Show Delinquency Among Children a Problem T Is often asked What That are the most IT I common dron dren drenA ames ot of delinquency of at chi chil A prominent juvenile court worker has stated tOted that the three desertion and more than any other causes to the delin of boys und and girls gIrl While this is doubtless true there are quie serious Herlous conditions which make the home almost Impossible fc far children to maintain good decent behavior In Sometimes children are left to roam the neighborhood and get Into al all kinds i ot of mischief by mothers who spend most of their time gossiping The rather lather Is Absent at work vork and the chi dren do not know where mother mother Is and nd when they are brought Into court site she expresses the greatest surprise that they are charged with stealing break breakIng tag Ing windows ant and ofen often more serious offenses This Is the kind ot of mother too that wil will not join wih with the court officers In their efforts to correct the child That is she attempt attempts to justify her boy In what lie he has done and says sas in his presence that she knows the pro probation baton bation officer has forced the child to admit hIs guilt for although he ad mis the truth of the charge complained ot of she knows he I is Innocent for ho he heI hoIs I Is a goed kind obedient boy A case ot of this kind occurred recently when a brIght clean looking youngster Wn was brought In charged wih with an o onse of offense nse against a In n a few tew minutes the officer had bad a complete confession from the boy who admitted his guit guilt and gave ful full details ot of the trouble The he mother was sent for tor and although the ho boy admitted that lie he was guity guilty ills his mother said she knew he was not but that the officer had seared the ho boy Into teUng telling a le ho When a parent takes luch such a stand tand there Is little hope ot of reforming the I boy There are aro only a few tew such cases for to their credi credit ho bo It said the tite parents usually agree with the I court as to the method adopted for tor the culprit In such case the child Is always repentant aid ald very seldom returns for further The majority of those who are returned Into court n a second time are those who conceal aU all or r part ot of the truth and the parent who encourages encourages ages such an attitude does the child the greatest possible harm and has himself to blame when the boy Is I brought Into court for a a repetition of I lila Ills former otense offense Children are sometimes beaten Into incorrigibility by angry parents wIo who wU will come Into court and admi admit that they have done everything possible for forthe forthe the boy even to beating him nearl nearly to death Last week a father Wa was cited In Whose hose son had been so un unruly Unruly ruly and vicious at one ot of the Ule district schools that the principal said lie he would not permit him to ta remain In tle the school schooL The father on being aked asked what he had done to correct his son said lie he had done everything possible Do you know w what tails taUs Is he queried We have heard ot of a thing was acknowledged Well said the father r I have hae given him that many a time I Bi Bill That you have dad and good and hard said the boy Were Vere you ou angry when you yau whipped the boy was asked Oh yes es I lck lick that lad I If I ant mad said the oln ola man manI manIt I It developed that this boy knew nothing ot of kindly treatment at home and was alwaYs In anger No parent ever eyer a a in such a mood There are many such cases and another wil will suffice to I Ii lustrate this point point A bright litte little fellow ot of 1 13 years ears who had been sent to the training school was brought In for tor reexamination ton tion to tho end that he mIght be re released released leased to ta resume his attendance at atone atone one ot of the district schools It was sOon I agreed that the bo boy should be released tram from detention and when told lie ha might return home said saidI I dont ont want to go home I Why not notI Because father said lie he would beat me to death when he got hold ot of me I again for far stealing The uY however went homo home with an of officer ticer who y o Informed the father I that I if he treated the little felt w cruelly he the father be so se severely verely punished The bo boy got no more beatings and has been an Ideal student ever sInce his release I Ever Every day evidences in support ot of the fact that I if you cannot win a boy wih with kindness i it i is useless to resort to harsh treatment and this apples applies as weI well to parents as to juvenile court officers A little corporal nun nn mo may do some delinquent chii good hut but such cases are rare In Indeed indeed deed |