Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06

To stimulate faith in the possibilities Of
life.
Every member is pledged to befriend
lonely girls In the city and those who are
living apart from their families and to
reports girls in need of help, or bad con
ditions In places where they live or work
or find their recreation. She is also re-
quired to study the laws relating to
health, labor, recreation and protection
and to report violations of these laws
Girls are also encouraged to make sus
gestions for improving these laws or for
securing better enforcement Of them.
And to all these things the growing
membership list Of the league subscribes
most earnestly as a few recent instances
will indicate
There is the case of Alverta, who even
now is being supported by the cluG. Al
yerta was one Of family lived was most
inadequate, also, so that on the day that
Alyerta became 10 she left and came to
New York. Here she secured job in a
factory and tiny room in a miserable
boarding house. Although she lived but
scantly, her wages could not be made
to stretch over the entire week. Always
there was one night when she had to go
without dinner.
On one of these impoverished evenings,
as she was coming home from work She
met another roomer in the house.
Spaniard. The man took the lean pock~t-
book out of her hand and opened l..
Only three pennies" he said. This
must be the night you do not dine-un-
less you go to dinner with me-"
Alverta went. SO much Alverta con-
fded to the club director herself. The
rest Of her story was filed in by Ca
milla, a young Spanish girl, who came
to the club one evening and requested
help for Alverta. 1t seemed that after a
few months the Spaniard had tired OF
taking Alverta to dinner and had trans
ferred his attentions to Camilla, who also
lived in the rooming house. The man
confded the whole affair to the girl and
asked her to help him get rid Of Alverta
by pretending to be very Jealous. He
also added that he was afraid trouble
might come because Of Alyerta's extreme
youth.
Camilla said nothing, but inwardly she
decided that 1t would A half hour
later she arrived at the club in great
indignation.
81 have seen the girl" she told the
director, "and she is very young. and
therefore SO very stupid The man, too,
- NCAg SANpAus Lie A-4Auho bAAbL - "a
milla, would help him desert this child,
who is to have a baby"
Yet another member Of the league saw
her chance TO rush to the rescue Of her
sex when she came across a young girl
in the midst of heated argumeE- with
man In a corner Of 4 subway station.
Without the slightest conjunction, she
listened to the conversation and heard
enough to convince her that the girl was
in serious danger SO, approaching the
couple boldly, she asked the girl If she
could speak to her 4 minute
Listen" she said, in some embarrass-
ment, as she had never rescued anybody
before, Il wouldn't 90 with him If l was
you. You can't trust these New York
guys. II you amt got any place to go,
you can come to our club. Its all right.
You can look 1t up in the telephone
book"
But how will get rid Of him :" asked
the girl, nervcusly.
"Oh, just leave that to me-" said the
G. S. L. member. Say" she exclaimed.
walking up to the waiting man, beat it.
This girls friend of mine, and I'll tell
her father IL you don't beat it-quick."
At the club the rescued damsel, whose
name was Grace, told the director that
she was IS years old, that she had met
the man for the first time that evening,
that he had eken her to q chop suey res
taurant. and then had asked her to go
to a dance hall with him. But when they
reached the door of the so-called dance
hall, Grace had sense enough TO perceive
that It WAS a hotel. So she had turned
and fed to the subway station, where the
man had followed and argued with her.
Grace, 1t seemed, was a Philadelphia
girl, who had become rebellious of par
entail discipline and had packed her suit
case and left home a few days before,
after her family had retired for the
night. She arrived in New York at 8 AS
in the morning and, calling a taxicab,
asked the driver TO take her to a hotel.
At a moving picture theater the follow
ing day she met another older girl named
Anna, who took her to a dancing studio.
Here Grace had danced with several
strange men, and had been instructed by
Anna In the art of picking up men who
would take her to the theater. Grace had
tried 1t for the first time the night she
was found by the G. S. L. member. When
Grace's father came for her, after she
had been at the club several days, the
director was surprised to learn that she
was not Is years old, as she claimed, but
only IA.
Thus, from the foregoing. 1t may be
seen that women are not as indifferent
to the welfare Of their sex as is com
monty supposed. AS gallantry declines
among men, 1t apparently rises among
women. For the ideals Of these girls are
the ideals Of the medieval knight-to sue
cor weakness, and especially the damsel
in distress.