Show Children Revel In New Risks Every Even teacher every parent Is familiar with many manifestations of this first experimental period Every child es especially especially especially es- es every boy is ready at this age to go the limit He likes tes to see how far he can go He lie will take a risk since the feeling of risk Itself Itsell affords him pleasure It is this feeling that makes the fifth and sixth grades in school notoriously the most difficult discipline to In the second period of adolescence as is seen by o observing g students n of the eleventh ev eh d twelfth f grades pupils are willing and anxious to take over responsibility responsibility responsibility for trying out their ideals They wish to help direct school societies de debating debating de- de bating teams class organizations they want to share in student government and class discipline The The Juvenile juvenile delinquent is a danger sign flagging parents teachers and so society society so- so clet as a whole off oft certain roads roads off off the roads of overcrowded living conditions conditions conditions condi condi- of neglected health of ot parental severity lIe se- se severity verity Crity with the natural claims of ot youth for recreation of deadening early en entrance entrance entrance en- en trance Into toil toll All these roads are lined with innumerable disasters to the adolescent Other roads are also strewn with the wreckage of young life those life those where the alcoholic the feeble minded and the socially subnormal have been al allowed allowed allowed al- al lowed to assume the responsibilities of parenthood Juvenile delinquency often orten hinges upon mental Incapacity but among the mentally mentally mentally men men- tally normal at least one experienced observer ob ob- ob- ob server Magistrate FreschI Freschl of the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York courts finds that wrongdoing among girls often begins In their parents' parents de denial denial denial de- de nial of a harmless good time Recreation Recreation tion being a normal need of normal youth its denial leads to deceit intrigue and thence to downfall From downfall From the Delineator |