The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
IN WRONG HOTEL
Mann Act Charge Against q
L. of c. Professor.
Registered in Hotel With Wife
of Texas Soldier.

Chicago, April 12.-Hinton G.. Cla-
bauRh. chief of the local bureau of
the department. of justice today, an
nounced his agents last night took
into custody DR.. William Isaac
! Thomas, of the faculty of the Uni
versi,y of Chicago, widely known as
an authority on sociology, and wo-
man said to be the wife of a, Texas
man now in France with General
Pershing.
Clabaush saif he had turned over
to United States District Attorney
Clyne evidence completely rounded
out for the institution of charges of
violating the Mann act and the act
forbidding false registration at hotels.
Doctor Thomas and the woman.
who said she was a Mrs. r. NJ. Gran
ger. of Washington, d. c., are said in
the data given Clyne to have regis
tered at a downtown hotel last night
as man and wife from Gary. Ind. The
alleged expose was due to the fact
that the hotel clerks suspicious were
! aroused. he notified Clabaugh and
the latter sent agents who looked
thru their luggage.
/ Both We're taken before Clyne last
night and are quoted having at
tempted little if any concealmeht
He Is 90. She "a.
! According to Ciabaugh Doctor
Thomas said: Il love her and 1 don't
| care if the whole world knows it. My
arrest is tremendous injustice
I Clabaugh further quoted the woman
as saying: Doctor Thomas was kind
to me. After my husband left for
| France Doctor Thomas was most So
| l1cttous for my comfort. I just liked
him at first; later it grew into love"
| Doctor Thomas. a man of distin-
sulshed appearance, is So years of
age, married, and has grown children
Mrs. Thomas was one of the founders
| of the Worhans Peace league. Mrs.
/ Granger is "a years of age and has a
3-year-old child living with her moth
er at Fort Worth, Tex
Met Doctor Thomas at Sailing.
/ she said, according to Claba,,sb.
that she accompanied her husba nd
I from the training camp at Fort Worth
to New York to say goodbye when he
sailed. DIR. Thomas was in the CITY
to gather material for a book on Po-
land. Ihey were introduced by Mrs.
! Changers sister. The latter and Mrs
! Granger have been living at a South
side ia mily hotel for about two weeks
! At this hosiery it was said that Mrs.
/ Granger left suddenly last night in a
taXicab to go down town, The sisters
name, according to G. W. Wayson,
manager of the hotel. is Mrs Rains.
His Sociological Teachings.
! Dr. Thomas for some time was much
in demand for his lectures on sociology
and the relation of sex thereunto.
Among his teachings were:
Women are better off for having
had their fling as men do. Dissipated
women often make excellent wives
"Chivalry is the persistence of the
old race habit of contempt for wo-
! men.
Amy girl. mentally mature. has the
right to have children and the right
to limit theft number.
The morality of women is an ex-
pediency rather than an innate virtue
Marriage, as it exists today, is rap
idly approaching a form of immoral
ity.
| . ''Matrimony is often an arrange
1nent by which the woman trades her
irreproacha BILE conduct for irreproach-
able gowns.
/ Children are not the result of mar
riage. but marriage is the result OF
children
| No action will be taken today
said District Attorney Clyne. in whose
hands the case now rests. Attic we
have the results of the investigation
of the department of justice we feel
that we must make additional investi-
CATION ourselves because of the fact
that there are a number of peculiar
angles to the case