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Show Children of the Pavements Several times we have come in contact wrth many poor ildren who swarm on the pavements and in the gutters of this great city by the big Salt Sea. Just picture a flock of ten children, all small, of one father and mother, poor, dirt-covered, ragged and thinly clad. We have seen them more than once herding themselvs while the parents were out spreeing, without breakfast and with little hope of any dinner. They are so near the center of Zion, or were before they were evicted, that you could step out of one of the big banks and almost touch hands with them. If there is a sadder and more pitiful sight in Salt Lake we do not know of it. But, who cares about this condition? Apparently, no one so long os there is money to be gathered and hoarded. But the ruling classes and social and church leaders had better care, for soon these "lost" souls will grow up and become voters and then they will out vote and govern their one daughter, Coldie Locks, and their one son, Junior. Then they may wish that they had done something for these products pro-ducts of poverty and dirt and sin. It is not unlikely that Cod will be ashamed of the favored classes who have brought about conditions that make such images of his handiwork. We of this paper try to make our every effort count toward to-ward the uplift and rehabilitation of such as these children, and we would go to any length that men and our means will let us to make a happy fireside clime and a world of joy and happiness and plenty for them. It is millions like them that the Master had in mind when he said, "Inasmuch "Inas-much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, ye have done it unto Me." |
