Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-04-29 | Page 13 | Work of 'I'm a Gentleman Club' Creating a New 'Bowery Boy'

Work of Im Tm a Gentleman Club Cre New Bowery Boy 5 Creating ting a f s n nr tUTU NEW Y mK April 28 The 28 The next time Al AI Smith visits the Bowery Dowery he Is going to receive the shock of ot his hla life lite Yes sir The old place Isn't the samo same any more Instead of ot a gangS gang Ing of boys hangIng hangIng hang- hang Ing lag around on street corners shootIng shootIng shoot Ing lag craps swearing and gambling and Instead of ot long-legged long cops dashing around corners after youngsterS youngsters youngsters young young- I with red tongues thrust out out out-he he is going t to find little lit lit little tle tIe gentlemen playing clean healthful games while frocked blue policemen stand around idly I Why h he will gasp in amazement amaze amaze- ment meat all thIs this I And then perhaps some nimble tongued reformed rascal w 11 tell him of their new leader their leader he their y pal ft and teacher teacher Miss Miss I t Elizabeth Jus Jus- tice He lIe will tell i of ot their Im a ag Gentleman a club which Miss Justice Jus Jus- g tice has ea started ta for fot or them He lie will Iii tell of ot their weekly meetings evEr every Monday night dight at att ati the Salvation Army Bowery Corps building O 3 49 Bowery flowery And then when Al AI with eager ears and popping eyes listens lIsten the reformed one will tell tellof tellof tellof of the things they are doing at their meetings Part of ot each Monday evening Is devoted to testimonials Then the thebO'S boys bOS who range from seven years ears old to fourteen and fifteen will get gilt up and tell what they are doIng do- do Ing to become little I One Monday night a few weeks I ago one of ot the older boys and one ot of the toughest bo boys s In the got grot up and started in to tell some of oC the bad things he had been doing during the week Ho lIe was rather boastful of ot his misdeeds I at first He lie told how In one week weel he had shot craps threw a brick at a II policeman stole money from his mother played hookey hOoke four tour times got Into four tour fights tights and wound up by getting his nose broken bro bro- ken The other fellers tellers laughed at his li accomplishments I en But w when this I boy saw how sorry rr he e was I Ia making in a his l pockets o Miss Justice pulled U d out ho dug some e down downin dice 1 cards and and with a very husky voice declared There Im I'm through with those This of ot course was the heroic thing for him to do seeing that he ho was standing up In front of more than forty of ot his confederates and erstwhile pals Ills His move was a signal for the whole o gang gang They all followed I his example a J Jl l and nd d marched up to Miss I Justices Justice's desk and pu put pul there a miscellaneous mis mis- collection of oC cards card dice take put tops toP etc ete that would have made o. o envious Now ow on Monday nights all have ha I something to sa say When hen I J shoot craps raps I lose all nil my mv I money one of ot the boys said last Monday nl night ht When I don dont don't t shoot shoo craps God makes me keep my money mon mon- ey When I X lie He Im I'm not happy another another an an- other saidI said I can can sleep good when I say a a. third one vouched my prayers I cant can't If It I dont don't say my prayers sleep I because God healed my eye went to SundaY Sunday school and prayed a fourth boy testified i night marked the Last Mond Monday fifth meeting of ot the Im a a. Gentleman Gentleman Gentle Gentle- the man nc club club club who o There stands rae is at a the h captain al door na and to wants to come to the each boy who that tell the captain meeting must gentleman gentleman gentleman gentle gentle- he Is s a a gentleman Im a II man is their password When their club they c come me In they have meeting first and then they adjourn upstairs for recreation Just be before be- be have a for tore fore the they go home they song f test feet est I l I like k kh the h singing best J of rW all on one of the h boys o declared a When we go home we we sing sinS and then w ware we weare weare are not nol afraid Once a mon month the Im a a. Gentleman Gentleman Gentleman Gentle Gentle- man club has a party Of course these parties partie depend to ton a great ex extent extent ex- ex tent on contributions a and d the boys out of ot their meager savings are putting their pennies In for these 1 parties And so so In this way th the th bo boys of the Bowery today are becoming the gentlemen of ot tomorrow I The Bible story of Ot f the creation crea crea- creation tion Is not consistent t with the evolutionists' evolutionists theory that man manIs manIs I Is d descended depended ended from a n. monkey t Eve make mako a monkey out of ot Adam Adam Southern Lumberman