Putnam patriot., 1918-08-09
Gives Detailed Information of Object and Aims
 of Travellers Aid Society
SAYS EVERYTHING SHOULD BE DONE TO REACH BOYS AND GIRLS BEFORE THERE IS NEED OF THEIR
 RESCUE
Secretary of Association Is Soon to Or
 ganze Work Here.

What is the Travellers Aid Societ and what is it's function?" querie Mrs. Walter J. Bartlett, who was re gently elected a member of the exec utive board of this organization Well, I'll tell you what it is and wha it aims to do, and this can be done i nc better way than by giving a cor crete example.
 .0ne evening only this week a ma came to my home and asked to SC me. He was travelling salesman making trip by automobile. Unfor tunately his pachine broke down, an he was forced to spend a night il Putnam. He was acquainted with tn, work being done by the Travellers Aid and knowing that I was connect ed with this society q do not know how he knew1 called and asked where he could find lodging for tn, night He did not care to stop at hotel because of the expense. H, was anxious to get into a place witt a good reputation, but with as little cost as possible. He knew that the Travellers Aid representative. would recommend no other. That, ir brief, illustrates one phase of the work"
 In explaining more in detail what she herself is doing here in Putnam, and what she hopes to do, as mem Der of the executive board of the Travellers Aid and as special proba- tion officer, Mrs. Bartlett says that in unexpected emergencies in travel young men and women are often in great moral danger.
 Unforeseen difficulties arise which friendship or assistance, or by ap- pealing through sympathy, prey upon, and lure away the unsuspecting boy or girl. These interruptions people find newly arrived strangers the most accessible and easiest to ensnare.
 The social conditions make the Travellers Aid necessary" says Mrs. Bartlett, because of the greed and the lust of evil persons, and because the agents of vice turn the courtesy of polite conduct into a snare It is necessary that travellers have refuge toward which they can turn in conf dence-and the Travellers Aid pro vides this refuge.
 Some people right here in Put ham," continued Mrs. Bartlett, dc not thing there is much need of such work as is being done by the Travel CTS Aid But do you know that the names of easily led girls and boys of our town are passed on to strangers who come here and who make it their business to seek these young people This is true; 1t can be proved. An in spector already has evidence of this very thing happening here in this city, where an interruptions person had passed on the names of young people known to be easy victims, to outsiders. When one considers the vast extent and the horrible nature ot the evil incident to this sort of thing is there any price too great to pay foi the remedying of the conditions? The Travellers Aid attempts to remake things for the better, and all right minded citizens should, and l think will, do all that they can to aid in the accomplishments of results. :"
 Mrs. Bartlett told The Patriot this week that a state secretary of the Connecticut Travellers Association Is reported as coming to Putnam as soor as possible This secretary will helT in organizing the work in this city as it is duly organized in Bridgeport New Haven and Hartford. Mrs. Bart lett states that she realizes the i'm. portanee of this work, and believe: that everything should be done tc help those who have already fallen, as we'll as to reach the boys and girls be fore there Is need of rescue.
 To illustrate what she meant bH this la. statement. Mrs. Bartlett saic that ore young man is known by the authorities who are doing much tc make Putnam a cleaner city, to have kept company with one of the faller girls now cut. of Putnam. This young man is from one of the best families in town. A few nights after thu young man was seen with the faller girl, he was again seen in company with young woman who comes iron prominent Putnam family. Mrs Bartlett believes that by going at th' problem in the proper way, the. yount man could be warned of the danger o, his conduct; and the prominent youni woman kept from possible harm
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