Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 66, 29 January 1917 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, JAN. 29, 1917

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

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Giles and Hungry Children 'To some it may seem Tiard-hearted and unsympathetic that hungry children should not be given free lunches at school. It is not denied that some children come hungry and ill-nourished to the White- . water and other schools of the city. It is , true, however, that free lunches at school would not reach the cause of this condition which lies in the home, but would only serve to aggravate it. Charitable giving is, perhaps, necessary, but it is plain that it should be given through the home and not to children at school. This is entirely feasible, under the conditions named above, and is in accord with the experience of Philadelphia and other cities where such lunches have been served." Supt. of Schools Giles.

"To some is may seem 'hard-hearted and unsympathetic' that hungry children should not be

jriven free lunches at school." Giles.

Christ says: "Or what man is there of you,

whom if his son ask bread, will give mm a

stone?" We believe every whole-souled man and

woman in the city of Richmond will rise in right

eous indignation against a principle that would

'deny lunches to hungry boys and girls after big

hearted women have collected the money to pro

vide nourishinir food for little ones who eat a

scant breakfast as early as 5 and 6 o'clock in the

morning and must go until noon before they re

ceive another bite. We positively assert that it is ''hard-hearted and unsympathetic" in the extreme sense of the term to deny to these unfortu

nate children the food that they need, for which

they crave, and which has been prepared and is ready to alleviate their suffering. Are you not offering these little children stones instead of bread when through the machination of a "paid agent of public philanthropy" and the support of a superintendent of schools you refuse to give them lunches ? Breathes there a father or a mother in Richmond who does not denounce as "hard-hearted and unsympathetic" the measures that have been employed tojceep the Uttleeboys and girls of Whitewater school from eating the food that human love and sympathy has prepared? It is not denied that some children come hungry and in-nourished to the Whitewater and other schools of the city." Giles. What an admission Giles makes of the deplorable conditions at Whitewater and other schools of the city! Ponder the tragedy of the situation. Children with empty stomachs, little boys and girls casting hungry eyes at crusts of bread, unfortunate tots in the blithesome days of youth when their souls ought to be filled with happiness and gladness, going to school with the gnawing pangs of hunger undermining their physical welfare, laying a condition that will make them weak men and weak women, filling their souls with horror of life and the future, condemned to sit long hours in school and forced to acquire knowledge when they have not the strength to pay attention or to master their lesions. Can you imagine a worse tragedy? Do you believe that these boys and girls can be reared Jto be good patriots? Must these conditions, which

the superintendent of schools admits exist, be perpetuated because Melpolder says free lunches will interfere with his administration of charity in the Whitewater school district and because Giles is aiding and abetting him in his uncharitable stand? We say it is a crime against childhood even if one child 'must suffer hunger. If these conditions prevail in other schools, as Giles says they do, the citizenship of Richmond is permitting the perpetuation of an outrage that is almost as bad as the slaughter of Bethlehem's infants ordered by Herod to kill the Christ-child. "It is true, however, that free lunches at school would not reach the cause of this condition, which lies in the home, but would only serve to aggravate it." Giles. . If children go to school hungry because they do not get enough food at home, why doesn't the Central Charity Bureau, of which Giles is presi-. dent, remedy the conditions in the home? What is being done with the money that the citizens of this city are putting up to run the bureau? Why

does not Giles, as president of the Charity Bureau and cognizant as he admits he is of the wretched :onditions in the homes that are sending hungry children to school, instruct his secretary, Melpolder, to apply remedial measures at once? Does Giles believe that the citizens of Richmond would appose the expenditure of money which gives little children enough to eat? Isn't his statement

