostitution—Navy Regulation s
NAVY DEPARTMENT
Washington
January 17, 1918.
General Order No. 359.
1. Section 13 of the selective-draft Act, ap¬
proved May 18, 1917, reads as follows:
“That the Secretarv of War is hereby au¬
thorized, empowered, and directed during the
present war to do everything by him deemed
necessary to suppress and prevent the keeping
or setting up of houses of ill fame, brothels,
or bawdy houses within such distance as he
may deem needful of any military camp, sta¬
tion, fort, post, cantonment, training, or mobil¬
ization place, and any person, corporation,
partnership, or association receiving or per-
mitting to be received for immoral purposes
any person into any place, structure, or build¬
ing used for the purpose of lewdness, assigna¬
tion, or prostitution within such distance of
said places as may be designated, or shall per¬
mit any such person to remain for immoral
purposes ia any such place, structure, or build¬
ing as aforesaid, or who shall violate any order,
rule, or regulation issued to carry out the ob¬
ject and purpose of this section shall, unless
otherwise punishable under the Articles of
War, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000,
or imprisonment for not more than twelve
months, or both.”
2. This section is amended by the Act ap¬
proved October 6, 1917, which reads as fol¬
lows :
“That in construing the provisions of sec-
tions twelve and thirteen of the selective-draft
Act, approved May eighteenth, nineteen hun¬
dred and seventeen, the word 'Army’ shall ex¬
tend to and include ‘Navy’; the word 'military’
shall include 'naval’; 'Article of War’ shall in¬
clude 'Articles for the Government of the
Navy’; the words 'camps, station, cantonment,
camp, fort, post, officers’ or enlisted men’s
club,’ in section twelve, and 'camp, station,
fort, post, cantonment, training, or mobiliza¬
tion place,’ in section thirteen, shall include
such places under naval jurisdiction as the
President may prescribe, and the powers there¬
in conferred upon the Secretary of War with
regard to the military service are hereby con¬
ferred upon the Secretary of the Navy with re¬
gard to the naval service.”
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3. The President has prescribed that the
words “camp, station, fort, post, cantonment,
training or mobilization place/', as contained
in section 13 above, shall include all places
under naval jurisdiction. Under the authority
of said section, as amended, the following
regulations are issued by the Secretary of
the Navy; they shall supersede General Order
No. 332 of October 18, 1917, and continue
during the present emergency:
(1) The keeping or setting up of houses of
ill fame, brothels, or bawdy houses within five
miles of any place under naval jurisdiction is
prohibit ed.
(2) Five miles from any place under naval
jurisdiction’is hereby designated as the dis¬
tance within which it shall be unlawful for
any person, corporation, partnership, or asso¬
ciation to receive, or permit to be received, for
immoral purposes, any person into any place,
structure, or building used for the purpose of
lewdness, assignation or prostitution, or to per¬
mit any such person to remain for immoral
purposes in any such place, structure, or build¬
ing, as aforesaid.
(3) The directing, taking, or transporting,
or offering to take or transport any person, for
immoral purposes, to, or the assisting, by any
means, of any person for any such purposes
to find, any house of ill fame, brothel, or bawdy
house, which is located within five miles of
any place under naval jurisdiction, with knowl¬
edge or reasonable cause to know that the
same is a house of ill fame, brothel, or bawdy
house, is hereby prohibited.
(4) To enter or reside in for any immoral
purposes any house of ill fame, brothel, or
bawdy house, located within five miles of any
place under naval jurisdiction, is hereby pro¬
hibited.
(5) All prior violations of former regula¬
tions and all penalties incurred thereunder
shall be prosecuted and enforced in the same
manner and with the same effect as if these
superseding regulations had not been estab¬
lished.
Josephus Daniels.
Secretary of the Navy.
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Liquor—Navy Regulations
NAVY DEPARTMENT
Washington
5 March, 1918.
General Order No. 373.
1. Section 12 of the Selective Draft Act, ap¬
proved 18 May, 1917 (Public, No. 12), reads
as follows:
“That the President of the United States,
as Commander in Chief of the Army, is au¬
thorized to make such regulations governing
the prohibition of alcoholic liquors in or near
military camps and to the officers and enlisted
men of the Army as he may from time to time
deem necessary or advisable: Provided, That
no person, corporation, partnership, or associ¬
ation shall sell, supply, or have in his or its pos¬
session any intoxicating or spirituous liquors
at any military station, cantonment, camp,
fort, post, officers’ or enlisted men’s club, which
is being used at the time for military purposes
under this Act, but the Secretary of War may
make regulations permitting the sale and use
of intoxicating liquors for medicinal purposes.
It shall be unlawful to sell any intoxicating
liquor, including beer, ale or wine, to any offi¬
cer or member of the military forces while in
uniform, except as herein provided. Any per¬
son, corporation, partnership, or association
violating the provisions of this section or the
regulations made thereunder shall, unless other¬
wise punishable under the Articles of War, be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be pun-
ished by a fine of not more than $1,000, or
imprisonment for not more than twelve
months, or both.”
