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March 4, 192) WILMETI.E Llf · E 45. ·. LAUNCH FUND APPEAL FOR TRAVELER'S AID subscriptions and casual gifts to .pay read the fear in their eyes, the furtive, ly alone, arrives in the city on the e r prospective husband workits workers and maintain the guest shamefaced glances they cast about way to h· house at 152 East Superior street, in them, the shrinking away ffom human ing in the lumber camps of the north, which tho se requiring overnight care contacts. To stop these unhappy trav- she finds a friend in the Travelers arc honsed . Now, however, the de - elers and speak to them is no easy Aid worker 1 to see that she gets on matHis for service have grown to such matter. To draw their stories from the right train and to · h er destination Great Service Enterprise to an extent that it has been forced to them requires in finite tact, and to per- in safety. Strangers in City Makes First appeal directly to the public to assist 'ttacle them to turn back from their When the little old grandmother on it in performing its gratuitous public flight and go back to their friends re- the way alone to spend the twilight of Plea for Aid from Public services. Therefore. next week, :March quires the ability to use kind and her liie with a son thousands of mites 6-12 the Tr ave lers Aid society of Chi- gentle argument. from her home town, suddenly finds fJy Hamish Cmnpbell Duncan · cago and · Cook county will launch a that the pocketbook containing her Sense Their Problems Where is Main street, Chicago? drive for $95,000 to be used for the railway ticket and little store of mo~ey When Elmer, aged 9 -going-on-10, Try it on a traffil· cop and watch the continuation and extension of its work. has been lost r,r stolen, it is a Travelpuzzle wrinkles furrow his noble brow. Night and day the Travelers Aiel' tak es the money he has earned by ers Aid worker who takes care of Try it on a taxi driver and se e if workers arc on the job in each of shoveling snow, running errands, a~d her, communicates with son, and sees he knows. Try it on the oldest inhabi- Chicago's railway stations. Their vigi- sifting ashes, and sets out for the b1g that she is started safely on her jourtant. It's a hundred to one shot :r ou'll lance ha s saved many a traveler from city to become a bank president, con- ney again. draw a blank in each instance. Then inconvenience and mi sfortune. Among fident that in a few years he wilt be \Vhen a hmely boy, who has set out try it on one of the Travelers Aid the thousands daily arriving or pass- rich enough to lap his mother in lux- to seek his fortune, finds himself broke workers on duty in the various Chi- ing through the city ·are children un- ury, he finds a smiling woman on the and hungry and yearning for home cago railway stations. She'll tell you. accompaHH.:d by friends on their way platform ready to take the edge off the aj:!ain, it is a Travelers · Aid worker A question like that is mere child's t o dist~tlt relative s, old folks traveling lonely, homesick feeling that has al- who puts her 0. K. on the telegram play to some they're asked, these alone, young runaways headed for in- ready begun to weigh down his sturdy that brings funds for a ticket back. trained women who daily assist an c,·itahle doom if once they get past young heart; while she sends word Last year the Travelers Aid helped a veragc of more than 200 person s in the station r;ates, those who have lost home that he is safe and ready to go 2,354 physically disabled travelers, back. need of help, comfort or information. thcir money or tickets by theft or 3,272 children traveling alone, 403 perWhen Mildred, 16, decides that her It would seem, after listening to misadventure on their journey. the sons· who had lost money or tickets, some of the queries put to them, that fot cig-nrr unabl e to speak the languag;e, family doesn't appreciate her and that 4.969 whose friends failed to meet a career as a movie actress awaits her the only thing about tl11 city they can't t!te sic k and forlorn. All these find them at the depot, 11,710 immigrants in Hollywood and dons a suit of brothte ll you is where to get