■ing News to Last Minute Gift Buyers j j REPORT REVEALS BALTIMORE VICE Names of Trapped Ininiorals Suppressed or Social Fabric Would Be Rent Baltimore, Md„ Dec. 22. —The exist ence of startling conditions in Balti more city is revealed in the report of the vice commission appointed by Gov ernor Goldsborough. Undoubted evidence, covering hun dreds of individual cases, with names, dates and most minute facts, arc in possession of the commission lo show ;i spread of the social cancer of amaz ing extenl, oven to those who had 'bought themselves well posted on the ramifications of vice. Trusted male and female workers of the commission have for months worked in the shops, stores and factories of the city; have labored as employes in oflico buildings in capacities ranging from scrub women and Janitors to stenographers and clerks: have haunted . the now extinct recognized houses of vice and the hundreds of questionable furnished room houses; have rented apartments for announced questionable purposes in many small and a number of large apartment houses of the city; have t\'ssted the Integrity of the police and other authorities of the city and coun ties: have tempted with criminal and moral offense offers leading ministers, social workers, doctors, midwives and other persons in the city who have i public or semipublic duties, and have in a ht idred ways found their way and reported on facts that are of vital Interest to the community. Rockefeller Cash Aided For (he purposes of the investigation the legislature appropriated $5,000, which amount has been supplemented by collections of $6,500 made by Dr. George Walker, chairman, and others of the commission, making a total of Si 1.500 spent In making the investi gation. Even this amount would have been totally insufficient, for the work if it had not been for the assistance of the Rockefeller Foundation, of vari ous social and charitable agencies of the city and a large number of phy sicians, including those in charge of inmates at State institutions. The re port, comprising 1,200 typewritten pages, covers the work of three years' investigation. The report comprises sections on' commercialized vice, immorality in Baltimore county, Anne Arundel county and the cities of Hagerstown, Fred erick and Cumberland, and the traffic In babies. . Probably the most sensational of the "feature* dealt with in the voluminous report is the traffic in babies. It is Asserted that investigators found there are institutions irr Baltimore to which the mother of an illegitimate child may consign her offspring upon the payment of an agreed sum and forever rid herself of legal responsibility for it. Of the hundreds of children so taken in charge by the institutions, ilie commission avers that a remark ably large percentage die and are buried tn heaps in small plots of ground, one such plot approximately 55 feet square having been the tomb of 5,000 babies since 1888. Highest In Community Tested The exposure is the most far-reach ing, pitiless and free from "protec tion"—social, political and wealth—in any large city in the world since the startling revelations by the Pall Mall Gaeette, in London, thirty years ago. No names are mentioned, though men In all walks of life —ministers, lawyers, bankers and businessmen— who inferential!}' stand high in the community, are implicated. The names, so vow members of the com mission, shall remain a sacred secret forever. If revealed there would ap parently be a shaking of dry bones In family closets and the divorce courts would be clogged with business. A succession of remarkable cases pre given of facts learned by investi gators. Some of the leaders of Balti more's business, professional and in dustrial life are linked up with women employes in direct and circumstantial manner, places and times of acts being j given, along with facts concerning aires, family and business connections. Wide publication of the facts pos sessed by the commission in this rela tion would cause a social revolution here. Mans* of the men connected with repeated acts of immorality are leading figures In the church life of the city. Charges that political graft and pro tection of professional houses of vice by political leaders of Baltimore and Anne Arundel counties are freely made in separate sections of the commis sion's report. The commission elaborately discusses interviews with representative men of Baltimore on the vice traffic and the segregation question. To ascertain the opinions of these people special sets of questions were sent to physicians, lawyers and businessmen. The first query sought the Individual's views of dealing with houses of vice in Balti more, whether they should lie left as they were at that time; whether they should be restricted to a special dis trict; whether they should be sup pressed, and what restrictions should be imposed as to medical examinations, treatment of those infected, sale of alcohol, etc. Summarizing, the com mission says that 102 