| Show Good Citizens You Can Help the Police Stop This Reign of Crime Crime Do Do Your Duty for the good citizens of Salt We Ve would like to suggest a n way Lake to aid the police in fri ridding the city of its bad citizens With a wave of crime sweeping the cit city 1 it is high time the people helped as much as possible in the elimination of criminals and loafing in downtown Many idle men are on the streets meeting places THEY MANY OF THE THEM r ARE HONEST AND POOR ARE ALSO HUNGRY AND WITHOUT MEANS WITH WHICH TO PAY FOR THEIR LODGING The They should have a chance 11 to earn a living They want no charity they have enough pride to make charity humiliating They want to work for their bed and board and they are entitled to such opportunity RIFFRAFF RIFFRAFF RIFFRAFF RIFF RIFF- ONES BELONG TO THE MANY OF THE IDLE RAFF CLASS THEY THINK THE WORLD OWES THEM A LIVING LIVING AND THEY REFUSE TO EARN THAT THE ORDINARY CITIZENS SHUN I THEY SHUN WORK YORK AS SMALLPOX The They should be driven out of the city Here is a way for the thc people to help the police honest who are arc idle to cleanthe clean cleanthe cleanthe Let the residents pay the men sidewalks Then the police could the ice and snow from their and punish the latter or separate the worthy from the unworthy drive them from Salt Lake The Th police would undoubtedly be glad to aid the residents of The Commercial club has a free the the- city in getting workmen able to is and Army eager employment agency The Salvation assist unless it is necessary It harms a man to give him charity PAY HIM FOR IT HELPS HIM TO GIVE HIM HI I WORK VORK AND TO KEEP HIS SELF RESPECT AND HONESTY If the people on one side of the street in one block would pay their pro rata share for cleaning the sidewalks o one e man could pay for his meals and bed two or three days and keep his head up with the pride of having earned his living THE HOUSE TO HOUSE BEGGAR SYSTEM H HAS S GROWN TO ALARMING PROPORTIONS IN SALT LAKE SI SIMPLY BECAUSE BECAUSE BECAUSE BE BE- CAUSE KIND HEARTED WO WOMEN IEN GIVE SO LIBERALLY TO ALL WHO APPLY WITH A SORROWFUL STORY In the first This is a dangerous system for several reasons pla place e sneak thieves frequently use this dodge to give them an opportunity to pilfer something Scouts for burglars also assume assume assume as as- sume the role of beggar to get the lay ulay of the land Too often a sympathetic woman aids a criminal in his plans to rob her home hume There is a charity organization that is supposed to take care of such cases ses It should have a chance and any money that is to tobe tobe be given should be contributed to its funds If the women who give so readily to the beggars at their door would spend the same amount of money paying an honest man for honest work in cleaning the sidewalk they would be accomplishing accomplish accomplish- ing something worth while There is nothing more wasteful than misdirected charity The right kind of men want work not sympathy hy and alms One organization in this city had many applications for as as- It finall finally got some timber and told every applicant for charity that he could chop up the timber and make piles of kindling and he would be paid for his labor THE NU NUMBER IBER OF I APPLICANTS DROPPED EIGHTY PER CENT IN ONE WEEK I It is unjust to the twenty per cent who gladly accepted the work york to be classed with the eighty per cent who shunned it Therefore an able bodied man who begs but re refuses u s work that is offered him should be reported to the police and either Cither run out of town or put to work with the chain gang THERE MUST I BE A HOUSE CLEANING HERE WITH TEN SERIOUS CRI CRIMES rES IN IN FORTY EIGHT HOURS SALT l LAKE MUST 1 BEGIN TO REALIZE ITS DANGER Let some of the good citizens who are condemning the police f. f 0 for inefficiency do their duty first by showing a little civic pride in regard to their sidewalks Our heart bleeds for the man who has self respect and wants to labor for his living liv ng but who is forced to accept charity For charity is a curse as often as it is a blessing It strips many men of their self respect It never leaves one exactly as it found him And if a man is inclined the least bit to be shiftless and lazy he seldom gets over the bad effect of living a short while without giving any labor in return When a man is hungry homeless and despondent is it any wonder that he becomes desperate after begging for work and Ending dinding none Give this kind o of man the chance he deserves then Salt Lake Lak can drive the vicious and worthless men from the city or put them to work under guards HELP THE POLICE TO HELP YOU I |
