The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-01-27
SEEK REDEMPTIO
I OF White SLAVES
John D. Rockefeller, I., &
plains Purposes Of Bureau
EXPERT STUDY OF PROBLEM
George j. Kneeland, Who Directed cHi-
cago Vice Inquiry, and Abraham
Fiexner, Medical Examiner, PrepaF-
ing Reports-sociaI Hygiene organi-
zation's Fight on Social Evil.

Flexner, Medical Examiner, Prepar-
ing Reports-sociaI Hygiene organi-
zation's Fight on Social Evil.
New York, Jan. 27.-Among the foFe-
most men Of the country who have
given serious and critical consideration
of the social evil with view townfn
its humane and scientific abatement ~
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Ever since he sat as foreman Of TIE
grand jury in New York about two
years ago Mr.. Rockefeller has been
keenly interested in discovering SER
sible plan for curtailing the white slave
traffic. He was largely instrumentai,
both financially and personally. In tbs
organization of the bureau of social
hygiene, started with the deep and
earnest purpose of thoroughly investt
eating the present conditions OF the
social evil and of eradicating them so
far as possible.
Mr.. Rockefeller now makes pubic
the following interesting and impoE
ant statement as to the origin, work
and plans of the bureau:
"The bureau Of social hygiene came
into existence about two years ago ~
a result of the work of the special
grand jury appointed to investigate the
white slave traffic in New York city
which served during the first half of
the year 1910. One of the recommenr
dations made by it in the presentmeAt
handed up at the termination OF It's
labors was that public commission be
appointed to study the social evil. The
foreman of that body subsequently,
gave careful consideration of the char
acter of the work which might propeE
ly be done by such a commission and
the limitations under which it would
operate.
$50 the conviction grew that In or
der to make real and lasting inn
provement in conditions a permanentI
organization should be created, the
continuation of which would not be
dependent upon a temporary wave oEj
reform nor upon the life of any man
or group of men, but which would g4'
on, generation after generation, con4
tinuously making warfare against tn
forces of evil.
Therefore, as the initial step, In th(|
winter of 1911 the bureau of sooj1
hygiene was formed. Its present me-
bers are Miss Katherine Bement
yis. superiptepdent of the NeM
st4te ReioTmatory for Women &c
ford Hills, N. Y; Paul M. Warburss ef
the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; Starr
J. Murphy, of the New York bar, and
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. AS the work
develops new members may be added
zone of the first things undertaken
by the bureau was the establishments
at Bedford Hills, adjacent to the re
formatory, of laboratory of social
hygiene under Miss Davis direction. In
this laboratory it is proposed to study
from the physical, mental, social and
moral side each person committed to-
the reformatory.
Arrangements were made, there
fore, in the early part of last winter
to secure the services of George J.
Kneeland, who had directed the Chi
cago vice commission Investigation.
Since that time Mr.. Kneland, with
corps of assistants, has been making
a thorough and comprehensive survey
of the conditions of vice in New York
city.
AT the same time the bureau was
fortunate in securing the services of
Abraham Flexner, whose reports on
the medical schools in this country and
in Europe are SO well known, to study
the social evil and the various meth
DDS of dealing with it in the leading
cities of Europe.
BASED upon all of these studies,
which will probably be published by
December of this year, it is the hope
Of the bureau that there may be de-
vised a practical plan for dealing with
the social evil in New York city, plan
which public opinion can be brought
TO support"