The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-06
REPORT ON
SOCIAL EVIL
Radical Recommendations Are
Made by the Vice Commis-
sion of Chicago.
REASONS WHY GIRLS FAIL
TO RESIST TEMPTATIONS
Lack of Proper Pay for Those
Compelled to Work AsSailed
in Bitter Terms.

CHICAGO, April 5.-The Chicago vice
commission. the first salarled luunicipal
commission of its kind. made many radi-
cal recommendations in It's report 70 the
common council tonight and gave an en-
haustivc review of the present status
of the social evil in Chlcago, It's past. Its
causes and means OF suppressing H. The
recommendations were directly against
the European principle of segregation.
They were
Constant and persistent repression of
the social evil as an Immediate method.
with absolute annIhllation as the ulu-
mate Ideal This by means of
First-The appointment OF morals
s;econd-The establishment OF a morals
court
In summing up present conditions the
report says:
Most of the police arc honest. one
standard of morality in Chicago applauds
dances by nearly naked women in the
name Of art and condemns dances no
worse before less prosperous audiences
men, not women. are the ones highest
up in the business administration of the
social evil; hotels which ask no ques-
tionS' of their patrons are great con-
tributing means TO wrecliing girlhood: ::
prejudice against colored girls drive
them into the social evil centers either
as servants or inmates; the white slave
traffic is not organized.
Contributory Causes Named.
Contributing causes are named as fol-
Want OF the necessities OF life. crav
ins for simple luSuries. Ignorance. broken
promises, deceit OF men, but. worst OF all,
poverty. Lack OF protection TO immi-
grant girls aids the evil. says the report.
and lake steamers with no regulations
are fruitful sources of victims. Lack
OF proper pay for working girls is
sailed at great length in bitter terms and
Is called the chief reason why young
girls fail TO resist tempta tons.
The causes are summed up thus:
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economical stress OF un6erpaid workers;
large number of seasonablc trades for
women. leaving periods Of the year when
there is no employment: abnormality
unhappy home conditions. careless and
ignorant parents: broken PROMISES love
of ease and Injury; craving for excite
ment and change; Ignorance Of hygiene.
Among the recommendations, besides
the moral court and commission. are
these:
Plan for Bettering Conditions.
Instruction of children l2 and l6 years
old in sex hygiene. by personal attention
cants for marriage licenses: better pro-
lection 70: girls; abolition of the flning
system against known members OF vice
districts: an Intelligent and ample adul,
probation system, home for old Offend
ers; an appeal 10 the chivalry OF man;
regulation OF lake boats; investigation
and supervision Of employment agencies
laws calling centers OF the evil public
nuisances; against allowing messenger
boys to go into vice districts: the state
to take the place OF parent 10 illeeitimate
children; comfort stations In the city:
municipal dance halls; frequent rotation
of policemen, no liquor AT public dance
halls municipal lodging house for WON
en-; segregation of semi-delinquent girls
from delinquents and an intelligent care
and education for them; women officers
for the police force, vocational training
for older girls in public schools; hotels
and homes for working women and girls
vigilance in public parks, where girls and
women visit; aad less liberty for children
except under the eye of their parents,
and, generally. closer attention of par
ents TO the habits. acquaintance and do
ings OF their chidren-grls and boys.
Among the members OF the vice com
mission were:
United States District Attorney Sims.
Dean Walter Sumner OF the Episcopal
cathedral, DR.. Anna Dwyer. Health Com
missioner Evans: the Rev. Frank w.
Gunsalaus. Mrs Ellen Henrotin. the Rev.
Abram Hirschberg. Judge Harry Olson
Julius Rosenwald, president OF Seers.
Roebuck & Co; Judge William NJ. Pinck-
ney. Bishop c. T. Shaffer. Professor
Charles X. Henderson of the University
OF Chicago. Superintendent John L.
Whitman of the Chicago House OF Cor
rections. and Professor Graham Taylor OF
Chicago Commons.