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Show Bureau oS Social Hygiene I Following is a brief outline of the I plans outlined for the recently formeb bureau of social hygiene. John D. . Rockefeller jr. is at the head of th bureau and considerable good work has already heen--uccomplished. The Bureau of Social Hygiene came into existence about two years ago, as a result of the work of the Specia, Grand Jury appointed to investigate ! the white "slave traffic in New York j City, which served during the first j nail of the year 1910. One of t e ! recommendations made by it in the ' presentment i.anded up at the termination termi-nation of its lab-iis was tnat a public ' comiiiis.-ion be aopjlnled, to study the s.jCl.l evil, ine foreman or tliat bod subsequently gave careful consideration considera-tion to tile eiiaracter of the wui'k whicn mi lit properly be done by suei. a commission and '.lie limitations undei , whicn it would operate. In the connection, con-nection, separt cv, personal conferences vvere held wan over a nuiiured leadin men ana women in the city, amun wnom were lawy ers, physicians, busi ness men, bankpiesiuents, presidents of commercial organizations, clergy -1 men, seulemeiiv. woikeis, social workers, work-ers, iaoor leaders, and reformers. 1 These conferences developed the feeling feel-ing that a public, commission woulu : iaoor under a nuinoer of disadvantages : such as the fact that it would be shore lived; tnat its worl would be done publicly; that at Lest it" could hartll do more than present recomtnenda-ions. recomtnenda-ions. The conviction alo gre.v tnat tne m .in rea.-on why permanent re-! re-! suits had not been obtained by the I various organizations wuicn had dealt with the subject of the social evil dur-' dur-' ing tne past ten or fifteen vears was that most Of them were temporary. While active, tney materially lmproveJ the situation, but as tneir elforls were relaxed, there came tne inevitable return to much the same conditions as before. Ine forces of evil are never greatly alarmed at the organization of investigating or reform bodies, lor they know that they are generally composed of busy people, who cannot turn aside from their own alfairs for any great length of time to carry on reforms, and that sooner or latter their efforts wdl cease, and the patient denizens of the underworld and their exploiters can then reappear and continue con-tinue the traffic as form f ly. So the conyictioh grew tnat in order to make a real and lasting improvement improve-ment in conditions, a permanent organization should be created, the continuation of which would not be j dependent upon a temporary wave of reform, nor uqon the life of any man or group of men, but which would go on, generation after generation, continuously con-tinuously making warfare against the forces of evil. It also appeared that , a private organization would have, among other advantages, a certain ! ; freedom from pub.icity and from 1 1 : political bias,"" which a bublicly appointed ap-pointed commission could not so easily avoid. I Therefore, as the initial step, in the ' winter of 1911 The Bureau of Social Hvgiene was formed. Its present ' members are Miss Katharine Bement Davis,' Superintendent of the New York State Reformatory for Women at Bedford Hills, New York; Paul M. Warburg, of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company; Starr J. Murphy, of the New York Bar; and John D. Rockefeller, Rocke-feller, jr. As the work develops, new members may be added. ! Encouraging reports are being re- ; ce-ived at San Diego from all sections of Utah indicating that interest in the display to be made by our state at the San Dijgo Exposition in 1915 is growing. A permanent commission to have charge of the Utah exhibit wi.l oe designated by the Utah legislature, the session of which will begin January 13, 1913. Already the special com. r. is- . sion compose! of Govenor William Spry, Dr. G. B. Pfouts and Glen Miller, : of Salt Lake City, has selected the! site of the Utah's building. While Utah has never helJ an exposition, the state participated at Chicago, St. Louis, Seattle, Port lan 1, Los Ansel's and Omaha, the Ut h State budding j it St. Louis having been one of the nost striking in the state group. Utah has 22,') 0,0 10 lucres susceptible of cultivi tion, and only a small frac- i tion is being utilized. Hundreds of thousands of "acres are being developed ny iriizalion systems, private enter- , prise w (I'king jointly with state and federal initiative in these projects. Dry-farrning is praeticH extensively, and Utah's resources and methods of doing th ngs lend themselves readily to' effective demonstration at the San , Diego exposition, which will show not so much what man has done but what he is doing and how he is doing it. ' With the extension of interest through- : out the state suggestions for Utah's exhibit are being heard, and the dis- play will be of a character to attract to I hat state the population so orely ; needed to develop her now unprodjc- ! tive resources and to sho.v to the world the state's products and lead to a wider market for U'ah products. I |