not a perfectly decent house, which is the only kind a decent person would lure girls into. Those trying for the evidence probably would not have been able to boast, as this massagist, that "she had done business for six years without trouble."

Or, take another typical instance: A letter from a large city where an "exposition" was being held, came to a social worker informing him of the departure for Boston of an agent from the largest house of ill-fame in that city. His business was to visit the immoral cafes, such as we have already referred to, to secure twenty "fresh girls" to supply the extra demand for the local market during the "exposition." in that city. The "agent of prostitution" visited the immoral resorts, secured the "girls" and took them back, doing all his work by furnishing information and money in such a way that our present clumsy laws or the simplicity of those enforcing them could not prosecute him.

This last summer a woman appeared in Boston for the purpose of securing sixty girls to supply the immoral houses in the Canal Zone at Panama. She commenced by securing the services of a Bobby B, whose business is such that his acquaintance with "women of easy morals" is extensive. Their fare was advanced to Panama and the girls supplied from our extensive market. Those who ought to be interested simply dismissed it with the statement: "It would be fortunate for Boston to get rid thus easily of sixty." Whether any of these ever get back will never be known. The reports that came from Panama lead us to doubt their survival. Yet every one of these was "somebody's sister," some "mother's darling."

In a terrible dive on F Street, visited by negroes and foreigners, was found by a rescue worker a young girl bewildered with cocaine. She was taken to a rescue home and there told a pitiful story of the sins to which she was forced and her slavish treatment by the woman who kept the place. She had been kept under the influence of

cocaine ever since a pander had given her the address of the place and introduced her to the keeper who furnished the drug. About the same time agents from the Watch and Ward Society had come upon this place and secured some cocaine there. The keeper was promptly arrested, complained of for vending cocaine in a dwelling house, and given six months. She appealed and awaits the action of the Superior Court. She could be more easily reached under the "cocaine laws" than under any law we have against forms of "white slavery."

If a woman's watch is stolen or her pocketbook picked, there are the best possible forces to bring the criminal to justice, but if a woman's honor is stolen, one has to listen to a lot of nauseating nonsense about "regulating and segregating vice." Crimes of violence are matters of great moment,crimes of vice are looked upon as trivial. If a man or woman is guilty of a crime of violence, we photograph him, measure him by the Bertillon system and so thoroughly identify him that he can be recognized in any part of the United States. If he is guilty of a crime of vice, he is generally fined lightly and turned loose again on the community to change his name or her name and go on with his or her nefarious business. It is still more absurd when, if women are caught, to see them fined and allowed a certain number of days to go out and raise the fine. Who can doubt how such a fine is going to be secured?

Probation is a merciful and well-intentioned scheme of modern law, but if the courtroom is full of curious panders who secure information of a woman's shortcomings and later visit. her and offer her a chance to escape the limitations of probation by going out of town to a quiet "house," the probation only seals the woman's doom. The effectivenes of the probation system is in the probation officers, and, good as the present ones are, they cannot hope to do thorough work unless greatly extended. A woman who harbors a girl for immoral purposes who is on pro

bation ought to be severely dealt with, rather than merely fined. It ought to be dealt with as "contempt of court."

A Roxbury mother complained that her sixteen-year-old daughter had been lured away from home by a woman who had made her friendship and after a long search she was located in a sailor dance hall in New Bedford, where she was acting as the wife of a man who pretended to have married her, but really was selling her nightly and collecting the ill-gotten gains.

A Malden mother complained that her daughter had disappeared and when found she told a horrible story of how she had been drugged and corrupted and finally had fled away to be befriended by a rescue home and brought to the Chardon Street Home, where she was recognized and returned to the mother.

Late at night a beautiful woman came tumbling out of a Chinese resort, thrown violently down the stairs, shouting for more opium. The best thing at the moment to be done was to ring for an ambulance, but when she had been treated and her confused senses quieted, she gave an account of herself as having foolishly accepted the invitation to visit the "resort" from a "white man," who plied her with the drug which took away her normal senses and the partial return of her senses found her in the resort with money gone, clothes disarranged and the awful after-effects of her debauchery shaking her through and through. The glimmer of consciousness enabled her to get to the point where she fell down, or was shoved down, the stairs, at which the Boston policeman caught her and rang for an ambulance.

An attractive woman staggering along Eliot Street met a citizen. In broken sentences he learned she was a stranger in the city and had taken too much "dope." Being a nurse, he recognized a drug and not liquor was responsible for her condition. Unused to rescue work, he tried as best he could to assist her, and all too easily accepted the aid of a young man who offered to see her cared for. He took

her to a rooming house near by and that is all he knew of the outcome of this case. It was his suspicions of the young man that led him to report the case. It was too late. They had gone in the morning.

It may well be charged that this article does not present court evidence of the existence of an organized white slave traffic in Boston. That is true. But it does point out enough to lead to the putting on our law-books such legislation as shall enable us to do for Boston what Illinois has done. Given the law, there are facts enough at hand to start a work in Boston which will secure as wholesome results as Chicago has produced. General Martin's crusade, about which there are varying opinions, did one thing which has made the city seem better, if it be only an hyprocrisy, it has driven the fast houses to cover. Prostitution is not to-day flaunted brazenly, as it was then, with whole streets given up to it. But it is there just the same, and those who have pierced beneath the surface know of a horrible condition which exists. That horrible condition, as pointed out at the opening of this article, means that hundreds, yes, thousands, of girls are yearly sacrificed to the idol of lust.

If these are social accidents, due to dangerous institutions permitted by vote of our citizens, improperly watched over and excused when caught, then the obvious duty is to secure men who are equal to the task laid on their shoulders. If these are social products, then it becomes our obvious duty to adopt laws which are working successfully in other states, and commence the fight that every Christian should welcome.

