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Show 00 BLAME PUT ON LAZYPARENTS NEW Ymi:k. Jan. 24. Parents have row 11 la and are responsible, in the main, for derelictions of boyQ and girls. Lester I". Scott, national executive of the Camp Fire Girls, and Misi Helen Ferris, member of the executive board, told 100 executives at a conference Monday. It Is because parents permit children chil-dren t crowd ast exeitementa Into a short period of life, whereas these i-XpcrieiK es .should be absorbed onlj after years, that adolescent boys and gn ls get wrong Impressions and viewpoints, view-points, the speakers maintained. Girls and boys should be taught work" said Mr. Scott. "The modern . hlkl now Is surfeited with films dances nnd what not Modern life -is not interesting to children. The adolescent ado-lescent girl's funuaerrienta are created for her, she has few i.isks to hold her mind The modern girl is all right, she is as fundamental!) sound us hoi grandmother. It's her surrounding1 that are wrong." ( Mis.s Ferris made a plea for young women social workers. "The older women," she said, "'do not understand the girls, and they Permit them amusements which the i;lrls would taboo were they to be pm in 1 harge. They will be much more atrlci than the older generation." ' ' ' , ,i I m |