New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-02
MRS. MARY GOODE
TO Be A LECTURER
Woman Who Exposed
Police Graft Soon to Emit
late BALD Jack" Rose.
UNDERWORLD IS TOPIC;
WILL OFFER REMEDY
First Segregation, Then Reclama-
ton, Her Suggestion-Medical
Paper Her Sponsor.

Mrs. Mary Goode. who made sweeping
revelations Of police graft before the
aldermanic investigating committee fol-
lowing the Rosenthal murder and later
gave important testimony. at the trials
Of q number of policemen, is going to
follow in the footsteps Of Jack Rose
ON the lecture platform and in the lit
erary field.
She has been in the service OF the
nistr,ct Attorneys office, supplying much
useful information for Mr.. Whitman IN
his warfare on police graft. As result
Of these activities she has lived IN oo'
scur,tv on account of tho persecution
.ba was subjected 10 by those whoh
che turned against. Now. however she
10 coming cut into the open TO tell Oh heI
experiences IN the underworld ana 70
advocate what she says IS the only 'u'
solution Of the vice situation.
She will appear on the lecture plat'
form under the auspices or Inc -Neu
zeal Review of Reviews" and her doom
will be published this summer.
Mrs. Goodies plans were outlined yes
terday by Frederick II. Robinson eul'o'
of The Medical Review Of Reviews
II believe she is now a woman or thor-
oughlv good intentions" he said. she
brings to her task both absolute KNOW
edge o. ne subject she will deal WIZ
and. what is more important srea'
deal OF sympathy-a quality when tioS'
80 tho workers for unfortunate women
lack She has been working incessahtl!
70 do good among those women "ltnou'
nront. She offered her services 10 COM
missioner Davis of the Department Oh
Corrections, but was refused.
eft is not purely commercial venture
with Mrs. Goode. She was offered
large sum TO appear in vaudeVlile anu
five her talks, but she refused But she
needs a. means OF livelihood and intehes
70 make her living doing what good she
can .o,-
"U want TO speak for the five thou-
aud ,cornen of New Yorks underworld
CIV saws in the manuscript Of the lecture
she IS TO give az Carnegie Hall. the
abused and bounded outcasts whose real
voice has never been heard before.
Poverty is the basic fact or II all
Think of the young girls living in dirty
tenements, working all day in sweat
sbops and getting in return wages that
keep them pitifully poor Look at the
voung girls at the other extreme or So
49,. -idfnC in Central Park going to
dances and the theatre, having every
sort Of pleasure. Youth wants JOY. But
the poor girl? Joy is her right. too l
don't know how II got taken from the
one and given TO the other, but IL did
II the girl from the sweatshops seeks
Measure IN other ways which in her ig.
no-ance she thinks will make her hap
pier. who dsres say 1t is her fauit?"
All efforts to clean UP the city. she
says. have failed, even making evils
worse.
But this you can do" she says. You
can take the women from under the con-
trol OF the police and put them in segre-
gated districts. Then establish a bu-
reau OF secret reclamation in connec-
lions with segregated districts-that is
the keynote to the whole situation"
Arrests, Jail sentences and reforma-
tories are powerless TO Lessen the evil
she declares while her plan will at least
stand a chance OF success. she says.