The Cairo bulletin., 1913-03-23
Senatorial Commission of Illinois
Legislature to Interest Wilson
in Nationwide Movement.
WHIPPING POST is SUGGESTED
As Wei as Attacks on Bachelorhood
and Other Means for Stamp
ing Out Social Evil.

Washington, March 22.-The
whipping post for white slave
traders and traducers of women, at
taeks of bachelorhood, more careful
training of children and the aboli-
tion OF Joy rides and rag-time dane
ing were advocated as remedies for
the social vice problem before the
Illinois senatorial vice investigat-
ing commission today which came
to Washington to interest President
Wilson in nationwide crusade.
1t is proposed to have President
Wilson recommend the appointment
of a federal commission to study the
social problem in each OF the states.
Congressman Robert 2. Hi OF iili-
nois agreed upon the request OF the
commission to introduce in congress
a bill for the appointment OF a vice
commission TO insesttgate conditions
i'm the District OF Columbia.
At the hearing atatended by many
prominent men and women, the low
wage question as tSe cause OF girls
going wronk was discussed. Several
of the witnesses denounced such
theory and insisted that the lack of
education and power OF resistance
had much more to do with the down
fall of women.
Men too. were blamed as being pri-
marily responsible for the degreda-
tion of girs. Women who declared
that low wages were not responsib e
for social vice added however that
higher wages for working girls
would better equip them for resist
ing evil, and all agreed that mini
mum wage law for girls would be OF
great benefits
Mrs. Harvey Wiley, wife OF the
former chief of the Bureau OF Chem
istry, advocated sociology hygiene In
stiIled into the young as one rem
edy for the social evil.
DR.. w. III. Woodward, hea tn Off
GERS of the District of Columbia
urged early marriage among young
men as one of the remedies for thr
social evil. He placed the respon-
sibility for the downfall of 80 pei
cent of women at the door OF men
rather than in the counting room OF
the department store or the factory
He approved the suggestion oil
Senator Beall in the Illinois legis-
lature of law placing tax on
bache orhood and graduated tax
between the age of "a and AZ pro-
posinf that all men over 80 years OF
age shall annually be taxed the sum
of. 500 as long as they remain un-
married.
DR.. Woodward made an astonish-
ing statement when he said that
statistics showed that so per ceni
of the men in hospitals were dis
eased and that 10 per cent were al
ficted with the most loathsome oi
diseases.
"Unlawful places" said DIR. Wood
ward "are the morrases from which
these diseases come. State agitation
is the best means for the eradication
of these places.
Robert Barrett, speaking for hi
mother, Mrs. Kate w. Barrett, heat
of the Florence Crittindon home
for gir's throughout the country tool
vigorous issue with the commission
on the matter of low wages as tn
cause for socia' vice. He said tha
the Florence Crittindon homes haC
cared for more than 10000 way
ward girls throughout the countr.
and he had inferred from these girls
own statements that low wage
weer the least causes of immoral
ity."
I'VE believe that 1t is not righ
or fair to say" Barrett declared "tha
a low wage is the real reason TO
social vice. More society girls
from good homes with a father an
mother able to provide for theE
have fallen to vice and become In
mates of the florence Crittindor
homes than wage earning girls. Yer
: few who come to our homes blam
low wages for their downfall"