Show 1 UP Ul ChILDREN By L. L A A. Hollenbeck Some oIne of th the mor moralists a and anu 1 1 welfare workers around N New v YON York City are having a l sudden spasm I out tl the crimes of children and it all because of a want want of Ch Christian is i teach teach- ing lug Many Inny people h have I a habit o or of I judging the worlds world's progress pogress and amI mor morals s b by Y their own idea idea of or what everything lg should be be S They hey allege that 24 per cent 0 of the the- tte boys on on 6 a week weck nr are violating the l law w b by stoning n win vin windows win win- dows lOWS shooting craps craps craps' in antl l stealing Religion on however doesn't make a aboy aboy a aboy boy Immune from such Unrigs u 11 is a well ell Jl r sa saying ing t that at the preachers preachers' Hrs boys boys' 7 are are usually I the worst ho boys s 's of a a. neighborhood ThE religion has little or nothing to do with it except that f If you are arc too st strict with a boy he lie will hunt hunt ro lor 10 a chance to violate the rules rulos a Ob at strong as a bootlegger will hunt for rot a l chance to sell bootleg whiskey c Aboy A Aboy bo boy Is a savage from 12 to 15 35 yea ea of age He Is rapidly passing lg a long period of ancestral savagery He Ic cant ant help it it He mu must t be taken taker as he ho is Is Most ost of these welfare workers do not know the thEl p philosophy il of the boy The y be ed all right by setting him to Q work He must have sonic some way to control his pent up energy and if It he is gIen given gI en work and recreation he lie will be a dutiful respectful and industrious ous boy hoy with a growing ambition and a a. desire to conform to the better rules of or society S But the federations are afraid tile tue boy might compete with them in tho the labor market labor market and the wel welfare are woi workers work worl le leers ers erst are afraid that he lie will be abused by over over They are thinking of nothing but the sweat shops and seem seem to judge all child labor from th the same fear So the federations and the welfare workers play lute into each others plans and want to put the tire control of ot all children in the congress and ta take e it a away aay ay from the states Then again there are so I I many laws that it is is a growing difficulty difficulty I culty for people to do anything without without without with with- out violating a law I So when when ou you figure i it all together the bo boys are in no more danger than they ever were except from the tle peo- peo pe 0 that are crazy to mal e them make them better hettel bet het- ter tel and are working ignorantly y t to tomako mako malco them worse because they do donot donot O Oi i not understand the philosophy hY of the tro trouble Ui le I Boys Doys sl should be taught S to to work worl to tomake I make mal a living and to depend upon I I I themselves an and amid to o be pol polite and industrious in- in n-I n and amid and I honest an anti given a ach ch chance nce to to accumulate a little property property prop pro erty as s a reward d' d for their efforts I and they will be bo good boys because they want to be be and that is is tiie the so solution solution su- su lution of ot the bad boy question These juvenile juveni e courts may be hO c a an ai aid id JJ but IJ they are pretty much of or a farce at ut present because c t the e au judges and amid oth other r authorities do do not u understand or of the the philosophy boy I 0 |