| Show TAKE CARE OF THE WAYWARD BOYS AND GIRLS boys and girls are the most important in products of creation ilu human life is the most sacred of all subjects when men and women aoa en arrive at the years ot of maturity the obligation If is upon them to take care of the boys and girls and give them the best po possible sible chance in human life here are a lot of little girls that they are little is the pitiful thing about it who have been fooled into too close an intimacy with some careless thoughtless but not necessarily bad boys the girls have not been cabied for by their parents and their friends and by the community as they should and they are just crazy after boys that Is the way one of the impatient women expressed it they have lounged around the front gate chatting with boys who came along learning the nasty nasiy slang that may mean a great deal or nothing they have slipped away for an hour or two and have told wrong stories about their absence in obese absences they have met the LN who have been 18 gat guardianship and control and both boys and girls are going wrong the trouble of it is serious quality of the injury their whole lives are wrecked for nothing neither realizes the enormous significance of their actions and they go blind into the fires of the future the community must take care of them must assume control over girls who cannot control themselves must assume direction of boys who are unable to direct themselves and must give both a chance for a saner view of life and for a vastly happier existence here in this world what it shall be hereafter is the province of the preacher and the priest to tell them but one thing I 1 Is s sure it if they are better off here for good behavior and they are they stand the best logical chance for being better oft off hereafter it will take a little money the city should contribute its share however much it may be the county should contribute con tribue the remainder the public should see that the boys and 9 girls eirls are taken care of no more should such scenes as those recently revealed in the juvenile court be a allowed to occur there is an obligation upon the community to prevent it there is a call in human life loud and insistent youth hears it and has heard it from the bagi beg beginning ning ining of 0 the world and youth will conti continue n ue to hear bear it as long as human ife sha shall last the cry of nature is loud and strong but it has been misunderstood sacred and beautiful it if not mistaken it leads to heartache and rula ruin if it be uncurbed and uncontrolled troll ed here is tho the duty of society the they Y say that some of the girls involved in the recent scandals have been of good families that is important but not essential every girl is worth saving every boy Is worth the trouble that its his carie care will cost it is a terrible thing to see a shameless girl and there is only one way in which they get shameless it is is a desperate thing to have a boy go 90 to the iad bad there is an obligation which society can not evade it if we of i salt lake do not take care of the du duty ty thrust upon us by such scenes as that before judge gowans and judge armstrong there will rest upon our souls through life and will press down pitilessly in the hour of our death the tortured lives of the bos and the girls we have neglected what is necessary for the corn com 1 to do we believe the community will 0 do o it intermountain inter mountain republican |
