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Show CRITTENTON HOME REQUESTMFUSED Salt Lake. Feb. 2S John C. Mack-ay, Mack-ay, chairman of th conntycoramls-sloners, conntycoramls-sloners, does not bellovo In charitable charita-ble work among fallen women. At a meeting this morning ho plainly told Mrs. Virginia Let Brandt Berg, national worker for tho Crittcnton Homes association, that he did not core if poor girl were competed to go upon tho streets to support their babes born out of wedlock. Mrs. Berg appeared before tho commissioners com-missioners asking recognition for the Crittcnton home at Ogden. She told the board that the homo did not ask for financial assistance, but merely for recognition. She offered on behalf be-half of the home to take care of such women now locked after most incompletely by the commissioners under the pauper relief fund. The Crittcnton homos are well known all over tho country. They were estabished by Charles M. Crit-tentcn, Crit-tentcn, who died about two months ago. He left the princely sum of $5,000,000 for this work, in which he was Interested and on which ho had spent huudreds of thousands of dollars dol-lars during his lifetime. Mrs. Berg Is also a federal officer, appointed lo assist in the suppression of tho white slave traffic. She has been speaking in many of the cities of tho west, and has been investigating conditions In 'Utah, especially in Salt Lake and Ogden. Mackay Blocks Action. The request made of tho commls-eloners commls-eloners was to send girls who had .been unfortunate to the Ogden Institution, Insti-tution, where they would be helped lree of charge to the county, kept for six months and placed In situations. situa-tions. Detailing some sorrowful cases, she succeeded In arousing the sympathy of Commissioners J. D. .Murdoch and W. J. Burton, but Mr. Mackay seemed to fc-l that some of the prerogatives of the comraSsslon-jere comraSsslon-jere were in danger. Almost brutally ho told Mrs. Berg that tho county looked after its poor and that tho $15 maternity allowance and three weeks In the hoppltal given In such cases was quite sufficient. "They can go out and earn a living after that," he said. Mrs. Berg contended that more time was needed for a young mother ito take care of her child, and that such opportunity was afforded In the home. Mr. Mackay, no humanitarian at the best, was disposed to turn any proposition down, but the other com-,mi6Eloncr6 com-,mi6Eloncr6 listened kindly. No action was taken.. Mrs. Berg has had eight years experience ex-perience under the federal government govern-ment and In rescue work generally. She Is a Virginian of the famous Leo family and gae up a social career to enter upon the work of helping girls and vesculug fallen womanhood. The white slave traffic has received much of her attention and she has done uotable work In this line. She Is now about to take a year's rest, which sho will spend abroad, after which sho will return to her position under the government and In connection connec-tion with the Criftenlen homes She Is much interested in the condition of gills in Utah. "Pin Money" Girls. "One thing especially I see to condemn con-demn In Utah, particularly in Salt Lake," she traid, "That is tho number of what we call "p!n money" girls. By such girls we mean Jn our work girls who are under no necessity to work for a living and who take the places of those who do I have never t-een a city where there are so many a-; in Suit Lake. "I have no words in which to express ex-press my condemnation of tho condition. condi-tion. I have seen too mouy glrlu suffer and drift Into lives of shame because unable lo secure work and that the stores hero should be filled with gliis working only for money to spend in luxuries when they have good homos, is, the worst possible thing I could expect to find. It leads to immorality and supplies the white hlavH trau'ic." Mrs. Berg was much disappointed al tho stand taken by Mr. Mackay against the work for fallen women, but was charitable enough to say that she believed he did not understand under-stand Ihe nature of it or he would not have opposed it. Mr. Mackay has all along had little or no sympathy with pauper ro'lef or humanitarian endeavor. He turned down Judge Alex McMaster when a detention home was asked, and even voutured to defy the law which says that such shall bo established when demanded by the juvenile court com- mission. He Is on record as opposed to that sort of work. The home at Ogden, Mrs. Berg cays, now has In It twelve girU, all of whom are from Salt Lake. Contributions Con-tributions have been made from here, and the work has rccelvod the hearty support of local phllanthro-Fists phllanthro-Fists who are more humane In their attitude than Commissioner John C Mackay. |