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jf . - VOL. XXII. Twelfth Year SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 17, 1913 5 Cents the Copy No. 5
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LeROY ARMSTRONG - - - - Editor
CURES AM) Til 10 Y. W. C. A.
t The mission of the Young Woman's Christian
t association is pretty clearly outlined In the fol
lowing letter sent out this week by the associa
tion: A girl comos to Salt Lake and works In the house
hold of a physician. The physician, seeking a eure
for the morphine habit. Induces the maid to sub
mit to his experiments. She acquires the habit,
the cure falls and the girl finds herself homeless
and shunned.
A girl of 16 is induced by a tratellng man to
leave her home and come to Salt Lake to be mar
ried. He refuses to make her h a wife and she is
, too proud to return to parents and friends.
' , Although losing her voice as the result of
I' chronic Irritation of ho throat caused by work In
in industrial plant, a young girl risks the disability
rather than leave the only work she knows.
Unable to earn the simplest necessities by pod-
dling a cpllar support, a girl from Idnho finds her
self shelterless and starving on the streets. Weak
rnd despondent, she decides that death is prefer
able to dishonor and prepares "to end It all."
iou know the logical and probable outcome of
each of these situations. The results you foresee
1 would almost have been lnevtiable but for the ex-
l istenco here of the Young Women's Christian as-
, relation. With this organization as a factor, what
happened? The victim of the drug habit was In-
fl tioduced by a physician to whom she applied for
I a treatment to the Y. W. C. A. Treatment, rest,
I' nursing and encouragement cured her. The child
I I " who found the promise of marriage a falsehood,
f remembering a former visit to the Y. W. C. A. with
her mother, applied for counsel and was persuaded
1o return home. Another position was found for
the girl with the weak throat and her voice was
saved. The girl canvasser, guided by an Impulse
she could not explain, wandered into the Y. W.
C. A. to see "what it was for." A few words of
sympathy brought a confession of her dreadful
purpose.
All of which brings to mind the case of Lenora
Merrill. She wasn't a drug fiend, didn't run away
with a traveling man, had no trouble with her
her voice and wasn't starving on the streets. She
did, however, have the misfortune to reside in Bos
ton. Desirour of joining classes In physical cul
ture, she applied for membership in the Cam
bridge branch of the' Young Women's Christian
t,et that Christian association. A check accom
panied the application. Later the application was
turned down and tht check returned. Miss Mer
rill had confessed to the almighty sin of being a
Mormon. She was refused membership on that
recount, and, according to the letter of the secre
tary, solely on that account.
The Y. W. C. A. Is a national institution founded
upon a general theory of helpfulness and uplift.
It Is the melting pot of all creeds, where the eligi
bility of a member is supposed to depend more
upon the moral fibre of the applicant than upon
her religious belief. Nineteen hundred years of
Christian enlightenment finds us still on the
bleachers regarding such, affairs as the Merrill
case.
We don't pretend to know how Infinitely paln
lul Is that disease known as "Mormonlsm;" nor
do we happen to possess the finer sensibilities
which would lejul us to appreciate the dreadful
disadvantages that accrue from membership in
the Mormon church, but we are quite sure that
the Y. W. C. A., In Boston and all over the nation,
would serve a much higher purpose by training
its energy upon the salvation of Mormon girls,
curing them of their religious belief, and letting
the drug fiends, the girls that run away with
traveling men, the girls with throat trouble and
the girls starving in the streets take care of
them? e'v ".
The accompanying letter umply demonstrates
that helping those in the 1 itter class Is a snap: now
let the Y. W. C. A. show what it really can do.
Once there was a Set of Whiskers who
owned a Great Gob of land. He didn't have
Energy or Spine enough to make a Real Farm
out of it and No One could get him to sell
because he Preferred to let it increase in value
through the Improvements made by Wide
awake Farmers all around him. Then he
died and left a split in his family a Mile Wide.
His Job on the other side is grubbing Sage
brush with his Teeth.
GETTING RACK TO NATURE.
Ask any of the men In your acquaintance how
many kinds of flowers they can name In the near
est garden. Then ask yourself. Try to reach back
into the storehouse of your brain and drag there
from the discarded knowledge that came to you
when, as a youth, you helped Mother plant the
flowers In the garden at the side of the house; or
when on your way to school you helped yourself
to the best the neighboring gardens had to offer,
Knew just what you were getting, and took a
boquet of sise and variety to your best girl.
Flowers haven't been Uurbanked beyond recog
nition in these years that you and I" have been
getting old. They are much the same as they
were In the good old days; they only look different
because you have grown away from them. H
It Is an even bet that not one man In a nun- ! H
dred can go down to Liberty park and name ha?f ifl
of the varieties of flowers that are grown there. H
Not one man in a thousand could name the varlc- H
ties of trees. , H
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There was a young lady from Manti 1
Whose clothes were exceedingly scanti; M
Her skirt caught a tack M
And ripped up the back M
Until you could see a considerable portion M
of her lingerie. M
TRE PBRITj Ol THE PR1VATI3 TIP. H
The burden of Chief Grant's complaint ngaiiut M
the Rev. Ward Winter Reese's exposition of what M
the latter terms epidemic immorality in the cite
seems to be that the divine made his complaint jH
through the newspapers instead of "tipping it oif njB
to the police." i'H
The police department of Salt Luke for a gool B
many years has been the headquarters of the hot- HJ
tiers' union. Few good crime or police storks H
have emanated from that place; most of them , H
ere tipped off privatel to the newspapers, which '
i Iways found the police ready to smother the fa cm fa
instead of willing to let the public in oil the de-
tails. l
Becker would still be a lieutenant of police in
New York had it not been for his inability to pre- J'fll
ent the newspapers from learning the truth. li-fl
The crimes that were tipped off to him were i 9
Juried by his official hands, particularly the l'H
crimes in which he was Implicated. tH
George Sheet;! would have been chief of Salt 191
Lake's police considerably longer had the informa- III
tion that he possessed been successfully veered oif jifl
the course traveled by the newspapers. The first jHJ
tip on the McWhirter case went to the police M
imys afterward, when the newspapers learned the H
story from other sources, the police had warned HJ
the swindlers to leave the city.
Recently, it was charged by affidavit filed in H
the county attorney's office, a pre-supposed crlm- H
iral was warned by a city detective to get out of jH
tnwn until the affair in which he was involved 11
"had blown over." !"
The "squeal book" Is the register for the grave- jH
ard of crime. No one but tho police has .access H
to it. jJM
Newspaper publicity has been the greatest fat - IH
tor in the uncovering of criminals and in the cur- H
tallment of crime. The criminal knows when he !
has committed a crime that tho police are after M
1.1m. lie knows he Is fairly secure if the story of yH
Ms crime does not reach the newspapers. The SI
keeper of a disorderly resort fears nothing so lon IH
as his place is kept from the limelight of news- uj
I aper space. nfl
The thief who stole a fortune from the Chliau HJ
sub-treasury felt safe during the weeks that the
Mor of his crime was pigeon-holed by the poli . .
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