The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-21
CHAPEROnES FOR
PICTURE SHOWS
Leading Women Urge Council to
Put Her There With Chap
erone's Privilege.
TOWN NEEDS cURFEW LAW
Strong Resolutions Call for Sup
preston OF Juvenile
Vice.

Initial steps toward the formation
of permannt organization OF women
20 combat the so-called Juvenile vice
! wave" in Richmond were taken yes
terday afternoon. when representatives
Of various women's leagues met IN the
besdouarters of the Womans Chris
tian Temperance League of America
u South Third street. Several reso-
,utions were passed. which are to De
presented to the different women
ORGANIZATIONS OF the city and re-
ported back to the committee winch
met yesterday.
Most original of these resolutions
was that which recommended that
the City Council appoint chapefohs
for each of the moving picture SHOWS
in Richmond. whose duty 1t snail De
Ia keep guard over unescorted girls
and to exercise the usual perosatives
of the chaperon. So far as is known,
such action by the Council would
blaze trail In municipal guardian
ship.
Calls for Censorship.
second part of the same resoi"
ton calls for careful censorship Oh
the vaudeville portion Of the moving
picture offerings. proposing that al
vaudeville acts receive the stamp OF
approval of a municipal board of cen
sors before being permitted to be CIV
en- on the stage.
call for the re-enactment OF the
old Cur:ew law was also made
While the meeting yesterday was
not permanently welded into an or
ganization, it was representative OF
I cix-ir nd
in the city.
Those present were Mrs. Norman ".
Randolph, of the Associated Charities
Mrs. B. B. Valentine. of the Equal SUI
rage League: Mrs c. V. Meredith. OF
the Girls Training Associations; MISS
! Minor. Of the Nurses Settlement; MISS
F'Irness and Miss Michaels, OF the
Visiting Nurses Association: Mrs. T.: +.
Michaels OF the board of managers
OF the Methodist Institute; MISS
Katherine II. Howes, Of the Young
Womans Christian Association: MRS.
w. A. Burrows, of the Mothers CLUB:
Mrs. George King. Of the kings
Daughters; Miss Mays. Of the Spring
Street Home: Mrs. w. r. Burrell. Mrs
s. T. I.edman and Mrs. Georgia May
Jobson, of the Womar's Christian Tenn
perance League of America
Adopt Many Resolutions
The resolutions drawn up and ADOPT
ed for presentation to the various or
sanizations were as follows:
Resolved, l. That each representative
go back to her own organization anu
get the ind orsement of the action OF the
Mayor and the Police Commissioners
in their effort to get the next Legs
lature to pass law raising the age
years.
>. That We strongly condemn the
double standard Of morals for men and
wornen and urge that fathers and
mothers train their sons as we'll as
their daughters in the necessity Tor
purity OF life.
3. That we recommend that the pub
lie schoolhouses be used as social CEN
tres for healthy recreation for the
boys and girls of the city, under proper
supervision.
I. That we ask the Council to APP
point chaperons for each m wing pic
ture show and that the vaudeville por-
ton of the show shall pass the board
| of censorship.
). That every effort be made to have
clean and attractive boarding houses
/ for working women at rates that they
can afford to pay, supervised by a ca
/ pable woman. and so located that they
! would not have to live in such con-
gested conditions as are now found in
| most boarding places where they can
! AFFORD to go.
| 6 That the proper Authorities be
| urged to originate and enforce the
Curfew bell throughout the citv.
Z .. That we further call upon the pull
| pit to aid us in our efforts to raise
i the standard Of morals Of our young
| men to that required Of our women:
| also that We urge the ministers to
| bring these questions Of moral reform
| before their congregations at an early
date.