Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-11-19 | Page 33 | Plans to Prevent Increase of Crime among the Young

Plans To Prevent Increase a of Crime rime Among the Young British Government Taking Steps to Counteract Tendency Tendency Ten- Ten dency dellsY to Waywardness T Nov ov 18 Plans 18 Plans are arc be- be being LONDON Ing considered to combat the tho great Increase In Juvenile crime Which has become more moro apparent since the tho com commencement commencement- or ot war Memo Homo Secretary Samuels met about fifty leading representatives of ot boys boys' and girls girls' brigade organizations to discuss what ho he descrIbed as a a. vel very urgent and vcr very difficult I problem The Tho king and queen had expressed their grave grate concern atthe at atthe atthe the Increase of oC Juvenile offenses and hoped that adequate measures be tak taken n to deal with the ovll evil Mr Ir Samuels thought the war had encouraged tho spirit of oC adventure ad among the boys boJos darkened streets save gave facilities facUlties for wrongdoing and andIn andIn andIn In tho the absence of ot so 80 man many millions of oC fathers on war ar service there had been boen a weakening of ot home Influence ence It had been found Cound that the Influence of oC some moving pictures encouraged the tho spirit of ot lawlessness lawless lawless- ness and antI he proposed to establish a central official censorship of ot all nIl motion picture pla plays s 's which ho he hoped might check some somo of oC the abuses At the tho same time he thought much muck of t the tho trouble arose from Crom misdirected energy eners and proposed to carefully consider various suggestions suggestions sug sug- which were wele put Iut forward b by the tho representatives of ot the or organizations organizations or- or and by uy Sir R. R Baden Baden- B Po 0 II organizer of ot tho ho boy scout movement mo t. t