The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-06
Gives Causes, Means of Sup- pressing and Sums Up
 Present Conditions
CHIEF CAUSE OF
 EVIL IS POVERTY
Commission Is First Salaried Com- mission of Its Kind and Is Com- posed of Many Promi-
 nent People

Chicago, April 5.-The Chicago Vice commission, the first salaried municipal commission of its kind, made many rad ical recommendations in its report to the common council tonight and gave an exhaustive review of the present status of the social evil in Chicago; its past, it's causes and means of. suppressing 1t. The recommendations were directly against the European principle of segre- gation. They were:
 Constant and persistent repression of the social evil as an immediate method. with absolute annihilation as the ultimate ideal This by means of: First, the ap- pointment of a morals commissions; sec ond, the establishment of morals court.
 In summing up present conditions the report says:
 Most of the police are 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 questions of their patrons are a great contributing means to wrecked girlhood; ; prejudice against colored girls drive them into the social evil centers. either as servants or inmates. The white slave traffic is not organized.
 The Causes
 Contributing causes are named as fol- lows:
 
 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 and lake steamers with no regulations are fruitful sources of victims. Lack of proper 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 etchical and religious teaching economy in underpaid workers; large number of seasonabe trades for women. leaving periods of the year with no em- rloyment unhappy home conditions; care less and ignorant parents; love of ease and luxury; craving for excitement and change; ignorance of hygiene.
 Among the recommendations beside the moral court and commission are these:
 Some Recommendations
 Instruction of children. 12 to Is years age In sex hygiene: personal attention of parents; physical examinations Of applicants for marriage licenses; better pay for girls; abolishment of the fin ing system against known membe of the vice district; an intelligent and ample adult probation system; home for old offenders; an appeal to the chiv- airy of man; regulation of lake boats, investigation and supervision of em- ployment agencies; laws calling centers of the evil public nuisances; against allowing messenger boys to go into the vice district; the state to take the place of parent to illegitimate chill dren; comfort stations in the city; mu- nicipal 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 except under the eye of their parents; and generally, closer attention of parents to the habits. acquaintances and doing of their children-girls and boys.
 Among the members of the vice commis- sion were:
 United States District Attorney Edwin w. Sims, Dean Walter T. Sumner, Dr. Anna Dwyer. health commissioner; W. A. Evans, the Rev. Frank w. Gunsaulus, Mrs. Ella Henrotn, the Rev Abram Hirschberg. Judge Harry Olsen, Julius Rosenwald. president of Sears, Roebuck & Co.,; Judge w. M.. Pinckney, Bishop c. T. Shaffer, Prof. Charles R. Henderson, University of Chicago; Superintendent John Whitman, Chicago House of Correc- tion, and Prof. Graham Taylor of Chicago commons