New Britain herald., 1916-08-14
DIZZY LIFE LURES
 GIRLS FROM HOME
Rainbow Painters Ply Trade
 Among Poorer Glasses


 twenty years he has been in the white ! sIaNc business, one Yushe Botwin. a ''aIclan, who is awaiting sentence hefe on one of five indictments to "nl'h he has pleaded guilty, have }'affed widespread investigation by the district attorney's office of vice conditions in New York. Aseis+a f District Attorney James F. Smith has been placed in charge of the investi- &ation by District Attorney Swan,
 MT. Smith evDects disclosures of 2
 startling nature. Rotwin has given names, dates and addresses in his long confessions to MT. Smith The assistant district attorney expected to go before tho grand jury today and ask one indictment as a result of the information he has received from Rotwin Later this week he expects to havc c7-idon e against two other men to dcr3an1 their indictment. and, it is thought nroha hle that numerous others will follow soon, as the de- tectivcs of the district attorney's of- flee follow tho trail that Botwn has set them on. It leads upstate in New York, into Paterson and other New Jersey cities.
 Tn 1o12 and 1913. 9 series of reve- latlons was made that showed the ex- istenCe of a powerful "vicc trust. The disclosures found their way into newspapers ma agazines, books final " into Sociological" moving picture Elays, and even the theater. It was generally thought that the immense furore created by the disclosures had put an end to what was then for the first time termed the "white slave tra f1ic.'
 Instead, the evidence that has just hoen uncovered by Assistant District Attorney Smith shows clearly a new and even more powerful "vice trust has grown out of the old one. Some of the old methods have been re- talned. Others have been adopted in place of the ones that then proved ''dangerous.' But the leaders. the mon who made great profits from the business, have in many ca ses remain cd tho same MT. Smith believes, and he thinks that he has already enough evidence to prove it. MT. Smith will devote his entire attention to running down the ring-leaders of the white slave traffic
 Work on East Side
 The evidence already in the hands of the assistant district attorney in- dicates that in New York city there lave been for some time two districts m particular in which the white slav- CTS have centered their activities. One is on the lower east side, the other in the upper cast side. The information indicates that during the last few ! ears hundreds of young girls of for olGn born parents, a vast ma iority of fhem between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years, have hecn lured ; from their homes and to disreputable resorts. Fully 5000 of theso, it is said, have been school girls, induced to run away while their parents thought they were attending classes in the public schools.
 The use of moving picture theaters is one of the innovations of the pres cnt day tra hickers in white slaCes, ac- ccrding to MT. Smith. He named two moving picture theaters yesterday which, he said. were operated either by men actually in the business or by their confederates. These and many other theaters of the same sort, MT. Smith has been informed, are fre- quented by cadets, young men en- rloyed by the "vice trust'' to strike up acquaintances with the prospec- tive victims
 'It appears that the old methods cf serving drugged drinks and such things have been abandoned as dan gerous and unnecessary MT. Smith said yesterday The cadets simply take the ignorant young girls to gay restaurants and dance halls, take them about town in automobiles and in other ways dazzle them with the possibilities of a life away from their hOmes.'
 I've have confessions from ten of these victims" Mr. Smith said. we also have the confession of one of the very young girls taken away from school. But it is no easy matter to get them to confess. Tn most cases it is necessary to keep them some time ill a detention house before they will tell anything that might involve any body else.'
 The reason for this opposition on 1 the part of the girls themselves, it was explained. is that they are told that they are making more money ard living a livelier life than would 1 he possible if they had remained at l their homes and gone to work as most of their girl acquaintances had dCno
 The exposure several years ago showed that the white slavers then | had built up an organization with it's ! network stretching all over the coun- | try and that agents frequently met ] immigrant girls when they arrived in ! New York and lured them away to ! western cities and elsewhere The in i formation now in the hands of the district attorney indicates that the girls lured away by cadets are still