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Thus, in 1894. Bernard Shaw justified Mrs. Warren's Profession by blaming it on the sweatshop wages which capitalism paid the female proletariat. Mrs. Warren was invoked as a witness last week before the U.N.'s Social and Humanitarian Committee, which was debating a Draft Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others. The committee, exclaimed Mexico's Raul Noriega, must not come to share Mr. Shaw's "casuistic attitude." In a rare show of unanimity, their usually separate moral sensibilities jointly outraged, the U.S., Britain...
What started the controversy was the draft convention's Article Six, which called on all parties to abolish legislation requiring prostitutes' registration, or "any measures for supervision or notification." The French delegation proposed an amendment, making medical inspection legal. But, objected Brazil's Enrico Penteado, such a measure would merely encourage prostitution by furnishing its; practitioners with "a Good Housekeeping; seal of approval...
Major General Lewis B. Hershey predicted yesterday that a new draft call may be necessary to fill a 25,000 man defict in the armed services...
Last year, the draft nabbed enough men to raise the armed services total 20,000 during November and pushed it up another 25,000 by the end of the year...
...architects, Dean Kerby-Miller added, will try to draft remodeling plans in accordance to recommendations turned in by students last year. Heading the list are plans for a periodical room, a smoker, wash rooms, and expanded facilities for music listening. She added, however, that the space problem in the library is still sovero due to the need for record listening equipment, and that a new location must be found for record files and phonographs...