The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-11
FLORIDA no PLACE
FOR PAuPERS, SAYS
JACKSONVILLE MAYOR
ASKS MAYOR TITUS TO COOPER
ATE WITH HIM TO DISCOURAGE
USELESS sEeGERs FROM IN
TESTING STATE.

Mayor Henry T. Titus has been
asked to cooperate with the mayors
of other cities in Florida and border
states to put a stop to the numerous
lame. halt, crippled and other per
sons who come south every winter
to prey upon the tourists.
Mayor Titus is just in receipt of the
following communication from Hon.
J. E. T. Bowden. mayor of Jackson
vile, and he has assured Mayor Bow
den of his hearty cooperation:
MY attention has been called
wildly to the evil practice of differ
ent communities in sending travel
ling, begging paupers from one city to
another, and that about nine times
out of ten these paupers become a
burden upon the community to which
they have been sent. Particularly dur
ing the winter season, the south as a
rule is flooded with this class of peo-
pie, and / feel that the authorities
should put a stop to this practice.
There is hardly day passes but
what some one comes to my Office ask
ing that l give them transportation,
usually south of this city in the fall.
and in the spring the travel is north
ward Now, l am asking if you will
cooperate with me in trying to put a
stop, as far as possible to the practice
of sending from one city to another
these paupers. know that you have
come in contact with this evil and
understand it thoroughly. and you must
be in sympathy with this suggestion.
1T is my purpose to call a conven-
ton of the Mayors of the towns and
cities of this State. Georgia, North
and South Carolina, Alabama, Miss
issippi and Louisiana to meet in this
city on Tuesday. Wednesday and
Thursday. January 18th, 18th, and 10th,
1916. with a view of confering and
agreeing upon some method by which
this evil can be eliminated or at
least minimized. If you can not at
tend personally, will you send some
one to represent your city? Please
advise me, and consider this as an in
vitation and earnest request that you
attend this convention because 1 be-
| lieve it will not only be benifit to the
south but to the entire country.
Il know of no greater evil than this
and can not see any good to be de-
rived by encouraging pauperism, which
is being done; and the disposition on
the part of those in authority in en-
couraging thes paupers to tramp from
one community to another, living on
the bounties Of that community.
ask that you consider we'll this letter
and earnestly request that you notify
me as to whether or not you will CO.
operate would futher ask that you
cause this letter to be printed in your
local paper, or the substance thereof
IN order to notify towns and cities
that | may have overlooked in send
ing out this invitation, and it is de-
sired that such cities will also CO.
operate and consider that they have
been invited, as well, because it is nv
intention and earnest desire to have
the cooperation of all communities
that can be reached and that have
been suffering from this evil.
Jacksonville. particularly, has suf-
fered many, many thousand dollars
each year and l am told that other
cities have passed ordinances return
ing these paupers, at the expense of
the city, to the community from which
they came. We have no law reauir-
Ing the return of these travelling pau
pers but without such an ordinance
am causing their return to the CITY
from which they came, unless they can
satisfy me that they will be taken care
OF, and after through investigation
as to whether they will or not, by those
interested in them at the place thew
wish to go. l make it a rule not to
roster such people upon the charitably
inclined of other communities.
Trusting that l will receive a letter
Oh acceptance and assurance of your
cooperation along the lines as sug-
gested herewith, also that you will con-
sent to attend either in person or
SEND a representative, / remain,
Very truly yours.
-. {. r. Bowden, Mayor"
Divine Nature,
Nature is pitiless; she never with.
draws her flowers. her music. her
!oyousness and her sunlight from be.
lore human cruelty and suffering,
She overwhelms man by the contrast
between divine beauty and social
nioeousness. She spares him moth
ing of her loneliness, neither butter.
ny nor bird. In the midst of murder,
vengeance, barbarism, he must feel
himself watched by holy things;
no cannot escape the awful reproach
VI universal nature and the implacable
serenity OF the sky. The deformity
OF human laws is forced to exhibit it