MASSACHUSETTS COMMISSION ON VICE
Governor Foss of Massachusetts on April 21 signed the bill recently passed by the state legislature, providing for the appointment of a commission of five persons, one of whom will be a woman, for the investigation of commercialized vice in Massachusetts. Witnesses, papers and documents may be summoned, and oaths given. The bill creating this commission was the first measure reported out by the Committee on Social Welfare.
Massachusetts is believed to be the first state to institute a formal state-wide investigation by commission of prostitution in all its phases.