MARW. 1 T VIGILANCE 9 Wiu.son, Dr. Robert N. — The American Boy and the Social Evil. ohn C. Winston Co., 1905, $1.00, postage 6c. Zen er, Dr. Philip. — Education in Sexual Physiology and Hygiene. Robert Clarke Co., 1910, $1.00, postage 6c. For Girls. Galbraith, Dr. Anna M. — Four Epochs of Woman’s Life. W. B. Saunders Co., 1907, $1.50, postage 10c. Latimer, Dr. Caroline W. — Girl and Woman. \ppleton & Co., 1910, $1.50, postage 11c. Lowry, Dr. Edith B. — Herself. Forbes & Co., 1911, $1.00, postage 8c. Mobley, Margaret W. — Song of Life. A. C. McClurg & Co., 1902, $1.25,* postage 8c. V; '. her. Dr. Eliza M. — Health and Happiness. Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1912, $1.00, postage 10c. Saleeby, Caleb W. — Woman and Womanhood. Mitchell Kennerley, 1911, $2.50, postage 13c. Smith, Nellie M. — The Three Gifts of Life. Dodd, Mead & Co., 1913, 50c., postage 8c. (Dr. Mosher’s and Miss Smith’s books are the best of those mentioned for general use; the others should be used with caution.) For Boys. Hall, Winfield Scott. — From Youth into Manhood (from 11 to 15 years). Association Press, 1910, 50c., postage 5c. Hall, Winfield Scott. — Instead of Wild Oats (18 years and over). Fleming H. Revell Co., 1912, 25c., postage 2c. Hall, Winfield Scott.— Life’s Beginnings (from 10 to 14 years). Association Press, 1912, 25c., postage 3c. Morley, Margaret W. — A Song of Life (for young men). A. C. McClurg & Co., 1902, $1.25, postage 8c. Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis. — The Young Man’s Problem. Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, 1912, 10c., postage 2c. Willson, Dr. Robert N. — American Boy and the Social Evil. (College Students.) John C. Winston Co., 1905, $1.00, postage 6c. Willson, Dr. Robert N. — Nobility of Boyhood. (High School Boys.) John C. Winston Co., 1910, 50c., postage 4c. Eugenics. Darp.yshire, A. D. — Breeding and the Mendelian Discovery. Cassell & Co., 1912, $2.75, postage 15c. Davenport, Dr. Chas. B. — Heredity in Relation to Eugenics. Henry Holt, 1912, $2.00, postage 17c. Jordan, Dr. David Starr. — Heredity of Richard Roe. American Unitarian Association, 1911, $1.20, postage 7c. Pun nett, R. C. — Mendelism. Macmillan, 1911, $1.25, postage 15c. SELECTED LIST OF BOOKS ON THE SOCIAL EVIL All the books recommended in this list can be obtained from the American Vigilance Association , Library and Editorial Department, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Addams, Jane. — A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil. Macmillan Co., 1912, $1.00, postage 7c. Chicago Vice Commission Report. American Vigilance Association, 1911, 50c., postage 12c. Church Mission of Help. — The Wayward Girl and the Church’s Responsibility. 1911. (Pamphlet for free distribution.) Cocks, Orin G. — The Social Evil and Methods of Treatment. Association Press, 1912, 25c., postage 4c. 10 VIGILANCE De Becker, J. E. — The Nightless City (Japan). Probstain & Co. (London), 1899, $10.00. Dock, Lavinia L. — Hygiene and Morality. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1910, $1.25, postage 8c. Fiaux, Louis. — La Police des Moeurs. (In French.) Felix Alcan (Paris), 1907, $8.25 express. Janney, Dr. O. Edward. — White Slave Traffic in America. National Vigilance Committee (now American Vigilance Association), 1911, 50c., postage 6c. Kauffman, Reginald W. — The House of Bondage. (Fiction.) Moffat, Yard & Co., 1910, $1.35, postage 12c. Kneeland, Geo. J. — Commercialized Prostitution in New York City. Century Co., 1913, $1.30, postage 12c. Minneapolis Vice Commission Report. Byron & Willard, 1911, 35c., postage 5c. Murphy, U. G. — The Social Evil in Japan. Methodist Publishing House (Tokyo), 1906, $1.00, postage 4c. Philadelphia Vice Commission Report. 40c., postpaid. Portland (Oregon) Vice Commission Report. To be reprinted by the American Vigilance Association, ready in June, 40c., postage 8c. Robins, Elizabeth. — My Little Sister. (Fiction.) Dodd, Mead & Co., 1913, $1.25, postage 10c. Roe, Clifford G. — Panders and Their White Slaves. Fleming H. Revell Co., 1910, 50c., postage 9c. Sanger, Dr. W. W. — History of Prostitution. Medical Publishing Co., 1913, $2.00, postage 21c. Seligman, Prof. E. R. A. — The Social Evil. With special reference to conditions existing in the City of New York. A report prepared under the direction of the Committee of Fourteen. Second edition, revised, with chapters on a decade’s development — 1902-1912. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1912, $1.75, postage 14c. Syracuse Moral Survey Committee. — Report on the Social Evil in Syracuse. 1913, 40c., postage 6c. VIGILANCE. — A monthly, published by the American Vigilance Association. This magazine correlates constructive efforts for the suppression of commercialized vice. $1.00 a year. A department “Of Current Interest” will keep you informed concern- ing new movements throughout the country in regard to The Social Evil and Sex Education. REPORT OF DENVER’S LAST POLICE COMMISSIONER MEDICAL EXAMINATION AS A CONDITION PRECEDENT TO ABOLITION OF PROSTITUTION *1 submit to the people of Denver this statement of my activities as police commissioner in connection with the abolition of commercialized vice. That I have not made one before this was due to my conviction that publicity * George Creel. We are not printing Mr. Creel’s report in full. would interfere or possibly defeat, and to the added belief that the social prob- lem is not a proper subject for indis- criminate newspaper discussion. Since I am now deprived of power to continue the work, however, it is right that I should tell what has been done in order that the people may decide whether this work has been