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Show A PLAGUE SPOT. I ! Secretary of the Navy Daniels has asked the governor of Pennsylvania to accept the co-operation of the navy and marine corps "for such a cleaning up of Philadelphia as is imperatively demanded.' de-manded.' The commission on training camp activities has charged the Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, police force with corruption and partnership in crime, and it is added that uo other city in the country has j so failed to meet the requirements of I tlie army and navy as to moral conditions. condi-tions. As there are thousands of young men in training in the immediate vicinity, vi-cinity, a serious situation is of course presented. Hovernor Brumbaugh may pledge assistance and likewise may actually attempt to help in the work ! of improving conditions, but as Phila- delphia is politically as well as nioral-j nioral-j !y rotten, we doubt if it can be cleaned I up in time to do any good. We never hear so much about the vice and crime of Philadelphia as we do about similar simi-lar conditions in New York and Chicago. Chi-cago. This is due to the fact that little lit-tle or no outcry is made in the city itself, it-self, the people being ' corrupt and i contented." as someone aptly expressed j it a few years ano. Tlie ouly way to j prevent tho contamination of the young I men in training ut Philadelphia is to j send them to other camps where festering fes-tering moral sores are not allowed to exist. |