Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-12
THAT FLEA FOR NoBLER RACE
Professor Alley Makes Another ctlr-
ring Appeal for the Boys
and Girls

] ana GIFTS
LOS ANGELES Aug. 10.-CEditor
Herald): Your account Of Judge VIII
bur's address at the Chautauqua under
the above inspiring head has again
caught my ever-watchful Juvenile eye
and glad that there is another that IL
so deeply interested in the young and
willing to stand for them, I cannot
| again turn down the strong feeling tC
add a word, for which / viii be richly
repaid II so be that | may be able tc
give even a faint quickening to that
great but sadly neglected interest upor
which depends the welfare OF the state
and nation.
The honorable and noble minded
gentleman spoke we'll Of the duty OF
parents toward their children, and
those who are really desirous for help
! full information along those lines Will
not fail to find 1t there.
| But what of the children of those
parents who have little or no care fol-
their moral or religious guidance, OF
even regard such training as detri-
mental, as It may limit their chances
] for gain? Such classes, in their wide
range, constitute a large majority OF
| the parents of any state, and, taking
California throughout, perhaps it Is not
the most favored.
After so much of a lifetime spent In
the interests of the young, In the school
room along the streets, In halls, base
ments and churches, and wherever
| their feet may roam, now look back
upon a steadily growing belief that the
question as to our duty regarding this
everywhere present want and peril is
easily paramount to every other con-
sideration.
Such more or less neglected children
mil 10 In
moral wards of the more favored mi
nority of the people, and the questions
as to their proper handling should oc-
cupy far more of our thoughts and
time in our various assemblies, and
space in the better of our periodical
| literature.
Our church people do a good work as
they gather their little f1ocks of their
own children, and an occasional one
from the outside, for an hours beauti-
full exercises and teaching in the Sun
day schools and other private gather
ings; but strangely forget that 30 per
cent Of the children of our cities are
running wild pom the streets and In
places most unfavorable to proper
growth, and without a kind, helpful
word from the crowds as they whirl by
on the mad craze for money or pleasure
for only worthy self, and forgetful of
the weighty responsibility of every one
as his brothers. keeper.
True, it seems almost folly to ask
those busy throngs to pause in their
hurried rush for a kind, cheerful word,
a loving pat, or regardful handshake
to assure the little waits of kindly feel
| ings, or appropriate recognition of
larger ones; just the moving Christian
charity, good will, that would go
farther than anything else in the sure
evolution of the "Nober Race"
An occasional little of such Christian,
philanthropic, patriotic work done by
each wellwisher of his race and coun-
try would soon show it's grateful in
fluences upon the rising generation,
and on the morrow, with the now
youthful throngs grown to man and
womanhood, our ears would suffer less
of the grating slurs and denunciations
upon the neglectful church and its
professed christianity" and the po-
lice force and Jail and prison popula-
tions be greatly diminished.
The great but easily supplied want is
| just a little here and there, done in
kindly good will by the hurrying pass
erby, making them feel that they are
things of recognized value, that will
not fail to. repay the people for their
wise confidence and pains. The writer
we'll knows whereof he speaks, having
pleasurably devoted many years, in
cities domestic and foreign, to such
richly remunerative work, winning
them by kind words along the streets,
and in time gathering them into base
ments and halls for further talks,
stories and the judicious steps of pro-
gressive uplift. T. J. ALLEY.