Show I III II DO THE TH E BOYS KNOW I am am only one among the man many private citizens ns' ns of or Salt Lake yet 1 feel Ceel that I must sa say something of oC what I saw aw at the Salt Palace Sunday night There were hundreds s of oC girls and boys hoys there theio scarcely in their teens who were without their fathers and mothers Their talking and laughing may have ha been heen innocent enough h. h but hut the thc boys who made up these groups group and ancl many ninny of them in knee trousers wore vero smoking After Aliel having my m at attention attention at- at called to ono group I walked around to hat elso elseI could see seo IntI in tI Uio of oC J u making two thirty boys bos who In all 1 counted were verc smoking and not one of at them over ii Ij years o ot of age I wondered If the people of oC Salt Lake r really cared cored for or their boys bOs and girls and why the they I Ido do not demand that something be done dore doreto to save ave them I had hoard heard so O much about the Juvenile court of ot how It was vas handicapped because of the lack of oC oCI I officers and I wondered why those who really cared for good citizenship sat sal back and waited for the time city council to net act Then I 1 thought do the boys realize the situation Ah Aim too soon on did they find It out and even en quicker than thad the older people know knew the felt tho the loosening loosening loos loos- ening cuing of or the restraint which had hod been held over them for COI two years year It seems a pity that all tho the good work should be lost and that the boys who I are arc just bt beginning ginning to do these theRo petty I things should not be checked before I It Is too loo late lale Because some ome parents keep their lr children at nt home as the they I should do 10 is no excuse to say that the Juvenile court has not a mission to I perform There are aie many and th the number I is great parents who give e 1 I their children absolute freedom o of the I street It seems to me the fathers and i mothers who do I keep cep their theil children at nt home at night should want their boys bos and girls to a n associate with like children at cit school and at nt play ilar Children Children Chil Chil- dren and especially boys bOs will congregate congregate congre emigre gate on oil the street and at therefore it Is just that the better class see to It that those who do not Yes It is 13 a care nr em made to care duty of every true mother and father rather Yours for Cor good citizenship I A LOVER LO OF OP CHILDREN |