The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-14
putes the statement that low wages
for girls lead to prostitution. She

utes the statement that low wage
,r girls lead to prostitution. Sh'
avs:
I'm my experience in philadel-
phia I have found that almost all
the girls who have come to us
have drifted into the underworld
from positions which paid them
enough to live decentiy.
THE real cause of vice Is lack
of proper teaching by American
mothers. Motherhood In this
country is at low ebb. Parents
pay too little attention to the ac-
lions of their sons and daughters,
and many would be surprised to
learn that the daughter VINO has
gone wrong started her life or
shame in her mothers parlor. We
who work here in the district. and
who come into personal touch with
the women themselves, know that
what / have said is true
In letter to the Chicago commits
ion young woman says.
Girls don't go wrong because
they are hungry or because they
cause they are tempted by lies and
overpowered by the evil in men.
They listen to the fair and
pretty things that men tel men
they can trust themselves and trust
the tempters. 1t Is not the EN-.
pioyer., | was a good girl and !
much money. but that did not mat
ter. / lived on IS week and
would be living like that now
but I met men. They seemed to
time It was night light. tight. They
wanted to be nice to me they said.
and to take me to the theatre ana
treat me fair-and give me
chance to enjoy life.
4 didn't know men were bad
all bad-where a girl was con-
cerned. / thought only women
were bad. l thought all girl had
10 do TO remain good was to be
truthful with herself. God pity
women who think that and who
keep their trust in men until 1t IS
too late.
Every day 1t was some one else
trying to give me fair chance to
be happy. In the street they fol-
lowed me-. These could
avoid, but the friends who hung
That is the big. big secret of
the thing that makes good girl
bad. II they had left me be-ff
they had only let me be-only let
me live as ] wanted to. / wouldn't
have had TO stink into the room
when your commission was trying
TO solve things and wouldn't have
had to sit in a corner with my veil
down. afraid to look a good woman
In the fact
Another cry from the under
world echoed the words of this
letter. 1t was more bitter though
and Ii read in parts:
You're looking for the things that
made such women as l. Low wages,
Dance hall, Hunger, Cold, They
all helped a bit but they didn't
all a bunch of hypocrities. afraid to
look the thing In the face and
afraid to learn the truth.
Il don't know any girls who
sold themselves for money to buy
bread or clothes. But [ do know
lots of US who hit the road for hell
by lot OF blackguards KEEP,
bounding them with their rotten
attentions'--God help the men and
not us. We're all right when we
start. All we need is to- be LEFT
alone. There are hundreds and hun
dreds of kinds and sports who
hang around State street Chicago
and wait like wolves for the three
girls TO leave the store.
Why don't YOU make the mel
be good? All the wages in tn
Il
men good and the girls will b,
good
Now. they haven't got a chanc,
and they never Will have as lon,
as the law smiles at one and spit
at another.
A contemporary in speaking of
conditions on the streets of any c
whereby it is easy to take the Fl
terrible steps says.
The streets are full, afterno
and evenings, of young girls with til
faces covered with paint and powe
and as much of their necks 1
hosiery displayed as is permissil
walking up and down and imagin
they are amusing themselves. r
are spoken to, and they reply +;
giggle. They go to places of ami
iment with young men whom they
acquainted with on the street. T
go out to ride with young men,
are taken to so-called clubs, VIII
they drink beer or whisky.
Their mothers do not, and
lhaps cannot. control them. If t
Iare working and their wages are {
Itributing to the support of the +
lily, they feel perfectly independ
lof parental control. OF course, t
Iare not vicious at all, to begin W
land many of them escape with
Igreater loss than that of their mo-
Ity. But is the great safeguard
Virtue, and those who lose that
in great danger of losing sometf
more. 1t is the girl as well as
boy who wants "a good time
twhat youth is apt to imagine
good times are the anteroom to
livery worst times imaginable"
Isn't it time we were facing Il
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