Increase Efforts to Protect Immigrants to S.a. from White Slavers

The efforts of those trafticking in white slavery, preying particulary upon newly arrived Jewish immigrants in Argentine, were disclosed in a report made public at the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America. The report sounds a note of warning pointing out the activities of the criminal groups in the Argentine and their agents abroad who select their victims in Eastern Europe, luring them to the Argentine by false promises.

Outlining the work of the Hias for the protection of newly arrived Jewish immigrants, the report states:

“The efforts of the Argentine government and the activities of humanitarian groups have served to make the white slaver uncomfortable with the result that he is using all his resources and cunning to escape the law and to continue to ensnare his victims. The trick of holding out golden promises to young girls and women having been ruthlessly exposed by the Immigrant Aid Society in Buenos Aires and by Hias and its co-operating agencies in Europe, there is now exercised a much greater care on the part of those who grant visas for emigration to these countries. Seldom is a visa granted to a young woman unless it has received the endorsement of Hias whose various offices have made every effort to ascertain the destination of the young woman and all facts in connection with her emigration.

“Finding themselves beset by these careful restrictions, those engaged in the white slave traffic have now resorted to a new craftiness which takes the form of sending young men to Europe, particularly to Poland, where posing as wealthy merchants in search of wives they betray many an innocent victim. Actually going through a marriage ceremony in order to meet all legal complications, these young men announce a determination to return to their business in the Argentine where, immediately upon their arrival, they contrive for the disappeance of their ‘wives’ who falling into the grip of the white slave traffic, seldom escape.”

On Tuesday evening, November 13, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America will tender the Rev. Dr. H. Pereira Mendes an “Invisible Dinner” in recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of his entrance into public life. The guests will listen to the program which will be broadcast over Station WJZ from 7:00 to 8:00 P.M.

The spcakers will be Dr. Elmer E. Brown, Chancellor of New York University: Dr. David de Sola Pool, Rabbi. Spanish and Portugues Synagogue: Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, President, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America. and Professor Nathan Isaacs, of Harvard University, Chairman The Rev. Dr. H.P Mendes National Tribute Committee.

Dr. Mendes will be presented with an illuminated address in tribute of this labors during the past half a century, and the event will be further signalized by the establishment of the Dr.H. Percira Mendes Educational Endowment, the purpose of which is to subsidize Talmud Torahs in small towns and rural communities, publish curricula and text-books and promote Jewish education in the United States.