Show r 1 the I he D delinquent ea indu ent t boy ly BY U r t department of psychology U of 0 lj y society coclet Y ip 19 a form of 0 organization of which bas baa beva butic as a result of generations genera tiona of empet l abnee there igan iaan order ot of living acting and thinking for a given ghen age afie and community which han la Is necessary A for the cOni conijn velare we fare at least tor for exl eil end survival hencer Heu he son this bruer la is the product ot of trial and Oe selection leton and societies and which lame haie tailed faile I 1 to tj live I 1 11 up ta hla order have perished ad to order la Is normality or right social action I 1 in u all atos abea have hav e tailed failed to ti comply with the social order as aa Ile tineI in age and community we have uh fuch individuals A laro lare percent of young people collide r the social bruer at one time or an other in their lives some more frequently than others sonia some are never quite baim ozious and others are never at variance with po oc lety clety most of those who at times come alto conflict with the social order will not become lad citizens and with the proper care nearly all can be brought up to the stan standard daid of normality no two individuals are alike aia all no two corresponding orns 7 t can be found lulu juitt aligre in dlf fermi individuals I 1 acet et olny oiny occasions occasional ly ilo do tur our bouly organs fall to funch on and become diseased of courso course some function better than others there are all degrees from the diseased to the most perfect now the b habinc we is true of our mental function ings ind is probably the lioci complex and organ za dou that we know anything an thing of it is the organization organisation of the a experience so eo that the past can it 11 luminato the future this requires good belse organs organ tf perception meni memory ory etc A defect in niest niost any of the senses in the power of the nervous system to retain its Impress low and modifications or in the imagery with which one pictures thit wih la is absent from sense may lause cause of the individual to society A proper understand ing of all ones fellows requires 1 a 1 consider considerable awe mental grasp and a wo we l organized inner world our greatest realities are the principles wy we abstract from va arlous experiences and it Is these that more than aly v tiling thing else govern us andi determine our conduct now these ideals or principles of conduct can come only fron from directly or indirect ly all our ideals are wade made up from bits that we have gathered now flow from tado alij exper letice now from ahat hat A story that one has read cout tributes tributes lt A part to one s guiding prin cipley cl or ideals the observed life of jr a neighbor ur or friend another parl I 1 a song alies ah PS a new inspiration a that one chances to see eee suggests something further thus the future that we e plan for ourselves ir grows up thus very selves take shape now it is evident that with ail ad our different differt ni inherited qualities and our vai vainous louf environments n dud to diff different elent homes occupations train inos s ct individuals will tall fall short of the degree of social adjust ment bunde by others some on account of teller letter health and early training have better memories better batter of complex aitla eions better foresight and tion than others some unfortunate a individuals due hereditary weakness and lack laci of opportunity or lack of inspiration all of which lie beyond their control become dependents dep indents fco bogety boc clety ety or possibly are driven by their weaknesses eak nesses to methods of getting along thet are wrong I 1 e G 1 that threaten the welfare of others or their own future good these individuals are delinquents or social offenders we cannot afford to assume sume that any of them become so BO how hon could a person if ho he siw how a bad act would weaken himself deprive him of happiness and get him into difficulty how could he in the light of all this choose the arong we must attribute va ong acts to lg ignorance norance neural instability and imp impulse go everz every bad act has a cause which we ne shoula 4 seek to find and correct it if we are to m make ake good the character that is thus expressing itself even dell berate acts that are wrong cannot be held wholly against the individual the reasons that he uses hla his images and ideals are due to hs environment A 4 and education bad ow ellla wl lla ills aro are only general expressions of a multitude of conditions which mu mut must t be controlled conti oiled if af t would modify the will we make grave mistakes by attributing certain things to a youth evil will and not analyzing its antecedents will la Is by no means an elementary eje thing that can be blamed in this manner it 1 lq the complex result of many ciany conditions