The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-09-25
GIRLS TO Be GUARDED
BY new ORGANIZATION
OF GREAT IMPORTANCE
Catholics, Jews and Protest
ants to Combine in Vigilance
Society to Aid Travellers.
o oUTv1E VICE RIGoR
All Agencies for Protection to BE Fed
erated-1,7oo Girls Disappear Annu-
nuaIly Enroute Between Chi
cago and New York.
~ - RgLIaIous RAMHLER.

Blythe RELIGIOUS RAMBLER. y
Entirely impress agented. and escap-
Ing the notice of even the religious
press, there is now afoot officially. a
movement to federate all OF the exist
Ing agencies for the protection Of trav-
elers, into a national travellers aid So
ciety. This will include the national
bodies of the Roman Catholic church,
of the Jewish organizations. and OF the
Protestant churches, the latter TO be
represented by the Young Women's
Christian association. The National
Travellers Aid society Is expected to be
in operation before the opening of the
Panama exposition in 1915. The militia
tive In this movement is being taken
by Miss Grace Dodge, the well known
ph~ilanthropist, Of New York city, =
The ugly fact has become unacceptable
that travel has special dangers for girls
and women. The simplicity and good
ness OF life in the country and the small
towns, In nc wise fits young folk to
60 into the big world, for Organized
vice is becoming daily more ingenious
I'm its Unsuitable search for recruits. Of
fetal reports show that within a sim
gle year / ZOO young women disappeared
while en- route between New York and
Chicago. 81
Matching Wits With the Wicked.
New conditions N 70 made Ii clear
to the far-sighted woman at the head
OF various agencies for the help OF linz
migrants and travellers and OF girls
away from home, that no local organi-
Zation is at present equal to the new
conditions. Even the national bodies
OF a racial m UNCONVENTIONAL charac-
ter find that their net of protection is
noe sufficiently wide Ito gather in all
who need their help. The Jewish and
the Catholic societies, because OF their
iLilrest In Immigrants, have fe,en espe-
cially alert In dealing with tbs ques-
Womet's Christian association has also
made 1t a department OF its activity
for many years. =.
These three bodies have decided to
get together, and discussions and me-
gotiations are now pending. 1t becomes
necessary, for instance, for them to
agree upon q national uniform, SC that
q traveller anywhere on this continent
and ultimately anywhere in the world
will recognize the representative Of
the travellers aid society. This uniform
will have TO be protected by law, for
it is charged that the agents Of vice
even appear at times In the uniforms
Tt IS believed thst national body
could secure adequate protective legis-
3atton. 1S
So many sided is the work Of the
travellers aid that IT cannot be ade-
quately done as one branch OF religious
work. Tt takes, for example, a certain
degree Of detective skill and 1t also re-
8quires a legal department. As It was
defined before the recent convention OF
the Young Wonen's Christian associa-
ton; "'The travellers aid deals with
the eason why persons leave home;
protects them through all the vicissi-
tudes and manifestations OF travel, until
they arrive at the desired destination:
and II strangers, see that they are
housed in a safe home or respectable
boarding house and In charge OF the
organization which Is best equipped to
serve their need"
A New York Woman's Work.
Miss Grace Dodge. who is perhaps
the foremost figure in the National
& Young Women's Christian association,
has long had aid for travellers as a spe-
cial interest. She originated and was
the first president of the New York
City Travellers Aid society, which keeps
Its representatives at the stations and
docks Of New York.
Here In miniature is the sort OF
work that is proposed for the whole
nation. This New York society Is COM
posed Of men and women Of many re-