2. This section is amended by the Act ap- *
proved 6 October, 1917 (Public, No. 77),
which reads as follows:
“That in construing the provisions of sec-
tions twelve and thirteen of the Selective Draft
Act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hun¬
dred and seventeen, the word ‘Army’ shall
extend to and include ‘Navy’; the word ‘mili¬
tary’ shall include ‘naval’; ‘Article of War’
shall include ‘Articles for the Government of
the Navy’; the words ‘camps, station, canton¬
ment, camp, fort, post, officers’. or enlisted
men’s club,’ in section twelve, and ‘camp, sta¬
tion, fort, post, cantonment, training, or mobil¬
ization place,’ in section thirteen, shall include
such places under naval jurisdiction as the
President may prescribe, and the powers there¬
in conferred upon the Secretary of War with
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regard to the military service are hereby con-
ferred upon the Secretary of the Navy with re¬
gard to the naval service.”
3. Under the authority of section 12 above,
as amended, the following regulations are es¬
tablished by the President, to continue during
the present emergency:
(1) There is hereby established a zone five
miles wide, circumjacent to the boundaries
of every place under naval jurisdiction speci¬
fied below: Alcoholic liquor, including beer,
ale and wine, either alone or with any other
article, shall not, directly or indirectly, be sold,
bartered, given, served, or knowingly delivered
by one person to another within any such zone,
or sent, shipped transmitted, carried or trans-
ported to any place within any such zone: Pro¬
vided, That this regulation shall not apply to
the giving or serving of such liquor in a pri¬
vate home to members of the family or bona
fide guests, other than officers or members of
the naval forces: Provided also, That this
regulation shall not apply to the sale or gift of
such liquor by registered pharmacists to li¬
censed physicians or medical officers of the
United States for medical purposes, or to the
administering of such liquor by or under the
direction of such physicians or medical offi¬
cers of the United States for medical purposes,
or to the sending, shipping, transmitting, car¬
rying or transporting of such liquor to regis¬
tered pharmacists, licensed physicians or med¬
ical officers of the United States for use as
aforesaid.
(2) Until otherwise ordered, the places
under naval jurisdiction referred to above are
specified as follows:
Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.
Naval Training Station, Newport, R. I.
Naval Training Station, Norfolk, Va.
Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Ill.
Naval Training Station, Naval Operat¬
ing P>ase, Hampton Roads, Va.
Training Camp, Navv Yard, Mare Island,
Cal.
Marine Barracks, Paris Island, S. C.
Marine Barracks, Quantico, Va.
(3) Outside of said zones, alcoholic liquor,
including beer, ale and wine, either alone or
with any other article, shall not, directly or
indirectly, be sold, bartered, given, served, or
knowingly delivered to any officer or member
of the naval forces, except when administered
for medical purposes by or under the direc-
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tion of a regularly licensed physician or med¬
ical officer of the United States: Provided,
That this regulation shall not apply to the giv¬
ing or serving of such liquor in a private home
to members of the family or bona fide guests.
(4) Nothing contained in these regulations
shall be construed to prohibit or restrict the
procuring or use of wine by any religious con¬
gregation or church for sacramental purposes
in the usual religious exercises of its denom¬
ination.
(5) The words “station, cantonment, camp,
fort, post, officers' or enlisted men’s club,” as
used in the proviso to section 12 above quoted,
shall include all places under naval jurisdiction.
The use of intoxicating liquor in such places,
by or under the direction of licensed physicians
or medical officers of the United States, for
medicinal purposes, is authorized by the Sec-
‘retary of the Navy.
(6) All prior violations of former regula¬
tions and all penalties incurred thereunder shall
be prosecuted and enforced in the same man¬
ner and with the same effect as if these super-
seding regulations had not been established.
(7) This order shall take effect Saturday,
16 March, 1918, at 4 o'clock postmeridian.
Josephus Daniels,
Secretary of the Navy.
NAVY DEPARTMENT
Washington
1 April, 1918.
General Order No. 380.
Under the authority of Section 12 of the
Selective Draft Act, approved May 18, 1917
(Public, No. 12), as amended by the Act
approved October 6, 1917 (Public, No. 77),
Regulation No. (1), set forth in General
Order No. 373 of the Navy Department, dated
Washington, D. C., March 5, 1918, is hereby
revoked by the President and there is sub-
stituted therefor the following regulation es¬
tablished by the President to continue during
the present emergency:
(1) There is hereby established a zone five
miles wide, circumjacent to the boundaries of
every place under naval jurisdiction specified
below. Alcoholic liquor, including beer, ale
and wine, either alone or with any other ar¬
ticle, shall not, directly or indirectly, be sold,
bartered, given, served, or knowingly deliv-
ered by one person to another within any such
zone, or sent, shipped, transmitted, carried or
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transported to any place within any such zone:
Provided, That this regulation shall not apply
to the giving or serving in a private home to
members of the family or bona fide guests,
other than officers or members of the naval
forces, any of such liquor as may be on hand
in such private home on the date of the taking
effect of this regulation, namely, the second
day of April, 1918, at four o’clock postmeri¬
dian : Provided also, That this regulation shall
not apply to the sale or gift of such liquor by
registered pharmacists to licensed physicians
or medical officers of the United States for
medical purposes, or to the administering of
such liquor by or under the direction of such
physicians or medical officers of the United
States for medical purposes, or to the sending,
shipping, transmitting, carrying or transport¬
ing of such liquor to registered pharmacists,
licensed physicians or medical officers of the
United States for use as aforesaid.
