| Show misfortunate CHILDREN there are school children in new york city askins or an to be improved mentally who fare excluded by reason of the fact that the school buildings are inadequate to accommodate the mighty army of little ones seeking an education they are to be put on halt time as in a measure ameliorative of their unfortunate condition but the deprived ot schooling are not less fortunate than the as estimated by robert hunter sent to school each morning without breakfast the victims of tho pinch of poverty air hunters statement has been it was asserted in support ot that denial that the salvation army had established a system of tree breakfasts tor school children but that as soon as the novelty had worn ott the children ceased to attend mr hunter now returns undaunted to the attack he points out that the state board of charities recently instituted an inquiry ot which the result was to show that nearly 14 per cent of the children in the poor schools attended such schools without the preliminary breakfast mr hunter says that Is worse than he supposed he believed that even the poorest children were given coffee and bread which probably did them more harm than good but that so large a number had absolutely no food at all was a revelation that startled even him if such an investigation was actually made if its result was as i as been stated the question Is not open to any further discussion as to facts which arc thereby proved it is however quite easy to understand why there should be a disposition to hide or to minimize a situation so distressing so pitiable and so discreditable mr hunter enumerates some of the results of child starvation and they are so obvious that they need not be repeated he docs not however touch upon the relation between starvation and crime and such relation must be very real the child inured to starvation can hardly become other than a criminal citizen and that such children ever escape from criminality is a triumphant proof of innate virtue that it would be hard to explain |
