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Show ' pools and Pnare pUccs, for behind our doors wc have hoard tho cry of pain and have sen th agony at the price pnid when those girls bi-camc city toll. "As ihov collect toll bv one of the Kreat bridge in the old country and 'he crowd gathers there to wait for a boat to pa and the brld? to lower a Mfnd man stands and rrad with hl3 flnper on tho rnlsed print from the Hlblf. One day he lost his place while adlnrr. There Is no other name x der heaven Riven among men wheretV c can bo paved,' and the blind m?n repeated a;:aln and again, as he searched for the place, 'So other name, no other narae, no other mme.' And as the crowd pased on those three words rans In many ears rll through the day and som hoplDK to solve the problems and pIeb of their lives, bf liov.'d r-i the name of the Christ and too' His teachings as their dai'y code. We believe that In the teaching of the Christ we will find the solutions of all problems and the saving from very vlc. But Christians Christ-ians rcuwt realize that they will never te of service to humanity as long as they lt Idly by and pray loud. Christ r.iood at (ho front on the fighting line and they rouM do the same. Ministers Min-isters mutt use their pulpits to fit'ht the communities' evils and do It fear-lessly fear-lessly they will have to be fearless or they will not do It. Christians must bv active, practical or there will always al-ways l e mlRpovernroent and city's toll. No: ur.tll this is understood will mls-governmcnt mls-governmcnt perish. The city of the future will have no blood on its hands, a city paying no toll and the Minotaur will be Main, and living tribute cease to be paid into the hand of sin and death. EDITORIAL BY Ml BURG At tho Congregntle-nsl church last evening Mrs. H. C Pure, l-nown to Ogden as Miss Virginia Brandt, read the following editorial. An especially larfc congregation was prescat and listened attentively. "Pecause for some time I have been a col'ector of some of tho tolls that have been paid to our large cities throughout the states. I want to speak about or.r cltys toll. "A little article In yesterdays Outlook Out-look regies "us way; "'Human history repeat itself. Just becaus? It Is human. The old Greek tradition, which everyone remembers of the doomed youths and maldcni who every year were chrsen by lot from out the city of Athens to be sent as tribute to the Minotaur, who devoured de-voured them. Is living history today. The modern city pays Us toll any city, every cltv. where conditions are wrong and th toll Is always In ! young and precious human lives. "A'j we rend this, mlsgovornment Is j suggested to our minds but It xng pests at first only abstract Images of wrong. Such as a cltlr.en thinks about when he thinks of a city ring dirty streets, wasted funds, fraudulent contracts con-tracts and enriched pl mder bosses. But this Is not the real city-toll. The payment is not In such an ensy. Impersonal Im-personal way, for the toll of today Is as it was in the dayB of Athens, a toll of warm, human blood the lives of maidens, men end women The misgoverned mis-governed city of tcday Is feeding Its yawning, hot-mouthed monster. Vice, hundreds of lives every yer and tho MLiotaur of old was merciful, indeed, compared to this moJorn city machine. This city machine lives not by the comparatively praiseworthy atrocities of money misappropriation, waste or gi-p.f. but it smacks Its lips over ihe tears of mothers, agony of fathers, hapless suffering of doomed victims, and terrors and oppressions unmentionable. unmen-tionable. Part of this toll is paid he-cause he-cause the city does not realize what Is done In Ihe dark places of miscov-crnmcnt miscov-crnmcnt and kept out of sight. . Then part of tho to'.l Is paid knowingly, open-eyed, and they stand in front of the great monster and they watch him glut his thirst on the hundreds cf Innocent In-nocent victims and they do not look at tho blood on their hands and they prattle of the atrocities in Russia or J massacres In the far cast, the cannibal tribes In Africa or the horrors along the Congo, when worse than these horrors are the result of the abhorrent toll they are paying each year to the i Insatiable powers of evil In their mis- J governed city. "Come with me some evening as we go to collect some of the toll that has been paid our rescue homes are till-, ed with your eit's toll come with mo through tenements, basements redolent re-dolent with typhoid, through snloon' dives preying hard on the poor; sec the protected criminal glower at you and know the horror of the white slaves as you pass on Watch a young man loll from a saloon door not responsible re-sponsible for the cursed words or acts that make him feared and dlf gustlng. He is toll. Watch another I saw this myself last evening he stood with Ms hand on the knob of a door, down where tho red lights gleam, and seemed seem-ed to hesitate. When at length ho opened the door and the red HglU streamed over him from the doorway I saw that he was only n boy In a cadet's uniform. Only toll. Fathers and mothers steeped In selfishness or vice leave their children to run our streets at night, seeing all, learning all, soon to become toll. The supposedly sup-posedly closed gambling places add to the Minotaur's meal and brings the lack of a meal In many a hungry home And then the public dance and it is from this that the girl-rescue worker learns much about toll. Put-do Put-do not go there to learn about toll that Is paid, for here it Is only music, laughter and light. Come with ur to' any of our shelter homes some months after the public dance hall opens and let them tell you of how they became j toll, through this refined cultivator of the passions We have learned to I fear the light and laughter and music that cover a misgoverned city's cess- |