Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1914 — Street Waifs Only Need a Chance to Make Good on Their Merits [ARTICLE]

Street Waifs Only Need a Chance to Make Good on Their Merits

By THOMAS F. SCULLY.

Judge of the Chicago Bogs’ Home

SEVENTY-FIVE per cent of the boys ought never to be brought into court, they have never had a chance; they sleep in box cars and under sidewalks; THEY HAVEN’T ENOUGH TO EAT- * i THEY AREN’T ALLOWED IN SOME PA’RTS OF THE CITY TO PLA'i EVEN BASEBALL IN THE STREETS. ALL THAT MOST OF THESE BOYS NEED IS A WORD OF FRIENDLINESS. THEY AREN’T BEGGARS. GIVE THEM A CHANCE AND THEY MAKE GOOD ON THEIR OWN MERITS. ' Under the “big brother” movement seventy-live boys were taken in charge by members of the Elks fraternity. A Out of this number seventv 'four “made good.” The seventy-fifth left town and has not been heai-d from. - . 1 am not in favor of organized charities. The boy gets the idea that he is to be cared for from the cradle to the grave. WHAT HF SHOULD HAVE IS A CHANCE. BUSINESS MEN SHOULD GIVE HIM A CHANCE TO WORK FOR HIMSELF.