HON. JOSEPH E. DAVIES
Hon. Joseph E. Davies PRESIDENT Wilson has appointed Joseph E. Davies of Wisconsin, Commissioner of the Bureau of Corporations. Before this issue of La Follette's reaches its readers the Senate...
...In every possible way we have avoided the spasmodic, the sensational and hysterical in method, and as soon as discovered have kept apart from the notoriety seeker and those who are attracted to this field by a desire for honor or a 'career.' " The problem of commercialized vice is today receiving more earnest and open consideration than ever before...
...Every one who has a concern for the future of the country should give every encouragement to this gathering...
...The press and the public in every part of the country are discussing the relation of starvation wages to white slavery, the need of early instruction in sex hygiene, and related problems long considered taboo...
...It has concerned itself also with the promotion of a high and single standard of morality, the proper instruction of youth in sex hygiene, and social civic, economic and moral reforms...
...But Herbert Knox Smith made an excellent record as Commissioner of the Bureau of Corporations...
...Davies graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1898, and from the law department in 1901...
...He is a man of superior character and ability, has a broad understanding of men and affairs and is a close student of the problems of government which so deeply concern the life of the American people at this time...
...Its president, B. S. Steadwell, writes: "Our efforts have been largely devoted to arousing public conscience and in directing this sentiment into intelligent action...
...In this appointment, as in that of Dudley Field Malone for Third Assistant Secretary of State, the President has again shown his purpose to call into the public service the best types of the progressive men of his party...
...He graduated from Yale in 1891 and from the Yale law school in 1895...
...Before this issue of La Follette's reaches its readers the Senate will have confirmed this appointment...
...Smith had no special training as an economist...
...Davies is the recognized leader of the progressive democrats in Wisconsin...
...He has been a very successful lawyer for twelve years...
...He practiced law seven years, and then entered the Bureau of Corporations as deputy, later succeeding Garfield as Commissioner...
...The Purity Congress at Minneapolis will undoubtedly make further valuable contributions to the campaign of education which must be made the basis for permanent betterment...
...The Federation has been at work for thirteen years combating the white slave traffic, public vice and other social and economic influences that tend to corrupt individuals and communities...
...The only possible criticism which can be made of this nomination is that a trained economist of administrative ability should have been named instead...
...This congress will be held under the auspices of the World's Purity Federation with the co-operation of government officials, various societies organized for the social uplift, and distinguished reformers and philanthropists in this* and other countries...
...The Purity Congress NEXT November, from the 7th to the 12th, the Seventh International Purity Congress will be held in Minneapolis...
Vol. 5 • May 1913 • No. 20
