The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-01-16
TRAVELLERS AID
BIG INSTITUTION
Tulsa Organization Has
Many Problems Pre-
sented Daily
SPONSORED BY Y. W.
association Maintains 2 Rep
resentatives at Depot to
Assist Travellers

=, the waiting room at the Frisco
Gallon ent "a little freck led faced
gJ iu gingham dress IL was
Stc october and she wore no coat.
sbc had no luggage. She had been
s',tirp there for long time and
.ho eager brightness of her eyes had
bea,in Co turn to anxiety. The
travellers Aid secretary went over
and sat by her
That paragraph Is the once upon
q Zine of one of many, many stories
,bot hgppen every day almost In the
bsart of Tulsa The story itself was
tbat the little girls mother. sick in
ohio had sent her to an aunt in
T.isa who had failed TO meet her.
~ Travellers Aid secretary
harmed where she lived and took
,be child 90 her. The aunt, holding
,he door and Erimly ignoring the
rbId's little face, eXpeCtantlY up
turncd fer kiss, looked coldly at
,he secretary as she asked.
"What did YOU bring her here
for [ don't want herr
Ana she wouldn't have her. SO
tho Y. W e. A., through the Trav-
elers Aid kept the child for awhile
until they could locate her grand
mother 100 NIl'Nllfl Itl w Ah' Aphii-
try. and sent her on to her.
Sign Is u Godscnd.
Perhaps not greet many Tulsa
neople have noticed the desk at the
west end of the Frisco station with
rs Travellers Aid placard above It,
nor the girl with n badge pinned
on her coat, and the clear brown
ewes that see so much who Is nearly
f.RnH thnrn Rnt If fNnl-
sans don't know about It, there are
hundreds Of travellers who do. Sup
rkre you had come here from some
He town. and you had but little
mhney and had counted on your
folks meeting you. They had failed
and YOU We're bewlldered in such IA
lg and strange place and had no
idea where to go. Wouldn't the
sight OF that friendly sign, "Travel-
ers Aid" DE a gOdsend TO you.
The Tulsa Travellers Aid Is no
new thin. II Is n part Of the Tulsa Y.
W. c. \. t4o has been in existence
as long 9SrSAS D W, G. a. has been ,Ii
S5s Srsaoiz of rs the 'fsA Frseo. ao G%G anG
Il Ms M1nfdniy' the last two years
that tRgtg hate Seen two secretaries,
day ard ihgbt jnThere is an urgent
nq@1,, fqf a. ttitd.iD3 iD3Miss Edna Pyle,
genefaf .secpbtatS, said the other
day! as IHhder the present regime
thefe' fthst 'tecbSsarily be one day
when there $3.50 one at all there.
io" S"' Look to.p This Friend.
They all lok to 'this kindly friend
everybody from old men to little
crttfrru. week there were
,hrT rbsgildeSed ,~and frightened
IhiJ3T tagged and clinging 10
bnofet Nwho were taken to the y
w. c. A. anI-cared for until their
people could be found. There is the
youns-Firl whose chance masculine
acquaintasCe made on the train i'm
Fortunes her to go to dinner and to
show downtown with him, who
must be taken care OF. There is
the trembling little old lady who
has missed her train and hasn't
enough money In her shabby little
purse 10 meet her needs. There. is
the halt-defiant young woman who
has started out i'm the world ION her
& own account and tries to maintain,
for all her panicky fear deep in her
heart, her air of Independence.
There are some funny things that
happen. too. Miss Mabel Murrell,
day Travellers AID secretary, re-
lated one Of them the other day.
Il noticed a little girl sitting here
one day. she said "whl looked
lost and frightened. went over to
her and asked her II I could help
her She looked at me but would't
say word. ! talked to her for
hlue while but she wouldn't have
thing to do with me. so | left her
NO one seemed to be coming for her
ana she made no move to find any
one and finally | went over to her
Haln. She began to cry and she
alh that her mother had told her
mat she must never, never speak to
anyone that she might meet while
she was travelling, | explained to
Ler who was and that | was with
tne w. c. A. and showed her my
Ua"e' and she finally confided In
me that her folks had failed to meet
heI' / took her to the Y. W. G.. A.
ana looked up her people and took
hef out there.
Few Ask for Help.
You see. very often the people
VINO VINO need help the most are the ones
VINO won't come and ask for IL. OF
,ouIse that one was an extreme
.9se' but there is the girl whose
HvAup acquaintance Is bothering
nner' and the girl who thinks she
Shows so well how to take care of
hereell-those are the people we are
sslNays watching for. oh. yes. we
% 10 get so that we can very nearly
w hy peoples appearance and ac-
uohs whether or not they are In
need Of help"
while she was talking TWO young
ssnls' lowering eXpectantly In the
,Iaackgfonnd and heaming haaf-shy-
Miss Murell hurried eagerly
inward Th as she turned toward them.
my greeted her as n beloved
mtehu' Yes, they were working The
90 me place she found for theml one
~ II, mem had been having a grand
cGbnme5' what with taking care or the
children and ali.
MISS MISS Murrell smiled as they left.
o., Uhe of those girls" she sad,
walked into the station nearly two
Jars ago. She didn't have a cent
ny NY money and she was looking for
,hh Hhu'h As n rule we work through
nue. ae employment office but I hap
rnsd TO know Of place with well