Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-05-11
PROTECT SOLDIERS
FROM SOCIAL EVILS
IN Memorial to Congress Chamber of
commerce Asks Passage of Jones
Law, Suppressing PrOstitu-
ton i'm Ten-mile Zone

me adoption of the Jones bill.
which would give the military au-
thorities power to suppress CONNER
cIali2ed vice within 10 miles of any
army camp or navy yard, or of a
measure of like import, is asked by
the Pullman cham Der of commerce
in memorial, addressed to con-
gress. At the meeting of the cham
her two weeks ago the question was
discussed by Prof. T. d. Eliot. after
which a committee was named to
Mace the Pullman chamber on rec
ord as most heartily in favor of the
enactment of any law that would pro-
tect the United States soldiers and
sailors from the menace of social
evil.
The resolutions prepared by the
committee are comprehensive and
forceful, and were this week submit
ted to congress as well as to numer-
GUS national officials and officials of
the state of California and the city
OF San Francisco Copies of the res
olutions will also be submitted to
commercial organizations in all parts
of the Northwest, with a request for
cooperation in the effort to secure
the passage of adequate legislation
along that line.
The memorial in full is as follows:
Whereas The City of Pullman is
sending - or more of its young
men to train in army and navy
camps for service in the war, and
Whereas, Com mercial vice always
tends to run rife near such camps,
and Its attendant temptations and
diseases blast the life and future
homes Of thousands of young men,
and
Whereas, Its citizens therefore
have right, and feel it their duty
to ask that conditions in and near
such camps be not dangerous physic-
ally and morally; therefore be it
Resolved, That the Chamber of
Commerce of Pullman hereby petit
uoh Congress to pass law giving
the military authorities full power.
ana making it their duty to eliminate
prostitution within 10 miles of an
army camp or navy yard, wherever
'ne civil government fails to do so
and be 1t further
Resolved, That we petition the
war Department to exercise to the
unit every existing power to reduce
prostitution and the inducements to
\ " IN the army and navy, to seek
iufther powers to the same end and
~ furnish at camps enough attract
w amusements to offset as far as
possiDle the unnatural routine of the
military life; and be it further
"eSolVed, That in the name of the
aoines OF Pullman, and of the Pacific
oOaS' We especially petition the civil
! of California and San
Aneisco to suppress prostitution in
~ iorms' wherever it may appear.
national menace worse than any
Nasue' and be it finally
nesolved, That comics of +hasa
t,n, ,u'iohs' 'signed by the proper Of
S.a'S OF the Chamber of Commerce
=. OF this city, be sent at once TO
'he following:
Secretary of War Nawton G
Baker. e"toh D
surgeon General Rupert Blue.
"ator Miles Poindexter.
senator Wesley Jones.
representative VIM. LaFollette.
Sacramento. "' a.
- j,o,a, ''ate Council of Defense. Cal
Ina at Sacramento.
The Mayor of San Francisco
The Police Commissioner =, ca
Francisco. commissioner OF San
0,t,as commanding Officer OF the
4 faIa Training Camp. the Pre-
=, Dan Francisco, Cal.
Iplans Commerce Chambers of the
(siened)
resident Pullman Cham Der of
Commerce.
of pro tenn. City of Pullman.
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