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Show Bureau of Missing j Girls Is Kept Busy: , LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22. Two hun-, jdred ami twenty eight girls disappear-1 led tn Los Angeles in 1919, according : to records of the police department, ! just made public. Officers believe' ! sonic will be found but that the majority ma-jority never will be. This belief hat j Icryatallized In an effort to establish here a Bureau lor Missing Girls, with' a number of policewomen detailed to do nothing but search for the missing. Leo Marden, police sergeant, vho prepared the report, said nine out of the missing girls were of the "butterfly" "butter-fly" or "rattle-brained" type, "crazy ' for the attention of men." Judge Sidney Reeve, of tho juvenile1 , court, said many girls ran' away from I i homo because of lack of parental con- ; trol. He said . "The modern home seems to be lax in the control of children The good old days when girls were not allowed! j out without a chaperono seem to be j gone. Parents of today aro so engrossed en-grossed in the rush of modern life theyi I have not the time nor the inclination 'to provide the proper home entortain-' ment for their children. And the result? re-sult? They do not realize their mistakes mis-takes until a daughter disappears, perhaps per-haps never to be found." Sergeant Marden added: t "The motion pictures lure many girls from home The girls seem to resent parentnl discipline and long jfor the glow and glamour of a film J star. The film folks are working with I us in preventing this evil and many a director has notified us of a runaway girl. Sometimes we get them before ! it is too late. Sometimes noL" Sergeant Marden said many of the girls were traced to Tijuana and Mex-icalia, Mex-icalia, Lower California border towns, where they were in "whlto slavery," but lew would return, because of dread of disgrace. |