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TO BARE VICE
IN PHILADELPHIA
Commission in Quaker City
Really to Report
WANT "TiA PLATE LAW
Would Affix Plate Bearing Name OF
Owner to Door of Every House Not
Used as Residence Proper.

Owner to Door OF Every House NOT
Used as Residence Proper.
Philadelphia, March 13.-Withfn
few weeks the Philadelphia vice COM
mission will be prepared to place its
complete report in the hands of Mayor
Blankenburg.
1t has finished its investigations,
discussed the recommendations to be
made, and is having these put into
writing. The findings of the commits
sion are briefly these:
There are fewer unfortunate women
a thousand of population in Philadel-
phia than are found in Chicago, New
York or other large cities.
All policies of segregation are con-
demned, since the commission does
not consider segregation practicable
until it keeps people out of district
as well as in.
Director Porter's policy in relation
to the vice situation will be commend
ed as the most sincere and effective
yet adopted in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia is reported to be an
inviting field for the "cadet" and the
"procuress" who were found working
without adequate police surveillance.
The commission finds one of the
greatest dangers in the so-called
mixed districts" where disorderly re-
sorts are permitted to flank respect
able residences. It probably will
roundly criticise all persons RESPONSE
BILE for this condition which rarely ex-
lists elsewhere.
Inadequate police supervision was
reported at various dance halls, dis
orderly saloons, amusement parks,
moving picture shows and other places
where girls and young men seek cheap
recreation. In this connection the vice
commission will recommend consid-
cradle force of policewomen, who will
work with all the authority of the uni
formed force, but whose chief aim
will be to supervise. advise and re-
strain young girls.
The much-discussed question OF
courses in sex hygiene in the public
schools and in other educational insti-
tutions will be gone over fully in the
commissions report, but no effort will
be made to offer definite recommends
tions. Sex hygiene, it is regarded. may
be taught to older children with adj
vantage, but has dangers OF sugges-
tiou when promulgated among the
very young.
Many thousands Of girls were found
at work for wages less than has been
figured as adequate for decent living.
The commission found the same evil
dences of organized vice which prevail
in other cities, and like other commits
sions was unable to trace up to the
actual promoters.
Inadequate cooperation of certain
magistrates in efforts to punish guilty
persons will be one of the complaints.
If the report is as outspoken as
many of the members of the commits
sion desire it to be, one of its most
sensational features will be soaring
arraignment of a respectable element
Of the community which the commits
sion's investigators have found profit
ing ely and secretly by the exist
ence vice and breeding new and
appall g phase of the social evil as
menace to numberless children. eve
got some awful things on the trust
companies" said member of the
commission.
Experienced investigators who lived
and worked for almost year in the
underworld as the secret agents of the
commission managed to secure many
of the books of disorderly resorts.
They found that through the seeming
greed of real estate owners and po-
lice policy which has scattered the re-
sorts into residential sections, count
less children are being subjected to
daily familiar contact with depraved
men and women. This is a phase Of
the situation never reported in any
other city.
Among the recommendations to be
embodied in the report the most
sweeping will probably be that for the
enactment of a "tin plate" law under
which the owner of every house that
is not used as residence proper viii!
be compelled to af1ix brass plate
bearing his name to the door
Washington, March 49, - President