The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07
c.noaion Of Education is Being Con-
Quoted in Effort to Save
Girls Who Go to
City.
BUREAUS ESTABLISHED
Good Advice is Being Given Young
Women and Help Extended to
Those Who
Need Il.

Acquaintance WITH travellers All
work is being urged by the society t.
combat the dangers which confrOn
girls who go to cities to work. A cam
paign of education Is being started
by those in charge OF the work In the
endeavor to protect the girls who
come to the cities. Women's clubs in
the various cities and small towns
and church workers and others, ev
erywhere, especially in the smaller
districts, will be acquainted with the
work which the Travellers Aid aims
to do and which 1t is already accom-
plishing.
The Travellers Aid society is send.
ing out cards with the following warn
ings:
Do not start to- strange city or
town without information about a
safe place to stay,
Do not leave home without money
for an emergency or for return
ticket.
Do not ask for information or adj
vice except from officials.
DO dCCcPL O1IOAS VI WIN JltAcl
in person or by advertisement with
out investigation.
One In keokuk.
The Keokuk Y. w. G. A. and hum
dreds OF others maintain tie Travel
ers' Aid work In this territory the
Travellers Aid badges may be seen at
the railroad stations at Des Moines,
Dubuque, Duluth, Lincoln, Minneapo-
lis. Omaha, Ottumwa, Sioux City and
St. Paul
One Of the letters sent out by the
bureau has the following:
Many people have been aroused
to action by the report Of the Immi-
grafton League OF Chicago. that in
1910, 1,700 young women, disappeared
between the port OF New York and
Chicago alone. and in 1911 A,24O were
missing. People OF every denomina-
ton were alarmed over the. need for
greater protective measures for young
women travelling alone. Realizing
that vice was strongly organized to
FASs uPoh uupIOlcClSO Ellis, ulkLCt-
ent organizations have taken steps
towards united movement to safe
guard every mile Of travel In the
minds of the majority Of people, how
ever, the words, Travellers Aid work
are connected only with the great
cities and with the immigration prob.
lem. They do not realize and are not
ready to face the appalling fact
SHOWN by statistics of social workers
that three-fourths OF the girls who
are social outcasts of our large cities
are young women from the small
towns and open country who are
nred by the city's attractions Of high
er wages and better times and who
are totally ignorant of the dangers
mat surround them at every step.
Inc Travellers Aid workers find that
they must give larger part Of their
ume and attention to looking out for
ana assisting these young women who
because they have found only friends
IN the places from which they come
are as easily deceived by the pretend
60 kindnesses of strangers To see
.aat tnese young strangers coming to
.he city arrive safely and are housed
~ safe and respectable places is an
important part Of the Travellers Aid
work.
Share Responsibility.
II throughout the small towns and
y The country the Travellers Aid
y. uofk might be more generally known
.ne problem would be more easily
soised. If churches and women's |
'.ups and all other organizations in
terested In girls were alive to the