a, subway train aiel and encouragement at the hands er's clothes in which to "·beat her way" of whom 11,262 could not speak Eng- · for Oak Park. of these wise and tactful women. to the coast, she has a hard time deceiv- ]ish and inany, many others with probHut to get back to Main street Must Know Everythi~g lems and in trouble . \\' hat' s the answer? Ju st a minute! There is nothing a Travelers Aid ing the keen eye of the worker who spys her slipping through the station. The other day an Austrian woman, worker is not expected to knowMrs. Lyman Drake, 933 Lake avenue, without a single word of English, "\Vhat time doc~ the five-fifteen pull When the little bride from Europe, :1 stranger in .a strange land ignorant was hostess for her Tuesday luncheon rl imhcd d ow n from the train in the out?" La Salle s treet clrpot, on her way to "\Viii J have time to do some shop- of the language and feeling fearsome- and bridge club this week. friends of her dead hu sb a nd . wh o. ac - ping hcfore my train for Denver rorclin.!:..(' to 1he address on a grubby leaves? " High Grade pi ece of paper clutched in her hand, (\Vhispcr) "\Vhere can 1 fincl a reliHd at a number on '"wlain Street," liable bootlegger? " (Unan swe red, even C hi raQo. lt took the Travelrrs Aid if it could be.) \\· r>r k~r about two seco nd s to solve "·Can you recommend a good play to of the finest workmanship t l1c riddle. Thi s worker had been born ~ce? I want to take my nicer . It inu :-. t We specialize in Antique Furniture, repairs and re-finishing. in a small town and kn ew exactlv be something nice-not vulgar, you Hair Mattresses and Springs made to order. \\'!tat a "Main street" s hould look lik~. know. vVhat would you suggest?" Choice Antiques for Sale ~lte o;;i mply mat?:nificd the picture in "Is there a s tore ncar here when· 8o8 Oak St. Drapery h cr mind h y about iiv e lttmd red d i- I can buy imported Rus sia n rig-arPhone ~ Upholstery et tc s?" amcters and g-otWinn . 145 Established 1895 Fabrics. Statr street! "Is there a Gloria Swanson film ~implr, wasn't it? Ye s, th e wnrker showing in the city this week?" \\'as right ancl in a couple of hours. "\Vltere's the baggage room?" 1()11 !.:!' rnough t o check up, the woman "I \\'ant to. leave so me laundry in \ ltirago to he done up and forwarded '"'a .; wtth her friend s . Ready for Service to me in Kansas Cit v. How sha II I . That'..; just a · small sample of the do it?" kind of thing- the Travelers Aid workAnd so it goc~. Fool questions, silly ··rs arc doinQ en:ry day-giYing serv- questi.nns, important que~tions, th ey ice . They helped 80,000 traveler s last arc all answered But th e real func\ .\ 'Car in pretty nearly as many diffrrcnt tion of the Travelers Aid is to help way s. No problem is too simple or too those with sn iotts problems. difficult for them to tackle, and solve. Tl1er e :nc. for in s tance, the little The se problems run the full gamut unmarncd mothers - to-be- and their frnm farce to tragedy. with a measure name is legion-who flee their homes of melodrama thrown in . These trained to hide in th e city. Hundreds of them workers will take the lost and panic arc intercepted yearly before they strick<:n, and give comfort and protec - succeed in ·slippinf.{ out of the station, tion, or they'll tell the inquiring trav- cared for, and returned to their friends. eler vvherc to buy a postage stamp. All llcre is wltcrc the tart, gentleness, inis grist to their mill, providing it · con- t uit ion · an cl human undcrs tancli"ng that stit utc s a service. arc the es se ntials of the workers' During its dozen or more years of equipment, g-et full play. The trained activity the society has made not a worJ,er seldom mi sses tlllC of these single appeal to the public for financial desperate rhildrcn. for most of them assistance. Tt has relied upon private arc little more. Tl1cy are quick to Upholstering and Cabinet Work H. G. Lindwall §!Jlllllllllll I IN EVANSTON IIJJIIJUJIJIJIIIJIJIIJIIIIIIIJJJIIJJJIJIIIJJJJIJIIIJIJIJIIIIIJJJJIIIIIIIJJIIIJIIIIIIJI Dinners Which Bid You Come Again ~===--Catherine Reckitt' s Hotel rooms as low as $80 the month. 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