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Mr. Algernon Frissell of the Fifth Avenue Bank was a member of the Board of Directors. Therefore my parents thought that must be all right - they were good, honest people.

The job that I was to go to was in Philadelphia. I wrote to Miss Kellor; we exchanged letters back and forth. It turned out that this was a new organization just getting formed. She was making the program. The fact was that there were a lot of people who were interested and some good people had joined it under Miss Kellor's prodding. They had raised a little money, but not very much.

The problems that were facing the situation were these. There were a great many immigrant girls coming into Philadelphia without any plan or program for their lives. They were mostly being exploited. The commercial lodging houses were little better than brothels. They were being taken there. There were commercial groups of their own fellow countrymen who were ready to exploit them and who would charge them twenty-two dollars for driving them from the Reading railroad station where they came in in North Philadelphia to a lodging house that wasn't more than five or six blocks away. But they were ignorant and they didn't know, so they would pay out all the money they had to be taken to this place. Then they ran employment offices, as they called them, where they would get them jobs.