The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-05
Your Child Isn't Safe Because
|They've Killed the Wild Steer.


E While some stock was being unloaded
from train on the east side of the city,
&a steer broke loose and ran wildly from
is pursuers.
Plunging down a residence street, the
Twild steer was the cause Of panic.
AS il ran through yards, mothers
FLASHED out, grabbed their children and
k9xan with them to safety.
The steer was slaughtered before it
had done any harm. but by the time the
chase was over there was marked
scarcity of boys and girls in the streets
Through which the beast had torn in its
mad dash.
That night, it is more than likely,
many a mother out that way suffered a
dream in which she saw her darling
Ktramped under foot and stamped upon
Ecr saw her boy or girl impaled upon the
k1reacherous horns of raving steer.
Many a mother was glad when morn
Y ln1 came, we will bet. when she awoke
no find little curly head safe and snug
knt her side.
MI BY this time, however, the little curly
Rhead Is no doubt once again playing out
$lm the street, and off the curb, too, if his
ffubber ball has gotten by, while auo-
&nnobiles, every bit as deadly as wild
Esteers. when found in incompetent or
fool hands, are passing constantly.
It is a sad fact that there are mothers
Ethoughtless enough to consider that the
Entreets are safe for their boys and girls
Eunless, should it happen once in 10
years, wild steer comes along.
A wild steer should be categorical as
&fhe least of the many dangers to which
our children are exposed while they are
being brought up.
The wild steer comes ranting and
bucking and kicking up fearful disturb
once, by which we are warned Of its
4 presence in time to run with the child
out of harms way.
The real dangers are those that are
\ hidden.
The deadliest foe of man or of a
nation, of the child or of the home, is the
n Zoe that skulks behind or sneaks upon its
y prey or is dressed in garb to make us
u think it is quite harmless.
II is rarely we hear of wild steer in
any of the residence districts, but the
"a child isn't safe because of that fact if
there is saloon around the corner.
We maintain squad of mounted police
Il to dash up on costly chargers and chase
wild steers out of the street, to protect
4 our boys, while at the same time we
Z license the grogshop and permit it to lie
h IN wait around the corner until the boy
comes home from work some night with
his first pay envelope.
We kill the wild steer in order that
s the boy in the neighborhood may be safe,
FOR that he may stroll around the corner
out of his mothers or fathers sight,
4 where there is dealer who is willing TO
eell him cigarettes to poison and weaken
<1.eS0Sst iiic give llllil a
start down grade.
Yes, the wild steer is a mild danger in
HE childs case compared to other
hangers, one Of them being the family
Newspaper that does not care; that is not
orticular about what its news columns
ontain or about what goes into its
1vsrtising columns.
u the newspaper that comes into your
one prints beer, whisky and cigarette
1vortissments and the broad and dirty
Dnouncements Of medical quacks, and is
1 cnrslsss In its news columns, forget
>cut the slight danger of wild steer in
ccx UP YOUR CHILD AS
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