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Show The Queatioo of the Day. We hear constantly this, "What shall be done with our girls?" Let me supplement supple-ment that with "What shall be done witb our boys:" What are we to do for the incoming in-coming generation? Never mind that which is yet to be. What are we to dc with the 300,000 children who go to school in New York city today, with tho 50,000 who roam the streets of New York witb nothing to do today, with the 8,000 messenger mes-senger boys, of whom 2,000 are graduated gradu-ated from service every year, turned loose, untrained, undisciplined, sharp as needles, nee-dles, upon the community? The man who writes, at the close of a period of fifty years hence, the memories of half a century, cen-tury, will have a curious story to tell. This great city, like a magnet, draws the youths of all sections of the country hither. They come with mental aspirations, aspira-tions, with hearts full of desire, with willing hands to encounter rebuffings, to meet disappointments, to be surrounded with dangers and temptations and ultimately ulti-mately to fall into that terrible morass of wonder, of apprehension, of belief that society owes them a living, and, not paying pay-ing it3 debts, must be compelled, in some way or other, to disgorge. Howard in New York Press. |