Rock Island Argus., 1913-09-22

not exist only among the outcssts, for
60 per cent of those afflicted with |
venereal diseases are known as re- !
spectacle men.
WOMAN IN INDUSTRY.
"The question of woman in industry |
is a perplexing one. l am not con-
vinced that the minimum wage is eco
nomically sound. There are 10000
! 600 women in industry. What show
has the average young girl in the COM
| petitive system that exists today?
/ Whatever her chances may be to stand
or to fall, she is here in hordes in the
! business world as our problem. Some
thing should be done to give her
| living wage. If she is not sufficiently
| skilled to earn it, religious justice
should be mixed with business and
something done to increase for eff
cheney which she has never been able
to develop through no fault of her own.
The public schools offer an opportu-
nifty TO equip the graduates with the
ability to earn living wage through
the enlargement of the courses to that
end, and by needing the demand for
the teaching of vocational branches.
THE children of industry of whom
there are 100000, present another
grave problem. They are not able to
bear the burden put upon them. Their
young lives are crushed. By the avar
J 60 - ali
plotted to amass great fortunes at
the expense of their health and life
The child can be approached through
the home, the street, the church and
public schools. In the home the lax
ity and neglect of parents is con-
tributary to the child's delinquency in
, many cases. Responsibility for the
child's behavior should be forced back
: upon the parents. The streets, the
: Fairgrounds of thousands of children,
| should be kept clean. Speaking of
Fairgrounds, every growing city should
: recognize the need of them and the
2 advantage that can be gained from
: them. Here, too, we may speak oS
D the Institutions that break down social
Il life. Among these are the moving pic
ture shows-not the pictures as such
so much as the environments where
S time without number are gathered
{ adults to exploit the child; poolrooms
t gambling devices ABOUT school build
Il ings as the penny gum devices that
l. teach the very vicious habit of gam
:, bling; dance halls, which are a profit
e able source of the downfall of girls
e Vicious dances are found not in the
q tenderloin alone, but in the drawing
e rooms of the rich and the parents
e claim they are powerless to prevent
" them
DEGENERACY MEANS DOWNFALL.
The church should put the child il
= :, touch with religious training to enable
= it to withstand the temptations tha
confront it. Degeneracy. marked il
the popular songs, dances plays, iLl
: morality of dress, etc, spells the down
fall of this country as certainly as tha
of the Roman empire. The publ,
schools are a prolific source for tn,
y right training of the child. Morals cal
be and are taught, character is mold
ed and true living instilled in the chill
by the teachers of the public school
d the greatest social service worker
4 in the world today Progress is beinI
II manifest in the line of humanity an
Il protection to the child. The defectiv
4 child should be turned over to repu
4 table physician for examination TO de
j termine his weakness. II may b
4 caused by adenoids, infected tonsils
4 bad teeth, poor eyes, affected ears
etc. A study should be made of tn
child for aptitude. taking into count it
past record, its family history and ir
d clinations and so direct its life to tn
greatest ultimate good. Schools shout
f be made active social centers wher
all that is good ard nothing that i
& evil may be spread abroad
CoMMERCIALIZED VICE.
n "But TO return to the subject c
q commercialized vice. 1t has been cha
acterized as a necessary evil; is
necessary to highest manhood, nece
q sary to womanhood, to the publ
health, to the prosperity of the con
n munity? Prostitution can never b
E llegalized. 1t is unconstitutiona
4 Therefore, what co we do? We tur
over TO that department of public a.
ministration, which is most liable I
q be neither honest nor efficient, III
greatest Of social problems. l reft
n to the police. We give to them
70 threefold power, first to make pseud
lie TO take the place of de facto Law
Pr which cannot exist; second, the pow'
Of the judiciary to expound the;
Is pseudo laws; and third, the power
er execute the laws and punish the c
d. tenders. The whole matter must
taken out of the. hands of those wi
are tempted to exploit vice for Il