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Show . -oo MOTHERS AND HUNGRY CHILDREN. Judge Henry Nell of Oak Park, Illinois, Illi-nois, who visited Ogden four years ago, is back again on his mission or doing good. Ho Is the father of the mothers' pension law, now in force in 26 states, and his one hobby is to educate the public as to the benefits of the legislation and point the way tor helpless mother to get aid. Judge Nell has a postal card from G. Bernard Shaw, the English writer, on which aro 250 closely written words lit Shaw's peculiarly small penmanship, conveying this message: "Child poverty Is' the only sort of poverty that matters. The adult who has been poor as a child will never get the chill ot poverty out of his bone; but he will die and make room for a better bet-ter nourished generation. ."There are, no doubt, property owners in America who tell Judge Henry Nell that It is confiscation to tax one man's property to pay for the education of another man's children. We have scoundrels scoun-drels of that sort In England too. Some day they will perhaps have the opportunity of saying it to a higher judge than Henry Neil. He will send them, to the place he reserves for those who have learned to say, 'Our Father,' but have not learned to say 'Our Children.' Chil-dren.' , "The one without the other is a blasphemy; also, it is an unbusinesslike unbusi-nesslike folly. Neglected children cost more than well nourished ones to everybody except their immediate parents. "The principal business of a policeman po-liceman at present is to prevent hungry children from obtaining food The proper primary business busi-ness of a policeman is to seize every hungry child and feed It, to collar every ragged child and clothe It, to hand every Illlteratp child over to those who will teach it how to read and write. "If America cannot see this, there is no future -for America, and It Is because she has been slow to see this, that so much of her past is shameful and so much of her present miserable. (Signed) G. BERNARD SHAW." nn.. - |