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Show WOMAN WHO AIDS RUSS GIRLS I Anna Maria Krapidinski, special agent of the Russian government from Warsaw, .Russian Poland, left Chicago the other day after gathering statistics through the medium of the Immigrants' Protective league and the Juvenile Protective association. She was detailed to investigate the conditions under which immigrant girls are cared for by the United States authorities after their arrival at Ellis Island. She has a clear conception of the necessities of the situation. A yearly average of 1,800 immigrant girls routed rout-ed out of New York for western points, most of them traveling via Chicago, are lost en route. Mme. Krapidinski said in an, interview inter-view with a reporter: "Conditions are so serious despite the great generosity of public spirited spir-ited men and women in the United States that it is evident the problem is one not to be adequately handled by private effort. It will require a vast amount of work. "There must be government co-operation and control of a situation that results in figures so ghastly as those shown in the toll of missing girls that start fiom New York for Chicago and never reach here. "It Is evident that these disappearances are not accidental. It is plain that the girls do not fall off the trains and lose themselves. It would be far better If they did. The neglect that has permitted white slavers to secure so firm a grip on the immigrant traffic of this country is not alone a blot on the fair name of the United States It is as well a blot on the name of government gov-ernment of Russia." |