Show A T 0 BETTER MORAL 6 washington D C march 22 th the 6 whipping post for white slave traffickers and seducers of women a tax upon bachelorhood more careful training of children and abolition of loy joy rides and rag time dances were advocated as remedies tor for the social evil at a hearing here today conducted by the illinois senatorial vice commission which came to washington primarily to interest president wilson in a na tion wide vice crusade the commission secured the promise of president wilson to consider their request to him to call a conference oi of governors and representatives of vice co commissioners from various states to study the s social octal problem tho the conference will be held in washington as soon as practicable congressman bessm an robert hill of illinois agreed upon request of the committee to introduce in congress a bill creating a committee to look into vice conditions in the district of columbia at the hearing attended by many prominent women and men interested in social welfare work the low wage question as a cause tor for girls going wrong was discussed several of the witnesses decrying the idea insisting that lack of education and resisting force had much more to do with the d downfall own fall of women men too were blamed as primar primarily marly ly responsible for the degradation of girls witnesses who declared that low wa wages were not responsible for social vice admitted however on being questioned by lieutenant gover governor nor ohara head of the commission that higher wages for working girls would better equip them to resist evil and all recommended that a minimum wage wa e law tor for girls would be of great benefit eight dollars a week as a minimum wage tor for women was generally accepted by members of the committee give us the franchise mrs harvey wiley said and we will rai sethe age of 0 consent so that twelve year old girls cannot have their bodies given away sirs mrs wiley and other witnesses also declared that employers amplo of un underpaid der girls and women had not uie the mor 0 it al right tb give money to out of the earnings of their enterprises until they first had increased the wages of their employed emp loyes dr IV W C woodward health of the district of columbia urged the encouragement of early marriage among I 1 the young men as one of the remedies for the social evil and he placed the responsibility for the downfall of 90 per cent of women directly d erectly at the door of the men rather than in the counting room of tho the department store or factory he approved a suggestion of sen senator ator bealls of illinois of laws placing a tax upon bachelorhood a graduated tax between the ages of 24 and 42 providing that all men over 32 years of age should pay an annual tax of as long a as they remained unmarried dr woodward presented same some astonishing toni shing statistics among them that 50 per cent of the men shown in hospital records of patients received for all causes were diseased and ana that that 10 per cent were afflicted with loathsome diseases unlawful places said dr woodward are the morasses from which these diseases come state education is the best moans means tor for bradic eradicating abing these places dr woodward gave statistics showing that 10 per cent of all the recorded births in ia the district of columbia last year were III tho the mothers between 13 and 20 years of age ln iq the he majority of cases robert barrett speaking for his mother kate waller barrett head of the florence crittenden home tor for girls throughout abe country took vig orous issue with the committee on tile the matter of low wakes wages as a cause cause of vice as did also mrs adolph kahn of wash ington mr barrett said that tho the florence crittenden homes had cared for more than wayward girls throughout the country and information from these girls showed that low wages was the least of the causes of immorality we believe it Is not right nor fall fair to say mr barrett declared that thai a low wage is the real reason for vice there are more society girls girls from good homes with fathers and mothers able to provide for them am ply who have fallen anto into vice and anc come to be inmates oi 0 tiie the florence florenc crittenden homes than wage earning girls very few who come to our ou homes blame low wages tor for their do down fall tribune |