The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-09-07
CONSIDER THE "NEwsIEs."

An exchange has the following about
the boys who sell daily newspapers on
the streets--some points of which are
worth remembering:
There are two sides TO the restless
activity of the newsie.
One side we may see any day, at
nearly any hour. He scurries about
with feverfsh haste; he shrills his
wares in penetrating key; he bumps
into us and caroms off his fellow new
sizes, with whom he frequently quarrels;
he Is persistent in a surprising degree.
At times, too, he is impertinent, with q
biting repartee astounding in one SO
youthful.
To the man who has bought paper,
or to the man who doesn't intend to
buy one, all this is likely to prove an
noying. And gruff refusals, at times
pointed by sundry shoves or carelessly
placed footsteps, often greet this ener-
getic solicitation.
That is one side Of the newsies ex-
istence. For the other, you must fol-
low him home.
A series of little Journeys to the
homes of newsies would doubtless bring
about a more sympathetic popular at
titude toward class, at once the
youngest and one of the most useful
and Industrious in our civic scheme.
1t may be a widowed mother, faith
er out of work, to whom the newsie's
little earnings are devoted; 1t may be
small brothers and sisters, that must
be fed at least once in a while and
clothed to a certain extent, that require
the scanty store of dimes and nickles
and pennies, earned by desperate scam
pering about the streets from morning
till night.
1t is enough to give one a brief pause
for consideration. Also, it induces the
reflection (among those of us who car
turn backward a bit) that just al
weighty a lump OF anxiety and respon.
sibility can ache beneath small shah
by jacket as under forty-inch Goa
of broadcloth.
All OF which may well tend to q more
tolerant view of eager little faces, wrin
! killed. by premature responsibility; o
strident voices, made shriller and mor'
insistent by real anxiety, and even o
sharp retorts, stung from harried littl
: souls by the losing of needed sales.
9 On the other hand. 1t is not well Z
r get the. idea that newsies as a class
are objects of charity or of wholesal
commiseration.
Take to looking twice at these indus
G trious little citizens-many Of them ar
z worth it. You viii see surprisin
:, number of square, strong little faces
with determined chins and fine brow
: and clear, steady. comprehensive eye
: that have already looked hard at liz
They are keen, sturdy, self-reliar
chaps, these newsies. Some or thel
will go far in this world, for they hav
started young. AT 20 they win hav
come a long way up the road OF e1
If perience. At 80, one OF these face
3 may be seen through a cashiers wiz
dow where you are negotiating loai
or behind desk at which you al
m seeking legal advice, or above roi
trum where statesmen are speaking.
l. On more than one count 1t is we
worth while to consider the newsies.
fs- who win start the first SUNNI
Or resort at the north pole?
Is a~ Baseball win soon cease to
the safety valve to the nation--for 1st
RS
as az The other affinity chasers ha
al to take their hats Off to that fellc
en- Earle.
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