Show THE BOY PROBLEM just how to handle the young men of tender years is a big problem it if a boy can be successfully guided over althe the danger years of his life which comprise that period between 16 and i 20 he is pretty ap apt t to find himself I 1 and see things sensibly but it Is inuring during that danger period that the trouble comes both for the boys their parents and the officers of the law young men ought to grow up tip however with a wholesome respect for the law despite the tact fact that they may wt I 1 X t be able to fully fully appreciate its in meaning aning and importance wl when I 1 11 young men set themselves in bold defiance of law and order theu then there is only one course left to pursue and that is to mete out the punishment which the law provides tor for its infraction that course often causes the magistrate a great deal more pain than it causes the boy and yet the officer has no other alternative the law declares that boys under 21 years of age must not use tobacco and yet they are doing it openly and it seems defiantly it is reported that boys in the junior high school even as well as many of the boys of the he high school are user of tobacco and yet those young men are attending school tor for the express of acquiring a knowledge of right and wrong so they may be able to make a success of their own lives and its a certainty that they never receive that encourages them in this and other bad habits lia bits but what shall the officers do when they meet up with v ith these conditions the law is plain and the penalty is prescribed and it if the young men are made acquainted quain ted with the statute and then they persist in breaking the law they have only themselves to blame it if they hey come to grief boys may be assured that their elders ciders have no other desire than to bless them in the good counsel that Is given from time to time many a man can look back and see where a good mature friend was endeavoring to d do him a good turn but the boy resented the counsel as an interference with his personal liberties no boy or man can say he is enjoying liberty when lie is chained to a 1 habit that is demoralizing moral izing his character and I 1 impairing al his usefulness slavery to lozri bad habits Is the worst kind of 0 slavery and it is for the express purpose ot of saving the youth from such a condition that wiser and older olde r men extend their good offices to arrest the course of the young man when he has pointed the way vay downward this is the intent of the law also and no other thought is entertained when a magistrate administers it to the recreant young man who Is caught in the toils ducthi but the problem confronts us all and only by a close cooperation can it be properly solved the confining of the sale of tobacco to only one store might help in preventing minors front from getting possession of it the punishing of those who sell or give tobacco to minors would undoubtedly aid also but the boys themselves ought to bear in mind that they themselves are also amenable to the law and they cannot successfully defy it tor for the law Is the dounda foundation tion upon which our life liberty and happiness is laid |