Show LI 1 i in the bush lea beaque U el by W D BUSH J n 1 1 11 1 robert ruark wrote in his col dmn last week of a runaway girl gir of 15 who was finally located in a san francisco hotel where she had spent the last several days with a sailor according to mr ruark the sailor has been arrest ed and is awaiting trial the girl was turned over to the juvenile au anthont thorit es but what of the moth er of th s girl she has had no reprimands nor has she been ed under arrest and thus it is with nearly every case of juvenile de linsue ncy the youngsters are punished but the parents who are usually as much to blame as the errant youths receive no chastise ment tooele thoele has a juvenile problem TOD park has an even greater one whenever a teenager teen ager is caught committing some petty crime or staying away from school or breaking into a building or any of a dozen other things he is us bally sent to the reform school or put in the custody of his par ants and what happens 7 in a good many of the cases where here a youth Is released to his parents he can be seen almost any night out with a gang of kids with nothing to do and no place to go some have said there is plenty for young peo pie to do in this community and there is but a lot of those things take money two bits for a show or for a basketball game roller ing a bit more and what else is there to doa do some of those kids dont have much money some come from large families and are fortunate if they get three good meals a day at a meeting last week the county agent and the home dem on agent attempted to get a youth program underway one of 4 H and similar work where each person participating in it would be learning something use ful and profitable at the same time they were enjoying them selves 4 hers learn to make things out of wood leather and other materials learn agriculture and stock raising and have plenty 0 of f wholesome good times the gir girls ls learn sewing cooking and any one of a number of useful household skills parents put out very little cash for kids who are in this kind of work and best of al the kids seem to love it another meeting has been set for the alth of february and any body who has the welfare of our out young people at heart are urged to come out especially needed are those who represent some organ that can give some assist ance to this program gram getting back to delinquent par ants why t someone be gm gin giving our adults a few les sons in ia adolescent behavior 7 9 you can cant t expect kids to be good if their folks are off carousing and brawl ng and not caring what their children do A few nights in the crow bar hotel or a good stiff fine might make them tend to the busi ness of taking care of their fam lies superintendent sterling harris tells me there are from the tooele thoele high school gymnasium there are two stairways one at each end to the balconies the question is with the gym as crowded as it has been for most games this season would all those people file out orderly without jamming the doors if someone yel led fire I 1 have been harping on building a memorial center to enlarge the recreational facility facilities I 1 es in this county I 1 will continue to harp on it even though a new larger gymnasium may be in the offing for the high school in my opinion it would be much more profitable to combine all resources and have one big fine place for everybody to go then than to build one little place here and another there separately cooperation is the keynote of success and if we are ever to have anything for our young people and ourselves we re all going to have to pull to gether let s be selfish lets let s not settle for anything but the best we can possibly get with the re sources we have access to lets let s not be petty or small lets let s not let religious or social differences stand in the way let s not be afraid someone else is not going to do as much as we are tooele thoele is a good place the peo pie are good they can do just as big a things as anybody else but the people have to be shown they aren t going to rush into some venture without first investigating to see if the plans are sound too ele doesn doean t want any fool s castle a beautiful useless dream house all the people of toodie tooele want is a place where they can send their youngsters and know they will have a good evening of fun prop erly supervised and chaperoned and a place where they themselves can go and dance or swim or see a basketball game or a boxing match without having to stand up that s all tooele thoele wants and sooner or later tooele thoele will get it 0 remember folks A snob is a person who sure of his social position mrs jack johnson of grantsville Grants ville spent the past week in salt lake city visiting her daughter miss nina johnson who is attending roland hall |