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Show BUILD YOUR FUTURE IN UTAH VALLEY dread. The greatest calamity, in his own opinion, that can befall a high school student, is that he be called "chicken". To avoid this designation he will risk life and limb or violate most every written or unwritten law in the book. The greatest problem confronting confront-ing educators today . is the task of getting boys and girls to see that resistance to temptation and wrongdoing entails far more courage cour-age than "going with the crowd". The weakest of the weak can easily eas-ily float with the stream, but it requires determination and strength streng-th to row against the current. The December 8th meeting of the Utah Coonty Youth Council will be a distinct challenge to student stu-dent officers, social workers, and law-enforcement personnel. The problem confronting them will be to devise a plan of educational action which will make the "good life" so attractive and commendable commend-able that boys and girls will of theselves want to go straight. Greater Utah Valley, Inc. lends its support to this worthy cause. Boys and girls are Utah Valley's most valuable asset. Upon an intelligent in-telligent solution of the youth problem pro-blem today depends our social security tomorrow. The recent United News dispatch dis-patch from the Philadelphia Police department that 975 teenage criminals crim-inals had been picked up in a two-day two-day city-wide drive, comes as a climax to the news of youthful delinquency reported throughout the United States. Two aspects of the report were especially shocking shock-ing 625 underage offenders were apprehended in one crime-ridden district alone; and an alarming number of the gang . members were young girls. Police Commissioner Commiss-ioner T. J. Gibbons reported that at the very height of the roundup, a woman social worker was criminally crim-inally assulted in a vacant lot by four teen-age boys. Reports coming in from all the major cities of the country plainly indicate that the youth problem has long since passed the eyebrow-raising eyebrow-raising stage. Juvenile delinquency delinquen-cy poses a definite and frightful challenge to the security of our social well-being. In the opinion of the writer, this unfortunate situation is due to two fundamental causes the breakdown break-down of firm, intelligent discipline in the home and often in the schools, and the conviction held by so many boys and girls, that "It's smart to be tough". The writer's many years experience exper-ience as a high school principal has proven conclusively that transgression tran-sgression on the part of teen-agers will disappear whenever it loses the passive or active approval of the rank and file. "Loss of Face" as a member of the gang is perhaps per-haps the teen-ager's greatest |