Show LITTLE HOODLUMS V We suspect the people of this city ity do not realize that there are several hundred children here who are growing up criminals It is no use to say SPY that they will be criminals if they keep on they on-they they are arc criminals now They show it every da day in their vandalism Only a few nights since a woman gave a little party for her Children hildren Sh She asked those s she lO wanted wanted wanted want want- ed and was passing a pleasant evening seeing the children enjoy themselves when an unearthly racket broke out outside and sticks and balls of mud came flying against the windows and the air air was filled with yells and hoots enough to raise the dead Every child in that neighborhood who was not asked to the little party under the guidance of two or three young hoodlums went to attack th the house and by their din chin and and hoodlumism to break up the the party The woman had to telephone for the police B Boys ys have confessed to the vandalism in the Westminster school building Let any house b bo vacant aca t two days and an any one passing the next morning will find all the windows broken They make malte so much havoc among the fruit trees that a good many many people on the thc outskirts outskirts' of the city have ceased to try to raise any fruit It is the same ame way wi with h hen roosts The They are just as happy when they rob a hen roost as when they tear up roses or beat down and eat cat green fruit They ought to be corralled They get no dis dis- pline t home and some wholesome discipline b by bythe bythe the authorities right now might save their necks later lter And AmI man many of them are most impertinent in their language A gentle caution to them is returned returned returned re re- re- re turned in coarse and obscene abuse to men and women v eri alike alik They They are little tartars They never I ought to have been and now that th t they have have been born they to be disciplined T They ey are areg aregi g gi owing up UI to be burglars and toughs s of the worst vorst kind cl and with the boys there are ale a ar multitude of hoodlum girls who are no better Their acts are areso areso areso so shameful and s so often repeated that there is general plaint corn of them One man said yesterday yester day diy I have lived in my place eight ye years rs but butI I have never owned it The little toughs in the neighborhood destroy my ray flowers steal teaI n my fruit break down shade my-shade trees and make life miserable miserable miser miser- miserable l V VT able ble for me T It ought to be stopped We Ve know of n nb nh way r to do it except for the people people- of a block to organize organize organize or or- and have someone on watch so that when the the deviltry deviltry is do done e the perpetrators can be nipped at t once And there is no harm in punishing them rh They y ar are not sensitive at all To put them in a af asa f sa safe fe place and keep them for three days on bread arid 1 l lat at water va r would help some and when the parents come for or them the parents ought to be arrested and given the same discipline because with the crowd as it ii is growing up unless in some wa way r re restrained restrained restrained re- re strained five or si six y years ars from now they will take the town |