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What Is a White Slave? Not since the distinguished French journalist, A. Londres, wrote The Road to Buenos Aires in 1928 has the White Slave situation in the Argentine been authoritatively reported. But at 341 Calle Lavalle, Buenos Aires, The National Vigilance Association continues its rescue and prevention work under the direction of Mrs. Lighten Robinson...
...reports that during 1929 it was possible to rescue and send home to France one young woman, a seamstress, who considered herself a White Slave, considered that she had been lured out to the Argentine and put to the most dreadful of trades against her will...
Economic Facts. In advising anyone, white or black, slave or free, male or female who expects to go to Buenos Aires the important thing to stress is the terrific cost of living, higher than almost anywhere else. This economic fact is really the basis of the White Slave traffic. Young women are promised and young women are paid for dancing, sums which would be "big money" in Europe, but in the Argentine they are so meagre that the dancer becomes the hostess and the hostess the common or uncommon daughter...
...were flooded with liquor from the wet states, and the federal laws were flouted very much more than the present law. My own judgment is that the present law should be enforced and should continue until the saloon idea has become as thoroughly discredited in this country as the slave-block. Meanwhile, the states should pass concurrent legislation as provided for in the Eighteenth Amendment, and then when the American people are thoroughly convinced that laws will be enforced and that our Constitution will be respected and that open deflance of the Constitution is a form of treason, it will...
...heart. Occasionally one of the young men is allowed to stay for the night. Many of them are in love with her; none dreams of marrying her, for in spite of her superior education and her charm, her social position is not much better than that of a slave...