The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-17
Federation Of Clubs Adopts !
Series Of Resolutions
Directed at Some Crying Evils
Of the Age.
PLAIN TALK TO DELEGATES
Speaker Presents Conclusions
of Social Hygiene Association.
~Large Minority of Maynard
Girls From Good Families

large minority Oh V8yW8rQ
Girls From Good Families"
Chicago, June 1.-THE vice traffic,
and tight skirts were att. cked in the
resolutions adopted by the Federation
OF women's Clubs. The resolutions
briefly:
Recommend simple. becoming and
modest designs in dress.
Offer the service of the home eco
Monies division to further the Smith
Lever bill in congress to establish bu-
reau of home economies.
Favor increased appropriations for
state and city boards of health.
Urge university extension work for
the prevention Of disease.
Promise to cooperate with children's
bureaus in employing nurses.
Request children's bureaus to prepare
pamphlets fC. mothers on sex instruc-
ton for the children
Approve state laws making manda-
tory the reporting Of venerea1 disease.
Approve abatement and Injunction
law in the suppression of immoral re-
sorts.
Some Plain Talk.
George J. Kneeland did some very
delegates and left them wilted but en-
lightened.
/. Mr.. Kneeland il director of the de-
partment Of Investigation Of the Amer
lean Social Hygiene association. His
remarks were based on statistics gath
cred by his department and on the re-
ports of Investigations. He found that
a prolific source Of supply to CONNER
cialized vice comes from girls between
the ages of Is and Is years, the dam
gerous age Of the development Of the
racial instinct, and that a startling
minority of these come from homes
other than those of poverty and ignor-
aEce.
Mr.. Kneeland's agents in the last
year have gathered complete histories
Of three hundred girls not yet profess
sionally immoral, but we'll started on
the downward path.
Contrary to the general impression
and the reports Of some investigators
that the majority of these girls are
feeble minded or subnormal, Mr..
Kneeland said that the majority Of the
girls were quite intelligent.
From Good Families,
Some OF Them" he asserted, facing
the delegates squarely, come from
such homes - yours; their fathers are
storekeepers. real estate agents, man
ayers of large enterprises, and one
the daughter Of a minister. Others are
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Some livea at home In idleness and
ease. Their fathers own yachts and
motor cars. We have letters from
them showing marked intelligence and
facility OF expression. We have
photographs Of others, and you will
agree with me they are typical Ameri-
can girls, daughters of respectable
and prosperous parents.
But 1t IS only fair to say that tho
majority are poor. coarse and ignorant,
lad - ~,xu vsA
tie conception of good"
All through the reports of agents
the speaker found certain character.
istics among the girls They were re-
bellious towards home and parents:
they are suspicious and scornful Of
boy friends. whom they call :.boobs."
Desiring secrecy. they prefer to
meet strangers and married men.
They shrink from exposure, and
while they present an innocent and
demure front to their friends, they
show themselves In their true colors
to strangers" said the speaker.
strangers come and go and married
linen are like people living in glass
houses. they say
Mr.. Kneeland said that dancing
and impassioned love scenes on the
stage intensified the eek appeal. He
told the womer they could help save
these misguided girls, and made the
following suggestions:
Ways to Help.
You can make some efforts to fnd
these girls in your own town. They
are there. Then having found them
bands OF love and understanding. Blu,
you say, don't know how to begin.
I don't know how to act toward them
or what to say" Yes, you do. The
way to know them IN to study your
own heart remember the DAVIS of
vn1pft svnA
tected you will. in the end, save
them"
You can give them healthy and sane
instructions az to the mystery of life
You can warn them Of disease, and the
crime Of abortion. knowledge must
drive out ignorance. The evil must be
supplemented by the good.
Each one Of you can have a powerful
influence in providing amusements in
your own community where the sex APP
peal 10 eliminated.
You can use your influence to bring
conditions 50 that fathers can be mas
tiers in their own home: SO that the
young men can marry early In life
You can teach ignorant mothers and
fathers 80 that they will love and un-
derstand their children more than they
do.
Boys Must Honor Womanhood.
You can teach boys and young men
to honor womann0od. You can make
them realize that young girls represent
more than half of all future genera
tons, that upon them depends the
health and power Of the race. that to
injure a girl take advantage Of her
racial instinct at q critical moment is q
crime against unborn generations. Men
nsed be, for. the good Of the race.
And last You can use your influence