Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-04-11
MORALS COURT NEEDED
DECIDES CHICAGO BOARD
Vice Commission Made Many
Good Recommendations at
important Meeting.
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CHICAGO, April S.--The Chicago vice
commission, the first salaried municipal
commission of its kind, made many rad
ical recommendations in its report to
the common council last night. and gave
an exhaustive review of the present
status of the social evil in Chicago; its
part,fi its causes and means of suppress
ing it. The recommendations were di-
rectly against the European principle Of
segregation They were:
Constant and persistent repression Of
the social evil as an immediate method,
with absolute humiliation as the With
mate ideal. This by means Of:
First-The appointment of a morals
Second-The establishment of morals
court.
In summing up present conditions, the
report says:
POLICE ARE HONEST.
Most of the police are honest; one
standard of morality in Chicago ap-
plauds dances. by nearly naked women in
the name of art and condemns dances
no worse before less prosperous audi
ences; men, not women, are the ones
highest up in the business administra-
ton of the social evil; hotels which ask
no questions" of their patrons are a
great contributing means to wrecked girl
hood; prejudice against colored girls
drive them into the social evil centers,
either as servants or inmates; the white
slave traffic" is not organized.
Contributing causes are named as fol-
lows:
Want of the necessities of life. craving
for simple luxuries, ignorance, broken
promises, deceit of men. but chief of all
poverty. Lack of protection to immigrant
girls aids the evil, says the report ank
lake steamers with no regulations are
fruitful sources, of victims. Lack OF prop
er pay for working girls is assailed at
great length in bitter terms, and is
called the chief reason why young girls
fail to resist temptations placed in their
path. The causes are summed up thus:
Lack of ethical and religious teaching;
economical stress on underpaid workers;
large number of seasonal trades for wo-
men, having periods of the year with
no employment; abnormality; unhappy
home conditions: careless and ignorant
parents: love Of ease and luxury; crav-
ing for excitement, and change; ignor-
ance of hygiene.
OTHER RECOMMENDATION
Among the recommendation beside the
moral court and commission, are these;
instruction of children, IL to 16 years
old, in sex hygiene; personal attention
of parents; physical examination OF ap-
plicants for marriage licenses; better pay
for girls; adjustment of the fining sys-
tenn against known members of the vice
district; an intelligent and ample adult
probation system; home for old offenders;
an appeal to the chivalry of man; regula-
ton of lake boats; investigation and SUI
pervision of employment agencies; laws
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sances; against allowing messenger boys
to go into the vice districts; the state
to take the place of parent to illegimate
children; comfort stations in the city;
municipal dance halls; frequent rotation
of policemen; no liquor at public dance
halls; municipal lodging house for wom-
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; less liberty for children ex-
cept under the eye of their parents; and
generally, closer attention of parents to
the habits, acquaintances and doings of
their children-girls and boys.
Among the members of the vice COM
mission were:
United States District Attorney Edwin
w. Sims, Dean Walter t. Sumner, DR..
Anna Dwyer, health commissioner; w. A.
Evans, Rev. Frank w. Gunsaulus, Mrs
Ella Henrotin, Rev. Abram Hischberg,
Judge Harry Olson, Julius Rosenwald,
president of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Judge
NJ. w. Pinckney, Bishop c. T. Shaffer,
Prof Charles r. Henderson. of the Uni
versity of Chicago; Supt. John Whitman,
of the Chicago House OF Correction, and
Prof Graham Taylor. of Chicago COM
mons