The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-29
YOUNG MR. ROCKEFELLER's CRUSADE
 AGAINST VICE

John D. Rockefeller IT, has announced private bu- reau supported by Rockefeller money to deal with the social evil by which meant that system of actual poly which underies modern civilization and the Osten- slbe practice of mOnogamy. special knowledge of the which to increase the vice they are Investigating.
 One of the first things the bureau did to establish laboratory the vicinity of state institution in which confined many persons guilty of social offenses. studied From these studies it is hoped to obtain fuller knowledge of the conditions fundamentally responsible for 7ice.''
 We fear that young MT. Rockefeller and bureau will not accomplish much. They starting at the on at the service of anybody in the primer grade of sociology.
 dement, in which there is for the family in which early marriage is encouraged and in which child is which has earned Mir Rockefeller's hostility.
 But state in which there is adequate economic foundation for the home will be given to immortality certainly as the rises in the east.
 So arrange things that the cannot a living gerous and folly to the responsibilities of mat rinony and all the vice follows which Mr. Rockefeller sires to combat
 Wages sink until cannot meet the cost of a home Women enter the labor market and cannot enough to meet the ordinary demands of decent vel- hood Here is the of the and here the edy must be applied.
 of poverty and vice So it is But poverty it's turn, the fertile mother of ntemperance in the of alcohol
 Some drink to excess who not miserably poor. Some tainted with the social evil who not pow erty and who not incorporate.
 There certain physical diseases which affct kind generally which nevertheless have their habitat breeding place in poverty from thence extend into all the surrounding neghborhood that the true is obscured.
 Of such character intemperance and the social evil They forced in the house of poverty They contagious Everybody is in danger in the presence of the contagion.
 personal study of typhoid patient will in the world arrive at the elimination of typhoid The course must be to the SOURCE FROM WHICH THE IN FICTION WAS DERIVED, in contaminated reser- voir, we'll milk supply.
 personal study of those poor people in the reforna tory will get Mr. Rockefeller any true knowledge about the social evil.
 The typhoid patient was just ordinary person un- til the typhoid germ lodged in his system.
 These people in the reformatory just ordinary people until they succumbed to infection which all about them.
 Some of the typhoid patients may have succunbed with less resistance because they the children of pa rents whose health had been lessened
 The that the majority of the persons that feforatory the victims only of the that surrounded them but of the sfortunes of their cestors.
 The sins of the fathers ARE visited upon the chi- dren This is true of the economic sin of inadequate wages of any other sin.
 We suggest to this young man of millions that he at tack the question from the standpoint of mpressng upon the powerful with whom he associates the sity of economic system in which marry the when ought to marry and be reasonably of income enough to support wife and children comfort