New-York tribune., 1912-03-10

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:,.o ,,,' d,vs Of each year, ana
lNc ,l., uI, Ib,nndrcd ani -iXty-SiX in leap years
'niee i'I,, aLnnt Organizing homes for newSboyS,
so'~ rFiber going about rcadJuSting the moral
,anr - among little boys everywhere ol 'he
ncwSbOy age. ,..... .1,.,,, .r,. e
=. a;,bcr when ,.u watch Gunk Go 1t. IT
IT, ,bo I,',1r mos, n.,5,.' thing in the world. II
II ibr .- :. ANYTHING wonderful, ii is that It can
NJ; I'm naiur.l with him 50 long. But 1t
ioos wa, i'm his office the other day WhIc
w TOOL, IN a- .u,l members of the \cWSboyS
',' 't..oc;ation Nos. 7.O3l, 1852, GO33, and
-Ml Tho, numbers arc actual numerals
''''"re.entiug the nineteen years member
~, N T..lo and suburbs U course,
many ,r Of ,ha. 7O3l goodnc~s knows now
L;g ;be number is by this umcL are now
g,6 ,,royn Yr w,a. But they urc far better
,n ',-1yrn NJ. ...r than they would have been
7 Gun, hadn't got hold o' them III boy
Yov -es. without organization and Sc,
lctcl leadership, the moral tendency. "i
boys j, downward GrVi'auonS law Is
b,sv little ,hng among the boys, when ihey
.rc rri.rsc.d. and even then II they are
nnt wisely directed. "Gunk takes the
mol .,r-,r, Of the boys, twists II, ana.
Lch.'t, j, !, flowing 10 the nigh, in>i'.a oi
tn ,n, lett. And 1t flows just as rapidly III
N, right direction a~ IN The wrong. FOR
I,,. ar. volatile. active. busy organisms
'-t,... ...nr Stand STILL They will advance,
IN whatever direction they are headed
~Gunk" asks them poln'biunh what are
,h.;r I-I h~L,ts and they tell him. Then,
N the most matter Of fact way, without any
slpsb af ~angtimoniou-n,~~ or SOFT solder or
nifilc or "a word Of prayer be- shows them
he regards that u.s. poor policy, and that they
don't belong i'm his bunch of live ones unless
,bcy get rl 81 profanity, lying, lighting,
,aucjnc~, g. their parents, smoking cigar
cites. etc. Hc doesn't tell them why. They
knew it before he told them; so no argument
is nece,,arv They never 'hink OF dlSputing
him on those points II they wanted to
argue il. or thought it arguablc, they
w6uldn', have com. To- "Gunk.
When ! SIT i'm his office he held court as
usual Jeff. little Syrian chcrub, sat on
tbe leaf Of the desk at Gunk'S right hand,
and though, he was helping. He couldn I
bother dunk: no boy could. eff had
been rescued bv "Gunk" from saloon,
where they were hiring him, at a nickel a
swear. to ron out broken Assyran-Amerlcan
oaths "Gunk got him away; also his little
brother TONY They are good boys now,
and their parents are proud Of them instead
Of in despair The mother, who Is the same
size any way YOU measure her, except in
circumfcren... came to the Ncw>boys' Home
one day to see the person who could do
more with her boys than She could. When
she looked d. that baldhcadcd old skeesicks
sitting there a, the desk guarded by an off
Ger Of the day eleven years old or so-shc
said, through her interpreter, "Humph'
Nothing bu, q man" and waddled off.
That's wha. one involuntarily feels IN
Gunk's presence: Nothing but a man.
In this world every male adult is either
man or less.
Here's wha, ,ranspired one minute while
watched
Hello. Blonly, What's the matter with
YOU, Want 20 be a friend of mine: We'll,