The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-09-09
VIGILANCE TO OUTV1E VICE
IN NATIONWIDE SOCIETY
FOR PROTECTION OF GIRLS
Protestants, Catholics and j ews Combine in Great Cause.
Over Sixteen Hundred Young Girls Disap-
peared In One Year While En- Route
Between New Y ork and Chicago.
lBy HE REL GIOUS RAMBIEBl

divisions, would be the federation OF
women's clubs. the charity organiza-
ton societies. the missionary socie-
ties, the Women1s Christian Temper
ance Union, the Gideons, the Young
away from home. that no local or
new conditions. Even the national
bodies Of a racial and UNCONVENTIONAL
Mems Christian Association, and To-
cal boards of trade or chambers Of
commerce.
With this comprehensive support. a
thoroughly efficient national organiza-
ton, that would take over existing
work for travellers, would be estab-
HShed Sufficient agencies would be
maintained to cover all railway t
tons and docks, by day and by night.
aided could be traced.
Investigations would be made of
hotels, boarding houses, lodging
houses, employment agencies, and ali
other institutions that touch the life
OK the traveller: A publicity depart
ment would endeayor to inform people
or the country upon the dangers of
travel and upon ways Of securing
help: Travellers would be passed from
the hands OF one station to another.
so that there would be no possibility
- CSALS CAod ppS en- route,
a Broad Gauge Propaganda.
In IN very nature Of this work. the
National Travellers Aid Society would
De more than a passive agency for
the succor Of perplexed travellers. It
would be out for war against all the
powers that prey upon the ignorant
and unWary. With local centers in
every city. 1t would be a detective
agency of the first order, and probably
| the most Qficiopf i~ck~,~~~ u 49,
world in the battle with the white
slave traffic.
Already the leaders In the new
movement are corresponding, with a
view to relating the American work
LOT travellers to foreign societies en-
gagged IN kindred service.
The organization ayows as one nj
its purposes. tAnnarousing Of the ans
portation compunies to the need Of a
more thorough profession to travellers,
especially women and girls, from
moral dangers. This aims directly at
the Immigrant Carrying ships and
trains, wherein the ignorant aliens are
said to be subject to moral hazard,
even from the representatives Of the
ships and trains in whose care thew
ftraveA
The Panama Canal the Crisis Point,
A factor in bringing to an issue
the organization ON hroadest nationa,
lines Of this Travellers Aid soc4oty, Is
n Imminent opening Of the Panama
Canal, and the Imposition IN San
Francisco in 1919, The leaders de-
clare that they 1eel 1t nourobenf spou
them to have their organisation IN op.
Grafton by the latter date. The tide %
ravel will then be extraordtnaxily
great. It Is known that the vice syn.
dicates An planning for \ harvest q,
San Francisco they WIN be met hy
this new Organization. equipped With
worldly sasactty a wen as with piooe
purpose.
The work of tho travellers aid does
not end in safeguarding from the hu-
mar sharks on trains and In railway
stations. IT continues to the extern,
OF insuring d better standard OF board
ing house for them when they reach
the city. It aims TO help the new
arrivals to secure employment unde,
safe conditions, and at an adequate
wage. and to furnish them with 8
helpful and social religious atmos-
phere. Girls will be followed up after
their advent into the city, and the
mothering arms Of patriotism and re.
ligion will be kept about them for sc
long as NAV be necessary.