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Show THE RIGHT WAY TO REFORM THE UNDERWORLD What lo do with the women of the underworld is one of the big problems in connection with the solving of the social evil. Mayor Blankenburg of Philadelphia has called upon every clergyman In the city to co-operate with the city authorities in pushing to successful completion the U quarantine recently established over the city's tenderloin by the police department. de-partment. One of the chief neces saries, the mayor declares, is to obtain ob-tain reputable employment for the women who have been driven out of their unlawful habitats by the police order, and he asks the ministers to aid in this situation. A former mayor of Ogden, during an agitation for the closing of the Alley, advised the Women's Christian Temperance Union of this city that he would do his utmost to end the traffic If the good women would point H the way whereby the outcasts could he provided with a home or honorable employment. Some girls by choice drift into a life of vice; others are driven there by shame or discouragement, manv are led there by intrigue But once "1n there is no escape, because the doors of the world are closed againsu them. Unless there Is a change in this attitude of the respectable part of society, nailing up of the windows of the houses of sin must prove a useless labor The mayor of Philadelphia seems to realize the weakness of the reform movement and he has Btarted out to overcome the ostracism by Inviting iJ'M the ministers of his city to aid him obtain reputable employment for the denizens of the tenderloin. Hounding the women from alley to rooming house never accomplished anything more than to Bcatter the evil and increase the vicious features I ' of the traffic. |