Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20

| der the inadequate 1b-year limit winch
regulates night work for children in
Illinois, boys constantly come to
grief through their familiarity with
the social evil.
Closely allied to this new under
standing of child life and part Of
the same movement is the new science
of eugenics, with its recently appoint
ed university professors. It's organic
ed societies publish an ever-increas-
| ing mass of information as to that
which constitutes the Inheritance of
well-born children. When this new
science makes clear to the public that
those diseases which are direct out
come of the social evil are clearly re-
sponsible for race deterioration, effec
tive Indignation may at last be arous.
ed, both against the preventable In
FAINT mortality for which these dis
eases are responsible and againss the
CHASTITY fact that the survivors among
these afflicted children infect their
contemporaries and hand on the evil
heritage to another generation. Pub
lie societies for the prevention OF
blindness are continually distributing
information on the-care of newborn
children. -
/ A surprising number of country
l girls have been either brought to
Chicago under false pretenses, or
have been decoyed into an evil life
very soon after their arrival in the
city. Country girls are in constant
danger because they are much more
|easily secreted than girls procured
from the city. A country girl enter
ing a vicious life quickly feels the dis
grace and soon becomes too broken
spirited and discouraged to make any
effort to escape into the unknown city
which she believes to be full of hor-
rors similar to those she has already
encountered She desires above all
things to deceive her family at home
often sending money to them regu-
larly and writing letters describing a
fictitious life of hard work. She even
} occasionally visits her country nome
| without being discovered.
More Than Half the Unfortunate Girls
: in Chicago Come From Farms
and Small Towns.
: Mr.. Clifford Roe estimates that
more than half the girls who have
: been recruited into disreputable life
in Chicago have come from the farms
! and smaller towns. of Illinois and
} neighboring states.
The Young Girls Natural Love OF
: Pleasure Utilized For Her
5 Downfall.
) The methods employed to procure
city girls must be much more subtle
5 and complicated than those employed
with the less sophisticated country
: girls. Although the city girl, once pro-
j, cured. is later allowed more freedom
; than is accorded to either a country
girl or an immigrant girl, every effort
is made to demoralize her completely
, before she enters the life. Because
S she may at any moment escape into
/ the CITY which she knows so well, II
: is necessary to secure her inner con
sent. Those whose profession it is to
= furnish girls for he white slave trade
b apparently find it possible to decoy
j and demoralize. most easily that city
t girl whose need for recreation has leo
b her to the disreputable public dance
t hall or other questionable places o.
e amusement.
f The Low Dance Hall With its Long
; Intermission and Cheap Liquor.
: The girls are attracted to the un
S regulated dance halls not only by
S love of pleasure but by a sense OF ad
: venture, and it is in these places tina
J, they are most easily recruited for
v vicious life, Unfortunately, there are
o in Chicago 100 dance halls connected
e directly with saloons, while liquor il
l. openly sold in most of the others. This
n consumption VI 4l4uoA oAoA AtO0'A9 49,
d creases the danger to young people
l. A girl after long days work is easily
e induced to believe that drink will
j dispel her lassitude. There is plenty
s of time between the dances to per
|, suade her, as the intermissions are
s long, Is to 20 minutes, and the dances
e short, occupying but four or five min
e utes; moreover, the halls are. hot. ant
J. dusty, and it is almost impossible tt
h obtain a drink of water. Often the
I entire purpose of the dance hall, will
d it's carefully arranged intermissions
is the selling of liquor to the people
e it has brought together.
After the girl has begun to drink
the way of the cadet" who is Otter
e in league with the "spie1er" who fire