Show KA KATHLEEN NORRIS You Yau and Juvenile Delinquency er WHAT can you OU do about It demands today's distracted young mother studying the terrifying terrifying terri tern tying new pattern of at today's Juvenile juvenile Juve uve nile nUe delinquency My children are small small scores score of mothers write me every year But they wont won't stay smalL They're growing fast to the ages when we cant can't control them when dangerous influences will be beall beall beall all about them Dangerous books booksIn In their hands dangerous radio programs pouring into their ears dangerous associates older associates older children children children chil chil- dren who have been nourished too long on all this poison poison leading leading them Into trouble become of the old secrets secrets se se- secrets crets mothers and fathers had to keep them good hold them safe build decency and character What's become of words like obedience obedience obe obe- and duty and modesty and self-control self What can we do Well If you happen to be among the parents whose waking hours are racked by these questions whose sleep is broken by them I have two or three questions in turn for you and then a possible I answer I Three Questions Question My first question is granted that you want their bodies to be sound and healthy inside and out Do you press them down Into filth and feed them corrupted food My second When you want them well schooled do you apprentice them to the lowest and most degraded degraded de de- degraded graded criminals you can find And my third Do you have them taught to read to listen to assimilate assim late what they hear bear and then permit rich and powerful agencies to peddle corrupt literature to them and crime radio programs to make them familiar with the slang the methods the cruel men and vulgar women of ot the underworld underworld underworld under under- world Your answer to all this is In the negative of at course course ourse But perhaps you haven't seen the childrens children's reading matter and radio amusement amuse amuse- ment men quite as a's education But Dut It is 1 OUI in is hj bonds bandt and unfortunately like lIko all the rest of ot us they drink in coarseness and lawlessness far tar more easily than they do da tho the Ie lessons non you want them to learn Many of 01 these programs Introduce Introduce Intro Intro- duce themselves a as being designed to Inculcate respect for tor law taw and emphasize that crime does not pay But nut after this reassuring opening the they plunge straight into bons of aU all forms of vice ringing endless changes chanles on ever every form torm of 01 felony knO known to law Crime Is U Popular It n surely is an extraordinary commentary upon us UI as a nation that crime books book and crime program pro grams gram outweigh in popularity all the others put together and that even the seemingly harmless soap operas have recourse to one vio via violent violent lent extreme after another and their heroines are aro alternately the vJ victims victims' tim of 0 or suspected of 0 It themselves There The is 11 an aa organization called the National Council for Youth which may be the answer It is comparatively new yet it has already already already al al- ready achieved certain miracles In curbing programs too horrifying for youngsters at bedtime and pushing statutes relating to obscene obscene ob oh scene and indecent publications Its purpose is to supplant dangerous danger danger- ous amusement for tor entertainment of at a safer type and its hope perhaps per per- haps is to foster in fathers and mothers and educators everywhere a a. a keener sense of their responsibility ity for the purity and security of the rising generation The president of at this organization and one of its charter members is Kenneth H. H Bayliss whose ad ad- address address dress is Pioneer Building St. St Paul 1 1 Minn Anyone interested Is invited to write to Mr Bayliss to 1 get further information as to present pres ent eat activities and future plans Already Al AI ready under its auspices St St. Pa PaU Paul has an experimental recreational project In which the children themselves decide what form their amusements will take Another project is to join oln with the Junior chamber of ot commerce in a campaign campaign campaign cam cam- under the heading Better Reading Builds Character We all ail feel that something must be done We try from the moment they are born to give our children everything that Is good We refrain ourselves from coarse and criminal criminal criminal crimi crimi- nal attitudes in our conversation We meet their teachers have long talks with dentist music teacher shoe men We correct nursery tendencies toward stealing and ly ly ing oaths and the words we call dirty And when a little sleuth work on the part of a teacher or mother reveals that a horrible older bo boy ut lit school is purveying disgusting pamphlets we are duly shocked But all that hat is thrown away if a small child chUd drinks drink excitedly from froma a very river of crime for long Intervals intervals in of hours dally daily and grows entirely accustomed to violence and murder as escapes from tram any form format of at trouble I recommend the National National Na Council for tor Youth |