Show LAX MORALS OF FACTORY GIRLS governor cutler talks to business men regarding their hired help at a business mens meeting thursday afternoon la in the city and ind county building in salt lake city governor cutler stated his regret at tho the alleged lax morals of salt lake young people especially girls employed in tho the local factories with rev P A simpkin and secretary beatty of the state board of health he recently visited the state reformatory where he was given st artUne information by a girl inmate she stated that she had been employed in two salt lake factories and one store while there the girl stated she had made tho the acquaintance of a young man who persuaded her to accompany him to a rooming house she claimed that most of the girls employed in the factories conducted themselves very much he had done the governor stated he lie had been informed there were many such places in that city and had discovered other cases in the reform school similar to the one just cited governor cutler asked the business men present to look into the moral conditions obtaining in their establishments lish ments and see that girls are warned of possible dangers he spoke of a case where a girl contracted disease by drinking from a drinking fountain cup infected with germs and applied the illustration in asking his hearers if customers knew they were liable to contract disease in consuming products of factories chero one or more of the operatives were diseased rev P A simpkin told how bow vice when once started spreads through society as a whole urging those present to exercise regard for the moral welfare of their help dr beatty stated that the apathy in salt lake lak people in such matters was astonishing due probably to ignorance ho no advised that parents watch their daughters when absent from home and not at work J G mcdonald resented tiny assertion that girls employed in factories are mortally mora ally had bad he ile eald said you havo ve overlooked the skating rinks ranka and the dance halls balls ho lie denied the statements mada made by governor cutler and mr beatty in 20 years he lie said be he had employed thousands of girls and he lie had never bad occasion to discharge but three for unbecoming conduct the executive was asked the question as to to whether ho lie had not employed bers of young girls in his store and other places of business and whether any of them had gone wrong governor cutler replied yes to tho the first question and no to the other T mr air mcdonald said that tho the same conditions obtained in ills hl own establishment he ile went on to say that merchants or manufacturers should not be held hold responsible tor for the acts it f their employee emp loyes when away from froin their work and while attending dance houses and public resorts he ile did not he said bald em employ girls who did not live at home and had to kivela furniE furnished hed for the wages paid were not sufficient for buch such a mod of life similar statements wore were made by mr sweet proprietor of the sweet candy company and L L terry of tho troy ja laundry tho the former said that ho he bad had had sey seventeen enteen years experience per peri tence ence in hiring help and he stated that the moral standard of the shop girls orthis alty sity was higher than that of most large cities he endeavored to employ good young women who were anxious to make an honest living and be he bad a careful forewoman who used the utmost airm discretion in con si dering applications for positions he unqualifiedly resented the statement mode made that 60 per cent of the shop girls of this city wore immoral tho the three speakers said that the word of one girl who according to her own statement had gone wrong should not be made the basis of a sweeping complaint against the mer thant and business men inen of tho community in WANT AD ADS S YIELD DIG REISU RESULTS ltv |