Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-04-21 | Page 4 | In the Larger Communities

IN THE LARGER COMMUNITIES CO M Id U N ITt ES There are between and 14 persons persona living In the aile alleys alles s of Washington in lit a condition of o ex extreme extreme extremo poverty and the capital has attempted to overcome this condi condl condition non tion by ordering the alley ailey homes closed cosed on June 1 but no DO provision has been made tor for housing the wretched horde hordo which will pour out of the tho slums One of tho the students of the problem lem nays the most moat pathetic feature of the situation Is that from 80 to tolU toil lU il per cent of ot the alley dwellers are arc who havo lived In the alles from childhood They know nothing else but alley life Their means of ot subsistence comes comps from the adjoining wealthy property owners usually In small pittances or of it a few cents p per pr r day daT or week I 1 t- t C and such castoff castoU clothing and table pro as may bo be carried back from the tho houses bouses to the alloys alleys to the tho semi slave tenants An average of four children die dio each day clay In Inthe Inthe Inthe the alleys beyond the normal death rate of the remainder ot or tho city More than 50 60 per cent of o the tho crime that Is committed In Washington by halt half a million people Is Js commit commit- committed committed committed ted In the tho alleys or by alloy alley dwell dwell- dwellers ers era This is isone one of the direct I of a large growth in population Nearly every city of ot size In the United States desires greater population lation without regard to the nature of the Influx Numbers aro are sought after although numbers may mean lafter only a multiplication of misery Large clUes cities with their great I masses of distressed people tend to harden humanity making mailing the miserable more miserable and the he v well well-to ell to do calloused