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Show THE CITIZEN 10 Social Events The American. Institute of Banking will hold a banquet at the Newhouse hotel Monday evening, March 12, at 7 o'clock. The banquet will be given in honor of Mr. Carter E. Talman of Richmond, Virginia, national president of the institute, and Mr. Richard W. Hill of New York, national secretary of the organization. The committee in charge of arrangements includes Mr. J. J. Kelly, chairman; Mr. Enos Hogle and Mr. E. L. Parry. Addresses will be given by Mayor C. Clarence Neslen, Mr. E. O. Howard and Mr. W. R. Arm- strong. On Wednesday evening March 14, the Shriners will hold the last of a series of dances to be given this season at the Odeon. Music for the occasion will be furnished by the Shrine band and the exhibition drill given by the patrol will form an interesting feature of the evening. The committee includes Mr. C. H. evening at the Ladies Literary, club house. The host and hostesses will be Mr. and Mrs. George H. Wood, Dr. and Mrs. Stiehl, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Hoppaugh, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Ward, Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Hanson, Sr., and Mrs. W. Scott Key ting and Russell L. Tracy. ing club will be Fisher, chairman; Mr. B. H. Hump and Mr. F. W. Morri- son. The Plant Personnel club of the Bell Telephone company will give a mask and hard times dancing party to employes of the telephone company and their friends, at the Merry Garden St. Patricks night, March 17. Mr. L. F. Thompson and Mr. F. T. Duvall are In charge of arrangements. held-thi- s RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF WHITE WOMEN BY DARK ALIENS EXPOSED Recent articles on the three per cent immigration law in some financial journals have voiced a distinct regret that in the restricted quotas of immigrants now admitted there are much larger proportions, of women than , Liberty Review No. 9 of the Women's Benefit association entertained members and their friends at a delightful card party Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. John Sanford, 246 Iowa avenue. Silver Maple Circle No. 108, Neighbors of Woodcraft, entertained with a card party Friday night at the Woodmen of the World hall, and Friday night, March 16, they wil give a danc-ing party at the club house. The Pythian Sisters gave a dance Friday evening at the Knights of Pythias hall, 58 East Broadway. Members of the order and their friends were the guests. Section 4, Womens Society of the Immanuel Baptist church, met Wednesday at the home of Mrs. H. J. Fitzgerald, 1268 East South Temple street. Luncheon was served at 1 oclock. The afternoon wns spent in doing White Cross sewing. Richards ward Spring Folly took place last evening. The Kinney Brothers' enlarged orchestra furnished the music for the dancing during the evening. The sixth of a series of dances be- Ing given by the Saturday Night Danc gion. There is the danger in discussing such a subject of falling into the same slough of pruriency that now fouls the newspapers, the movies and the pages of current books and periodicals. There is also the peril of adding fuel to fires already smolderfires ing under the social mud-sill- s which have here and there flashed into crime or even small riots which have mystified those who did not know the real causes. Known to the Reporters. These fires are smoldering. They constitute a social pollution and peril. Silence has failed to help them. Immigration restriction promises to extinguish them. It is right that the American people in deciding the question of immigration regulation now before them should know of every phase ever-prese- formerly. From the standpoint of statecraft this would appear peculiar. Founders of nations, real and legendry, from Romulus to Captain John Smith, have always sought women to stabilize conditions, realizing that a preponderance of men is dangerous. However, women are not good recruits to the industrial reserve army Not available to break strikes in the industries in which they are most rife. Women are not available in creating the more tangible kinds of commodities which admit of quick realization and profits, in the same proportion as the bulk of male labor. The increased proportion of women immigrants under the three per cent law is another evidence of the effects of that statute. It is only one of many unexpected results already noted, and it is my guess that there are many more which will come to light later. Immigration and the tariff have been the double pivot upon which American history has largely turned restricted commodity imports and unrestricted labor entry changed America from a nation of farmers, free aTtisans and small merchants to what we are today. It is not too much to expect that shutting off the cheap and fluid labor supply will tend to throw the current in the other direction to decentralize the population and to employ the rural workers in winter factory production. But all that is for the historian. The increased percentage of women immigrants under the three per cent law, however, inevitably brings to the fore another phase of the immigration problem. It brings the hope that one of the darkest phases of the whole alien problem is about to be brightened that a social cancer long noticeable may be checked if not obliterated. Good Reasons for Silence. One of our many taboos heretofore has been the subject of the moral consequences of the importation of large numbers of unmarried male aliens. It has been permissible to note the life of mining camps in