The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-03-27
URGES ] g WHIP FOR
| WHITE sLAVERS'
Purity Advocates Would Tax
Bachelors and Bar Joy Rides.
WILSON MAY AID IN FIGHT
President VIII Consider Request to
Call = Conference Of Al Cover.
Hsrs TO study Social
Problem.

Washington, March 24.-The whip,
plug post for white slave traffickers
and seducers of women, tax upon
bachelorhood, more careful training
Of children, and abolition of Joy rides
and ragtime dancing were advocated
as remedies for the social evil at q
hearing here conducted by the Illinois
senatorial vice commission. which
came to Washington primarily to in
terest President Wilson in nation
wide crusade. -"
The commission obtained the prom
Use of President Wilson to consider
their request for him to call confer
ence of governors and representatives
OF vice commissioners from various
states to study the social problem, the
conference to be held in Washington
as soon as practicable. ..E Il ..E...,
viii Introduce Bill.
Representative Robert aHill OF Hi
nois agreed, upon request of the com
,aittee, to introduce in congress bill
creating commission = to look into
vice conditions in the District OF Col
. O.
AT the hearing attended by many
prominent women and men interested
In social welfare work. the low wage
question as a cause OF girls going
wrong was discussed, several OF the
witnesses decrying the idea, insisting
that lack of education and resisting
force had much more to do with the
downfall Of women Men, too, were
blamed as primarily responsible for
the degradation of girls. ,. 49,, st
Witnesses who declared that low
wages were not responsible for social
vice admitted, however, on being ques
toned by Lieutenant Governor o Hara
head OF the commission, that higher
wages for working girls would better
equip them to resist evil, and all rec
ommended that, q minimum wage law
for girls would be Of great benefit. "
Agree on So a Week. ~.
y Eight dollars a week as a minimum
wage for women was the generally &C
cepted sum estimated by the witness
es Mrs Harvey w. Wiley, wife of the
former chief OF the bureau Of chemis
try, being one who proposed that sum
as minimum living wage for girls.
Mrs. Wiley advocated sex hygiene
instruction OF the young as one OF the
basic remedies for the social neyil
urged women police for cities and en-
franchisement OF women. r.,..-..
Give us the franchise" she said
and we will raise the age of consent
50 that twelve-year-oId girls cannot
have their bodies given away" .'|n
M. Would Hold Up Charity.
j. Mrs. Wiley and other witnesses also
declared that employers Of underpaid
girls and women had not the moral
right to give money to charities out OF
the earnings OF their enterprises until
they first had increased the wages OF
their employees. 80 -, H.,
DR.. w. C. Woodward, health officer
OF the District OF Columbia. urged the
encouragement OF early marriages
among young men as one OF the rene,
dies for the social evil, and he placed
the responsibility for the downfall OF
80 per cent. OF women directly at the
door OF the men. rather than in the
counting room OF the department store
or factory. go: q ~ sa g az
He approved a suggestion by sena'
tor Beall OF Illinois OF laws placing q
tax upon bachelorhood, a graduated tar
between the ages OF "a and. ~; proyld.
ing that all men more than 90 years
old should pay an annual tax Of 500
as long as they remained unmarried.