The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-11
PURITY CONGRESS
ELECTS OFFICERS
Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver
Defeated After a Spirited
Contest.
TALKS ON SOCIAL EVIL
Suggestion Made That Mar
riage Certificates Be Filed
With Janitors of Flats.
TALKS ON SOCIAL EVIL

MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. l0.-At a
business session Of the International
Purity congress today the following Of
ficers were elected:
President, B. S. Steadwell, Lacrosse,
Wis; vice presidents, DR.. T. Albert
Moore, Toronto Judge Harry Olson,
| Chicago, and DR.. Emma +. A Drake,
| Denver.
DR.. Drake was chosen third vice
| president after the women delegates
had demanded that member of their
sex be given that office. Judge Ben
| B. Lindsey of Denver was defeated Tor
reelection as first vice president, after
spirited contest.
Other officers, including correspond.
ing secretary, recording secretary ana
The "problem novel; was declared
| to be the chief cause OF immortality in
| the United States in the report or the
| vice committee, presented by Chairman
j. Frank Chase OF Boston.
"Questions that we are forced to
face are graphically presented, the eff
feet being that a certain class Will try
the experiences which the author has
pictured the report declared.
Dances Denounced.
The committee denounced the "Tan-
go, - bunny hug Turkey trot' and
other dances.
Drinking places are the fountain
head of impurity, particularly in Eu-
rope, while the prohibition of segre-
gated vice districts does not really sup
press the social evil. These are the
conclusions drawn by DR.. Wilbur f.,
Crafts Of Washington, D. c., in an
address before the congress tonight.
DR.. Crafts made reform tour through
ten European countries and investi-
gated the night life in many of the
cities.
"The drinking of men and women
together in public is one of the most
fruitful causes of immortality said
the speaker. ~ mention this with the
more emphasis because, in New York
at least, the drinking of men and wom
en- together is common thing in all
Of the restaurants, though / am glad
TO say that in the cities that are really
American-that have not been so thor
oughly foreignlzed-it is still bad
form for any respectable woman to
drink in public restaurants.
''To promote the white life for
two, which is the positive aide Of our
reform, we must not depend on any
form of law, but press to the utmost
both legislation and education.' -
Boston Mans Plan.
To combat the evils of the immoral
cafes, j. Frank Chase, secretary of the
New England Watch and Ward society
OF Boston, addressing the International
Purity congress here today, proposed
the establishment of tri-partite sa-
Ioous-one part for men, one for WON
en- and one for couples.
1.-The rule must be inflexible so far
as the couples part is concerned; the
withdrawal of either person means the
withdrawal of both, for no unaccom-
panied woman can remain in the cou-
pies part he said.
Mr.. Chase would make it a punish
able offense TO rent a room for i'm
moral purposes. as a means of over
coming the evils of the immoral lodg-
ing house. A law compelling the iani-
tor to keep on file in a room on the
first floor the marriage certificate of
each person living in a flat was sug-
gcsted a. means of eliminating the
evils OF the affinity flat.
Margaret +. Cooper. superintendent
OF the Florence Z. Crittenden home,
New York, graphically told of the
work of the women IS night court in
that city.
Addresses were also made by Profes
sor T. w. shannon, Frederickstown
Mo; Miss Emma Lovett, Portland
Ore, and w. w. Buchanan, Winnipep
Charge Is Denied.
DECATUR, Ill, Nov. 1o.-Cbarses
made by DR., keshava Dava Shastri of
Benares, India, at the Minneapolis pu.
rity congress meeting to the effect that
missionaries in India lived in luxury
and failed 10 secure converts were Wig
orously denied by missionaries of the
Methodist Episcopal church in the on.
ening, session of their annual confer.
ence here today.