Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-06
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
Tor white slavers, cadets and keepers
OF immoral resorts was the proposi-
non made Thursday by Marion Jack
son head of the Men and Religion
Forward Movement in this CITY and
noted anti-vice crusader. II was con-
ditloned upon Chief Beavers not be-
ing able to handle the situation, aad
Mr.. jackson made 1t very plain that
ne 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-
uons made before the Grand Jury by
Colonel Thomas B. Fielder and Carl
Hutchinson
Mr.. Jackson said that, although tho
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-
clered that the Men and Religion
Forward Movement was pledged to
aid in the anti-vice campaign to the
nRish, 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-
neeted with them
Strangers More Effective.
at 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-
ndenoe in Chief Beavers ability.
IF It develops by the Grand Jury
probe that the situation in certain
respects is beyond the full control OF
the local authorities, it probably VIII
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 It's
denlzCns Their services primarily
Were engaged to uncover any graft or
corruption that might exist in the re-
laiions between the police department
and the underworld.
White Slavery Disclosed.
40 graft was found, it is said, but
NCveltlng white slavery conditions
~ d disclosed In many instances, and
the city was found to be IuI OF wee.
AS thorough a system Tor turing
Young girls into lives of shame g
possessed by any city in the country
Was sid 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 well as in the restrlctel
district.
Startling stories were told Of fac
tory and country girls made victims
of The traffic, and one instance Was
,,sis+ad of an unnatural mother who
desired 10 sell her pretty daughter
into white slavery for so.
After the Burns investigation came
.bo cIsan-up of the restricted area
THE vice conditions were supposed 20
l1e,rs been largely wiped out, but the
disclosures made before the Grand
Jurv indicate to the contrary.
MIR. Jackson said, however IN ms
conversation Thursday that ne haIaly
believed that graft charges "Ouiu &c
proved at this time.
.,v,a when there was an immense
sr,o1,rt Of vice in the city, II seems
,ynHltelv that there is much mere nov
WITH the vice conditions much bet
ter" he said. -,-, A. z.s.,
yrents attributed to Phllaoelohia
minister. who, on his return home
from a visit to Atlanta, was quoted as
saving that he was solicited nineteen
times bv women Of the street in At
isnts within single evening, ana
that a fellow minister was solclteu
twsnty-one times. .,-,.
such a statement, even Inous =
,,rhsiieyable." said Mr.. Jackson. "All
o,r investigations and all the expe-
9isnra of strangers and residents of
he city point to the fact that there is
practically no solicitation upon the
streets Of Atlanta.