out of 141 doc tors who answered this question fa \ored segregation or some form of tolerance of the houses, 33 believed In •suppression, 81 favored medical in spection, 3 said It was useless. The majority of the lawyers queried answered in favor of segregation. The municipality's duty is sharply pointed out; that it should see that, -popular amusements are not detri mental to the moral welfare of its immature citizens; to strictly supervise the shore parks and to censor theaters and moving pictures where the appeal to sex Is present. Further advice is given to the mu nicipality to fight the evil through the substitution of healthful recreation and amusement. The substitute urged is the creation of more municipal •lance halls efficiently supervised, the throwing open of the parks and play grounds and the encouragement of play and athletics in every way pos sible, municipal moving pictures run by the city and the opening of school buildings and churches in the evening fo l ' entertainments. "All young peon'e," says the com mission, "demand recreation and amusement. When proper recreation Is provided many boys and girls will be diverted from wrong courses. All r< creation, therefore, that the city can itffer hi the way of entertaining the i«, a# ncrtnAP VBIMQ." | PRIZE WINNERS IN Q The winners of the (lvi> prizes offered by the Telegraph in Its reeent literary quotation contest, aptly designated as (lie "Who Wrote That?" contest, are here given. Tn the center Is Miss Jliriam Stevens, who took first place having guessed correctly every one of the sources of the fifty-live quotations which were given in the columns of the Telegraph over a period of four weeks, in the upper left hand corner is Hiss Margaret Myers, winner of fourth place and opposite her .1. Q. Hylsopple, who took fifth prize. The two Fager boys, Valentine H„ .lr„ and Kobert M„ sons of Dr. V. Hummel Fager, of this city, who won second and third places, respectively, arts in the lower left and right hand corners. Baltimore Not Vivious City Officials Protest Baltimore. Md.. Dec. 22.—Mayor James H. Preston and the Board of Estimate, the governing board of the city, at their meeting yesterday pro tested against the report of the Vice Commission, alleging bad moral con ditions In Baltimore, made public Monday. "No such conditions exist," said the Mayor. "As a general picture of Bal timore life and as a picture of the moral conditions in Baltimore the re port is scandalous and untrue." OUR RATIO SERVICE rConthiued from Editorial Pasc.] signed to duty on either a ship or a land station, and arrangements are made so that he returns to the school for a short term every year as long as he remains in the service. In this way he keeps in touch with every new development and has every oppor tunity to become an all-around wire less man. Gorman? Has Standard Germany has completely standard ized her military radio equipment so that only one type of instrument Is used. England has a partially stand ardized equipment, but litis introduced a number of innovations since tho be ginning of the war. including three devices for submarine control patent ed by the American inventor, John Hays Hammond, Jr. • The United States has absolutely no standards except of quality. Six com mercial types of instruments, several European devices, and a number de signed by the experts of our own ser vice are in use in this country, and the American operator learns how to use them all. Our naval radio service now in cludes forty-seven land stations scat tered all over the world. Two of these are high-power stations having a gen erating apparatus of 100 kilowatts or more. They are located at Darien on the Canal Zone and at Arlington, Va. A third station of the high-power type will be completed at San Diego within the next six months, while contracts Will Your Home Present That Cheerful and Real f Home-Like Appearance on Christmas Morning? 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I Doctor Stahr, who was one of the ' leaders in the Reformed Church of i the United States, was active head of j the college until about three years | ago, when he was succeeded by Dr. j Henry Harbaugh Apple. Doctor Stahr J remained a member of the faculty j until recently. Dr. Stall! was born in Bucks coun ts', near Qualtertown. Tn 1867 he 1 was graduated from Franklin and i Marshall College. He Joined the fac ulty almost immediately. In 1890 he I was elected to the presidency. He was : admitted to the ministry in 1872. For' some time he filled a pastorate at j Reading. | What Are The Unusual / Features of Player-Piano? if is the question often asked us when we explain that i 1* we cannot get them fast enough. A Player Piano L *f| must embody some unusual features to be so readily adopted by the public as was.the Steger and U the Thompson Player Pianos. \T The factories are working fullest capacity, but the demand seems to ex ceed the supply. 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