The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-10-11
WANTS WHITE SLAVE
TRAFFIC IN GEORGIA
SUPPRESSED
Declares Daughters of Best
Families are Being Lured
Away in Atlanta-Sug-
gests Health Certificates
Before Marriage, and
Home for Wayward.
Tuesdays Atlanta Georgian)

Tuesdays Atlanta Georgian)
A crusade to eliminate the white
slave traffic in Georgia and the
street and assignation house evil in
Atlanta is urged in the long waited
report of the vice commission, submit
ted to the city council today.
Chief Beavers crusade against the
"houses in our midst" is upheld, and
policy of repression is urged in
dealing with the social evil.
The report is embodied in 272 type
written pages and goes into a dis
cussion of the social evil from psy-
Geological, economical and moral view
points.
1t declares that efforts have been
made to lead astray young women of
the best families of the city. 1t de-
clares that the worst evidences of
evil are the assgnation houses-many
of them on the principal streets Of
the city-and immoral women on the
streets.
The commission urges a general
cleanup of the city.
Lectures on Hygiene in Schools
Proposed
The report goes into a detailed dis
cussion of the sources of the evil, urg-
ing that parents instruct their chill
dren as to their sexual natures and
that lectures on hygiene be given in
the public schools.
1t recommends that separate parks
be provided for white people and ne
groes.
1t urges better hospital facilities
for the treatment of venereal diseases.
A home for wayward girls is point
ed out as one of the city's big needs.
1t declares that there is "white
slave" traffic in the state, engaged in
Turing girls from the smaller towns
to the cities.
The report touches on poverty and
the small salaries paid working girls
as matter demanding attention in a
campaign to wipe out the social evil
1t criticises extreme fashions, tight
skirts, and the like, as stimulation
to sensuous desires.
The signers of the report are Jo-
seph A. McCord, Thomas J. Day, John
S. Gambler, James r. Nutting, Orville
H. Hall, George H. Boynton, w. G.
Humphrey, Edgar G. Ballinger,
George l. Walker and R. N. Pickett.
Urges Campaign on Questionable
Hotels.
"The commission finds that one of
che greatest menaces to our young
people and an evil for which there
is absolutely no excuse, is the assig-
nation hotels and rooming houses on
many of our principal streets, which
furnish place of ruin to the young
girls living at home and at work.
They should not be tolerated.
eve believe that the best way to
handle this question is to adopt
policy of suppression, not in a spas
modic way, but with continued vigil
lance by police authorities, and that
this should also extend to rooms oc-
cupied by women of questionable
character in the business sections of
the city, and that general cleanup
campaign should be instituted in such
sections.
zone of the greatest evils arising
from this source is the fact that many
young girls, having no proper place
of amusement and naturally seeking
pleasure in the evenings, are lured to
these places, frequently by compan-
| ions of the own sex, who are not
known to be immoral. Friends are in
troduced who take them to places of
amusement frequently of doubtful
character, and in this manner form a
familiarity that leads to their ruin.
Police Should Regulate Amusements.
"a great many children grow up
without the proper care and are left
to form associations that ultimately
lead them into vice.
"This condition also is brought
about by the fact that we have not yet
sufficient schools along industrial lines
where these children can be given a
proper training qualifying them for
the duties of life. We believe that the
board of education should give care
full thought to this particular phrase
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