The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-23

Cf1lCAGO, mdy Z1.- TNo IoiCid
ton; no regulation; no recognition"
This is the suggested slogan of the
Presbyterian church presented to the
126th general assembly here in the
report of the special committee on
white slave traffic.
The report estimates that there are
100, 900 prostitutes in the United
States, and hat a far greater number
are unchaste. Contributing factors
in this condition are the fashions,
dances, the theater, literature and ig-
~norance. The principal remedy sug-
gested is the enlightened training Of
the young.
The report was prepared by Paul
r. Hickok, John Balloon Shaw, John
kennedy, Winfield Scott Hall and J..
M. T. Ffnney. Excerpts follow:
Your committee is directed to
consider the enormous violation of
the Seventh Commandment involved
in the traffic. This is not a mat
ter calling for statistics, with all the
mental confusion that must result
from long statements of appalling fl
CURES. But that the extent of the
traffic in human bodies for purposes
of lust and greed is enormous as
described in the assembly's resolu.
ton. is terribly evident upon only
slight investigation. The vice COM
mission of Chicago, ILL.,, appointed by
the city council in 1910, has made a
most thorough survey Of these con-
ditions in that one city. In Chicago
alone, the commission reported that
there are not far from 5000 women
who devote their time wholly to the
business of prostitution The condi-
tions in that city are not believed to
be worse than in most cities Of the
country. This figure did not include,
of course, the much vaster army Of
persons leading impure lives, guilty
Of occasional earnings, or engaging
in occasional immortality not for prof
it, but from desire. There is no pos
sible way of estimating this larger
number, but the word enormous
seems scarcely adequate to describe
the conditions known to be present.
"If the ratio existing in Chicago
may be taken as anything like an ac-
curate index to that prevailing
throughout this country, it seems en-
tirely safe to assert that at least
100000 persons are devoting their
time wholly to this unthinkable in
iquity in the United States, and it is
most probable hat the number is
very much larger. Most students Of
the problem would place the figure
two or three times as high"
On the much-discussed subject of
education in matters of sex the re-
port has this to say:
1.-THE methods of greatest wisdom
and largest efficiency are still to be
discovered. But it is the belief Of
your committee that hitherto a large
majority of those persons responsible
for the education, guidance and nur-
ture of youth have followed an un-
fortunate curse regarding the great
sacred truths of life. This course has
been m of silence and mysticism as
a rule. This attitude on the part Of
parents and teachers of youth has
the psychological effect of stimulat-
ing curiosity. with the almost univer-
sal result that children acquire dis
torted viewpoints and morbid miscon-
ceptions of great truths tha, rightly
understood from the first. would en-
gender feelings of reverence for life
and respect for all life processes.
There seems, therefore, but one ra-
tional purse for earnest-minded
Christians to follow. That curse is
to answer the natural questions of
their children freely. frankly, fully.
sincerely and alphabetically"
Speaking of factors in the in
crease of the social evil (which are
now assuming alarming proper
tiOns," the report says:
"One of these appears in the vul-
gar tendency of modern fashion. Our
Standards we remember. expressly
forbid all 'immodest apparel To-