Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-23
AT Meeting Held in Washing
ton City by Illinois Senatorial.
Vice Commission Many Rem
edieS Are Urged,
TAX ON BACHELORS
MIGHT BE BENEFICIAL
President Wilson Takes Under
Amusement Proposition to
Call Conference Of Governors
to Consider Social Evil,
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10 C0nSlQer O0Cidl Evil
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Washington March 22.-The whip
ping post for white slave traffickers
and seducers Of women, tax upon
baehelorhood. more careful training
of children and abolition OF JOY rides
and rag-time dancing, were advocat-
ed as remedies for the social evil at
hearing here today conducted by
The Illinois senatorial vice commission
which came to Washington primarily
10 interest President Wilson in ma
ton wide vice crusade. The cOmmis-
sion secured the promise of President
Wilson to consider their request for
him to call conference of governors
and representatives OF vice commits
sions from varioussstates to study the
social problem. the conference TO be
held in Washington II practicable.
Congressman Robert Hill. Of Illinois.
agreed. upon request Of the commit
tee. TO introduce in congress bill
creating a commission to look into
Nice conditions i'm the District Of Co
lumhia. At the hearing attended BY
many prominent women and men in
torestod in social welfare work. the
low wage question, as a cause Of girls
going wrong was discussed, several OF
the witnesses decrying the idea. in
sisting that lack Of education and re-
sistng forces have much more TO do
with the downfall Of women.
Men Responsible for Vice.
Men. too. were hlance as griuarIlv
responsible for the degradation Of
girls. Witnesses who declared that
low wages were not responsible for
social vice. admitted. however, on be-
ing questioned by Lieutenant Cover
nor OHara. head Of The commission
that higher wages for working girls
would better equip them to resist evil
and all agreed that a minimum wage
law for girls would be OF great benefit
Eight dollars a week. as a minimum
wage for women. was generally ae-
copied as estimated by the witnesses,
Mrs Harvey w. Wiley, wife OF the
former chief Of the bureau of chemis-
try being one who proposed that sum
as living wage for girls.
Mrs. Wiley advocated sex hygiene
instruction Of the Young as one of the
basic remedies for the social evil.
urged women police for cities and en-
franchisement of women.
Votes for Women Advocated.
Give us the franchise. said she,
and we will raise the age OF consent
SO that l2-year-old girls cannot have
their bodies given away"
Mrs. Wiley. aud other Witnesses
also decided that employers OF under
paid girls and women had not the
moral right to give money to charities
Out Of the earnings Of their enter
prscs until. they FIRST had increased
the wages of their .employes, DR. W.
c. Woodward. health officer of the
District of Columbia, urged the en-
couragemcnt OF early marriage among
young men as one OF the remedies OF
the social evil and he placed the re-
sponsibility for the downfall Of 80 per
cent Of women directly at the door
of the men, rather than in the count
ing room Of the department store or
factory. lie approved a suggestion
by Senator Beall, OF Illinois, of laws
placing a tax upon bachelorhood, a
graduated tax between the ages of "a
and 40. providing that all men more
than 80 years Of age should pay an
annual tax OF 500 as long as they
remained unmarried.
Dr. Woodward presented some as
tonshing statistics, among them that
SO per cent of the men, as shown IN
hospital records Of patients received
for all. causes. were diseased and that
10 per cent were afflicted with loath-
some diseases
Unlawful places said pr. Wood
ward, ARE the merasses from which
these diseases come state education
is the best means for graduating
these places"
Dr. Woodward gave statistics show
ing that 10 percent Of all the record
cd births in the District Of Columbia
last year, were illcgitimate, the
mothers being between 13 and 20
Years Of age in the majority Of cases.
Robert Barrett, speaking for ms
mother, Kate Waller Barrett head OF
The Florence Crittenden homes Ioi
girls throughout the country took
vigorous issue with the commission
on the matter Of low wages as a cause
of vice, as did also Mrs Adolph kahn
OF WaShington. Mr. Barrett said that
the Florence Crittenden homes had
cared for more than 10000 wayward
girls throughout The country, and in
T..t. .trl4. gta f.ttt A.
that low wages was the least Of the
causes for immortality.
Low Wages Slight Cause.
We believe it is not right to say,
Mr. Barrett declared that q low
Wage is the real reason for vice.
There are more society girls-sirls
from good homes with fathers and
mothers able to provide for them am
pk-who have fallen into vice and