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mmmmmmiWifmW?il J-J Ji iwuuiw" j ' ' THE DAY BOOK 500 SO. PEORIA ST. 398 TEL. MONROE 3$3 '.Chicago, londay, November, 6, 1911., WHITE, SLAVEjRY 'CAN, BE ABOLISHED BY AN , -ARQXjSED PlBLIC CONSCIENCE . I - . I : 7". ' . A Clean-up of the Police Force May -Help, But It Wont .Core ;Z7e People Will Havel to T tickle -Economic Conditions to- Accomplish ' Permanent Good Im , , portdnt'-Quotations from-the Vice Report. "Olcou'rse it will'tielp 'clean up Chicagoif.all grafters are kicked out of the police depatipent, and honet men 'put in their places. , But-even if thelmayqr and. Civil' Service Commission should ac complish that.much even if we get police.office'rS and men .who will enforce the la'w stillthat wont strike at the root of the 'trouble. Policemen may regulate immoral houses ;rthey,may enforce.the 1 o'clpck ctosing ordinance ; theymay .arrest women, for soliciting on the streets-; they ,may divorce prostitution and the booze b'usi-; ness ; theymay-stop publicrgambling. ' BUT IT- WILL 'TA'KE MORE THAN THE, JENTIRE PO LICE FORCEOF CHICAGO, WITH EVERY'MAN ONTT. AN HONEST MAW, TO STOP THE SOURCE OF SUPPLY AND TO' CORRECT THE ECONOMIC CAUSES THAT DRIVE GIRLS-AND-WOMEN-TO A LIFE, OF -SIN- AND-SHAME. It will take the ar.oused conscience of all of the honest men arid women -in Chicago., ancT the 'widest "possible publicity, TO PRO TECT -WOMANHOOD WHILE IT IS STILLPURE. Any kind of a policeman can arrest a poor girl, once cruel .con ' omic conditiohsjhave driven her to degradation. ' , .' - So we'll have to get at the economic- conditions. - It is difficult' to get as general publicity as' seems to be neces sary. 'IheVeason of that is, that the daily newspapers thave to have advertising in prtfer to make moaey. And"if the' report' of 'the Chi cago ke 'Commission is, true, some of the" biggest advertisers are the biggest qffenders.r - - ' K ' , , Indeed, special sections ofvthe Vice Report are devoted to "de partment stores as one pf-the crueljst of the task-masters that help, supply he lenand for.young women in thVleyee districts. ; Yqu have feh.d tKe-nan?es of the members of the Chicago VfcQ fc i IHHfiliiiiiifiaiiiiiliiilfiBiii Kvi-m ara2?w eew:j: