The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-10-24
STATISTICS SECURED NOT FOR
INFORMATION OF PUBLIC, BUT
FOR GOVERNMENT USE.
WHITE SLAVE Law FIGURES
A Perfect Check is Kept on Women
of underworld" and Serious Con-
sequences Follow for Anyone En-
gagged in Illegal Traffic of Humans.

j. P. Farmer, a special agent of the
United States department of justice,
is in the city for the purpose of TAX
ing a census of the immoral houses
in Brunswick, and in the taking of
which he will be assisted by the local
police department.
The information obtained from wO-
men who are inmates of immoral re-
sorts relates particularly to their past
life. They are required to give their
original name, their age, their differ
ent aliases, their marriages and their
experience in resorts. None or this
information, however, is in any sense
public property. 1t is sent to Wash
ington and placed on a secret file,
where only government officers have
access to it.
. Two sets of cards will be left at
each house visited by the special
agent in pursuance of directions Civ
en- by the white slave commissioner in
Washington They are known as de-
parture and arrival cards, and are
being used by the government to
keep a tab on all women engaged in
the business and to make it possible
to apprehend those who violate the
law prohibiting traffic in women.
The arrival card is to be flied out
by the keeper of house when a
woman comes to her place and asks
for admission. Blank spaces on these
cards call for the name of the wo-
man, her previous stopping place, the
name of the keeper of the resort she
left and that of the one she has ap-
piled to for admission.
Departure cards are much the same
as the arrival cards, only that the
information called for by them is
more limited The woman who keeps
the resort is required to send them
in when a woman leaves her house.
The name of the departing woman
and the name of the resort keeper
she has left are all that the blank
spaces call for
Government envelopes, requiring no
postage, are left with the cards by
Mr.. Farmer at every house he visits,
and when the keeper has occasion to
send in either a departure or arri-
val card. all she has to do is fill it
out, place it in one of the special en-
velopes and drop it in the nearest
mail box.
When an arrival card reaches
Washington, the local white slave Of
ficer of the district where the woman
settles, is notified, and he is then
required to visit the new arrival and
obtain from her information such as
will be taken in the census of Bruins
wicks underworld by the special Off
GER. This information, sent to Wash
ington. is compared with previous in
formation. If the two do not tally an
investigation is instituted.
Copies of White Slave Act.
A copy of the white slave act, pass
ed June %, 1910, and sometimes
known as the Mann act, is left with
the keepers of resorts for reference
by them and their women. The pur-
pose of this act is to prevent traffic
in women for immoral purposes, re-
vealed as a fact by the Rockefeller
jury and the investigations of Dis
trict Attorney Sims in Chicago sew
eral years ago.
After the passage Of this act the
special bureau, of which Mr.. Farmer
is a representative, was instituted by
the government, and a special COM
missioner appointed to head it. LIB
eral appropriations have been made
by congress in its support and today
its work is tremendous. p
Special attention is called by the
agent to the clause of the white slave
act relating to the enticing of women
into resorts for immoral purposes.
The penalty for this offense is grave
one, and one violating it is said to be
easily apprehended since the census
system was inaugurated.c A" perfect
check is kept on all women, and II
one crosses a state line the federal
government at once begins an inVes-.
tigation OF the circumstances. II II
"a found that she was aidedg inhuenc-
ed orI induced by any method to take
the ktep serious consequsncesn are
sure 70 follow for the person Offering
4hesa Inducements OF aid Of any sort