Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-30
VICE WHIRLPOOL
MENACES TROOPS
DIES MONIES OVER ITS DEPTHS IN
PROSTITUTION AND BOOT
Logging.
CAMP FOLLOWERS MANY,
CHARGES GALlAWAY
Of Iowa WelfaV League
Alleges Moral Conditions in Capital
City and Near Camp Dodge Are APP
pallins-Mothers Turn Girls on
Streets to lnveigIe Soldier Boys.
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| Special to Times Republican.
| Fort Dodge, Oct. 30.-"Des Moines Is
over it's depth in whirlpool of vice
prostitution and Bookkeeping as result
| of the sudden growth OF, the Thirteenth
| district cantonment at Camp Dodge
This is the statement made by B. F
Galloway, general superintendent OF
the Iowa Public Welfare League, who
is in Fort Dodge Mr.. Gallaway's work
makes him familiar with the moral
conditions at Camp Dodge, and with
perfect frankness he told of the many
grave problems facing officials in the
capital city.
While the city officials expected
that Camp Dodge would be a serious
proposition said Mr.. Galloway, "the
proportions which it has reached at
present and the number of men ex-
pected there within the next two weeks
has taken the situation entirely out OF
the hands of city officials and while
they are doing their best to control
the situation in which the city finds
itself their best falls far short Of what
should be done to cope. with the con-
ditions existing.
The officers at the cantonment are
not to blame and the soldiers them
selves are not wholly responsible.
TT is the camp follower who ar
rived in Des Moines simultaneously
such havoc with the moral conditions
in the capital city.
Not all the vice there. however, it
due to the camp follower There are
many mothers and girls, residents Of
the city, who are taking advantage Of
the cantonment."
Galloway Steps In.
1t was just last week that Mr.. Gala
way was standing on a corner waiting
for street car. Nearby stood woman
of about 50 years Of age, accompanied
by two young girls, They were talk
ing to two young soldiers Mr. Gala
way said the young men told the
women that this was the second time
they had ever been to Des Moines. He
said that the women were trying TO
induce the soldiers to accompany them.
When asked If the soldiers did, Mr..
Galloway said: mo, they didn't, but
had to wait over and take the next
street car to see that they didn't"
Recently a paper was given by a
New York woman, who has been in
| Des Moines for a few weeks in the
| work OF Mothers clubs In the paper
read by her before an organization
she told Of the perfect cooperation Of
the mothers in protecting their daugh-
| tiers. She placed great emphasis on
the interest the mothers were taking
in their daughters.
II know of a set Of mothers who are
not in the Mothers clubs Of Des
Moines," Mr.. Galloway said II can
take you to seven homes that know
Of in the city where the mothers have
opened their homes to the soldiers and
have sent their daughters on to the
streets to meet the soldiers. When the
girls have failed to do this, the moth
ers themselves have gone with the
daughters"
! Mr.. Galloway further stated that al
the present time thirty-seven girls
were being taken care Of by the league
| because of the cantonment at Des
Moines.
1T sounds bad but We are working
! day and night and success may attend
our efforts" Mr. Galloway said. THE
federal government is taking steps tc
cooperate with cities to make the zone
for miles around cantonments a safe
place for the men"
An interesting statement made by
Mr.. Galloway was that of $500 negroes
who arrived last week from the south
only five were found not to be in good
physical condition. Sixty Of these mer
We're physicians. many attorneys and
almost everyone was a college man.
The cantonment has taxed this city
to its utmost to take care of its OWE
citizens and those the cantonment has
brought.