The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-05
Pension Questions I

They in their daily work come
In contact with those who pos
sibly due to lack of paternal
care have lapsed into q state of
mind In which they telieve II Is
up to them to accomplish in
their own way anything they
desire. regardless of the hard
ship they might cause others.
II is this type of child we are
vitality interested in and try to
straighten out, so that he or she
might grow up to be a stalwart
American citizen, in whom we
and his parents may take pride.
We know that all boys are
bound to sow a few wild oats.
Didn't we as well as you? II
only takes a little coaching and
the proper treatment to make
any child see the right side Of
things.
The Metropolitan Club has
for the past several years been
active in the project Of help
ing out delinquent and under
privileged children. It has con-
tributed in many ways to other
civic clubs who perform such
things as: furnishing school,
children with medical care, eye
glasses, clothing, etc. The Met
ropolitan Club also sponsors q
Boy Scout troop which has been
very active and has done won
ders for the same children whom
Mr.. Worker claims we are pick
ing on.
These people and firemen in
addition to spending their
spare time helping them. have
a solemn duty to perform when
they are on duty. When they
are appointed to the department
they must swear to Q solemn
oath to uphold the Constitution
Of the United States AMI protect
property of the people Of this
city regardless of the danger to
their own lives. Consider the
lot Of the policeman on his lone
ly beat at night. He may be call
ed to settle an argument among
DRINKS on the street or alley,
and in trying to settle the trou-
BILE may be turned on by them
and half beaten to death and
left lying on the street.
He may become the target
of/a shotgun blast in the hands
Of q burglar who he has sur
prised In the act of looting q
store. He may be called to the
home of a drunk-crazed maniac
who threatens to kill his family
or others, and WOULD, at the
least provocation shoot the po-
lice officer who comes to act as
a peacemaker. He may be bit
ten by q mad dog who endangers
the lives of school children he
is trying to protect, or he may be
run down by q drunken or reck-
less driver he tries to stop be-
fore the driver Injuries others
or himself.
One should first see some of
the diseased dregs of humanity
policemen must handle in the
course of q lifetime of police
work to realize the cha ices they
take of contracting some of the
same diseases.
Now let's consider the lot of
the firemen, whom some think
have such a ''snap." To see them
sitting in the Are hall 1t seems
to be an easy life. But when
the call does come in they never
know If they will ever see the
fire hall or their families again.
It may be only q small grass
fire out Of control which may
be easily put out with proper
equipment, or It may be q major
Are in q large Office building
or in one Of the large antiquated
hotels, seine of which are little
more than fire traps.
These buildings may soon be-
come q pyre in which the next
day the fireman's comrades may
be searching for q fellow fire.
mans body.
Their life Is very uncertain
Mr.. Taxpayer, and ! know that
hundreds Of you realized that
fact Sunday night when you
saw several Of them perched
precariously on the roof of the
Malbin Building. and on lad
ders breathing smoke, hot Ga.
and fumes which belched forth
from that inferno. Would yor
care to take that chance wher
it might be your last? They tool
1t, because to them II was thei,
bread and butter. and because
they also took an oath to protect
your lives and property regard.
less OF the risk to themselves.
A lifetime Of that kind Of liv
ing does things to . mans In
sides. You do not rest, and
uS,,al1v vxos, find <hn Asn~ou sr