Arizona republican., 1913-03-23
For Traffckers in Women Illinois Senatorial Vice Commission Visits Wilson and Gets His Attention on Requests
WOULD ABOLISH JOY
 RIDES AND TAGGING
Witnesses Differ on Dues tion of Evil of Low Wage for Girls and Women Agree on Minimum Wage as Beneficial. However
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WASHINGTON, March 22.-The whipping post for white slave trat
 fickers and seducers of women. t tax upon bachelors, more careful training of children. and the abolition of joy rides and rag time dancing were advocated as remedies for the social evil at the hearing here today conducted by the Illinois senatorial vice commission. which came to
 Washington primarily to interest
 President Wilson in 8 nation wide
 vice crusade.
 The commission obtained the pro-
 mise of the president to consider tho
 request and call conference of gov
 ernors and representatives of the vice commissions from the various states
 to study the social problem, the con ference to be held in Washington as soon as practicable.
 Congressman Robert Hill of Iili nois agreed to request the committee to introduce in congress a bill creat- ing a commission to look into vice conditions in the District of COlum- bia
 At d hearing attended by many pro- minent women and men interested in ' as d cause of girls going wrong was l discussed. Several witnesses decried 1 the idea, insisting lack of educa-
 tion and powers of resistance had much more to do with the downfall
 or women Men, too, were blamed as primarily responsible for the de
 gradation of girls. The witnesses who
 declared that wages are not respon | oI
 on being questioned by Lieutenant ! Governor O'Hara, the head of the commission that higher wages for
 working girls will better equip them ! to resist the evil, and all recommend ! ed a minimum wage law for girls would be a great benefit Eight dol 1 lars week as minimum wage for ! women was the generally accepted
 sum and it was Mrs. Harvey w [ Wiley. wife of the former chief of the bureau of chemistry, who pro ! posed that sum.
 1 Mrs. Wylie advocated sex hygiene and the instruction of young as one l of the basic remedies for social evil.
 and urged women police in cities 1 which enfranchise women.
 Give us the franchise" she safd. and we will raise the age of con sent so that 12-year-old girls cannot
 have their bodies given away Mrs. 1 Wylie and other witnesses who de 1 clared employers who underpaid their girl and women workers had not moral right to give money to chafi- ties out of the earning of their enter prises until first they increased the wages of their employees. pr. W. c. l Woodward. health officer Aof thr District of Columbia, urged the en- coura cement of early marriage among
 young men as one of the remedies for social evil and placed the respon- sibility for the downfall of 90 per cent of the women directly at the
 door of men, rather than in tn. counting room of the department store or factory. He approved the suggestion by Senator Beail of llli-
 nois imposing a tax upon bachelors
 between the ages of 24 and 42. and providing all men over 32 years Of
 age should pay an annual tax of
 $10O as long as they remained unmar-
 ried
 Dr. Woodward presented some
 astonishing statistics. among them
 that 90 per cent of the men, as shown on hospital records of patients re-
 ceived for all causes, were diseased. } and ten per cent afflicted with loath-
 some disease. Unlawful places.' said Dr. Woodward, are morasses 5 from which these diseases come. State education is the best means of era 1, dcating these places." pr. Wood :, ward gave statistics showing 10 per cent of all recorded births in the l District of Columbia last year were
 illegitmate and mothers were be tween 13 and 20 years of age in the , ajority of cases.
 k mother. Kate Waller Barrett, head n of the Florence Crittenton home foi r , girls throughout the country. took t vigorous issue with the commission or l, the matter of low wages as cause
 1 of vice. as did also Mrs. Adolph Kahn l. l of Washington. MT Barrett said the n 1 Florence Crittenton homes cared foI = more than 20,O0o wayward girls - throughout the country and informa . ton from these girls show low wage, V one of the least causes of immor- Q ality
 . We believe it is not right nor fail - to say" Mir. Barrett declared the n l low wage is the real reason for vice Q There are more society girls and girls -