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Show HOME FOR FRIENDLESS IS FIFTY YEARS OLD Chicago, Feb. C. The home for the friendless is engaged In a three days' celebration of its fiftieth birthday. Mrs. W. I. Thomas, superintendent of the Juvenile Protective league, in address to tho officials of the home on tho care of children said: .' "Tear up the carpets from the church floors and then invite tne young people Into those cnurch parlors to dance, to tryst, and to hold their clubs. Then they will not go to places that are not respectably. "If we could realize In tne schools that somebody had rights besides the J janitor, wo should also be a long way I toward doing away with delinquent children. "Those schools are abstract In their teachings and the churches are not humanized. The systems in both are traditional and abstract instead or modern and practical. "There is a 'conspicuous waste.' The industrial system Is so finished that every scrap-of' everyvherb and drop of oil is made over into products and by-products. But economy Is not practiced prac-ticed In human lives. What goes to the rubbish heap In factories are tho fingers, the broken spines, tho sunken chests and the eyes. The nrst thing we need to do Is to care for the human hu-man products and by-products. If we Improve our industrial and emicattonal systems such a thing as a delinquent child would not be." j |