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Show MOTHERTRIED FOR TRUANCY OF DAUGHTER Flaming Youth and Irresponsible Irrespon-sible Parent Tangle at Stake In Peculiar Chicago Trial; Judge to Abide Iy Jury CHICAGO, April 23 (K.ID-Flnm- j ing youth and the irresponsible parent went on trial today before an unofficial jury of 12 prominent women who will seek to determine the guilt or innocence of a mother in the truancy of her 15-year-old daughter. Women On Jury The jury was composed of women,, wo-men,, seven of thorn mothers, who have devoted many years to, solution solu-tion of civic and social problems. The court was that of Municipal Judge Alfred O. Erickson. The defendant de-fendant was Mrs. Jane List on. charged with violation of tho compulsory com-pulsory education law. Mrs. Liston's daughter, Coletta, testifying last week in the inquiry into a grammar-school liquor party accident, was the author of the code of "the boy, the girl and the bottle" which has aroused Chicago parents and education authorities and led to the trial today. Among the members of the unofficial unof-ficial jury, opinion predominated that parents are responsible for the so-called "gin and jazz" parties of modern youth. Mrs. Andrew MacLeish, president of the Chicagoj Woman's club, criticized criti-cized parents for failure to make homes attractive for their children. "Parents are principally to blame for the mistakes of their sons and daughters," Mrs. MacLeish said. Mrs. William HaTrison Cade, Illinois Il-linois chairman of the national law enforcement committee, believes youth today is just as good, perhaps better, than the boys and girls of the past generations. "There is nothing wrong with modern youth except that children ot today need parental protection," she said. Sliaro Social Life Mrs. Charles Moody, chairman of the Big Sisters' Court committee, has raised a "house full of children," chil-dren," whom she protected bv shar- ing their social life. "My children are all married now and I have eight grandchildren. There is no comparison between them and those in the jazz-mad era. They are protected from n;in parties like all children should be." Mrs. George C. Mclntyre, president presi-dent of Big Sisters, has two daughters daugh-ters of the age "where gin and jazz are a paramount issue." "We must do something to remedy this situation," she said. The novel trial will be unofficial because women are not permitted to sit as jurors in Illinois. Judge Erickson, however indicated fhat his official verdict would abide by the verdict of the unofficial jury. |