good and if they wish those who follow me to carry it on. When I assumed the commissioner- ship on June 1, 1912, I was instantly confronted with a demand for the elim: nation of “Market Street” by means of arrest, imprisonment and police per VIGILANCE 15 and subjected to the best physical ex- amination that the county doctor could give. She declared them free from dis- ease. I ordered the rearrest of these women, but only twenty-seven were se- cured. They were given the blood test, with these results: Free from disease 9 Diseased 18 Positive Wasserman 3 Positive antigen 10 Both 5 Total 18 The case of the “parlor house girls” is also in point. As I was assured, the very suggestion that they were dis- eased was an “insult.” Did they not cater to the “married trade”? Was it not therefore imperative that the girls must be watched carefully? Why, every one of them was examined regu- larly by physicians. And yet, under the blood test, the examination of twenty “parlor house girls” developed that seventeen were badly diseased. Even were the blood tests made, the only accurate way, they could not be taken every day. But aside from the farcical nature of “medical examination,” Mireur ad- vances this unanswerable argument: “Inscription upon the register of the Bureau of Morals is the final stage of vice, the final term of degradation. It is the official formality which regu- lates and legitimates the said trade of prostitution. It is, in a word, the sin- ister act which severs a woman from society and makes her a chattel of the administration.” The thing is not only impracticable but impossible. Lecour estimates the number of Parisian prostitutes to be 30,000, of which only 4,000 are regis- tered. Europe has been forced to face its vice problem. At the great Brussels conference, held to discuss the burn- ing subject, the champions of regie- mentation were compelled to confess that it had proved the “most lament- able failure in the history of civiliza- tion.” Segregation, like medical inspection, practically legitimizes the business of prostitution. And what is to be thought of the legitimization of a trade that kills in ten years, in which those who practice it are diseased inevitably during the first year, and which burns manhood and womanhood in a city as surely as an acid? There are but two arguments against abolition. One is that it will simply “scatter”; the other is the “physiolog- ical necessity of the male.” The first argument can be met by the sequestration of disease in hos- pitals, so that the problem will simply be one of law enforcement. The other argument is a lie. Ask any compe- tent physician and he will tell you that the “physiological necessity of the male” is a fake and has always been a fake. It is simply the case that we have allowed the absurd claim, perpet- uated the double standard of morals, and refused to impose the same re- straint upon boys that we impose upon girls. It is in the dawn of a new teaching, a new outlook, that the chief value of abolition lies. No one is mad enough 16 VIGILANCE to expect that abolition will end pros- titution, but what it will end is the ig- norance and the tolerance that are so largely responsible for prostitution. Once smash the horrible theory of the “necessary evil,” once grasp the appall- ing statistics of disease, once take a stand against this ancient trade, and the way will grow clearer and more cer- tain as we proceed. Current interest SOCIAL HYGIENE SOCIETY SUPPORTED BY STATE The Portland (Oregon) Social Hy- giene Society, whose work htis been felt all over the State of Oregon, has ex- panded from a City to a State organ- ization. State-wide work was formally launched in March, backed by the Leg- islature, which voted an annual appro- priation of $10,000 for this purpose. The Society hopes that by forming local Committees, which will be expected to extend their influence to surrounding towns and villages, every city, town, village and school district will be reached within two years. In the prin- cipal cities, there will be organized Pro- motion Committees, three members of which will be elected members of the State Committee. A Bulletin published monthly will officially report progress. THE NEBRASKA HOSTELRY LAW Rooming houses and so-called hotels of Omaha run for immoral purposes that are hiding their real nature under the name “hotel” will have to abandon that deception after next July. The new hotel law forbids the use of the name “hotel” by any rooming house that is not actually a hotel in all that the word implies, and provides that a place merely a rooming house cannot be listed as a hotel. Every building that has five or more rooms and serves meals under the same roof is to be known as a hotel and is subject to all the regulations thereof. Places merely renting five rooms or more and not serving meals can only be known as rooming or lodging houses. All hotels and rooming houses must be listed with the State hotel inspector and a license, costing $2 annually, pro- cured. The proprietor’s name must be listed and these records will be open to the public. Under the drastic provisions of the new hotel statute so-called hotels violat- ing the Albert law (The Injunction and Abatement Law) can more easily be regulated and suppressed. NEWS FROM CONNECTICUT A bill raising the age of consent from 16 to 18 years was introduced at the present session of the Connecticut General Assembly. At the hearing on the bill various organizations, especially of women, were represented but were not permitted to be heard, as the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee before whom the hearing was to be, suggested that counsel prepare a substitute bill