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
or immoral resorts was the PROPOSE
ton made Thursday by Marion Jack
son, head of the Men and Religion
Forward Movement in this citv and
noted anti-ViCe crusader. II was con-
oitioned upon Chief Beavers not be-
ing able to handle the situation, and
Mr.. jackson made it very 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 IF
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-vice campaign to the
finish, and was prepared to place a
band Of operatives on the streets on
short notice to obtain conclusive
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 the
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
a force of men who are utter stran-
gers here but we have absolute con-
fidence in Chief Beavers ability.
IF II 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-
callv an entire month shortly before
Chief Beavers declaration of war
upon the restricted district and its
denizCns Their services primarily
we're 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 i'm many instances, and
the city was found 10 be fun of vice.
AS thorough a system for Turing
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 We're
said 10 have headquarters all about
the hotels and designation houses OF
1g fF1 rho fss
district.
Startling stories were told Of fac
tory and country girls made victims
of the traffic. and one instance Was
related of an unnatural mother VINO
desired to sell her pretty daughter
into white slavery for S25.
After the Burns Investigation came
the cleanup of the restricted area
The vice conditions were supposed 20
havs been largely wiped out, but the
disclosures made before the Grdnu
Jury indicate 10 the contrary.
Mr.. Jackson said. however, in ms
conversation Thursday that he hardly
believed that graft charges would DE
proved at this time.
"If no graft could be found at that
time. when there was ar lmmeps2
an,ount Of vice In the city, II seems
unlikely that there is much here nov
with the vice conditions much bet
ter" he said.
Mr.. Jackson ridlculed tne state
ments attributed to a Philadelphia
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 Al
lanta within a single evening, and
that a fellow minister was solicited
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such statement. even though
made bv a minister Of the GOSPEL, IS
unbelievable" said Mr.. Jackson. AL
our Investigations and all the eNpe-
rience of strangers and residents OF
the city point to the iacl thal lhere Is
practically no solicitation upon the
streets Of Atlanta