The daily sentinel., 1914-01-17
MRS. BUDEL|ER'S WORK
BY MINISTER

Jan. l6, 1914.
Mr.. Walter Walker,
Grand Junction, Colo.
My Dear Mr.. Walker:
Allow me to express my most
hearty appreciation of your recent
splendid editorial in defense of the
work of Mrs. Emma Budelier as
county probation officer. / hope
your earnest protest against any ef-
fort to secure the removal of this
efficient and most faithful county Of
ficial may not have escaped the eye
of any parent to whom your paper
goes in Mesa county.
Whatever retrenchment is required
for the county budget, the last Of
fices to be eliminated are those that
provide for the education and social
welfare of our boys and girls. Who
would think of doing away with our
county superintendent of schools for
the sake of this so-called economy"
some people are SO ardently advocat-
ing? And who will say our duty to
our youth is fulfilled when whe have
provided good system of free pub
lie schools? There is no more vital
service to be rendered to young life
than the safeguarding of its tender
years from the perils of vice and
crime. / am acquainted with the
services of Mrs. Budelier and wish to
say that her work though unseen and
unheralded is reaching the problems
of the youth of the county in a way
that no minister or teacher that |
know is touching them. If any are
sincere in their plea Tor economy.
in her removal, it is because they
are not awake to the importance of
In, Tao I ,,rk
to say l fear the average citizen to-
day is blind to the need of safeguard
ing the purity and upright character
OF our boys and girls. Such knowl-
edge as / have of this and other
communities in this county prompts
me to assert that, instead of think
ing of removing such an efficient Of
ficer as Mrs. Budelier, steps should
be taken to provide able assistants
for her in various sections of the
county. The most essential econo-
my we can practice is the economy
that seeks to make men and women
of high character of our boys and
girls, instead of allowing them to be
caught in the fatal stream of waste
that carries them into brothels, po-
lice courts, jails and penitentiaries.
Who Is behind this effort to get
town." If there are charges to be
pi efered against unfaithfulness or
inefficiency, let them be made in the
open. Certain interests have
sought this removal" for some
time. Those who wish to be free to
prey upon the flower of girlhood for
the qualification of their passions,
those who would make this recruit
ing ground for houses of ill-fame,
those who ply the trade of poisoning
boys bodies and minds with cigar
cites, those who wish liberty in boot
Logging; all such are embarrassed by
the vigilance and restraining influ-
ence of our present probation Off
GER. Are we to run our county to
satisfy the passions and fill the pock-
cts of these vultures of the welfare
of youth, or are we to continue to
safeguard the character and good
name of those who will be our citi-
zens tomorrow? Those who plea
economy as a ground of demand
ing change in this office are either
blind to the facts. or they are seek
ing to give sop to the public to save
their own official heads. Some cry
for economy when they seek Ill
cense" through the abolition of the
office or the appointment of one so
green" or lax that he will not be a
factor to be reckoned with.
| appeal to the fathers and moth
ers of this county to withstand ear
nestly any pressure brought to bear
upon our county judge for this piece
of folly in the name of economy"
Respectfully.
ANGELO E. SHATTUCK.