The Sentinel=record., 1912-04-26
A COMMUNITY BLOT.

lis q dlfficult story to toll because it we're better never told. and but for the moral lesson that stands behind, and for the emphasis with which t de picts pnblic neglect. would be permit ted to pass unnoticed N
 From the cold matter of fact doors of an undertaking parlor q little white coffin is brought From the white ef- feet that prevails even to the satined handles of the casket, and from the fact that the whole is not full five feet long, the picture Is suggestive that the relentless hand of death has taken some immature little girl from a mothers tender care to transplant her in the garden of waiting above
 But that isn't the story. Within the coffin lies the form of girl small slip Of . thing. tender in years yet. even after the continuation of iIsr expeHtences She looka hardly IA years of age Certainly she never reached the age Of discretion The sins against her soul may be offset Dy her surroundings
 A few days before her death she was the inmate of house on Qua chta avenue. where men and women traffic in such as her She probably came from the country Out there life .a.::ii .:ii and Ger tainly life was swift enough in her new surroundings, so swift that she was i'll before she was well started, and death removed her from further blot
 Into the vortex that enyeloped her in this life she was called by many beckoning hands--hands stained to ahamelessness through long expert ences. A young girl is monetary -~iaIt g.sil these, and small, young s kss n iy-eer monetary asset. There - they rea4h ont for their prey
 oe are becxoning lures from these
 eless hands, and the public neg
 is that there is not some Gib-
 of firmness to rescue these
 0 liter they are caught in the
 S4. if they can not be saved at the
 sget. That is the public neglect that should be stamped on every mind
 Then the moral obligation From the infamy of house of shame in Hot Springs child is carried to the great white throne to be judged eter nallY Her body. polluted at the price of mans dollar. may be tenderiy laid away in casket of white with all its worldly significance of purity Neither the corrupted body or the white satlned casket, however. will dlsnluslon with effect after the scene passes the eye of man and the grave Is covered. A soul then, must an swer
 The soul may not pay the price Within the last hour of feverish i'll ness there may have come to this unaeveloped soul that peace which snrpasseth ali understanding He who moves in mysterious way His won ders 10 perform, may have grasped this fragment from the burning. But if the responsibility of the girls blighted life does not fall on her im. mature soul t must fall on the com munity where conditions permit such things 10 happen
 Hot Springs is no worse than other cities. As many little fragments Of airlhood are washed from the shores Of any other city to the depth of ip- fanny. But the condition can be help ed Less attention can be given other evils, and more attention to this ovll. Some can be saved The protection of tender girlhood is community re- sponsibillty You may have neither little girls. or little sisters. but your neighbor has Sour friend has, and your responaibilitx ls equal to his.