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This week we have another heart-warming story from our St. Louis Community. A man named Jake Austin runs a special service, a Shower the People<\/a> truck, that offers free showers and other hygiene services to homeless people in the St. Louis area. We\u2019re often reminded of how the homeless and other poor people need food, and what an excellent job so many of the food pantries do. We recognize that if a person has shelter, they have overcome some of the barriers to homelessness, but far from all.
\n<\/iframe> \nThere are still people who are literally living on the streets and what they face is incomprehensible, especially in the wealthiest country in the world. To eat and to find clothing, some actually engage in dumpster diving. But what then?<\/p>\nThat\u2019s where Austin and his cohorts come in. In a St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/u> story on \u201cShower the People,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/metro\/after-a-year-of-helping-st-louis-homeless-get-showers\/article_495d570c-e0fb-502f-bfb3-c8097e7fcbc3.html\">Austin said<\/a>, \u201cHot water and soap are wildly underrated in the world. You don\u2019t realize what it means to you until you don\u2019t have it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>That resonated with Austin, who bought a truck he found on Craigslist for $5,000 and started Shower to the People.<\/p>\nTangibly, the truck is equipped with two shower stalls and moves to different neighborhoods. Intangibly, it\u2019s equipped with a ray of hope for many of the region\u2019s homeless.<\/p>\nWhen it began operations a year ago, it offered showers two days a week. Now it\u2019s four, with plans for more growth, Austin said. \u201cWe don\u2019t have clients, we have friends and neighbors, and I\u2019m excited about our growth.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThis is another \u201cfeel good\u201d story for St. Louis. Fortunately, we\u2019re fed a steady diet of them because we have Channel 5 (NBC affiliate) \u201con our side\u201d [that\u2019s their slogan] and Channel 4 (CBS affiliate) \u201cnever stops watching out for you\u201d [their slogan]. With those two agents as our allies, we should have an army of charitable people and organizations that ensure that we never have people in our community who are hungry, homeless, or so left out in the cold that they have not showered in two months.<\/p>\nIt was not a television station that broke the story of the \u201cShower the People\u201d to us. It was St. Louis\u2019 flagship daily newspaper, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/\">St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/a>. And they certainly care about us. No words could provide a greater call to action than <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St._Louis_Post-Dispatch\">Joseph Pulitzer\u2019s platform<\/a>, written on April 10, 1907.<\/p>\n<blockquote>I know that my retirement will make no difference in its cardinal principles, that it will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nJoseph Pulitzer clearly got it. He talks about broad societal change to ensure that justice takes the lead over charity. He sees the well-being of citizens as a major concern of government and that responsible government must provide a safety net to protect all in need.<\/p>\nPerhaps it was inevitable as time went on the Post-Dispatch<\/u> would have to trim its sails a bit to appeal to readers who were not nearly as progressive in thought or action as Pulitzer. At the time that he wrote his platform, there were nearly a dozen daily newspapers in St. Louis, so the Post-Dispatch<\/u> could securely cater to the progressive niche.<\/p>\nAs the Post<\/u> worked to broaden its appeal, it had to seek out advertisers that were not comfortable with words like \u201cnever lack sympathy with the poor\u201d or \u201calways remain devoted to the public welfare.\u201d<\/p>\nThe TV stations crow about the great service they do for our community and the newspaper does indeed find time to provide some in-depth coverage to real acts of charity. 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