Show RUNNING IN THE WRONG CHANNELS from the ephraim enterprise elsewhere in this issue will be found to notices of reward for information which will lead to the arrest and cocivi conviction action of some person or persons who have been guilty of some very disgusting and destructive acts in one case someone apparently used the photograph of the late mrs sybil armstrong peterson as a target for a 22 caliber rifle the picture was placed in the tombstone in in a special manner by loving hands as a remembrance of of the fine young woman who gave her life in motherhood now someone has maliciously destroyed that photograph and damaged the tombstone probably beyond repair it is to be hoped that the offender or offenders will be caught and handled as the case deserves in the other instance beehives belonging to vincent ross have been tipped over and the honeycomb taken from them the honey was left in the hives to keep the faithful bees alive during the winter the hives were set up strai straight ht to provide the bees with the all necessary shelter r someone someone has both robbed the bees of their necessary food and has exposed them to the elements making a double threat to their existence bees are valuable the same as sheep or cattle they do much to sweeten life and to benefit fruit crops to steal their food and leave them to starve to death is d a most contemptible crime in itself and also destroys the means of livelihood of the owner why are such disgusting acts committed who commits them naturally suspicion attaches to boys who go about the fields and foothills hunting rabbits or other game why they commit the disgusting acts is hard to explain child specialists say that children are destructive because they are not given anything constructive to do these destructive habits carry on into young manhood and womanhood and even in some cases into old age there is much energy in youth if it is not directed in proper channels it will go into improper channels men like rivers become crooked crookedly edby by following the course of least resistance parents face a real problem in directing the energies of their children into proper channels it is a problem which needs constant attention the duty of the parents is not done by providing the boy with a 22 rifle for christmas or by seeing that the boy goes hunting or hiking for exer cise the duty of the parent should be to give each child some responsibility in obtaining and maintaining some useful property so that the child will respect all property and will know the costs of construction and the loss that some must feel at destruction but when we find boys shooting the pictures off tombstones it is time that all of us take notice and do something the next thing they will be using living human beings for targets so as to provide more tombstones already a lot of reports are coming in of small mall boys shooting at other people with new air rifles and BB guns received for christmas if they will shoot at people with these toy but dangerous guns now we can expect them to be doing same thing with real guns in a few years from now yes there is a lot to do in raising children and the wise direction of energies of youth into useful channels calls for the cooper tion of all |