The Dolores star., 1912-06-07
Friday. Jass = ss's.


Jooe . Sor0e0 Ssoey.
There ere too many tragedies Of
The sort told by dispatches from
San Francisco the other day when
two Finnish girls, poor. ignorant,
and dispaifing Of keeping the spark
Of life aname on s. . week, leaped
into the bay. One Of the girls was
drowned. but the other was brouRh;
hack to life after hard struggle,
ard no doubt ID overwhelmed With
surprise to end how much spapa
thy there u 10 the great world she
had thought % unfriendly. says
the beaver Republican.
That society ID mot doing well
enough BY the physically handi
capped, al thinking persons will
admit. Only : small percentage o.
human beings b well enough
equipped By nature to make win.
ming light Ia life. This represents
the so-called .'successful" class
There ID . great medium class thai
neither wins nor loses. and that,
perhaps. lives the most coutented
aud therefore the most genuinely
successful life Of oil. Then there
b Z still larger class that fights
losing battle-a class that hes been
handicapped from the start. being
born under adverse couditions, and
fsding Il impossible to equip itself
neaaally and physically to compete
With those who do not have to
battle against mal.nutsitiou and .
doseu other hindrances Of poverty.
Il b with this third claD that
nocisty y most coocesned today.
II duttes toward this clan Cannon
- s6iSke1. These y - dodglne
~ responsibilities q hsoaheshood
No doube there will come Z time
Whsa the man Who will evade such
ohligasioas will b hold 10 TIE same
supreme costempe that u visited
upoa the father who shirks the
duties Of parenthood. There b bus
ose answer 10 the query: IAN ]
~ bcother's keeperS" and that l.
ID the Affirmative. No man Of
acute sympathies can visit the
courts. the asylums. the osphssages
and the penal institutions which
are nov maiutaiued 10 ease the con-
science Of Q careless world, and not
realise how insisieut ID becoming
the demand that the causes Of
wretcheduess and poverty. crime
ard dispair be ascertained and their
work preveuted. The constant
patching Of results mends nothing
pesuanently and only adds 10 the
disarray OF life Ia general.
Mu. Russell Sage 10 wise enough
70 realize how little ID being &C.
complished BY organized charity
and Ill the rest Of the makeshifts
through which society 10 endeavor.
Ing vainly to make up for its lack
q foresight and consideration. The
Sage Foundation aims 10 ascertain
The primal causes Of the evils from
which the world b suffering and to
kill those evils In what may b.
termed their germ stage. II some
systematic attempt had been made
aloag such lines years ago, there
would b Q noiiceable lesseuiug Of
those tragic stories like the one
that comes from San Francisco. I,
y . practical application Of Bernard
ehaw's theory that poverty u .
disease. and that ell the evils that
follow 10 10 train can be treated
- scientifically - II from the
laboratory.
There are enough potent forces
o. TIE side Of good to overcone
The forces Of evil. provided such
Sosces ere brought together. The
gisl Who vas pulled from San
praacisco by need sever eaut for
employment q ialr wages. Dor nsed
~ starvs for sympathy ard @.
eoerAesueet. The world she
thoaght - harsh was merely
tboaghtless. LIT sonslhing be
oeoaght % ID ateealloe -soae seoey
~ individual snAeslag -asd Il n
qnlck1y responsive. Cstheslng
too1e eyopothetIc forces Into some-
MIG hesides Z hslsled sedsavos 10
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