Minneapolis spokesman., 1958-08-01
by hazel
underwood

Reach down your hand
Reach down your hand
The little one who tr,idges by your
SIDE
IL striving hard 70 match your
grown-up stride;
But Oh. his feet are very tiny yet.
His arms 70 short pray you,
don't forget
Reach down your hand.
Keep soft your voice
For Il aas such a little while ago
This small one left the place where
tones are low;
His voice stiil holds the cadence OF
that land
Where no one ever gave a stern
command
Keep soft your voice.
t4ft up your heart,
The little child you struggle so 10
teach
Has resource far above the human
reach.
Lift up our heart Anon.
You who have been blessed with
children have grave responsible.
" 10 tsach them first. to stay
in their own yards when they are
toddlers you who try to keep
your youngsters al home and try
70 see where they are at all times
% the day would be surprised TO
see how many little toddlers are
out in the alley and on the curba
playing hour after hour endanger-
ing not only their little lives but
the lives Of the motorist who has
10 try to drive around them aH
they sit right on the very corner
curb with their feet hanging in
the street
They do not know II ls the
rush hour, no one has called
them In off the streets or out
of the alley.
You wonder where their parents
arcl Some Of them are at home,
not caring where tho youngstcrn
arc 50 long as they don't bother
them You doubt that7 II Is true
overheard some young mothers
who try 10 keep az" with their
youngsters tell about the neighbor
who will dress her youngsters give
them their breakfast and turn
them loose
She tells them to 80 play with
Sam and Susan and not to bother
her Then she forgets them A.
least she never bothers 70 so to
the door 70 call or aes what they
are doing That means the neigh
bor has 60 watch he three PLUS
these two day after day
She takes care 20 look out ever
20 often 20 SEQ II hers are in the
yard and being real mother she
keeps the other two out OF the
alley and orr the curb
She says she Is quite burned up"
about Il. too
Another neighbor has gym
set in her yard or course that
attracts other children she ex-
poets that but there are two
neighbor children little Older
than hor two arid four years old
and these two win take the swings
and keep them until her children
cry n her two want ta play in
the Sand box the older ones viii
throw sand on them
SHE haa no fence SO cannot help
herself right uow, but hopes to
have fence some day The two
older ones have a lovely fence and
when their mother cleans them uF
she locks the fence she viii not
allow the ether two youngsters
In
Isn't that u lat Of nerve =" She
doscnt want HER lovely yard
muS~ed up with toys or sand.
She has said so,
II Ia appalling the number o
two and three year oida sou ~,
out on ,hc eHrbs hour after hour
Pretty little tots with such dirt,
faces and hands and IN DANCE
evNry minute they are out there
Why don't thN Young mother
watch their childyrnf Some hav,
beer up late the night before soni
want q sleep and others are -
busy taking over the telephones
they actually forge, about IN,
children
Some pcorloa children jus, grow
up dangerously. but they DO grove
watch your little ores Z, pays {,
see they are protected from speed
sters who drive down alleys liki