Show rs r 7 j J I i e The Ci Crime ime Wave i i KY mil ihLA I WILCOX tj 4 S Over In too tuo ol old world the traveler i t Is t J. J bown hown Inah Instruments or of torture and told tt of or tho ho fiendish methods method employed In Int t h 6 gone by-gone gollo ouo times Umes for 01 the fiendish h murder j j of ot human beings who differed in ref re- re f lf II ron for or politics from those in power c. c Burying Burying- the offender alive all wax was a fat fat fa- fa t with vcr very devout people J In n positions of authority Wo Yo wonder f V at the tho horrible Ignorance anti and unutterable t r able lc cruelty of or men who lived In tho those e f days I. I We Wo e feel so enlightened and IlIum- IlIum mated here In America that we send n i vast sums of ur monc money each year to convert conr convert con con- r vert the heathens abroad But right light in our midst children are arc growing up who whose c natures are arc allowed to dc develop Jop n cruelty unspeakable and no large organized effort Is on foot to educate these children In humanity and find Kind hind tress ness In order to illustrate my meaning I give 1 0 a portion of or a letter received b by me recently n from Now v ork City Imagine a l manhole for electric f wiring live feet by live twenty feet Iron hood with deep covered co by an nn 1 4 loun round mound hole hoJe Iron rod steps three feet i apart In a Q hea heavy wall that this cold prison Is In date up-to-date date tu New York CIt City near the foot toot of West cst One Hundred and Sixtieth Six SK- street t in a lonely an and desolate d pot pol on the Hudson river Thank God J 1 wanted to see the tho sun bun set on onon Monday on ny nl 10 On 1 tho ho narrow path that cuts cut r through from flum ruin Lafayette avenue a to Furl For j Washington avenue a were fi five happy p r ho boys s ran ranging In age from 11 to 1 14 4 y years eats cars They wrestle with CIlC each 1 other throw stones after cows and horses fr tear Lear the thc wings of butterflies tramp trample e y On bu bugs bug s and lau laugh and laugh h and lall laugh h. h r Those buys boys with a little black CUlf cur cum 7 f. f happily after them them were were e F noising around on the rocks and ana the C wall hall an and caught my mv attention They climbed down several of the manholes V I took took the dog clog down and up several se h places At the thc last hole hol they halloed helloed I saw them next r like Indians When the they climbed up the thc hill to reach rench the avenue a Says ays I I Where Is s your jour dog clog The dog dos without the slightest hesitation The other bo boy took him home the other ollier way a ay pointing pointing- north want him l' l Do you OU No o I just thought you left leCt him t down own there ther No So one of the boys bop tool took tin him I hOl home l' l he belongs s up there pointing I north but do you OU want ant him hint r I a No Xo I The boys bo s 's laughed away up UJ the tho I narrow path where are tho the horses cows colds butterflies and anel bottles eltes Another half hour and antI sun the sank ank down don there far we west t. t Well 11 I T wanted granted to be c sure 5 I climbed down over mer the rocks ocl s up the time wall and down own in the thc hole and brought es that little up those e gleaming eyes in lump o of shivering life Back to Lafayette avenue the black lump hump wa wagging behind There a lady with Kind hint ways an and mild eyes and a little white dog doe found foun sick starving and cast casl out a f w w v years cars ago asked I for Cor and learned the story tor of my 1 nl el and she Ehe Is 15 now nou the mi mistress 3 of or I one more victim of or moll modern rn ignorance I L. L Li i and cowardice co Vor Very 1 respectfully ull yours oura II IL M. M 1 KLAW Fur For years ears cars and ami years the Christian n people of Now New York City have hn been bee n worrying o about out the heathen and sendIng sendIng send send- Ing lag mon money and ml missionaries abroad while tIll this same class of bo boys boysh s 's h who committed the terrible act described In tho the above lei Ic lived i and nna Iau laughed laugh heel h- h ed eel and lied Ilea through tin the streets of or on ou r metropolis No org organized organised effort ha hm been made b by New York or an any other othe A American city to edu educate e these the e boy bob bO along special lines of oC anti antl The American Humane associations association are arc organized to do 10 just this wor work but hut they have ha never novel neon neen endowed by an any of our oui philanthropic people of or wealth to an extent which would enable them then to carry carryon on a n crusade crusado cru ado of oC cruelty anti which will rf roach reach ach all al children in and out of schools am andall antI and all parents and antI teachers as well Han Hai one half of or the amount used In hm for for- n eig-n missions been added to ono one the time amount spent on librarIes and antl had hai this Lund fund been ced b by one halt the funds raised 1 in every church for unneeded adornments the tho great work of ot humane education would have hao made mado maden madea a n r revolution In our world and present presen criminal conditions would woul have ha been beet averted The crime trine wave which Is our land Is not a cloudburst It la Is latho latho I. I tho the result reull of a slowly swelling sea I s formed of Just such uncurbed cruel cruet cruett t l impulses es a as the five n happy boys exhibited ex c.