which we can analyze and get at individually we are as a rule too liable to altri buto bute bad to an act when an other othe r point of view would be better for example a small boy set fire to paper lu in a clothes closet and destroyed many va valuable leable things and only by accident was the housep house spared what should be done to him bim the act had every appearance appeal ance of being deliberate T tho father talked the watter matter over thoroughly with the boy who gave this the father had promised to have ft fire to bum barn fomo leaves which the little fellow had bad raked up tor for the purpose lie he failed ailed to keep his word being too busy as fathers are too often tho the boy piled some borne piece cf raper in the cost and 1 set tire fire to th them intending the then to transfer the fire to the leaves leavea but it got bot too big he shut the cloft r door tightly so 0 o that no ao an 0 would isee I 1 sea what he had donel only auly by rc ac I 1 aident was waa the lira discovered IQ in time to sav an etho house this Is ie la a capital b but lt a true one of the anim a point of view and of hl hia shortsightedness ills his own purposes ate aie uppermost upper moat ile he did not that ua fire would be un ua heu it proved to bo BO tie he did not fabe ate why closing the bot boo would nol end the trouble ito he simply ulde t that wab all what should be houfe 1014 with him can ic but they see only diate le lations bihy ihy should I 1 lave a e practice in th ds rf cy ULUI ui diLt Lt that wll make hw hiu rational lacu cutting them ou oui i of the maa via or imposing our rt adoni upon ilieva arbiLa rily will lot iol loiku beni newta im tB they of course corse ieli kira n to atit holit but lati oURI ie lis in abut lb ib deell il a aniana rt iredia are iw ve ala ai d don and to 10 not give clil laren a chance to grow cloral Ch children IlLren as a result ae it alle aile tu to bo bonome onie marclous mad cloua clous and re reee t ena fut ful borne bome homes bomea ale aie void of brer arf er or kind fatow up iu ill Piti pitiable ible rance of everton evert ln alno eie vuu abt of bait hespelt it is ottin a to alt at such auch condit conditions tons most alost juven je e of feelers are perfectly nirmal ni so far as is concerned Low Lerned but alavo LA had a lair chance clia uce A very few on account or of or inherited wean wea netties can never nener become tree free and happy citizens they are greatly to ta be pilled and should bu caled tor and ainaly and above all tey ley be prop oily ly guarded so that they will not be able to oAte their kind man of the unfit n I 1 are I 1 let amate oA jaspring spring of feebleminded feeble minded women permitting btuch LL a wing cuing to feo on oa will be oe oa aa c the sevro of future ganiea eions against us while characters charac tera buch as the develop development meat of skill along a certain line a a pro bably not we must not overlook the gi eat influence ce of environ ment on the alie lives of gi owing growing infalvi duals A large part of the work 0 oi the ju juvenile court should be directed toward betten bettering ng the conditions arx n the community that lead to bad habits and ideals good clean activity in the way of games s olde be enchul euco maged aged land and should be regulated so lar far as is found necessary every case of delinquency should be thoroughly studied adenoids Aden defective or vision I 1 and many other physical weak weaknesses nessa that could cold be oett ired red by medical care E hould be looked after As TL a mat er of hu humanity inanity we owe such care to these poor unfortunates and from a financial standpoint it pays it makes many who otherwise would be dependents pen dents good efficient and industrious citizens again the buoie docial setting of alo delinquent and the psychological antecedents of his wrong acts should be studied by someone that la Is competent as far as possible and necessary every case is different from the other i though cut will soon discover certain general guiding principles to follow above all every enery boy should be en cou raged to take up some sort of activity in a positive way that wll grow into a life interest ile he must be absorbed in something some industry art or science that will con sume his leisure moments and gradually become his soul 9 ambition everybody naturally wants to do something in which he be can distinguish himself with the help ot of the school the tha church the press the juvenile court etc all of which are good so far as they can go we are still in need of one ona thing that la Is most essential in the right kind of character chai acter building and that Is some better provision tor for introducing each child gradually and naturally into some borne good steady coul absorbing life work the cure of de lin quency la in the case of physically normal children must be along this line |