Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-04
Dogs Buried in Costly
Graves; Babies Suffer

TO the broad highway, where they can
make their own way toward success.
The hot summer is upon us in which
the babies OF the slums sicken and die,
mainly because they are undernourished
and their poor mothers have not the
means TO buy good milk for them or the
ice with which to keep what they do
buy fresh and sweet.
Hundreds OF these babies will perish
within the noxt three months who could
be saved II the $500 that is going into
this cemetery for dead dogs was spent on
establishing pure milk stations where
good milk would be given away to the
needy.
Go down any of the streets of the East
Side on a hot. sweltering day and look
at the white, plnched faces OF the little
children whose only playground is the
blistering sidewalk and whose every
breath draws in the malodorous, contami-
mating air that reeks of garbage cans and
decaying fruits and vegetables and all
the evil smells that abound where human
beings live too closely crowded together.
II the spot, amid the trees and grasses
of Long Island and swept by its sea
winds that is to be set apart as sacred
to the carcasEes OF dead dogs were turned
into a playground for these poor living
children, what blessing It would be 10
them! How the fresh air would bring
back the color to the pale little cheeks!
How the flabby muscles would strengthen
as they romped among the daisies. How
the ozone of the country air would put to
rout the demon Of tuberculosis already be-
ginning to hover about the doomed little
creature.
Thirty-five hundred dollars would give
many child week or two in the coun-
try that would mean life and health to
II. Surely an object is worth while as
preserving the bones of a deceased
Pomeranian- Certainly the shouts OF Joy
of little children going up from a beauty
spot OF nature are as pleasing to heaven
as the walls and lamentations of a
neurotic woman weeping over the tomb
of her dead pug
Thirty-five hundred dollars would es-
tablish a summer camp where poor work.
ing girls who have come to the last ounce
of their endurance could have few
weeks rest and gather themselves to-
gether again and get fresh strength and
courage to begin the battle OF life once
more.
II would make a place where over
worked mothers with their little siclIy
babes could go for a little whiIo and be
given new lease on life. 1t would buy
an entrance into a home for many a for
lorn old woman where she would be safe
from the winds OF winter and the suns
Of summer and be able to end her days
In peace and comfort
Go along the streets and notice the
children suffering from physical affiie-
tions that will be an insurmounta bic
handicap in life TO them. but that you
know could be easily cured by proper
medical attention. With $500 you could
send this child and its hacking cough TO
some sanitarium where fresh air and rich
food would save It from consumption.
You could strighten the little cripple's
leg; you could save that chiId'e eyes:
this other one from deafness; this 9th .
er's back could be made we'll, and those
who will 90 through life halt, and lame.
and blind. could be made well and given
their chance in life.
So much could be done for humanity
with $500 and yet It is given 10 dead
dogs!
] would not decry kindness TO animals.
That is a duty. all the more Imperative
since they are in our power. but surely
: this ends when they die, and to spend
large sums In giving them gorgeous
funerals and laying them away In beau
tiful cemeteries. when there Is so much
want among human beings in the world.
Is little short OF a crime.
Surely there is something wrong with
the heart. ann the brain. and the CON
science OF a woman who thinks that dead
dogs are OF more value than live babies
and who gives her money 10 build a
monument TO her pet poodle instead OF
using IL TO alleviate the sorrows OF her
unfortunate fellow creatures.