Social Justice, February 13, 1939
Front and back covers of <em>Social Justice, </em>February 13, 1939. <br /><br /><em> Social Justice</em> was a national weekly periodical published by Father Charles Coughlin during the late 1930s and early 1940s<em>. </em>Couglin was a Canadian-American Roman Catholic priest based near Detroit, Michigan. Coughlin hosted a weekly radio show that reached an estimated 30 million listeners. <br /><br /><em>Social Justice</em> was controversial for publishing anti-Semitic polemics. Eventually, the periodical's mailing permit was revoked and Father Coughlin's radio show was forced off the air. <br /><br />Excerpts:<br /><br />Front cover: "Make Your Choices" <br />[Image Description: A man stands stroking his beard as he contemplates two statues, one of Abraham Lincoln and the other of Lenin.] <br /><br />"Today, this nation makes a mental pilgrimage to Springfield, Illinois, there to pay memorial tribute at the tomb of Abraham Lincoln. <br />The rough, honest frontiersman lawyer who became a wartime President of the United States, has become a symbol of the Typical American. He is the Poor Man's President, the Great Emancipator, the Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a martyr because he opposed dis-union and the international bankers. <br /><br />Across the world, another tomb--that of Lenin in the Red Square of Moscow--is also a center of pilgrimage and the symbol of internationalism. <br /><br />Disciples of Lenin and followers of Lincoln are today in conflice in this country. And no American can be a 'neutral.' <br /><br />Which hero, Lenin or Lincoln? On which side are YOU--Americanism or Communism?"<br /><br />Back cover: "The 'Smut' Vendor"<br />[Image Description: A man stands before a newsstand, smoking a cigarette and holding out a salacious magazine to the viewer. Behind him the shelves are filled with periodicals with titles such as "Smut," "Scandal," "Slime," "Passion," and "Scum."] <br /><br />"Our Man of the Week is a merchandiser of sensation, of propaganda disguised as entertainment, and of outright subversion of morality. <br /><br />The artist has sought to catch the evil spirit of his menace. Readers of <em>Social Justice</em> were introduced last week to the 'Mystical Body of Satan'--on the racks of any modern newstand on may survey his work.<br /><br />Confident that America is a 'Christian' country, we have permitted to thrive and prosper off our indifference, a progressively flagrant affronting of common decency, to say nothing of Christian morals. <br /><br />Encouraged by our tolerance, the Smut Vendors have grown bolder: from off-color joke illustrated by daring cartoons, the magazines have retrograded rapidly into deliberate filth. Feminine nudity and bad taste in 'candid camera reporting' is a commonplace for the nation's children. <br /><br />The remedy is in YOUR hands. Tell your newsstand dealer what magazines offend and why. Tell the advertisers who support these magazines why you think their editorial contents ought not to be supported.<br /><br />A Legion of Decency some years ago cleaned up Hollywood's rotten films; let's clean up the newsstands!"
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1939 February 13
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What's Wrong with These Pictures?
Public service comic published as a part of the National Social Welfare Assembly Comics Project. The Comics Project lasted from August 1949 - July 1967 and produced over 200 pages promoting citizenship and social values. <br /><br />Publisher's Note: "Published as a public service in cooperation with The National Social Welfare Assembly, coordinating organization for national health, welfare and recreation agencies of the U.S." <br /><br />Script: Jack Schiff<br />Pencils: Bernard Baily<br />Inks: Bernard Baily<br />Letters: Ira Schnapp
Schiff, Jack (script)
Baily, Bernard (pencils and inks)
Schnapp, Ira (letters)
<a href="https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/items/show/88288" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Detective Comics, no. 339, May 1965">Detective Comics, no. 339, May 1965</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1965 May
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Honesty IS the Best Policy!
