The Alaska citizen., 1912-11-11
MUST EXPOSE VICE
 TO PREVENT DISEASE,

is ensnared because Of its ignorance of the most fundamental facts of life. then il Is the duty of th, church To promote public instruction for girls and lads which shall dig nifty sex knowledge and free it from all indecency If it is found that degenerate children born Of diseased and vicious parents become an easy prey for the brothel it is clearly the obligation Of the church to challenge all applicants for marriage and 10 work out through modern eugencs the admonitions of the Hebrew teachers as 10 the responsibility un- 70 the third and fourth generations
 GIRLS POORLY PAID.
 These questions take us into the heart of our social and industrial problems today. Here is the eco homie side In a city about the size of Denver. these conditions were recently discovered; of five hundred and seventy-three girls in two large stores. three hundred re ceiyed $6 or less per week; of the same number of girls in four fac tories three hundred and forty-tWo received s6 or less, some less than S4 IL is not hard 10 estimat" what these girls would need for room and board and clothing with no allowance for idleness. or sick ness. or the demand for pleasure come from?
 In the same city out of several hundred prostitutes il was found that only seveuty-one had received sN per week; one hundred and fit ty-four had received less than Sc one hundred and forty-five began the life of shame while living in cheerless boarding or lodging houses
 The first question for Christian of a new justice and new SO cial order We have begun q provision for children. We have done nothing for young men and young women The need of recreat is implanted in the very depths of our nature; it is a part of a normal moral and physical life
 Tt has been shown again ana again that the craving for this pleasure and the character the pub lie places of amusement have form ed is one of the great sources Of social immortality
 But the church has stood to one side and with slight exception has had nothing more to say than don't
 What shall we do with public prostitution as it exists in our city today? There can be only one an swer from the Christian point of view absolute hostility and ulti- mate extermination
 "I wonder if men need know what the social evil means for the innocent of our community today? Do they know of the infection which spreads from guilty to innocent; do they know of the tens of thousands of blind children. of the scores of thousands of feebleminded and cpl leptic. of women hurried to the operating table, unwilling of the cause of their ill, a shame upon the cowardice which has let inno cent womanhood and childhood bear these awful burdens.
 The problem is not one of innate depravity which We are trying to treat by law. The crux of the prob lem of prostitution today is the bus mess end of it; it is greed which makes our problem here as it does in tenement house and sweat shop and many other places.
 WAR ON LANDLORDS
 Landlord, agent, janitor. amuse- menl uedIer, brewer. furniture Qedl- CT, keeper, procurer, druggist. phy- sician, midwife. police officer. poli- tician, publishers and manufacturers and vendors of vicious pictures and articles; these are among those who share in the vice The most reprehensible party in the whole transaction is the man who profits in cold blood from the weakness of woman, or the brutishness of man. We should pillar in gallery of shame the landlords and real es- tate agents who are giving property for this purpose today. and Colorado should follow Iowa in getting an n- junction law which will move agains; the property holder. Here is the point of weakness where the fatal blow can be struck most easily against public prostitution.
 The Christian church must face the problem of what to do with the prostitute herself It is not neces- sary for us to apportion blame in this matter; the Christian church ic mt t0 haln worthv hut t0