The Detroit times., 1912-04-30
WHERE ARE THOSE WHO WOULD
"a We A HUNDRED THO USAND LIVES

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Jim Beatty quite along years-nObOdy DID, and
dsn matbu told by the newspaper which happened
sa his he sometimes got jobs about the Santa Fe wharves at San
poor clothes always washed lived alone little
nit in the suburbs
Nobody inquiries you know, and So
whence he had wrinkled his face and
bent his body cannot tell you
He dere of sOcietys dftwOOd with which
the Pacific is srewn
M He by and the world willing to
let him.
m passing children who were play
ing with box of matches upon the sidewalk
W. Little Renee Clements clothes took fire.
sprang her. cped and smOhered the flames
with his body.
horribly burned himself he worked his through the crowd
and his hut to bed.
Alone bistered burning thirst help
Jim tossed and grOaned his poor couch for two days and
nights.
Then through Him who notes the sparrow
m parents Clement child word of Jim and visited him with
help n their hands.
He smiled at them through blsters.
II wanted to girl said jim land thought of
my danger
You see the idea that he had keeping Jim
laid there hungry thirsty lonely in the OF dread
full burns.
But Mr. Clement his head.
Little died the morning after" he murmured
Bas eyes filed and with great sigh he turned his
face to the wall
recs the hero the old faded blue overas
They him.
They give him good things to eat
They talk about a Carnegie medal for him.
They say he is grand
They him.
Honestly many Of love humanity because of him. for
they believe that often with the patched overa the cal
the labor stained face and the rough exterior of the common
ler goes greatest hethe soul of him who is will
ing lay down his life for another
We have expressed our appreciation of jim Beatty
kind like to talk about in this column There
diamonds yet in the rough.
He deserves a Carnegie and doubt about it
deprive him Of the glory and honor coming
him call attention the thousands OF
heroes all around recognition because they in the
business of Wholesale heroism, so to speak
patriots ountrys and women OF to-
day their brothers and sisters whom they see exposed
dangers their possible to mankind
womanhood and country.
They have given themselves over to the combating evils in the
nation threatening the nation and in doing have elected
to sacrifice very selves the they represent
But plnudts glory suggestions of medals slowly in
their cases. if at all
The man and citizen that unselfsh as
and rescue caught the social whirlpool is neuroc who
k the sound by Characterization of less person
than the president of this country
The women who asks other
better beginning with the doing OF
avemnt a victim of the sweahop has
dered from proper sphere which hold be the making OF
beds and the washing Of dishes.
M Jim Beatty saved the life of little girl
All honor Beatty and the medal too VIC have said
But every petitions for wants the lives
of hundred little girls and all honor these
heroine, too.
and ont Of the humanity prompted flames
brave the % those whose patriotism whose humanity and
whose interest Jim B greater he would have
stood idly by watched little girl burn to death
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woman Miss Baesp & Gu s1e a9 T