Public service comic published as a part of the National Social Welfare Assembly Comics Project. The Comics Project lasted from August 1949 - July 1967 and produced over 200 pages promoting citizenship and social values. <br /><br />Publisher's Note: "Published as a public service in cooperation with The National Social Welfare Assembly, coordinating organization for national health, welfare and recreation agencies of the U.S." <br /><br />Script: Jack Schiff<br />Pencils: Sheldon Moldoff
Schiff, Jack (script)
Moldoff, Sheldon (pencils)
<a href="https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/items/show/22509" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Detective Comics, no. 333, Nov. 1964">Detective Comics, no. 333, Nov. 1964</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1964 November
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Annual Report of the Refuge in the City of Boston and the Bethesda Society, 1912 [selected pages]
This document details information regarding the Refuge's and the Bethesda Society’s yearly financial expenses, donations, and membership, while also documenting the number of “refugees” under their care. <br />Additionally, this annual report and the <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/422" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Annual report of the Refuge and Bethesda Society ">annual report of 1911</a> (also available in the Image Portal), display the mission statements of the two societies and explain how, though being two separate organizations, their specific goals function in harmony with one another. <br /><br />A "Time Schedule" (p. 12) outlines daily activities by day of the week, including sewing, school, gymnastics and recreation.<br /><br />Excerpts: <br />p. 17 "However beset with difficulties any human life may be, whether from evil inheritance or corrupt surroundings, we believe there is no human being who with the grace of God cannot be reformed, if that grace be accompanied by human forces. This belief must always be the foundation stone of all successful efforts against evil in this world, and it is nowhere more needed than in just the work we are trying to do here." <br />"The great motive of all our efforts is to reform the transgressor, not to punish."<br /><br />p. 18 "We offer them first of all a cheerful, comfortable and refined home, and bring them under the influence of kind and judicious matrons....Here are combined the influences of a home, a school, a church--the three great forces of changing character."<br /><br />p. 20 "During their sewing hours, and often in the evening, the matrons read aloud to the girls from books which are received from the Pulic Library Deposit Station--fifty books of suitable reading matter being left at a time, that the girls may be supplied with desirable books which they can read during their leisure hours."<br /><br />pp. 20-21 "To secure the best results, it is considered necessary for the girls to remain with us at least two years and then, unless relatives or friends have provided for them they are not allowed to leave our home until desirable situations are found for them where they can still be under our watchful care."
Refuge and Bethesda Society
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1912
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/collectionguides/CharitiesCollection/CC016.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="finding aid to The Orchard Home School records">Guide to the The Orchard Home School (Boston, Mass.) records, 1828-1948</a>, Simmons University Library <br /><a href="https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Penitent+Females%27Refuge+Society+(BOSTON,+Massachusetts)%22" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="publications available through Google Books">Penitent Females' Refuge and Bethesda Societies</a> publications, Google Books <br /><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044024455495;view=2up;seq=60" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Section listing charitable and beneficient organizations assisting "fallen women"">Fallen Women</a>. A Directory of the Charitable and Beneficient Organizations of Boston, 1886, HathiTrust
Annual Report of the Refuge in the City of Boston and the Bethesda Society for the Year Ending February 1911 [selected pages]
This document details information regarding the Refuge's and the Bethesda Society’s yearly financial expenses, donations, and membership, while also documenting the number of “refugees” under their care. Additionally, this annual report and the <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/423" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Annual Reports of the Refuge and Bethesda Society, 1912">annual report of 1912</a> (also available in the Image Portal), display the mission statements of the two societies and explain how, though being two separate organizations, their specific goals function in harmony with one another. <br /><br />List of Donations and Report of Work (sewing) are included.<br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />p. 2 "In our 'House of Mercy' we offer a 'Refuge' to those fallen women who desire to return to the paths of virtue. <br />We desire to do greater good in the future than has been accomplished in the past, and for this purpose we ask the co-operation and the pecuniary aid of all who approve of and are willing to help forward this peculiar charity." <br /><br />p. 8-9 Donations listed on these pages include a variety of necessities and treats including <br />24 Bibles, barrel of apples, an evening's entertainment with Victor machine [phonograph], ice cream, year's subscriptions to <em>Ladies' Home Journal</em>, <em>Outlook</em>, and <em>American Magazine,</em> 12 boxes of strawberries, and many presents at Christmas time.
