Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-04-09 | Page 19 | Stop Developing Beggars

u Stop Developing Beggars s j The announcement that the Charity Organization society through its new secretary would foster a campaign to take little boys tiff boys Off ff c the streets W who lO now st stand nd and beg eg people for street car transfers was wasa a welcome news This is IS an evil evl that has b been en allowed to grow to large proportions in Salt Lake No city would willingly allow boys to develop the habit of steal- steal 1 h g. g Y Yet ot we see little difference between the moral degeneration of person who begs when he lie does not have to beg and one vho who ste steals ls jg fl when he does not have to steal to live ft A boy taught to secure his daily living by begging will be just I as worthless to his community as his playmate who is taught to pick v pockets r A person can not dismount from a street car ear now without being molested by a lot of urchins pleading for his transfer In the first j place that boy is ruined mined when he is allowed to develop this begging r habit In the next place he is made a party to a dishonest i tion HE KNOWS KNOVS AND THE PERSON WHO VHO ONCE IN A AWHILE WHILE f r GIVES HIM A TRANSFER KNOWS THAT BOTH OF THEM ARE STEALING f.-STEALING TEALING WHEN THEY CARRY OUT THIS TRANSACTION They do not hurt the street car company enough to do any 7 t harm The company is rich and can afford to lose Jose the fares that it is is' cheated out of by the giving away of the transfers BUT CAN i. i si THE rIlE BOYS AND THE PERSONS WHO VHO GET THE TRANSFERS I r PROM FROM PRO I THE CONDUCTORS THUS AFFORD TO BECOME DISHONEST DISHONEST DIS- DIS HONEST It was the great philosopher who sized up the situation correctly when his his his' lamp a p was stolen He didn't moan over his loss but he lie sympathized with the man who took the lamp There are enough dishonest men mell and confirmed beggars now wit without t training any more more It is a moral certainty that no boy bOJ who spends his time at street car stopping places whining to to- tomen men and women to give him a transfer which can not honestly be used by any other person can eVer eYer amount to anything The new se secretary of the Charity Organization society makes his bow in proper prope fashion when he begins trying to save small smail boys bOJ's from froma a contamination that is extremely dangerous