Los Angeles White Slave Traffic Scandal
Los Angeles has been added to the list of the large cities that are seriously grappling with the white slave traffic. A number of leading “gentlemen,” including millionaire capitalists, bankers, etc., are under indictment for contributing to “the delinquency of minor girls.” The mildest thing we can think of to express appropriately the sentiments that should prevail against such actions is that it is contemptible and diabolical for men of such wealth and influence to be found debauching and degrading young girls,—girls that are not old enough to have the necessary sense to resist the glitter and fascination of automobile rides, fine suppers, and other forms of pleasures that go with that kind of dissipation and vice.