New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-08
FOLD BALLOTS WRONG NEW LEAGUE FOR GIRLS
Mrs. Carnegie and Mrs. Straight
in Protective Movement.
WORKERS THEMSELVES AID
Pledged to Promote Moral Edu.
cation and Encourage Clean
Talk in Their Shops.

Mrs. Andrew Carnegie and Mrs Willard
ID. Straight are among the contributors
to new uplift movement for working
Sirls called the Protective Leagues. IL
is under the Probation Association, Of
which Miss Maude Miner j. president
Tho aim OF tho leagues Is 10 help the girls
help other girls to walk the straight ami
marrow path
We realize that prevention Is worth
thousand times more than cure. Five
cents for innocent pleasure Is better than
500 for reform schools Miss Miner said
last night at the Protective Leagues head
quarters. No. l62 Madison avenue. whore
the girls were having their first social.
From the parlors OF the fine old house
which Miss Charlotte Barnes secured for
the girls came the sound Of laughter and
popular songs Miss Miner smiled.
If they weren't here. you know, they'd
be sitting cold and lonesome IN their ugly
little rooms. OF they'd be- In some public
dance hall
"Our idea In forming these leagues Is
To get the girls 10 help each other. out
side influence is useful In extreme cases.
but for dozen who come 10 strangers
| like MS for advice there are thousands in
the city vino might be set right by a
word from the girl working at the next
counter.
:IIow does it work? Well here is let
ter / had recently:
In our shop there is q giil she Is not
exactly "A bad girl but she likes the fell
In al I .
shop not one would SPEAK To her. And
told her why they didn't speak To her and
now she listen to what toll her just like
YOU told me. And YOU can't believe what
. good girl she is getting. it was a hard
job but going to fight hard for her. She
lis watching now as I'm writing this to
you in the shop my dinner hour.
Special effort is being made to reach
| girls who are boarding or living in fur
| nished rooms and are not being reached
through any other agency. At the league
| meetings the girls talk freely about their
/ conditions Of work in factory. store and
| laundry or Office. They discuss their
| budgets and their amusements. They ask
edvice about moving pictures and about
girl in one place that's in trouble.
one OF the objects of tho league is TO
| encourage right thinking and clean con-
versstion. a group OF girls banded to-
ge,her who will tolerate no coarse con-
! versation lin their workroom can ac-
complish changes for which one girl
| alone would merely be called "prude" FOR
her pains.
Lectures on sex hygiene are given and
| questions written down. without sigma
, lures II preferred. will he answered by the
| leader at the next meeting.
! All over the city these leagues are being
| formed to meet In settlements. churches.
schools or libraries. This house on Madi-
son avenue is merely headquarters
Membership IL open to girls who prom
| Use to carry out these objects OF the
league:
To protect girls from moral danger: to
promote moral education: to encourage
right thinking nd clean conversation; TO
secure wholesome recreation for girls: 10
improve conditions OF work for girls: TO
stimulate faith i'm the possibilities Of life
Among those who are supporting the
Mrs. Carnegie and Mrs. Straight. Fred \.
, Vanderiip. OF the New York Foundations;
Miss Charlotte Barnes. Mrs. Charles Ait
schulz Miss Ripley and Mrs William II.
Baldwin.
The Protective leagues. Of course, will
co.operate when necessary with the Pro-
baton Association in its work at the Wa
verley House. There are already fifteen
leagues with $50 members.