, 1922-09-21
We Que II TO Them

IN THE RUSH to make n dollar many other i'm.
L portant things are overlooked. Things that IN
aftertime will be just as important and necessary
as they are at present, but will cost much more
because of our negligence now.
The future OF the city depends upon the chill
dren of today. Each generation in the world comes,
passes and leaves it's record for good or i'll. II is
within the power of the present generation of Cas-.
per to leave a record for good and do a service for
the children of today that will in turn induce them
when they grow up, to study the needs of the chill.
dren of their time, and provide as we hope we may
do in this day.
Children are entitled to their childhood. they
are entitled TO grow up healthy and mentally and
morally clean. They are entitled to our example
in these things and our wisest provision and in
struction. The results of the neglect and Sinking
of responsibility by parents is observed every day
in the failures, crimes and shortcomings of the
people, which we have come TO accept asaa condi-
ton of human life impossible to remedy. The sit
~uation could be remedied to great extent by the
right beginning and patient pursuit of proper
method in the early life of the child.
If not in and about their own homes. then in a
public place accessible to a wide neighborhood,
children should be provided with the parapher-
MALTA for the exercise of their activity, the develop
ment of their bodies and the quickening Of their
mental faculties.
1t is true that the school authorities have in a
measure supplied this demand, and no doubt have
the childrens' welfare in mind, but aside from this
effort, which is net the primary object of public
schools, the municipality, itself, should take the
lead and provide the things of public welfare to
the end that future citizens will be better fitted
VI ~ hhAftH VI lie IT, Va Jasper
should at once take steps TO provide bigger and
better Fairgrounds for the children, than now exist.
They should be accessible to all of the children of
the city. There should be ample devices for exer-
else, both physical and mental. With opportunity
for children to mingle in true democratic fashion,
under wholesome conditions and under capable d.
l~rection and proper chaperonage.
A swimming pool in this connection is equally n
crying necessity. There is no finer or more health
full exercise than swimming and it is an accomplish
ment every child, boy and girl alike, should possess.
The city of Casper is large enough and rich
enough to afford public Fairgrounds and bathing
pools, and to establish a public welfare depart
ment, not for the care and control of derelict
adults, but for the real welfare and advancement
of the clean, fresh and growing childhood of the
city, in which rests the hopes and ambitions of the
future Casper.
! We are unwilling to believe that corporations
are devoid of soul. That they are blind to the ad-
vantages of placing within the reach of children,
the things that make for better, cleaner citizenship
in those who will one day come on the scene to com
mand when we have passed.
| No doubt these corporation win ealist in any
proper and serious effort the city will initiate, not
only with their personal, but with their financial
aid.
VIII the city catch the point and will the city dc
its duty?