Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-25

tag. and no excuse will be considered
by any of the 5000 school students or
others who today are going to be omni-
present in selling them. You Will sim
ply have to have a tag on and that
settles it.
Usually it is not g. pleasant sensation
to be marked man." but it will be
decidedly unpleasant today for the man
who isn't marked. He is very apt to
be marked. however. before he gets
far down Broadway. Spring or Main
streets, and II he walks from First TO
Ninth streets he will be remarkably
Cause Worthy One
The cause is a good one. If you
don't mind paying So for a tag for your
dog, why should you mind paying lO
cents for tag for some starving
wretch whom your little 10 cents. with
the aggregation of many others. Will
benefit? The money is to be used to
feed the hundreds of hungry men and
women In Los Angeles-and don't for
get that Los Angeles, although 1t is a
thriving and prosperous city. Is full
of them.
It will be spent to clothe the ragged
and half naked women and children 7,
who recently have become common In
the City of the Angels Maybe you
don't see them, for most of them are
ashamed to venture along the main
streets, where their rags are contrast
ed so vividly with the fashionable APP
parel of the wealthy; and so they stay
away and hover around their novels
and tenement quarters in the poverty
palled districts, which the rich and
well dressed are likewise ashamed to
visit.
And the money will be spent also to
alleviate the suffering and hunger OF
hundreds of unemployed men and
found themselves thrown out of en-
ployment because OF the great, gen.
eral curtailment that has been going
on all over the United States. and ike
wise right here in our prosperous city
of Los Angeles.
1t will go toward providing clothes,
food and shelter for the poor wretches
on "life's other side"-the people you
never meet, because they are in
world that Is different from your own
world set inscrutably apart from your
own cosmos.
Don't doubt that these people exist,
or that their cause is not deserving,
for you have only to investigate to f1nd
that they are all real the wretch. his
pain and his poverty.
So buy tag Show your generosity.
Every dime viii help to stave or the
wolf a little longer.
Shut Up the Wolf
II can't destroy the wolf. for 1t seems
he will always be bowling at the work.
ingmen's door. but you can at least still
his howlings for the time.
Every 10-cent piece will be tenn
porary relief for some suffering. Added
to the scores of other 10-cent pieces
which it is expected will be spent to-
day in the purchase of these tags. 1t
will help to clothe and feed a multi
tude.
And there are multitudes to be
clothed and fed. 1t also is true that
there are more than multitude to be
housed, for in the present age IT is out
of the question tor every man to own
his own home. or for him to live in
anything more than lodgings.
But he is lucky if he has narrow
10xl0 room to flop" in He is still
luclSier il he has it paid for. The As
sociated Charities tries to see that
every deserving man has a place to
sleep, so long as he is deserving. OF
course only small per cent bring
their poverty to the attention Of this
organization, for the average man Is
too proud, too AElericanized or too
sensitive to admit that he has been
defeated In the great, strenuous game
of competition.
But the few who drag themselves
almost at the point Of starvation to
the Associated Charities are the very
ones that need the help the most. for
theirs are desperate, almost dying
cases. and every cent that goes to-
ward assisting them back on their feet
again is given in godly cause.
Buy a tag.
1t is a nopsensical affair, from a
cynical point Nof view but it means
bread, butter And blankets to scores
less fortunate than yourself. Therefore
get into the game. Don't be selfish, or
skeptical. or 'little" about it. but buy
tag. Then buy Y few more. and clear