Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1913-06-18
G. J. Kneeland Gives Secrets Of
White Slave Traffic.
well Kept Man Deeked With Gems"
lie Typical owner Of Resorts In
Gotham, Writer Asserts-Busl-
ness lie Specialized.

New observation-disclosures of
vice in New York city is described in
the first four studies of the social evil
to be published by the New York bu-
reau Of social hygiene. The book pub
llshed by the Century company, is en-
titled "Commercialized Prostitution in
New York City" and is written by
George j. Kneeland, the chief investi-
gator Of the bureau, who was also the
chief of the workers under the Chi
cago vice commission.
The report, which is introduced by
q foreword by, John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., says $1,000 women Of the under
world ply their trade in one borough
of New York alone. 1t scores the low
dance hall as a chief cause of vice.
Poverty is given a secondary place as
a cause. Mr.. Kneeland holds that Of
tener women are victims in their ig-
norance of the agents of commercial
lied vice.
1T is idle" he says, ito explain
away the phenomena on the ground
that they are the results of the newt
able weakness of human nature; hu.
man weakness would demand far few
er and less horrible Sacrifices.
Most of the wreckage and the
worse of it is due to persistent cum
ming and unprincipled explorations;
to the banding together in famous en-
terprises of madame, procurer, brothel
keeper and liquor vender to carry on
deliberately a cold blooded traffic for
their joint profit, traffic, but it add
ed, from which the girl involved pro-
cures at the most, with few excep-
tions, her bare subsistence, and that
only so long as she has trade
value"
Prostitution has become a bust,
ness" Mr.. Kneeand writes, the pro
moters of which continually scan the
field for location favorable to theiI
operations, ana the field is the entire
civilized world. No legitimate enter
prise is more shrewdly managed from
this point of,view; no variety of trade
adjusts itself more promptly to condi
lions, transferring its activities from
one place to another as opportunities
contract here and expand there.
While keepers of houses are alsC
procuers, there is a group of men WHIT
devote themselves singly to this work
These are the typical white slavers
whose trade depends entirely upon tn
existence of houses of prostitution
The cadet has not yet developed int
professional procuer or keeper o
house. He enters the business whe
he either ruins a young girl for hi
future profit or becomes the lover an
protector OF a prostitute already in tn
business.
THE women who run houses have
as a rule risen from the ranks. The
were once street walkers or pMlo
house inmates, who possess unusuI
business talents. They have learne
the secrets of the trade; they kno
the kind of inmates to get and whes
to get them. They know how to del
with customers and how to max
them spend money.
For several years thirty 81 house
of prostitution in the tenderloin HAY
been operated as combine under Il
direct control OF 10 or more men. II
individuals in question have been
business for many years in New Yoi
city as we'll as in other Cities both
this country and abroad. They bl
and sell shares in these houses amor
themselves, and 1t is seldom that {
outsider, unless he be relative, CT
break into the circle and share in Il
profits.
The value of the shares depen
upon the ability Of the owners
maintaia conditions in which I