Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-05
JACKSON OFFERS
BURNS SQUAD
IN VICE WAR
Ready to Import SIeuths if Atlanta
Police Are Unable to Cope
With Situation.

An offer to import another squad
OF Burns detectives to scour Atlanta
for white slavers, cadets and keepers
OF immoral resorts was the proposi-
tion made Thursday by Marion jack
son, head of the Men and Religion
Forward Movement in this city and
noted anti-yice crusader. 1t was con-
ditioned upon Chief Beavers not be-
ing able to handle the situation, and
Mr.. Jackson made It verv plain that
! he had absolute confidence in the
Chiefs ability.
Mr.. Jackson made known his plan
of aiding the police department after
the revelations of alleged vice condi-
tons made before the Grand Jury by
Colonel Thomas B. Fielder and Carl
Hutchinson.
Mr.. jackson said that, although the
+, city had been rid of its restricted
district, there still were mountains Of
work to be accomplished in driving
vice entirely out Of the city. He de
clared that the Men and Religion
Forward Movement was pledged to
aid In the anti-Yice campaign to the
finish, and was prepared TO place a
band Of operatives on the. streets on
short notice to obtain conclusive
evidence against all houses of disrep-
utable character and all persons con
nected with them.
Strangers More Effective.
1T is not to be supposed, said Mr.
jackson, that the members of IL 2
police and detective departments,
most Of whom are well known by this
time to the persons we are after can
work as effectively and as secretly as
q force Of men who are utter stran
gers here, but we have absolute con-
IN, G,{eF T2pazrare' ability
IF 1t develops by the Grand Jury
probe that the situation in certain
respects Is beyond the full control OF
the local authorities, it probably will
be a matter of only a short time be-
fore the Burns men will be in town.
The Burns men already have made
one investigation into vice conditions
in Atlanta. They were here practi-
cally an entire month shortly before
Chief Beavers declaration Of war
upon the restricted district and Its
denizens Their services primarily
were engaged to uncover any graft or
corruption that might exist in the re-
lations between the police department
and the underworld.
White Slavery Disclosed.
No graft was found. it is said, but
revolving white slavery conditions
were disclosed in many instances, and
the city was found TO be fun of vice.
As thorough a system for luring
Young girls into lives of shame as
possessed by any city in the country
was said by the detectives to exist
here. Cadets and white slavers were
said to have headquarters all about
the hotels and designation houses OF
the city, as we'll as in the resJrlctel
district.
Startling stories were told Of fac
Ia igaH ms
of the traffic, and one instance was
related Of an unnatural mother VINO
desired to sell her pretty daughter
into white slavery for $50.
After the Burns investigation came
the cleanup of the restricted area
The vice conditions were supposed 20
haze been largely wiped out, but the
disclosures made before the Grdhu
Jury indicate to the contrary
Mr. Jackson said. however in his
conversation Thursday that he hardly
believed that graft charges would be
proved at this time.
III no graft could be found at that
time. when there was an immense
amount of vice in the city, II seems
unlikely that there IS much here now
with the vice conditions much bet
ter" he said. III se Z. i. j.
ments attributed to a Phlladeluhla
minister. who, on his return home
from a visit to Atlanta, was quoted as
saving that he was solicited nineteen
times by women Of the street IN At
lanta within a single evening, ana
that a fellow minister was solicited
twenty-one times.
such a statement, even though
made by a minister Of the GOSPEL, IS
unbelievable" said Mr.. Jackson. IAN
our investigations and all the expe-
rience of strangers and residents of
the city point to the fact that there IS
practically no solicitation upon the
streets of Atlanta