- 1 I in the thc Incident d described I above c I These e boys may have ha been street I children deprived of any moral train Ing InS in this case cac the tho blame blamo r rests upon the philanthropists of or New York who do not make it Jt possible for tor time the humane educational associations to tor r reach ch thc these e children It Is unite quite probable however that the thc boys were children of well-to-do well parents and ra regular attendants ol of public schools Next to nothing Is done by our schools chous public or private t to eliminate cruelty from the nature of or children I. I Indeed children wJ who o are alC sensitive and delicate IJ by nature often orten become I hardened an and coarsened by school life Few parents and amI few teachers give an any systematic effort dally daily to prevent prevent prevent pre pre- pre pre- vent such results as proceed from the mixed association of children rell In our oar schools worn Time precepts maxims antII and antI I lessons do du u little good when given to children without the clo close n sympathetic Interest of parents and teach teach- ers In our pu public schools teachers are arc too burdened and overtaxed to render such individual attention possible In our ou private schools they are too loa much under d-cr d the dominion o of ur f parents At home parents are arc to too Ignorant ol of what parentage means or too weighed neighed hed down with the material car cares s of life i ito to give the Iwed needed attention to th ir children 11 h in ill regard d' d There i is I rhet the work of the humane as- as ro should comp come in This magnificent magnificent mag mag- I as bo bl organization ought iO co o financed C and empowered to work in I I connection with th tho public un and private vale vate schools of and amI to arrange arrange ar ar- I range f a flaB dally in ohrum of or a tow row minI minutes minutes min min- I utes Ules which would call all tho the attention of at the ch children Ildren to time Hie subjects iU that develop time tilt minds of the young in I kindly and aad humane directions s. s. s Not or orlon lon long ago a small boy of or g well well-lo-ut ell to ua parents parents who ride In thou then own own 0 automobile and und s-und their sons eons to college was laughing at the agilIty agility agil agil- ity of a cat which had caught a robin A hearted big hem big ted man spurred the boy on to rescue the bird lIe He rescued It alive c and sent It on Its Ils way rejoicing The hearted big man talked to the boy of or mo tHO nobility 01 of the deed Iced told him how helpless the tilt bird wn was how h his mate mato would 1 have ha grieved cd over 01 its loss and that lint his hll act of or protection of this tits little creature creature crea crea- ture turc made him a veritable lo giant of or manliness s and goodness If It you ha had rescued a n cat from a tI do dog In the same manners manner you have havo he been en a 0 giant slant too the man said h. Always 8 I look ok out nut for fOl the thc distressed dis- dis and per persecuted creature and help It If you ou can came That rhaL evening e the th small boy hoy was heard telling toiling his father with jo Joyful ful tones tunes I have been a n giant to today a I saved l a poor little robin from n a cat I II I frightened tho mho cat away away and the tho bird was raved ed This one little talk tall left lert It Its seed in inthe inthe inthe the childs child's mind Five minutes oi of similar personal persona interest taken in a achild achild achild child dally daily Jail will save the world from such monsters of Ignorant cruelly cruelty a aa as m my correspondent has lias described I But Dul how many in this till Christian land ore are receiving five mia mIra toes utes dall dally daily of or humane education e NOT ONE IN FIVE HUNDRED DRED I 1 doubt if It one In n flue five thousand Not ol ono one of or the colleges or 01 churches of tho the land are arc doing this work nark s systematically and regularly From Flom Sunday schools public schools and private schools n n emerge and antl run upon the lie homeward Wa way frightening cats dogs dog and other aul mats male Just to see ceo them therm jump and killing butterflies and teasinG and ridIculing ridiculing ridiculing rid rid- beggars and anti peddlers and de lIe- All their learning and religion re- re re rc- lon ligion has not taught th them m kindness work is being done tIone b by the American American Amer- Amer ican can Humane associations with headquarters head Head- quarters at Boston ane and Albany Albano Start a crusade to enlarge the usefulness use use- ulness of oC tho those e societies if It you want wan to do o away with the crime wave In fn I AmerIca Vm erica |