THE HIDDEN TRAGEDIES.
Who can depict the crying, aching hearts of these lost women of the levees?
Who can tell of the agonies undergone in their short existences?
Who can know of the sleepless nights, of the hours of remorse and despair?
Who can imagine the physical pain of the eating, wasting diseases?
All the world’s wretchedness, sorrow, hunger, thirst and suffering lies behind the lurid lights of the “redlight” haunts. Behind the paint and powder is the blue-white color of coming death.
Every year, a thousand of these women outlive their usefulness to their brutal masters! This is the record for one city. Authorities say this record for the country is 60,000!