The Sentinel=record., 1913-03-16
TEsTlFiEs MISS FULLERTON. Ac- rREss BEFORE BOARD OF
 INQUIRY.
WHY GIRLS to AsTRAi
Lack Of Home companionship, TestI- fies One Woman of the Underworld,
 and Low Wages for Work is
 Given as Reason by Others.

Peoria. H., March 15. Miss Jean cite Fullerton, an actress, told the illinois vice commission about life on the stage here this afternoon The woman employees of two shows play ing here had been subppoenaed, but there was time only to haer Miss Ful- eTton.
 Miss Fullerton gave the average minimum wage of chorus girls as SIG. Those who read lines, she said, rarely receive less than S25 a week. The average salary of actors and act resses reading lines runs from $35 to s7o week, she said
 Do you asked O'Hara, know anything of stage people of both sexes being obliged to dress in the same dressing room? ?''
 Never heard of suca thing. Tn some of the houses two women are put together, but never man and woman"
 Caairman OHara asked Miss Full elaon whether women ever became ac- tresses because of inadequate pay re- ceived in other branches of endeavor.
 "Oh. no: most girls go on the stage because they are ambitious she re. piled They feel that they nave tal- ent' V As Miss Fullerton had to appear at i d matinee, she was excused without Further questioning.
 1 The commission during the day lguizzed eighteen witnesses including lmercaants. manufacturers. girls of ltae underworld, and Miss Fullerton. Thomas Greer, manager of a de. lpartment store. did not know the profits of his firm, but was sure the | fire could not pay minimum wage cf sS to it's women em ,rnyes wf-rou; seriously interfering with the earn ings of the house
 P. A. Bergner, head of a department store, declSred ais belief that low
 wages have little to do with immor-
 aiity among women
 "Ninety-five per cent of them go Iwrong because Of men, he asserted. Our better paid girls seem to be tae ones more likely to go astray. he declared. He said that a mini mum wage scale for women would b. disastrous. In the first place, firms would hire only those who were worth the money, he asserted, and un- lskilled persons, instead of getting $i or S6 while learning, as at presen- would not he hired at all He thought such a law would throw more women
 on the street than under the present system.
 If you pass minimum wage
 v too high for us, and we vii not hire inconpetents at the rate you
 prescribe, what are you going to da
 with them. asked Bersner. Mr IO'Iiara did not answer.
 H. P. Given, a cloak and suit retail
 er paid a minimum of $6 week n
 they are not worth SC they are not worth hiring. he said.
 w D. Rroos. five an dten cent
 store man. paid low wages because the girls De employs regard his store
 as a mere training school in sales Ipansp.
 They generally leave him as soon as
 they grasp the rudiments. he said. Women of tihe under world, whe were were examined invariably in, lcluded low wages among reasons fos lgoing astray Georgia Hall said the main cause was the craving of girls flor compsnions. This craving left
 them open to the temptation of the world
 Another reason was unhappiness at home. Tn our life we find comoan. Ijonship. at least, she said. Iould say that nine out of ten girls fall because they are lonely