Refuge and Bethesda Society
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1911
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/collectionguides/CharitiesCollection/CC016.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="finding aid to The Orchard Home School records">Guide to the The Orchard Home School (Boston, Mass.) records, 1828-1948</a>, Simmons University Library <br /><a href="https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Penitent+Females%27Refuge+Society+(BOSTON,+Massachusetts)%22" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="publications available through Google Books">Penitent Females' Refuge and Bethesda Societies</a> publications, Google Books <br /><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044024455495;view=2up;seq=60" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Section listing charitable and beneficient organizations assisting "fallen women"">Fallen Women</a>. A Directory of the Charitable and Beneficient Organizations of Boston, 1886, HathiTrust
First Annual Report of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice
<p>The first annual report of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice includes information about the Society’s incorporation, mission, and statistics about crime in New York in 1874.<br /><br />"This Institution was forced into existence by the enormity and the insidiousness of the evil it is intended to counteract." (p.3) <br /><br />Among the numerous statistics reported (p.5): <br /><br />Number of arrests<br />Amounts of fines imposed<br />Books seized and destroyed<br />Bad pictures and photographs destroyed<br />Articles for immoral purposes<br />Indecent playing cards destroyed<br />Boxes of pills and powders used by abortionists, destroyed<br />Immoral circulars, catalogues, poems, and songs, destroyed<br /><br /></p>
<p>Officers for 1875</p>
<p>President: Charles E. Whitehead<br />Vice Presidents: D.H. Cochran, A.S. Barnes, Samuel Colgate<br />Secretary and General Agent: Anthony Comstock.<br />Treasurer: John Paton<br />Executive Committee: J. M. Stevenson, J. M. Cornell, J. F. Wyckoff, W. F. Lee, Henry R. Jones, E.M. Kingsley, H.F. Simmons</p>
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New York Society for the Suppression of Vice
<a href="https://www.simmons.edu/library/archives/collections/charities" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Simmons University Archives Charity Collection</a> (Gift of Donald Moreland),
1875 February 11
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What the Bottle Does. One Year's Work [Virginia Anti-Saloon League handbill]
Broadside showing a bottle of alcohol. The bottle's label depicts a boy in short pants with a snake coiled around his body, The label reads "Fluid Extract of Hell. GUARANTEED TO KILL BOYS." Written on the bottle itself are statistics attributed to the effects of alcohol. The bottle sits on a platform labelled "Public Sentiment."<br /><br />Beneath the illustration is the caption, "What the Book Says" and three passages from the Bible. An address for ordering additional handbills is given at the bottom of the page.<br /><br />Alternate name of organization: Anti-Saloon League of Virginia
Anti-Saloon League of Virginia
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between 1901 and 1916
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Protect our American Youth by Prohibiting the Liquor Traffic
Woman's Christian Temperance Union placard. A stick handle was once attached to this sign.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
M 9 Box 51, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Dare to Do Right! Temperance mass meeting handbill
Handbill advertising a Grand Temperance Mass Meeting held in Illinois (likely Dixon, IL) on Thursday Evening October 25, 1866. <br /><br />"Addresses by Rev. G.R.Vanhorne, Rev. S.S. Waltz and Prof. Ferris. A large delegation from the Red Ribbon Club of Amboy will be present. Mrs. Mingle, W.O.Newton, B. Howard and others, Music by the M.E. Choir, and Dixon Light Guard Band. All are cordially invited. PER ORDER OF COMMITTEE."
M 4, Box 1, folder 1, <a href="https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00097.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Thompson Collection of Lincolniana 1803-1965</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1866 October 25
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