Show it is often said that the i p measure of parental aclin Q right treatment 1 treatment reat ment ot of quency should bo be established children by parents when children be bc conic come delinquent tho the point by W A PETERS balmori Bal MJ of till s was emphasized by edwin secretary secre arv of L the massachusetts probation commission by a story lie he told the other day to those interested in ili probation it was given out of his long experience na as a 1 I probation official and concerned a wealthy contractor in boston this man had a son nud a daughter both line fine children but their mother died their father remarried and the he stepmother not unlike of fiers showed allowed more booro alIc cUon for her own children than for her foster children tile tho son eon still a minor got to drinking ile he was wag arrested his refused to aid him and lie was sent to the workhouse meanwhile tile the daughter daug liter lacking lack ing tile the sympathy of a mother other ni became wayward wn Y ka ward against her also tho the fathers fath cra heart waa vas closed she went to work in a department store and was caught stealing articles from the store other oilier things equally reprehensible this young girl was waa guilty of until she became amenable to probation and its reformative but what of parental responsibility tho boy and the girl might liaro been saved from ill courses had they known the sustaining sympathy ofa parent at tho moat inott critical critic nl point in their lives eyes what of oe tile the attitude of a father which compels the state to step in im and take fake the place as best it may of a parent by practicing probation probation is preventive in its nature but right treatment by parents is s tile the bost best of all preventives |