Show Other Points of View GRI GRINDING CHILDREN FOR I PENNIES I A teacher in a 3 school on the lower cast eMt side makes makes- a protest In The Tho Evening Sun against r. r the tho constant effort to get from her pupils money for great causes Tho I children she says are miserably cloth clothed d. d apparently Undernourished undernourished un Un- UnI I and give every evidence e of coming from I homes where tho last penny penn Is needed for tho thu bare baro necessaries of life Ute And yet et sho eho says It ft Is tho the task of the tho I teacher to to be constantly begging them to bring their I pennies for some Borne great g cause causo or another another'S I The Thc near east enst relief drive Is Just over To this for I omo reason eason they responded nobly The Red Cross needs needs I their money moncy and believe bellevo me me It is hard sledding and now c comes mes some somo bright mind with the Idea that these children should be delighted to give money for tor a statue on the Marne Mame Of or course the saving savin stamp business must be pu pushed hed d dally daily h the school is supporting a n. French French orphan a school paper containing pictures of or the school from Various various va Va- arious a rious angles and md other equally equall Important matter must be besold besold sold and tho the starving Armenians we have with us always alwa's It grieves this teacher to ask these children for tor mone money She thinks It contemptible to their loyalty loyally and class pride So do we wc everybody who understands the children of or the poor knows that the tho poor poorer r tho the child the h harder It Is not to give when the more fortunate children are giving Class pride may bo false falso pride but it exists and ind It should not be aggravated 3 Let the tho managers o of OC the tho great drives go 10 after atter bigger game gamo amo than these school children Now Now ew York Times |