Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-05-20
COMMERC|ALEED
VICE IN NEW YORK
EXTRACTS IiiON THE REPORT
Oi IHEsBi MAJ 81 ~OflAAL
HYGIENE

"a scarlet army no census has here
tofore enumerated ply rich trade iu
one borough Df Greater Nen York
alone This tho estimate OF the
Bureau Of Social Hygiene. an or
ganlzatlou OF which John u. Rookie
feiior Jr.. O. chairman al made pub
lic TONIGHT a. aH aostract OF a forth
coming report 1y George > Knee
Ian. "a spec I'D Investigator. after "a
painrakug Inquiry into commercial
/. ilel vice conditions lu Manhattan.
extending over period of nearly
fen months.
The report suggests no remedies,
lIke no responsibility That phase
. a.. 90 boz dealt aifb later on. n pur-
Iaris merely 90 "descl Boz accurately
vice condition ln NeE YORK ciy
Rifh tho sole purpose OF bringing
I0at fho facts The hope o. expressed
/ flat subsequently % satisfactory pol
|Ios 90 check the eyil may Boo worked
|out
Mr Rockefeller himself coutrIbu-
Ted The foreborH 20 the volume Flu
|turp reports tIll deal with coudi-
I U0us IN Other large cities in Ameri-
|.a and with methods and their r..
quilts oi con I'iHs tho problem in
Europe EtI.r. preventive. ref0r.
Im1tifo anG corrective agencies .n
NoW Y1rK u, described al wholly
inadequate Co. their task
Aside from crios az chapters
/ dealing in minute frautue.s with
/ thr operation of notorious resorts
Ithr1urhnat 'hn aty. Tho report treats
10. tho dane haIl rfli and of the
alarming spread of tho so-.aiIod mae
sage parlors "Over three hundred
Iof these eX.. lu the city Says tho
report. and in many OF them not
/ tlo slightest effort nas made %
cloak the immoral nature OF mo
business. Operators for these es
Establishments are often produced b'
advertising .u thn ucu papers OBJ
tho dance halls the report says
Tho public dance hall Naa found
90 Justify tho worst that hls been
said of o. OF e. dances reported on
Iouly tive acre characterized hy th'
Investigation as decent Nor arc
these dluces attended only hy hard.
Iencd prof gates Young girls
some luuoo others. Or not entire
/ ly innocent. az any rate not wholly
deprayed. aud Young men not yet
ialtoEcthcr vicious. attend the gath
,erings IN search of amusement and
change Many are innocent work
ling girls. who Sock legitimate rgoro
.nuon The sinister element Zoo attcu
Iauce rs the hired cadets. who a.
|t,ud with tho cold blUolod wrpo +,
'of finding now subjects of 1obauch
|srv ana 0i subsequent exploitation
for gain These agents cot CONNER
/ CialIlod vice are usually well-dro-set
'ucllmlnnered. and Introduce them
D selves politely and easily 90 straug
'cs They often pretend to love at
first sIg1t and exhibit marked %"
yotion. hy which the girls are do
bniycd and 10 which they too Otter
yield when the seduction ot the
.rrls is accomplished. they are pa
ou tho street, and their ruin is com
.pl,to'
No. kueclaud ar-uos contrary q,
.fhu Expressed views of 500 many in
uaauug bodies. that Girls do mo-
as O. general thing take up @ lite %
Shame because OF tho pinch OF poy
o.fy Doe holds that oftcuor the
.arc victims in their ignorance of th
agents of commercialized ice
90 b. idle" be- says. TO explain
away tho phenhomeua on the rrouu
that they are the results of tho iney
table Weakness of human nature
human weakness would demand "a
fewer and less horrible sacrifices
Most OF the wreckage. and the wora
%. TO- is due 20 persistent cuuuinl
and uuprincipled exploitation. TO- ta
banding together iu infamous enter
pris,s of madame. procurcr. brother
Keeper and liquor vender 20 carry OF
deliberately cold-blooded trafn
lor their Joint. profit, a traffic Doe .
added. from which the girl involves
. brochures AZ the most with feN cz
C.ut.ons. her bare subsistence. an0
that on.y SO Ions as she has trad
.HaIH."
h. Expioiters' and the -lmil
cation, of their traffic is treated "a
/ ieueiH BY means OF money au
shr.Niuess. says che report th
j tratrgaaers usually cvadc the laV
+ Thirty houses IN the Tudorlu.H Nru
. IONS operated as combine. Do
.glHI nader the direct control %
Fifteen of more men. Most of Then
|HH.. been engaged an their lives %
.tU. sDIuction aud exploitation %
'vOH.r New York Is their Mecca
I1He report. however follow ,l,i
.trlOs. through Argentine. Brazil
itaHa C8uada. Alaska and the larg
I,it.- off our own country 81.
. Fu Too. Portland. Seattle. Tac0mi
/ InfI. usnycr. Omaha, 81 Louis
. Ch.e-1. Piitsburg. Philadelphia RI
lualE tHey realize their hopes ID
! NsH fors City. Here they have
Iua1a centre. ard from this conter
/ the. .l lack over the old trial iron
'fim, fu time.
J or. off them the report, curiinu
ios. srown as the King Dc b
Interested in eleven houses ie