The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1913-12-18
Staring and
Mun1bling---
AIIDay

ND YOU ever visit od-.ime "poorfarm''
- II So you remember the eorrdors-dark. stone
tagged with hideous ealcinined walls
And you still remember the old men and women
you sitting the benches along the walls They
were so old! And they still. with their heads
on their breastsl And they stared ntently-at
nothing
II you should visit the poor-farm" again, you would
the old and women-- they haven't died
in the meantime-sitting in the position the
benches with their heads their breasts-s,ar-
ing at nothing and murnbing!
II isn't good way for to end his days.
1t is demonstrated fact that a man who is too long
unemployed becomes unemployable One soon loses the
habit OF industry. In "poor-faun' pride
death. hope des-only the body lives. BY and by it
dies. too. and nobody cares very much
The Star puts YOU the average the average
woman: Would YOU to end your days in
poor farm
No chance' You young. strong Every in
mate the Georgetown poor-farm" young
many OF them were strong. You not bum?
Nor were they-once No born bum
\ bum is wontwork. eant-work. an unemployablc
mo chance" you say' Suppose tha, little business
deal which you hope some day will make you rich
should fa Through Suppose your partner should dou
lc-cross you Suppose you should have accident
DC taken sick Suppose you should lose your job.
A TURN OF THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE
n5shi FOR roNioHTs ON HTS 'GS GEoDoINo. roMoRRow's
BREAKFAST.
Do YOU want TO go the poor farm and sit IN
hopeless ideness. moticnless, sodden with mumbhng
lips and staring, lackustre eyes. in dark. stone
tagged corridor until you die
1t wouldn't be good for you to go to the poor-farm
And it would be expensive for For at the poor
farm" you would be non-produeer.
And there is better way--a way so much better
that The Star believes that when you know perfectly
what that way is you will be as anxious for change
as The Star is
4, the Cleveland o. farm colony described and pic
,ured in The Star Tuesday it positively disgrace
10 be an inmate
Whv, Because there is charity in it, II you
out OF luck YOU 90 out to the tarm and earn your
keep There everybody works who can. And 1t IS
surprising to discover how few find useful en-
ployment Why, even the half-"its nave thef simple
chores e, , , ,
Which then would you rather do. II hard luck
shoud come vour wav: Sit on a bench in dleness or
Co out into the open country. where there garden
patches and fields OF grain and orchards ana meadows
where herds and flocks grazing-and work.
What Cleveland has done. Seattle can do-and far
more easily.
The Star doesn't care whether the city the county
undertakes this practical and necessary enterprise City
and county mil ght enter into partnership VT 'hey might
have farms adjoining.
The citv already has land The county could sell its
valuable and unused land in Georgetown, and buy ag
cultural acres
nent problem an INDECENT problem, and crime prob
lem And they all more or less correlated. These
problems arc bound to grow as the city grows
The Star believes should give these unemployed.
udigents and law-breakcrs chance to become pro-
ducers Ave insofar as they able they should be
rompcled 10 earn their keep healthul employment
We or selfish as we'll humanitarian reasons should
not permit them to become unempoyabes and
burden society.
THINK 1T OVER!