Without a moral view point, no knowledge will avail, because
there will be no definite desire or impulse to remedy the
condition. Without the accurate knowledge, no moral view
point, however clear and impelling, can suggest a wise rem-
edy. Our plan of procedure presupposes the moral view
point and seeks to supply accurate knowledge.
Plan of Procedure

In order that it may be realized that the Vice Commis-
sion has used all means within its power to understand the
situation,' it may not be out of place to state that our
sources of information have been as follows:

Experts from the American Social Hygiene Association
were brought here and made their investigation along the
same lines which they have used so effectively in other cities
all over this country. Of this association Dr. Charles W.
Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University, is presi-
dent, and such persons as Cardinal Gibbons, Dean Walter

T. Sumner and Miss Jane Addams are vice-presidents. We

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have also had the advantage of repeated conference with
high officials of the same National Association.
For instance, Dean Sumner; Mr. James Bronson Rey-
nolds, counsel and head of the Law Department and Chair*
man of the Executive Committe; Mr. George ]. Kneeland,
Director of the Investigating Department, were all here at
one time or another and advised with us at length.
