The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-06
)URCESl OF VICE. DIES BY OWNHAND
Makes Re- Head of the House Lppincot
port on Causes and Cure. Commits Suicide.
Chief of These Among Found on the Floor of His Room
Is Poverty. by His Valet.
en- MOST TO BLAME cause is UNKNOWN.
organized White Slave Theories of Both
Traffic" Is a Myth. Suicide Are Entertained
ong List OF Had Fear Of Finding Burglars
Is Submitted. in the Housa
Chicago Commission Makes Re.
port on Causes and Cure.
The Chief of These Among Girls
Is Poverty.
MEN MOST TO BLAME.
The Organized White Slave
Traffic" Is Myth.
Along List of Recommendations
Is Submitted.

Chicago, April 6--The Chicago vice
commission, the first salaried municipal
commission of its kind, made many
radical recommendations in it's report
to the commission council and gave an
exhaustive review of the present status
of the social evil in Chicago. its past,
its causes and means of suppressing it.
The recommendations were directly
against the European principle of Sc
gregation. They were:
Constant and persistent repression of
the social evil as an immediate meth
cd. with absolute annihiIation as the
ultimate ideal. This. by means of:
F1rst-The appointment of a morals
commission
Second-The establishment of a NOR
ais court.
In summing up present conditions
the report says:
Most of the police are honest; one
standard Of morality in Chicago APP
plauds 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 higher up" in the business ad-
mln1Stratton of the social evil; hotels
which TASK no questions" of their pat
rons are great contributing means to
wrecked girlhood; prejudice against
colored girls drives them into the social
evil centers either as servants or in
mates; the white slave traffic is not
organized.
Contributing causes are named as
follows:
Want of the necessities of life, crav-
ing for simple luxuries, ignorance, bro
ken promises, deceit of men; but of all
poverty. Lack of protection to immi-
grant girls aids the evil. says the re-
port, and lake steamers with no regu-
lations 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 reasons
why young girls fail to resist tempta-
tions placed in their path.
The causes are summed up thus:
Lack of ethical and religious teach
ing; economical stress in underpaid
workers: large number of seasonal
trades for women, leaving periods of the
year with no employment; abnormality;
unhappy home conditions; careless and
ignorant parents; broken promises, love
of ease and luxury; craving for excite
ment and change; ignorance of hygiene.
Among the recommendations, beside
the moral court and commission are
these:
instruction of children IL to 16 years
old in sex hygiene; by personal atten-
ton of parents; physical examination
of applicants for marriage licenses; bet
ter pay for girls; abolishment of the
fining system against known members
of vice districts; an intelligent and am
pie adult probation system; home for
old offenders; an appeal to the chival-
ry of man; regulation of lake boats; in
vestigatien and supervision of employ
ment agencies; laws calling centers of
the evil public nuisances. against allow
ing messenger boys to go into vice dis
tricts. the state to take the place of
parent to illegitimate children; comfort
stations in the city: municipal dance
halls; frequent rotation of policemen;
no liquor at public dance halls; NUM-
cipal lodging house for women; segre-
cation of emi-delinquent girls from
delinquent 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; and less liberty for
children except under the eye of their
parents; and. generally, closer atten-
ton of parents to the habits, acquaint-
ances and doings of their children-girls
and boys.