an absolute admission that either he is guilty in not reporting deplorable conditions to the Bureau, or that his secretary, Melpolder, is remiss in the administration of aid where it is needed? Hasn't scientific charity of the kind administered under Melpolder been a rank failure, a disgrace to the community, if conditions are tolerated that will permit boys and girls to go hungry?" And why would free lunches serve to aggravate conditions in these homes ? By what process of logic does Giles reach the conclusion that free lunches for hungry children, appeasing the pangs of hunger, wiU pauperize their homes, make their fathers and mothers "objects of charity" and dependents on public philanthropy? "Charitable giving is, perhaps, necessary, but it is plain tfmt it should be given through the home and not to children at school." -Giles. If "scientific charity," as administered by a "paid agent of public philanthropy" and as understood by Giles, as president of the Central Charity Bureau which hires Melpolder, does not reach the home, and permits poverty to remain there without alleviation, pray tell, what shall become of the poor children? How can charity be given to the child through the home if Melpolder does not see that the relief reaches the home? Shan these children, according to the reasoning of Giles, stay hungry and keep on going to school hungry? Giles admits there is poverty in the homes ; Melpolder, hislsecretary, has neglected to give relief in the homes; and yet Giles expects these children to be helped at home. The logic in this reasoning is so unsound that any one can see how palpably weak is Giles' opposition to lunches from the standpoint of a "scientific" administration of charity through his Bureau. We say, Melpolder has not reached the homes, the children are hungry, and if good women are willing to feed these hungry little ones through an "old-fashioned" lunch,- Giles ought not to object but ought to thank God that there are enough warm-blooded women in this city to answer a caU for help when they hear it. "This is entirely feasible, under the conditions named above, and is in accord with the experience of Philadelphia and other cities where such lunches have been tried." GUes. The conditions referred to by Giles are (1) that NO FREE LUNCHES BE GIVEN; (2) that the lunches be under the management of the domestic science department of the schools. The first condition is incomprehensible. If some children are to have the right to buy lunches, why should not lunches BE GIVEN FREE to the poor children who cannot pay for them. The

women of this city proposed to pay for these lunches, so that NO- CHILD in -Whitewater school would go hungry. Giles evidently prefers a hungry child in Whitewater school to one that receives a free lunch given by a kind woman. We cannot understand the man. Does he mean to say that he can stand by unmoved and see a little girl, with the pinch of poverty on her face, watch a more fortunate schoolmate eat a lunch which she bought? Does he mean to say that he cannot understand what emotions must surge through that poor little girl's soul as she stands there knowing that not through her fault, but because her father is poor and unfortunate she did not get enough to eat at breakfast, that hunger is gnawing like a grim wolf at her vitals, that the lunch which her happy little playmate is eating represents a social gulf which she cannot cross X Does he mean to say that through an order which he, as superintendent of schools handed down, that this poor girl, with the image of God written in her soul, a just claimant to all the joys of childhood, a "little sister" of every aristocrat

or trench digger in the city of Richmond, must be denied the food and consequent happiness which a band of noble women in this community

are ready to hand her, so that she may feel in her

little soul that even if her father is poor, the

wives, sisters and mothers of more fortunate fathers look upon her verily as the Christ wants them to do namely, as their little daughter and sister on whom they may visit a little of their own prosperity ? The attitude of Giles on his first condition is intolerable. If the women of this city want to play the godmother to the little unfortunate children in

Whitewater school, GUes ought to be big enough to discard the advice of John Melpolder, and, as a father and brother, teU the women to go ahead

and make themselves and others happy by dis

pensing charity. And John Melpolder ought to turn away his face in shame every time he sees

a pupU of Whitewater school.

As to the second condition of Giles, it need only be said that this is a point of school adminis

tration to which the women would have assented gladly provided the restrictions would not have killed the movement. The objections which Giles as a schoolman interposed between the women and free lunches can be swept aside in an instant. Remember, however, that not the conditions of Giles as a schoolman, but the objections of Melpolder, to which Giles as president of the Social Service Bureau gave his assent, killed the free lunch movement.

