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Show 7 r':; r :.l ia t :ttl: ; cl.:.!:. 1 tl :.a ia : t: i up." . .... i.A ' Irj c! t! ? evil i-.:---c..j t!.:.t t!.2 t : crca tLcir crrc:t, lis. V,'(.t:nc!t t 'I! . j eLcuII l 2 tcjrofl-'.: v,L::ilj jc-ia-f:I c "'.. I;:.:. could le kcjt entirely carated from cUcr jrisoners, tclli in jail cnl ia the courtroom. Tt:y eL:u!1 z.zt ccme into contact with tLa older and more hardened class the influence is bad, and It i3 to be hoped that the facials of the City court and the Police department may be able to devise de-vise tome plan whereby the ' clause in the State code providing for the trial of juveniles apart from other classes of prisoners, may be put into effect, and that immediately. . ' - Every one of this class of offenders who becomes more and. more hardened by reason of his contact with other prisoners, means just one more center of evil Influence on other boys, and perhaps, in later years, just one other convict for the big penitentiary out "on the hill." Tho Jovenifo Problem Is a Serious Oaa. Six boys, ranging in age from 9 to X6 years, were arraigned in the State criminal division of the City court, before Judge Diehl yesterday. One of these boys was charged with robbing a United States postoffice. The others 'were accused of burglary and housebreaking. j At the same time two other boys of tender age ; were awaiting in the jail, their arraignment on serious seri-ous charges. Two others were arrested last night end confessed to having committed a burglary. ! 'Within the past few weeks the police have made wholesale arrests of small boys,1 charged with many ' offenses, great and small. These boys were thrown into contact with others who were also offenders. One bad apple will spread infection and spoil a bushel of good apples. One bad boy can, by this influence destroy the purity of character of a dozen . or a score of boys not quite so bad. This bad influence influ-ence is cumulative, increasing as it spreads. 'An epidemic of evil. deeds seems to have broken out among the boys and youths of the city. These boys, many of them, have not the proper home influ-! ence. In discussing the question of the alarming increase of crime among the boys of "Zion," County Attorney George Westervelt, spoke a forceful truth :when he said yesterday: I "The question of juvenile crime is a serious prob-' prob-' lem, one of the most serious that the officers ,and courts have to meet. It seems a pity that it is not practicable for the courts to hold the parents of boys responsible for the misdeeds and criminal acts . of their, children. They should be brought into court and made to answer for the sins of their off- |