Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-25
BUREAU OF SOCIAL HYGIENE
MAKES An INTERESTING
REPORT.
rockefeller WROTE PART
So-called Massage parlors" Are
Rapidly Spreading In All
Parts Of city,

thousand women OF the lnutf W Oflu
"A scarlet army no census has here
tofOre enumerated-ply their trade In
one borough Of Greater New York
alone, This is the estimate Of the
Bureau OF Social Hygiene, an organi-
zation Of which John ID. Rockefeller
Jr,, il chairman, as made public to-
night in an abstract of Il forthcoming
report by George j. knoeland, "A spec
lal investigator, after panstaking
inquiry into commerciallzed vice col-
ditions In Manhattan, extending over
"A period of nearly ten months.
The report suggests no remedies,
fixes no responsibility. That phase is
to be dealt with later on. II purports
merely to describe accurately vice
conditions In New York City. with the
sole purpose of bringing out the facts.
The hope is expressed that subsc-
quently satisfactory policy to check
the evil may be worked out.
Mr. Rockefeller himself contributed
the foreward to the volume, Future
reports viii deal with conditions in
other large cities In America and with
methods and their results OF combat
ing the problem in Eurape. Existing
preventive, reformation and correc-
tive agencies in New York are de-
scribed as wholly Inadequate TO their
task.
Aside from n series Of chapters
dealing in minute frankness with the
operation OF notorious resorts through
out the city the report treats OF the
dance hall evil and Of the alarming
spread Of the so-called massabu par
lors. lover three hundred II these
exist in the city" says the report, 'and
I'm many not the slightest effort
was made to cloak the immoral ma
ture OF the business. Operators for
these establishments are often procur-
ed by advertising in the newspapers.
OF the dance halls the report says
"The public dance hall was found to
Justify the worst that has been said of
it. OF rs dances reported on only five
were characterized by the investiga-
tors as decent Nor are these dances
attended only by hardened profligates.
Young girls--some innocent--others,
If not entirely innocent, at any rate
not wholly depraved, and young men
NOT vet oItogofhar ,tcious attend the
ootheri,,gs in eeorob of amusement
and change. Many are innocent
working girls, who seek legitimate
recreation. The sinister element In
attendance &c the birad cadets who
o+tond u.it, "a. cold -blooded nurnose
90 fi,di,,, >, o,,,. srrieots or dahaucharv
ord of s,,hseouort ovnloitotion for
goir rhosa rents of connercialized
,,ioo aro ueraIly waII-drcssed we'll
p,oprared ord introduce themselves
r,,lit.i,, ord oosil,. 10 strargars They
of+op nrotord to low, at first sight and
o,.Li,,,. ,,,a,,.,l ao,.o,io, Ia, u,bicb tho
oils oro deceivad and IN which +hev
foo oftor v,oId When tbo seduction
NJ tho girIs ie occomnIisbed thev are
n,t ON tho street and thoir ruin is
cor,n,etoo
Nv KrosIond argues contrary IN
tho axnroseea views Of ca many in
vostigating bodies that girls 40 NOT
os .ororoI ,birg +olya nm ufe of
49,, ,,,o,,,s, ~ tl,. ,,i,oh Of noyarty
1Ia ho,ds t.ot oftoror tbov aro victims
in thair igrororco of tho ogorts of
,,ioo
"It ,s ,dIo rho cove "to evrlain .vav
,ha nhoror,ero on tho yroupd tbat
49, IVA tho ros,,ts ~ tho ireyitobln
a. oo,noss 90 h,,,,,r poture. b,n,,o,
,,,oo,,no., u,o,,Id do,,ard far fower
and ,a.a horri,,Ie socrif,cos Most ~
~ u.roo,,aao ana tho u,orst of n 10
a. 60 rarsis.o,,t c,,,rira and r,nr,n-
o,n,ad avnio,totio,. - the handirr TO-
ontho. ;r ,nro,ors antornr,sos of
- nrnorror ,ho,-naonor and
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aa sho has trada va,uo"
.ar,,o u+va,o,tors,, nnd rho ro,,,eoo
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,anath pv maan. % monov and
81, ,nouanass save tho ra,or, ~. ,raf.
,,ohars usmo,,u avodo tha law Thirty
homs.a In ,ho tandarIo,n ,yoro Iorg
as comh,ro &, ia c,tea nm. !
der Tho direct contro, of rifteen or
moro man Mos, NJ them have been
al, their lives in the SEDUCTION
"a sxn,oito,,on ~ uomap Nav yort
4, ,hs,r Mecca THO renor, bowever
30 ~ "