The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-20

tions there are also present more safeguards against these temptations It is inferred that so far as increased industrial opportunity has had any effect it has been in the direction of greater respect for law and that the among women is not only an accom- paniment but in part a consequence of their wider industrial opportun- ities.
 An inquiry in regard to the rela- tionship between occupation and i'm morality and the study of the cases of 100 women who were leading lives of professiona1ity imm orality, leads the investigator to conclude that there is little connection between oc- cupation or want and immortality As result of interviewing those who work with women who have been leading immoral lives, the investiga- tor states that not one person con- suited gave occupationa1 influences as a leading cause of immortality, and only two laid paticular stress on them as subsidiary causes, also that not worker assigned poverty or low wages as a direct or immediate cause of immortality In the whole in quiry. only five eases were found in which the worker reporting them be- lieved that the women had been driven into wrong doing by want.
 
 ed-the unmarried mother, the girl who leaves and regains the accepted path without any general Knowledge of her deviation, the occasional pros titute and the professionally inm oral woman. Of the women who had been leading professionally immoral lives. a. larger number were employed as waitresses than in any other occupa- tion, and the wrong doing of the mem bers of this group was found to be due not to the temptations in this occupation, but to the fact that the girls were non-moraI or actively i'm moral Causes assigned for the i'm morality of % women include betray- al and assertion and unfortunate home conditions; a large number are classed as weak or vain or fond of excitement or indolent or easily in f1uenced, and others as moral per verts. These results are taken to show that the downfall of women was due to causes operative long before they entered the industrial world and that the entrance of these women in to industry was not responsible for the existence of their immoral ten dencies and did not furnish in the majority of cases the occasion for their manifestation.
 Although the conclusions are based on small number of cases and lit tie data and it is not always apparent C1Adl they are C10aTly d0Ouc1OlG rom the facts given, they are in general accord with the findings of those who have studied the problem of the i'm moral woman closely. It is true that domestic service and low grade fac tory work attract the low grade workers and that the percentage of offenders coming from domestic pur- suits is due to this rather than to the dangers of domestic service The oc- cupatona1 influence is small in com parison with other influences in caus- ing women to enter upon an immoral life, but the importance of the econo- mic factor an indirect influence and it affects the homes from which the girls have come, cannot be overlooked While it would seem that too much emphasis is laid upon the ''actively vicious type, there is recognition of the hereditary and mental causes which are responsible, for the waywardne ess of members of this group The lack of proper home influence and training. is fully recog- nized as an important factor