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Show H THE HEAVY COST OF HHV. vagrancy HHYl A speaker at ono of tho Chautau- Mj qua assemblies said a fow days ago JSJS that thoro aro now 500,000 vagrants MjYMB tramping It over tho United States, j' Ho figured that this annual tax costs t tho country $125,000,000 a year, to jVjVjV say nothing of tho loss of work thru JSJSj tho idleness ot so great n population. JSJV Tho vast army of vagrancy draws jVjYJj Its recruits from ovory vlllago. Every jVjV -where,' thoro aro boys who nro daz- MjYMMj sled by tho hollow fascinations ot a BjYjBj wandering llfo. Parents with restloss ftSK , , wilful youngsters need to watch out ' UMMMMMfc JVMJr ,t umMJVMJMMS mBLJmmmmmmsLk JMMMMMMMMMSMMMMMMMMMMMn.MiaHMM very carofully, It they wish to savo their boys from tho peril of tho road. Years ago It used to ho said that dlmo novolB lured hoys to go tramping. tramp-ing. Today it is laid on tho movies. Hut tlio same drift would bo seen if there v.ero no dlmo novels and no movies. Tlicso boys havo n morbid, nervous craving for excitement, nnd the quiet life of home and school palls on them. Idleness can not bo cured by ti haling hal-ing tho hoy. Something interesting must be put Into his llfo to tnko up his attention. Oct him Into some club where ho can havo a chanco to play baseball, football, or basketball. A good trimming ndminlstered to tho hated nlthetlc rivals from tho next town Is an untldotc ot many roving humors. Many hoys nro allowed to ncqulro tho habit ot loafing around railroad stations. Tills results in accidents. Mnny n man who hobbles nround through llfo on a wooden leg got It not In wnr or honest work on n factory fac-tory machine, but by hopping freights as n boy. But this is not tlio most langerous aspect of tho station loafing habit. Tho railroad lines are tho great national na-tional tramp thoroughfare. Tramps always hang around railroad yards, looking for guileless boys whom thoy can lure on the road to chaso food nnd nsslst In sneak thieving. Tho boy who lonfs around In theso quarters quar-ters Is pretty suro to encounter theso temptations, at a tlmo when ho has no conception of their peril. |