this respect, but the far wider aspects of the vice problem thus created in our cities have been shrouded In silence. In passing, it should be noted that this is about the only phase that has been characterized by silence every other angle has had too much publicity. But while there has been almost nothing in print about it, city dwellers far-reachi- The graduating nurses of the Latter Day Saints hospital will be entertained with a dance to be given at the Newhouse hotel, March 17, by the Nurses' Alumni Asociation. This is the annual dance given by the Alumni Association to the outgoing class, and is an event of great interest to the nurses. have become increasingly conscious of late of the p.eril to relatively unprotected women of the older stocks involved in their contact in Industry and commerce with large numbers of aliens of low moral standards and facial ideals of womans place and function, which vary widely from those heretofore prevalent here. There have been good reasons for silence. The subject is freighted with explosive possibilities. ,It Is difficult even to mention it without danger of injustice and wholesale racial libel. Whatever is said of degenerate sections of peoples will be misconstrued by supersentive individuals of similar origin or deliberately misstated by racial demagogues and they are le- ng nt . of the problem. In a former article I touched on the fact that newspapers never mention certain racial factors in the problem of vice although these factors are known to every competent police reporter. To this general statement there is one exception the only one I have ever encountered in many years of newspaper observation. This exception will serve to tell much of what this is all about. The subject can only be handled gingerly, but the fact that it once broke into print makes it easier. In August, 1920, Mr. Josiah Ward, a column conductor on the Denver Post, wrote a very frank story on the conduct of cadets who were trapping working girls by inviting them to ride with them in automobiles, while the street railway was tied up by the strike then in progress. Mr. Wards story was printed as written. It set foTth quite bluntly that these human harpies were mostly of a very distinct racial type and that their chosen victims were to use Mr. Wards language white girls usually blonds. The cadets, Mr. Ward s said, were of the type found on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea in the slums of several of the Mediterranean nations the relics of the primitive tribes which had been conquered and submerged by the ancient Greeks and Italians, but never eliminated. They flourished most of all in the Levant, declared Mr. Ward, but were swarming into America. Without going very deeply into history he intimated that these were the slant-heade- d prog-nathu- descendants of those types whg devel- -- oped the civilization of Gnossus and Troy which some archeologists be- rlieve were wiped out by the Greeks because of their early developed habits of. white slavery and their raidg upon the Greek tribes to capture their women. fair-skinn- ed Brought in by Thousands. A relentless pursuit of 'the while woman can.be observed in any American city! The tragedies of Chinatown, on the Elsie Sigel order, or the police archives of any western city tell our story as to the Oriental. Reporters in Federal buildings watching Mann act cases are often struck with the remarkable number of such offenses. In an investigation of Chicago dancing academies last year it was , noted that girls acting as "individual- instructors were urged by the proprietors to give preference to foreigners on the ground that they would spend any amount of money to form the acquaintance of American girls. Police court annals, the stories of rescue workers and juvenile officers all tend to create the same impression. It is easy to be unjust here, however. There have been plenty of American cadets and vice lords from every stock, colonial on down. Foreign girls are victimized by myriads. Just before the passage of the Mann act the European vice rings were bringing girls from Poland by thousands there were cases of these eastern cadets selling their own relatives into white slavery but that is mostly historical. Undoubtedly today the country or smalltown girl who goes to the city to work is the most frequent victim. Usually unsophisticated and reared in the rural traditions which included no race consciousness, they are not prepared to cope with the perils which inevitably surround them. There has been a great deal of talk about providing for the selection of immigrants on the other side. If such a plan should be adopted, why not give young married couples the preference? If every two immigrants meant one additional home there would be much less work for the police and social workers. Lewis Harper in Dearborn Independent. ; FLIRTING WITH DEATH. A revenue officer strolled up the mountain trail to a cabin in front of which he found a boy. Wheres your father? the officer V asked. Hes dow nat the still, said the boy. Wheres your mother? Shes down at the still. "Wheres the still? aint going to tell. Quite an argument followed, but the boy refused to tell the location of the still until the revenue officer offered a 'I silver dollar for the information and the boy agreed to tell him the way to the still if he would pay the dollar in advance. 'You ought to be willing to trust me until I come back from the still, the revenue officer protested. Naw, sir! the boy insisted. You pay me the dollar right now, 'cause you aint coming back from the still. I |