The Woman's Journal, vol. 43, no. 6, February 10, 1912, p. 45

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NEWS FROM 33 STATES

The Woman's Journat last week publisned mews n 23 States and the District of also from two provinces of Car and three foreign countries. Few State Suffrage Associations as yet do what all should do— appoint someone to send The Woman's lournal regularly a letter or newspaper clippings siving the suffrage news from that State. The fact that The Journal is able to gather so much news despite this handicap shows how widespread the suffrage news now is in the general press.

IN THE MAGAZINES

The changing ideals of the modern German woman. American Review of Reviews. New York. February. Finot, Jean. La beaute de la femme nouvelle. La Revue. Paris. Jan. 1. Kincaid, Mary Holland. The feminine charms of the woman militant. The personal attractiveness and housewifely attainments of the leaders in the Equal Suffrage Movement. Good Housekeeping. New York. February. Koebner, Richard. Die Eheauffassung des ausgehenden deutschen Mittelalters. Die Beurteilung der Frau.

WORTH FIGHTING FOR?

HAVE you ever run across a case where the law steps between a mother and her children?

Many States have such laws. One of the worst of them dates back to the time of Charles the Second. In Tennessee, right now, in this Year of Our Lord 1912, the statutes say that a father can by will leave an unbom child to somebody other than the mother. Somebody, perhaps, who is not even friendly with the mother. A similar law was until lately on the statute-books of South Carolna.

Laws that, in one form or another, allow a father to deprive a mother of her just rights in the children exist in a majority of the States in the Union.

In thirty-two States the father has a paramount legal right to the child, and the mother only a subordinate and in many cases, if a widow, she may in specific instances have no rights at all.

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has had a draft made to form the basis of a new law which should be made applicable to every State in the Union. It is short, simple, and direct, but it includes the best points of every law bearing on the subject. By this, mothers everywhere share exactly identical rights in the child with the fathers.

How does this hit you? Does it strike you as worth while?

Does it move you to feel like working, hoping, prayins, and even fighting to have this principle embodied in the laws of every State that needs it. If your heart prompts you to do something for the mothers who have suffered for generations under inadequate or unjust laws, get THE DELINEATOR for March and read every word that William Hard has written under the heading

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January. Lageriof, Selma. Woman the savior of the state; her fundamental achievement in her world, and man's nasuccess in his, as the basis of the demand for suffrage. World's Work. New York. February. Sharp, Evelyn. Behind the locked door. Nation. London. Jan. 6. A suffragist's prison experiences. Spencer, Anna Garlin. The day of the spinsterr. Forum. New York. February.

Wilkinson, Marguerite, O. B. Education as a preventive of divorce. Craftsman. New York. February. Education of girls so that some career besides marriage is open to them.

Roosevelt, Theodore. Woman's rights and the duties of both men and women. Outlook. New York. Feb. 3. Elizabeth J. Sherwood.

The picture on our front page last week, “The Suffragette Arousing Her Sisters," shows the fine piece of statuary modeled by Ella Buchanan. The suffragist is the central figure; Vanity at the right; Prostitution at Vanity's feet; Conventionality at the left; behind Conventionality, the Wase Earner.

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Culturgeschichte. Leipzis. FORM OF BEQUEST Selma. Woman the savior1 hereby sive and bequeath to the AE ol $ her fundamental achieve- National American Woman Suffrage rworld, and man's half- Associaticn, being incorporated under is, as the basis of the de- the laws of the District of Columbia, sion is us uffrage. World's Work. the sum of $......principal to any and February. and interest to be applied by such aselyn. Behind the locked sociation for the support and promoom. London. Jan. 6. A tion of the cause of woman suffrage. wAY 10 HeLP prison experiences.

NOTED SPEAKERS AT CHI- CAGO MEETING

iss Jane Addams Heads Committee in Charge of Suffrage Meeting on the Value of the Ballot to Women in City, County, State and Nation

Invitations for a suffrage meeting at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Hall McCormick of Chicago have been issued for Friday evening, February 9, at 8 o'clock. The speakers will be Mrs. Forbes-Robertson Hale, Miss Grace Abbott, Mr. Sherman C. Kinssley, Miss Julia C. Lathrop, Mrs. Florence Kelley. They will speak on the value of the vote to women in the city, county, State and nation. The committee in charge includes Miss Jane Addams, Mrs. Arthur T. Aldis, Mrs. Frederick C. Bartlett, Mrs. Tiffany Blake, Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen, Mrs. Chatfield- Taylor, Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank, Mrs. Charles H. Hamill and Mrs. Cyrus Hall McCormick.