The Gold of the Gods D-y A-fl,.,-. D Doovo (A Mystery of the Incas Solved by Dy ATiaUT D. lYCCVC Craig Kennedy, Scientific Detective)

With something more than naif his work done, he paused a moment to rest "Walter," he directed, mopping his forehead, for it was real work directing that flaming knife, "get New York on the wire. See if O'Connor is in his office. If he has any report, I want to talk to him." It was getting late and the service was Blackening up. I had some trouble in getting a good connection, but at last I got headquarters and was overjoyed to hear O'Connor's blufT, Irish voice bloom back at me. "Hello, Jameson," he called. "Where on earth are you? I've been trying to get hold of Kennedy for a couple of hours. Rockledge? Well, is Kennedy there? Put him on, will you? I called Craig and, as I did so. my curiosity got the better of me and I sought out an extension of the wire in a den across the hall from the library, where I could listen in on what was said. , "Hello, O'Connor," answered Craig. "Anything from Burke yet?" "Yes," came back the welcome news. "I think be has a clue. We found out from here that she received a long distance message during the afternoon. Where did Jameson say you were Rockledge? that's the place. Of course we don't know what the message was, but anyhow she went out to meet some one right after that. The time corresponds with what the maid says." "Anything else?" asked Craig. Hove you found any one who saw her?" "Yes; I think she went over to your laboratory. But you were out." "Confound it!" interrupted Craig. "Some one saw a woman there." "It wasn't the maid?" "No, this was earlier in the afternoon. She left and walked across the campus to the Museum." "Oh, by the way, any word of Norton?" "I'm coming to that. She inquired for Norton. The curator has given a good description. But he was out hadn't been there for 6ome time. She seemed to be very much upset over something. She went away. After that we've lost her." "Not another trace?" "Wait a minute. We had this Rockledge call to work on. So we started backward on that. It was Whitney's place, I found out. We could locate the car at the start and at the finish. He left the Prince Edward Albert and went up there first. Then he must have come br-ck to the city again. No one at the hotel saw him the second time. "What then?" hastened Craig. "She may have met him somewhere though it's not likely she had any intention of going away. All the rest of those people you have up there seem to have gone prt(patftflr& Wi got something on each of them. Also you'll be intereted to know I've got a report of,, your, pwn doings. It was right, Kennedy, I don't blame you. I'd have done the same' with Bourke on the job. How are you making out? What? You're cracking a crib? With what?" : O'Connor whistled as Kennedy re-' lated the story of the blow-pipe. "I think you're on the right track," he commended. "There's nothing to show it, but I believe Whitney told; her something that changed her nind ! about going up there. Probably met!

her in some tea room, although we ; can't find out anything from the tea : rooms. Anyhow, Burke's out trailing

along the road from New York to Rockledge and I'm getting reports from him whenever he hits a telephone." "I wish you'd ask him to can me, here, if he. gets anything." "Sure I will. The last call was from the Chateau Rouge that's about halfway. There was a car with a man and a woman who answers her description. Then, there was another car, too." "Another car?" "Yes that's where Norton crosses the trail again. We searched his apartment. It was upset like Whitney's. I haven't finished with that. But we have a list of all the private hacking places. I've located one that hired a car to a man answering Norton'sdescription. I think he's on the trail. That's rhat I meant by another car." . "What's he doing?" "Maybe he has a hunch. I'm getting superstitious about this case. You know Louia de Mendoza has thirteen letters in it. Leslie told me something about a threat he had a curse. You better look out for those two greasers you have up there. They may have another knife for you." Kennedy glanced over at the de Moches, not in fear but in amusement at what they would think if they could hear O'Connor's uncultured opinion. "All right, O'Connor," said Craig, "everything seems to be going as well as we can expect. Don't forget to tell Burke I'm here." "I won't. Just a minute. He's on another wire for me." Kennedy waited impatiently. ' He wanted to finish his job on the safe before some one came walking in and stopped it, yet there was always a chance that Burke might turn up something. To be continued

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News from Modoc

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The body of Mrs. Lemuel Graham arrived here last week from Oklahoma, accompanied .by her eon George, and was Interred in the Huntsville cemetery. Mrs. Graham died thirty years ao and was buried in the west, but ber" desire was that, he body be sent

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