News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-24
The Social White League
Los ANGELES, CAL, Dec. 7, 19l

Los ANGELES, CAL, Dec. I, 1918.
Editor NeUs and Citizen'
l wish it were possible to paint the
picture before me as / sit on the curb
built around block used as a port here
in the center of this wonderful CITY.
There is fountain, playing in the center
around which flowers bloom and darting
back and forth the gold fish are PLAYING
under the pond lilies that grow inside
the Enclosure. Oaks, palms and other
trees give shade to the beautiful walks
on either sides of which are seats filled
with people enjoying the delights of Il
winters day in California. There are no
signs keep off the grass" for it grows
50 +st it don't matter how many stroll
over the well kept lawn, it is always
green and beautiful. To the casual OBJ
server all seem happy, but alas, it takes
moreithan the delightful climate to sat
isfy the hungry heart and the empty
stomach. In my work | meet all classes
and hear tales of woe from sorrowing
men and maidens seeking employment
here as in San Francisco, so there is sad
ness to mar the beauty of the picture
you all would enjoy if transplanted to
their land OF sunshine and flowers this
December day. Instead of snow ard
piercing winds we have flowers in bloom
and everything joyful for those able to
pay for it, but for the persons without
mony, my advice is to remain where
work is to be had and plenty to eat. One
department of the work of the Social
Welfare League, of which | am field
superintendent. is to give facts abou,
conditions as they exist in California and
to this end we have established head
quarters in San Francisco, from which to
cooperate with all organizations for the
preventive of the traffic in girls.
The Woman's Citizen, Phelan Bird.
San Francisco. is our officia organ and
will tell progress of the Home Culture
Branch, bnt the "Shield" our own Maya.
zine, gives Chronicles of all that is being
done from month to month while the
Symposium" by prominent members
of the Advising board, tells "How to
Prevent the Traffic in Girls" a book to
warn parents and girls of the ways
10000 girls are captured annually to fill
the ranks of those who die as result of
the social evil
Everyone interested in saving girls
from the horrible life as a white slaye
should send 80 cents for a copy of this
book and supply of literature for free
distribution, warning people of how girls
are captured to satisfy the white slave
trade.
The following furnished by a member
OF our advising board whom interviewed
last year after leaving Vermont is too
horrible to c0ntemplate-yet conditions
III San Francisco are even worse.
Commercialized vice, allowed by cor
rupt city officials to exist in def tuce of
law in the cities of our nation. requires
300 600 women in its houses Of shame.
900 of them come from the country
Most OF them were betrayed and trapped
into Ghis life against their will.
Recently, in New York city, this organ
lied traffic in girls was proven to exist
a most profitable business, the shares of
which are bought and sold, having
regular board of trade, controlling 2S
houses, and owned ard operated by IS
well-knOwn men.
Accounts are kept by madames and in
mates by means of punching card. The
receipts of one house for one month were
$6,454.
The stock market of this business fluc-
tuates according to the supply of gIls
turned in by paid agents of the "syndi-
cate of vice." composed of both men and
women, who are on the alert to entice,
by trickery and deceit, the most beaut-
ful girls they Gao find. Bureaus of eX
change transfer their slaves from one city
to another. Tue girls so captured must
serve until death by suicide or disease re-
Ieas' them. after an average lite of five !
years in bondage to sin.
The campaign is on to clean up the |
state before the Exposition opens and |
you will got particulars in Chronicles. |
If interested further write me at 3 CITY !
Hall Ave-, San Francisco, and inclose 3j |
cents in postage TO get the book. Extend |
ing to each and all the compliments of
the season, am, hoping to hear from
you all. Sincerely yours.
NJ. A. THOMPSON MACKENZIE.
II suffered habitually from consti
patton, Doan's Regulets relieved and |
strengthened the bowels so thai they have |
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