Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-17
VICE REPORT
IS W|ND|CAT|ON
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of the year. Special evidence was
obtained of the conniVance of the
proprietors. managers or special police
of two of these resorts.
The investigate tors assert that in the
negro section of the city, which they
call the "Barbary Coast conditions
are the worst they have examined,
except in one Southern city. Resorts
in the negro section, it is said, fire.
auently are visited by white men.
Explaining the foregoing, the report
says:
1.-THE most conspicuous phase of the
conditions which tend to produce inn
morality among young women is the
apparent earelessness of their welfare
ON the part of the public in general
and the neglect of those agencies
whose natural province it would be to
protect them.
influences of American Customs.
THE laxness of the modern home
and the apparently utter incapacity
OF modern parents of certain type
to control their children seems to be
one of the fruitful sources of evil.
With tine foreign-born parents the
lack Of control comes from the fact
that the children speak a language
that the parents do not understand,
and are influenced by American con-
ditions and institutions that do not
affect the parents.
Unwholesome living conditions for
girls, which do not permit them to
take the recreation they need in q
proper way also Is given as g reason
for moral laxness among young
women. The dance halls and similar
amusement places of the city, it is
said are in the charge of men who
are careless of the welfare of their
patrons, and those agencies which
aim to provide recreation facilities
free, or at a nominal cost, are as yet
totally inadequate to meet the situa-
ton"
The report also speaks of the lack
of means of rescuing a girl who has
fallen. There are two or three insti-
tntions of the Sort the investigators
say, but the funds supplied by the
public for their maintenance are
"pitifully inadequate"
The inspection of dance halls, the
investigators say, is inadequate, and
there is no provision for the preyen-
tion of immortality through police SUI
pervision of the back rooms of sa-
looms, cafes or other places of the
kind where men and women congre-
gate. Wherever there is police con-
tact with women or girls, 1T Is through
men. There should be women to pro-
tect women"
As to Charity Girls.
"Charity Girls come in for a large
share of criticism. The investigators
classify Charity Girls and explain
that the title was applied to them by
professional prostitutes as a term Of
derision. These girls do not solicit
for the purpose of donating money
received to charitable purposes, as
might be inferred They indulge in
immoral practices with no idea of
eommercialism and are beyond pa
rental or police control.
The assertion of the investigators
Is q broad and general one and has
tendency to involve innocent and
pure minded working girls.
These "Charity Girls" "flfty-six" in
number. according to count, the re-
port says, were found to mix with
the professionals" in parks and
summer amusement places, induce
other girls with whom they work In
shop or factory to accompany them
TO parks and on automobile rides,
with the result that they become con-
taminated
As a class. the Charity Girls are
characterized as Dangerous to soci-
ety. IT is averred that they gener-
ally become professionals them
selves and succeed in getting others
10 join with them. They are said to
imagine that they have equal rights
with men as to what they should do