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Show in with bad company. The end 3 prison. There is no cum for the situation except thru the parents. Ah ion., as they furnish grist to the grind! ing wheels of divorce mills, just so long will jails be filled to overflow. Inff with too-youthful criminal.!. ' WHEN PARENTS BREAK, YOUTH ENTERS CRIME ' i "AftT carefully considering the testimony fjiven by both parties during the trial, the court grants ;he divorce." Wo i-d s similar to these arc uttered ut-tered ('ally in hundreds of courts thruout the west. As the judge says them he is assigning, in more than 00 per cent of the cases, children chil-dren of the separated parents to a life of crime. Juvenile police officers and members mem-bers of the Travelers' aid have long rrcogntzod the part broken homes has played in causing young folks to run away from home and to stray from the straight and narrow nar-row byways. j Vhin Parents Split ; In , a recent survey made by the society, it was learned that bettor bet-tor than GO per cent of the number of young folk'! found stranded had i run away from homes where the , parents had separated. The juvenile department states the majority of its cases can be traced to the same cause. Girls. It is found, are more likely to take the situation to heart than boys. To The Big City They can't bear living with just one or the. other parent and so they slip away to the "big city' where they hope to find work and start life over and in tfyeir own way. But there are many pitfalls in the big city for the untrained girl and more often the golden dreams of happiness turns out a tragic nightmare- Roys, too, generally head for the big towns. They arc better equipped and more apt to find work Lban girls. Many of them, however, get |