Students Off to Yale Get Biennial Warning: Mann Act Holds Peril

As a public service to students going to Yale, and because ignorance of the law is no excuse, there follows the text of the Law of June 25, 1910 as amended:

"Whoever knowingly transports in interstate commerce any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose, or with the intent and purpose to induce, entice, or compel such woman or girl to become a prostitute or give herself to debauchery, or to engage in any other immoral practice or:

"Whoever knowingly procures or obtains any ticket or tickets, or any form of transportation to be used by any woman or girl in interstate commerce in going to any place for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery or purpose to so induce, entice or compel.

"Shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than five years or both." (36 Stat 825 18 US CA 398)

Double penalty for minor females.

In case of doubt about the definition of "debauchery," students are referred to Suslak v. United States, which reads "debauchery imports seduction from a condition of purity" and asserts that "there can be no such debauchery in the case of an unchaste woman."