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tises, would cut off his patronage from us absolutely. If there were a single offender, or a few offenders it would be different. Taken together, they are too many-for us. We will have to sawllow our indignation." So I attempted to swallow mine, but it doesn't go down. I would like to tell the truth and I can't do it. In some of the stores here there are girl cashiers who handle daily hundreds or thousands of dollars. Often they are in great haste. Any error is charged against them. In stances have been known where at the end of the day they would be in debted to the firm, but. not to their own profit, and this would be exacted. Accurate cashiers at $5 a week! One cashier resigned from her position and discovery was made that she had left a shortage of S1.50. A collector was sent with orders to bring back the money. When he found the girl's "home," observed its haggard air of squalor, and heard her tearful and probably truthful statement that if there had been an error she did not know it, he went back with the statement that the girl had moved, and that he could not find her. He knew that to lie was wicked, but when he told me of the incident he did not seem to "nave the lie on his conscience much. A fearless press is demanded. The daily press is hampered and curbed. Most of the weekly press is in worse condition, being subservient to the very element that in this city and elsewhere expresses its worth by stamping upon the face of the girl worker the .marks of starvation, and opening a pit for her feet. Journalists who are in a position to' speak their minds, and who do so, should remember that there are a lot of us who have the ambition but not the opportunity, and who are ready, as chance affords, to hold up the hands of jthe brave pioneers in the too-little-tracked realm of -honesty. Our hearts are all right, but we have no papers of our own, haven't sense j enough to get any, and, while we are grinding out commonplaces, are grinding.'our teeth over emotions that would not seem commonplace at all could they get into print. . POLICE OF COUNTRY- PARTNERS OF WHITE SLAVERS Washington, April 21. Mrs. Kate Richardss O'Hare, editor of the Rip saw, declared at a mass meeting yes terday that the police are part and parcel of the white slave traffic. The local police vigorously denied the charge, but Mrs. O'Hare only re iterated her charge in answer. . "One hundred and twenty-five, thousand women of the underworld .are killed by disease or are self-slain every year," she said. "One hundred and twenty-five thousand healthy daughters take their places. "Vice is due to economic condi tions. The low wages paid the ma jority of men workers is fully as re sponsible for the social evil as the low wages paid the women workers. As the men cannot earnv enough to sup port their families and provide the needed nourishment the women must go to work. Their downfall, in many instances, follows. "The white slave traffic is fully or ganized, with offices, branch offices and traveling salesmen. The police of every city in the United States, in cluding Washington, protect the slav er and do not protect his victim. The local police did not protect the women who marched in public appeal for votes March 3. But they did not fail to protect the drunken youths who crowded the segregated district that same night." o o British parliament is to consider a bill limiting employment of boys and girls to .36 "hours per week so they can go to night school. Wonderful what a movement in behalf of human beings is on, all over the world. o o Goes against the. grain. The reaper,