The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-02-28
d PAR[ORT CAUSE
|DF DOMEsTlCs
SHINING
. RlI Ill $500 ~ees.'-
vithout Place To Entertain Men
friends, They Are Driven To
Streets and Ruin, DR.. Wilson
Tells Baptist Ministers.
l,ys 90 Per Cent Of Those Cared for
In Crittenton Home Are
Servant Girls.

The responsibility back of the
downfail from the path of virtue OF
The women who seek the shelter and
care OF the Florence Crittendon home
rests upon their employers, and,
Especially il this true OF domestic
servants, according TO DR.. William
4 Wilson, general superintendent and
rasident physician OF the Crittendon
home, In this city. who gave an ad-
dress before the Detroit Baptist Min
<1ters' conference, Monday morning,
Ein the Woodward-ave. Baptist church
F.. oarlors.
"Sixty-five per cent OF the women
+ ~ the Crittenton home are domestic
6ervants and their stories ali bear the
E oAme facts--that, having no place in
E the house In which to entertain their
mon friends, they are forced TO meet
them on the street corner, which
naturally leads to the cheap cafe, the
p1lblic dance hall and the final end OF
.<gonble and disgrace" said DR.. Will
AS long as men and women are
~ this earth there will be the world
long attraction OF one sex for the
other. so that the best any Christian
reformer can hope to do is to provide
lhe best possible environment for the
meeting OF the sexes. Employers are
TO blame for driving the servant girl
10 the street to meet her beau in
nfoad of providing her with suitable
place in which to receive him in the
house. OF course, many other reasons
than this drive girls to the streets
10 seek male companionship, but !
nm speaking now OF domestics. Other
reasons are love of dress. natural
'craving for company, love OF the life
ond excitement to be found in places
:of public amusement debarred to any
but escorted women. Women do not
hin because of love of doing wrong.
The result of their imprudenca is
more often than not a fearful shock.
Ia children OF both sexes were taught
~ their parents the fundamental
principles of life and simple know
ledge of natural human instincts and
passions, the social evil problem
would be near to solution"
DR.. Wilson said he believed one
of the best things ever advocated by
GDbflanthropfsts and students OF
leociology Is the public Fairgrounds.
\ and the one to be most deplored, the
public dance hall, under any circum-
II have In the home now, three
cases OF girls whose second disgrace
came upon them through visits 10 a
aettlement dance han right here In
Detroit said he.s This dance hall
5ent out invitations to girls and upon
The card was the injunction Bring
your escort. The first time the girl
and her escort went there the chaper.
'one was careful to look the escort
over. the second time she was not so
careful, and the third and fourth
lines no care at all was exercised.
Within short time these girls were
hight back where they had been be-
,ore through meeting undesirable
men In this settlement dance hall"
Or. Wilson offered some statistics
from the juvenile court work showing
that the percentage of social diseases
was very small among the boys of
tender years, but -that among the
Girls it was appallingly large. which
gave positive grounds for the belief
that girls became infected through as
ISOLATION with much older persons.
The doctor also made the rather start.
ling declaration that he did not be
jfeve there was so much coercion in
the so-called White Slave traffic AZ
was generally believed, and that
usually woman entered resort be
cause she wanted to, and, even IL her
frst entrance was through force or
being drugged, there came a time
when she could choose for herself.
At the close of DIR. Wilson's address
the ministers availed themselves Of
the usual privilege of asking ques-
lions with regard to points made in
the address
The Rev. +. T. Galpin ventured the
opinion that the reason the majority
Of fallen women were of the domestic
class was because Office workers,