BALTIMORE AND ITS VICE PROBLEM

Three years ago, when the wave of indignation against the iniquities of the white-slave traffic swept across the country, resulting in the passage of adequate protective laws in thirty States, including Maryland, there were many people living in Baltimore who said, “Surely there is no whiteslave traffic here!"

Those who were instrumental in having a white-slave law passed, however, and the officials whose duties made them familiar with the facts, knew better. Indeed, ever since the passage of the law in Maryland, and the enactment of the Federal White Slave Traffic Law by Congress, there has been a constant procession of such cases in the courts, proving the need of such laws.

The effect of this activity of the officials, urged on by associations interested in the suppression of the traffic in women, together with the energy of the Federal Government, is making the business of the white-slave trader more hazardous and less profitable. Yet it goes on. In searching for the reason of this, the conclusion is soon reached that the efforts for the suppression of the traffic in women cannot meet with full success as long as the house of vice exists and districts of a city are set apart for this purpose.

In the year 1910 there were 259 houses of this character on the police records in Baltimore, and in 1911 there were 296, an apparent increase of 37. Competent investigators believe that there are in all about 400 such houses here. There is an average of 4.45 inmates in each house, so that there are nearly 1,400 girls in these places in Baltimore, given up to lives of shame. According to the report of the Chicaso Vice Commission, women do not remain in these houses more than an average of seven years, which means that 200 youns sgirls must enter this life every year in order to keep up the supply.

These houses are clustered in groups, extending in the form of a broken shain for two miles through the center of the city, very near the main thoroughfares. There are also numerous hotels and rooming houses employed for vicious purposes.

The method of dealing with social vice by the autherities that has been in force in Baltimore for years, as it is in many other cities, is as follows Once a year, usually in May, the keepers of houses of vice are brought into the Criminal Court by the sheriff, a confession of guilt is obtained from them, and a trifling fine imposed, for which a receipt is given. The keepers are then discharged by the court with the tacit understanding that, if no disorder occurs calling for the interference of the police, they will not be disturbed for another year. The money collected for these fines has

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been divided among the free dispensaries of the city. It will be seen at once that this method is in fact a system of license, and cannot be said to discourage the keeping of such places, but, on the contrary, must tend to increase the evil,

Last spring, the Society for the Suppression of Vice, which acts as the local representative of the National Vigilance Committee, had a hearing before the judges of the Supreme Bench, and made an earnest appeal for the closing of all public houses of vice. The judges said they would take the matter into consideration, and after five months made an announcement that they favored the continuance of the main features of the system for the present, with restrictions as to the sale of liquor and the prohibition of advertising. “Study has convinced the court," they say, “that the public is as yet shamefully ignorant as to the harm caused by what is called the 'secial evil. ... As soon as education and reflection secure a better appreciation of the whole subject, further advances can be made." The judges were asked that the crime of keeping a house of vice be treated like any other misdemeanor, but their reply is not hopeful. At a later hearing a strong argument was presented to the judges, urging that the only wise and effective method of dealing with these houses is to close them. Under Maryland law such a proceeding may be easily carried out, since all the evidence necessary to convict for a keeper is “common knowledge" of the presence of the house.

Following this appeal, an astounding set of “Regulations" for the police was issued by the Board of Police Commissioners, dated Dec. 11, 1911, and distributed to the force. They ordered that no keeper should conduct more than one house, nor advertise, nor let the inmates show themselves at windows, nor allow unruly conduct, nor the sale of liquor in the house, nor the robbery of visitors, nor “unnatural practices,' and must furnish the marshal of police with a photograph of each inmate and “sitter." The regulations conclude with one which embodies the most objectionable feature of European regulation of vice, the medical examination of inmates and the furnishing of a certificate of freedom from disease from a “reputable practising physician."

Here is a bold attempt to force upon Baltimore a system that has been proven, by the most incontrovertible evidence abroad, to be as ineffective

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