Evening journal., 1912-07-17
YES. WE sHonLp LIKE IT.


A WILMINGTON business who resents our
"A editorial approval OF the very sensible sug
zeston that the Levy increase the public useful
ness of Court House square by putting out about
twenty benches for the use of those who wish TO get
the benefit of the free air of that space called
our office up by telephone yesterday and inquired;
Would you like to have those benches occupied by
the same class of that occupies the stone
coping surrounding the Court House square-men who
sit there idly and spend their time reading the sign in
front of the DUPONT Building that working are
wanted? And another thing. wouldn't 1t be well for
you to suggest editoriay that those women who are
not active just in boosting the waterfront park
shall spend their time going around the city aiding
the Delaware Commission for the Blind in obtaining
oano-seating and other work for the bnd?
Yes; we should like to have those benches Court
House square occupied by the class of men that
occupies the stone coping surrounding the square
and watches the big work Of building the new du-
Hotel II for of that class that the bench
es should be provided Doubtless the business man
who objects those having those benches has or
could have II he desired automobile, a comforta-
BILE front porch and, perhaps launch or a yacht He
experiences trouble in getting fresh air when be
wants it and in making himself comfortable. Bench
es are not placed In public parks in this or any other
city the use of the rich the wel-todo and they
would them they put in such places
for their occupancy. They installed for the
away the blistering heat and oppressveness Of
a hot Summer day or evening by taking automo-
bile or a yacht ride Most Of them do not even have
cool and comfortable front porches. The ntimaton
conveyed by business alluded to above is that
the who sit the stone coping now too lazy
to work. despite the fact that sign inviting them TO
work on the dupont Hotel confronts them. We doubt
it. It may be that the sign calls for men who can
perform work which the men on the coping cannot
do. The assumption is safe that, far the even-
ing stters that coping concerned many of those
men have spent day working harder than the bust
ness man worked II is possible that there are
others there who long for work and who have tramp
ed in search of it until they sit down the coping
to rest their tired feet This business man, who
speaks so sghtngy the proposition that the poor
men town. who desire to breathe fresh air and
obtain relief from the July and August heat shall
have few benches placed the square. does not
knew. and cannot know, what life tragedies disap-
pointments and misfortunes represented by some
of those who take to the stone coping the slight
comfort il and its open-air surroundings supply.
II the county cannot make these what they
would like TO be- 1t at least supply them with
few benches. New York does it in City Hall and
other parks. and the benches there are a god-send
to many weary men. The sympathy OF that great
metropolis is so strong that it throws open the
parks and the recreation piers night to poor FAINT
lies and tells them go and camp there until morn
n
by the close and stuhy tenement houses. II New
York can do that surely the Levy Court afford
spend few dollars for several park benches to be
placed about the Court House green for any and all
comers.
AS to the women Of our city assisting the blind
to obtain work, surely they could be engaged in no
more laudable task. Even blind person rather
would be independent than a dependent The
fiicted charges of the Delaware Commission for the
Blind are so situated that while they do certain
forms Of work and make themselves self-supportng
or partly So they go about the city
for the work they do. We have in city mans
tsnder-hearted women who unquestionaby will dc
everything they can to assist such unfortunates il
getting work. and who entirely too broad in the
sympathies and too noble in their purposes to b'
deferred from engaging in such work by the sarcastic
hings of those whose sympathy for the poor and th
afflicted have been dued by the sordidness Of business
occupation.
Yes; we favor the placing OF those benches for III
use of the poor. and if the nobe-hearted women o
our city desire our assistance in any way TO assis
the blind in getting work. it be had for the asking
We rather would have the commendation of the poo
and the afflicted for pursuing such sympatheti
policy than the commendation of the protesting bus
ness man for endorsing either his unsympathec vel
or his heartless filings at the men who sit on tn
Court House coping" and those who cannot see tn
light of day. but who willing TO work in the ever
lasting dark that they be independent
With Willard salisbury, l.. Irving Handy and Rcf
ard r. Kenney engaged in fierce contest for contr,