The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-25

an ordinary picnic, with background
of earth and grass and rocks and trees
and brooks and ants and snakes and
sour food, but added to these must be.
rivulets of beer, and a wagon-load of
merchandise To be given to the winners
in the afternoon s alleged athletic con-
tests This merchandise is the tribute
the merchants paid the organization
for not blackmailing them. And yet,
when the man who could wlggle his
ears the fastest receives n can of sal
mon for his prize, neither the master
of ceremonies nor the athlete can
remember which "sucker" furnished
the salmon.
Is this sort Of donation either rea-
sonable or a charity?
good plumber IS helper grows
weary of work, and discovering that
he can sing louder than any of his
neighbors, he decides to study music in
Germany, His assets consist only Of
his loud voice and his nerve. His
friends give him benefit concert, and
the merchants are expected to buy the
tickets.
Is it charity TO spoil a good plumber
to make poor singer2
Unbeliever Builds Church.
A church organization owes 500, 900
and has 800 registered members, loyal
to its pastor and faithful to its creed.
A spasm of lets-clear-up- the church
debit grasps the membership and
campaign of liquidation is launched.
The perfectly healthy and well-to-do
members of the church, who polish the
pewss each Sabbath day, and are more
careful to have cents in change ready
for the collection box than they are to
have it ready for the pay-as-you.ente
cars, apportion for the overworked
Ladies' Aid society $4,000 of the debt,
! and for the Sunday school $3.50 and
for the merchants OF the city $25,75O.
In other words, the Jew and the Gen
tile, of all creeds and no creeds, builds
for the strict sectarian his place OF
worship.
Is it charity 10 allow a church mem
Der to risk his salvation on weekly
tribute of . cents, or should he build
his own church, and not expect the
stranger TO do it7
Men are tenaciously hanging in line
for appointments after election Ono
" Weary Willie' tries for a high of
flee with large emoluments and fails;
but. never daunted and with the ghast-
have to work if he fails in an appoint
ment, he slips down the municipal
crag. trying first for one Job and then
another, until he lands as inspector of
hookworms in the poll tax collectors
offIce. One day, when off his guard. he
ls hooked by a hookworm and dies
Friends solicit financial aid for his
widow and eulogiZe him as one who has
| sacrificed himself on the altar Of pub
lie duty.
| Is it as reasonable a charity to as
sist the widow of this man as it would
have been to have given him. before
he was hooked, a piece of advice on
the value of real work for ones self
and fanilyY
Fed On Imagination.
once thought that charity consisted
| IN spending time or money in assisting
the really unfortunate to little sun
shine, rather than in assisting individ.
uals or organizations TO out charity
other individuals or organizations
a hungry man now applies for food
at tho door of modern charity and an
expert assays his stomach to make
sure he is hungry before passing him
| along to the soup kitchen. A sick man
asks for medicine. and for fear Of fraud
his liver is scrambled, and If he has
10 cents he can go to bed in cock
roach incubator, with cents worth of
mustard slowly burning n hole through
him as large as a ham.
This, | assume, is classified. trusti.
fled, amalgamated charity, whose chief
function is to scar the couscicnces of
uncharitable people, who can slip "A
| hungry applicant along to an orpani.