Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-30

type of record kept by the Army and
Navy Is not available for civilian af-
fairs. But the draft records show
that in civilian life, at least $54,-
600, 900 a year in wage loss alone
due to these social diseases. This is
simply the amount lest due to the
inability of people SO afflicted to per-
form any useful work. The figure
is based on a daily wage of only 81
ana is probably low, as disease plays
no favorites, but hits all classes of
society. rich and poor alike.
Tho American Social Hygiene So
ciety which has long conducted a
wal against this plague estimates
that the complete cost of these ills,
largely ~preventable is $1SS, 600, 900
in one state, Illinois, alone. Ohio's
cost is placed by authorities at about
800, 000,0 00. These figures include
items such as doctors fees, lost
wages, expensive drugs needed for
the cures, which are not met by the
individual, then partial costs for
maintaining hospitals for the insane
and the blind, the cost of treating
women who become infected
through marriage and are forced to
undergo complicated operations,
much Of which is met by the tax
payer, for much of this work is done
at public expense, for the general
protection of all.
The old idea that segregated dis
tricts tended toward safety in vice
has been exploded it is claimed as
disease rate among troops in Amer
lea was about one-third that Of
troops in foreign countries where
the open districts were in operation.
Vice cannot be abolished by laws,
the Board holds. Education along
the proper lines of sex is essential.
The subject which has been hidden
under a blanket of assumed inno-
cence rust te exposed to the light of
understanding. The cure will be
brought about this way.
DR.. Parker declared that boys are
naturally just as clean-minded as
girls. Yet boys, she holds, do not
receive in the average home, the
same instruction on physical ques-
ticns which come to the girls. The
result is that the girls are more
clean-minded at the critical age.
But she also added that the whole
subject does not receive the atten-
ton it needs as a primary II in life.
Lie lIOIilC, ilio .CIulChs tHO oSliOoioi
ali sidestep, she declared, and when
sex becomes part of a boys life he
has hal little instruction and is gen.
orally allowed to drift along as best
he can, exposed to the bad influence,
too often. of commercialiZed vice.
Predicts Tighter Laws
The laws in the United States, DIR.
Parker, believes as they relate to
this question, will come more strin-
gent as time goes II The United
States is leading among the nations
in taking action on this question. Re
garding the enforcement of prohibi.
ton, it was thought that the ques-
ton would gradually work itself out
when more people had paid the
price Of blindness or death from
bootleg poison. But by stringen
laws, it is not meant that the mo
vies would be darkened. or tina
g~randpa's pipe would be taken away
The entrance Of women into politics
probably will lead to more ~effectua
laws and heavier penalties for VIC
operators.
The work of the board Throughout
the nation is carried on through min
district officials each a field repre-
sentative. IneS0 IN turn are dlue'
by field agents, located in cities nea
the Army or Navy posts. The fell
agents keep in touch with the med
zeal officers of tn. aimed forces an
receive weekly reports as to no,
much or lN.w little commentaries
, vice in each lcea,:ty is undermining
! the h.ai..I C.: II e men. Closing tn
!, red light district in one city result
ed in cutting the disease rate fror
1919 to 27, which is cited as
9 .'health example in disease proven
, ton"
The field agents keep in touc
t with the municipal. county and stat
: officials, police officers and othe
organizations. Thus very accurat
: figures are obtainable on the con
z mercialized vice question. TIL
boards figures are also good indica
tors of the conditions which ext
S among the civilian population
Through these field officers tt
e board is quickly able to place il
hands on the vice situation n an
e part Of the country. The result
e have been that seventy-seven dii
: tricts have been closed, and tn;
hundreds of cities have stage
cleanup" which will have an in
y portant effect on the future genera
lions Of Americans.