There is a concerted movement to attempt to secure on our statute books the so-called model laws under which Illinois is acting and which will in a measure supply the lack of Federal law due to the Supreme Court decision. They read as follows:

Anti-Pandering Law

Section I. Any person who shall procure a female inmate for a house of

prostitution. or who, by promise, threats, violence, or by any device or scheme shall cause, induce, persuade, or encourage a female person to become an inmate of a house of prostitution; or shall procure a place as inmate in a house of prostitution for a female person; or any person who shall, by promises, threats, violence, or by any device or scheme cause, induce, persuade, or encourage an inmate of a house of prostitution to remain therein as such inmate; or any person who shall, by fraud or artifice, or by duress of person or goods, or by abuse of any position of confidence or authority procure any female person to become an inmate of a house of ill-fame, or to enter any place in which prostitution is encouraged or allowed within this State, or to come into this State or leave this State for the purpose of prostitution, or who shall procure any female person, who has not previously practiced prostitution to become an inmate of a house of ill-fame within this State, or to come into this State or leave this State for the purpose of prostitution; or shall receive or give or agree to receive or give any money or thing of value for procuring or attempting to procure any female person to become an inmate of a house of ill-fame within this State or to come into this State or leave this State for the purpose of prostitution, shall be guilty of pandering, and upon a first conviction for an offense under this act shall be punished by imprisonment in the County Jail or House of Correction for a period of not less than six months nor more than one year, and by a fine of not less than three hundred dollars and not to exceed one thousand dollars, and upon conviction for any subsequent offense under this act shall be punished by imprisonment in the Penitentiary for a period of not less than one year nor more than ten years.

Section 2. It shall not be a defense to a prosecution for any of the acts prohibited in the foregoing section that any part of such act or acts shall have been committed outside this State, and the offense shall in such case be deemed

and alleged to have been committed and the offender tried and punished in any County in which the prostitution was intimated to be practiced, or in which the offense was consummated, or any overt acts in furtherance of the offense should have been committed.

Section 3. Any such female person, referred to in the foregoing sections, shall be a competent witness in any prosecution under this Act, to testify for or against the accused as to any transaction or as to any conversation with the accused or by him with another person or persons in her presence, notwithstanding her having married the accused before or after the violation of any of the provisions of this Act, whether called as a witness during the existence of the marriage or after is dissolution.

Section 4. The act or state of marriage shall not be a defense to any violation of this act.

Anti-Detention Act

An act to prevent the detention, by debt or otherwise, of female persons in houses of prostitution or other places where prostitution is practiced or allowed, and providing for the punishment thereof.

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Section I. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly. That whoever shall by any means keep, hold, detain against her will strain any female person in a house of prostitution or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed; or whoever shall, directly or indirectly, keep, hold, detain, or restrain, or attempt to keep, hold, detain, or restrain, in any house of prostitution or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed, any female person, by any means, for the purpose of compelling such female person, directly or indirectly, to pay, liquidate or cancel any debt, dues or obligations incurred or said to have been incurred by such female person, shall, upon conviction for the first offense, under this Act be punished by imprisonment.

in the County Jail or House of Correction for a period of not less than six months nor more than one year, and by a fine of not less than three hundred dollars, and not to exceed one thousand dollars, and upon conviction for any subsequent offense, under this Act shall be punished by imprisonment in the Penitentiary for a period of not less than one year, nor more than five years.

Another Important Law

A Bill for an Act relating to pimping; defining and prohibiting the same; and providing for the punishment thereof and for the competency of certain evidence at the trial therefor.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly. That any male person who, knowing a female person to be a prostitute, shall live or derive support or maintenance, in whole or in part, from the earnings or proceeds of the prostitution of such prostitute, or from moneys loaned or advanced to or charged against such prostitution by any keeper or manager or inmate of a house or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed or who shall tout or receive compensation for touting for such prostitute, shall be guilty of pimping, and upon a first conviction for an offense under this Act shall be punished by imprisonment in the County Jail or House of Correction

for a period of not less than six months nor more than one year and by a fine of not less than three hundred dollars and not to exceed one thousand dollars, and upon conviction for any subsequent offense, under this act shall be punished by imprisonment in the Penitentiary for a period of not less than one year nor more than three years.

Section 2. Any such female person referred to in the foregoing section shall be a compentent witness in any prosecution under this Act to testify for or against the accused as to any transaction or as to any conversation with the accused or by him with another person or persons in her presence, notwithstanding her her having married the accused before or after the violation of any of the provisions of this Act, whether called as a witness during the existence of the marriage or after its dissolution.

Section 3. Nothing in this Act contained shall prevent any male person who shall be unable to earn a livelihood in consequence of any bodily infirmity, idiocy, lunacy, or any other unavoidable cause, from receiving support from a female relative when such male person shall, under the provisions of an act of the General Assembly by this State, entitled, "An Act to revise the Law in Relation to Paupers," approved March 23, 1874, enforced July 1, 1874, be entitled to support by such female relatives.

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N the course of a recent article in the "Outlook" a writer, who is comparing American and English ideas of sport as exemplified in certain conspicuous competitive events, offers the fair and thoughtful criticism that the American method of following the great games precludes active participation in them by men who have. passed the "college-going age."

This criticism is followed up with the claim that, in comparison with Englishmen, few American business men engage in sportsmanlike activities.

The stricture is well-founded-in part.

If we confine our observation to competitive athletics, we will certainly agree that the American business man is a participant only as a more or less interested observer. He is a loyal "fan," but that is about his limit,