Show What Our Readers Say 1 CHILD TRAINING Editor Salt Lake Telegram I have read your thoughtful editorial editorial edito edith rial nat of ot recent date So Far We Have Failed You stress the importance of the parents' parents responsibility in the training of children I agree with you OU but at atthe atthe atthe the same time I do not believe the parents are less concerned with the welfare of their own boys and girls than the parents of England and as you know England Egland has no juvenile crime problem as it is understood in America i iThe f The real trouble in lii this country is is' is that we have substituted the J pies of or the anarchists I I mean me-an the philosophical anarchists for anarchists for the po police lice and courts as far as our population 1 lation under 18 years ears of oc age is c con concerned n- n and it might be said to to I a gre great lt extent for older persons too foe But this is another subject To blame parents for the present preset condition is unfair They are largely helpless in the matter nor would I 1 blame the personnel of the juvenile courts They have been given an im m impossible possible task i iThe The juvenile courts and the various various' civic church school and other des cles out to keep youth from becoming criminals should either cither start a real program or they should permit the erring ng boys or girls to be handled b bythe byl by the police and courts as they were once handled The present condition is Ls unfair to the rising generation and their parents as well as unfair to tj the general public which suffers so so much from the depredations of ot youthful youth tj ful criminals 4 There has so far been no organized organized organized organ organ- effort worthy of oC the name to j prevent juven juveniles Ies from getting into ino crime As I have already said let the regular police and courts resume their jurisdiction over the young people when they get into trouble or have the juvenile c courts and the various va va- va rious agencies interested in their work start a real vital program that will get somewhere LOUIS WARD |