All violations of said Regulation No. (1),
and all penalties incurred thereunder prior to
the taking effect of the foregoing substituted
regulation shall be prosecuted and enforced in
the same manner and with the same effect
as if said Regulation No. (1) had not been
revoked and the foregoing substituted regula¬
tion established.
The foregoing substituted regulation shall
take effect on Tuesday, April second, 1918,
at four o’clock postmeridian.
Josephus Daniels,
Secretory of the Navy.
Prostitution and Liquor—Hawaii
WAR DEPARTMENT
Washington
March ll, 1918.
Bulletin No. ll.
1. The following Executive Order is. pub-
lished to the Army for the information and
guidance of all concerned:
Executive Order
Under the provisions of section 12 of an
act of Congress approved May 18, 1917, au-
thorizing the President of the United States
“to make such regulations governing the pro¬
hibition of alcoholic liquor s in or near mili¬
tary camps and to the officers and enlisted
men of the Army as he may from time to time
deem necessary or advisable,” the following
regulations are established for the Island of
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Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, and shall become
and be effective at the end of thirty days after
the publication thereof by general order or
bulletin of the War Department:
Within the Island of Oahu, Territory of Ha¬
waii, alcoholic liquors, including beer, ale and
wine, either alone or with any other article,
shall not be sold, bartered, given or served,
or knowingly transferred or handed over from
one person to another, and to any place within
said Island shall not knowingly be, or be
caused to be, sent, shipped, transmitted, car-
ried or transported, except that this regulation
shall not apply to the giving or serving of such
liquors in a private home to members of the
family and bona fide guests other than mem¬
bers of the military forces, or to the sending,
shipping, transmitting, carrying or transport¬
ing of such liquors to a private home for use
as aforesaid, or to the docks or wharves of said
Island for transshipment in original packages
and under original billing to points or places
outside of said Island, or to the sale of such
liquors by registered pharmacists to regularly
licensed physicians or Army or Navy surgeons
for medicinal use ,or to the administering of
such liquor by or under the direction of such
physicians or Army or Navy surgeons or to
the purchase, retention and use of wine for
sacramental purposes by chaplains of the Army
or Navy or by regularly ordained ministers
under the rules of their respective church or-
ganizations.
Woodrow Wilson.
The White House, .
2 March, 1918.
(250.1, A.G.O.)
II. Under authority of section 13 of the
act “To authorize the President to increase
temporarily the Military Establishment of the
United States,” approved May 18, 1917, which
section reads—
That the Secretary of War is hereby au¬
thorized, empowered, and directed during the
present war to do everything by him deemed
necessary to suppress and prevent the keeping
or setting up of houses of ill fame, brothels,
or bawdy houses within such distance as he
may deem needful of any military camp, sta¬
tion, fort, post, cantonment, training, or mobil¬
ization place; and any person, corporation,
partnership, or association receiving or per-
mitting to be received for immoral purposes
any person into any place, structure, or build-
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in g used for the purpose of lewdness, assigna¬
tion, or prostitution within such distance of
said places as may be designated, or shall per¬
mit any such person to remain for immoral
purposes in any such place, structure, or “build¬
ing as aforesaid, or who shall violate any order,
rule, or regulation issued to carry out the ob¬
ject and purpose of this section shall, unless
otherwise punishable under the Articles of
War, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000
or imprisonment for uot more than twelve
month s, or both—the following regulations are
established by the Secretary of War for the
Island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, to con-
tinue during the present war:
1. The keeping or setting up of houses of
ill fame, brothels, or bawdy houses within the
Island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, is pro-
hibited.
2. Such distance from any military camp,
station, fort, post, cantonment, training, or
mobilization place within the Island of Oahu
as will include all points within said Island is
hereby designated as the distance from said
places within which it shall be unlawful for
any person, corporation, partnership, or asso¬
ciation to receive, or permit to be received, for
immoral purposes, any person into any place,
structure, or building used for the purpose of
lewdness, assignation, or prostitution, or to
permit any such person to remain for immoral
purposes in any such place, structure, or build¬
ing as aforesaid.
3. The directing, taking, or transporting, or
offering to take or transport, any person for
purposes of lewdness or assignation to any
house of ill fame, brothel, or bawdy house, or
the assistance by any means of any person for
such purpose to find any iiouse of ill fame,
brothel, or bawdy house within the Island of
Oahu is hereby prohibited.
4. To enter or reside for purposes of lewd¬
ness or assignation in any house of ill fame,
brothel, or bawdy house within the Island of
Oahu is hereby prohibited.
(250.1, A.G.O.)
By order of the Secretary of War:
Peyton C. March,
Major .General, Acting Chief of Staff.
Official:
H. P. McCain,
The Adjutant General.
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