Show S BOYS HELPING THEMSELVES I i o p. p more mom impressive thing thins h has lias 8 happened hap hap- pene in this tIlls city in a year than that tha meeting of oC the paroled boys bos at th the juvenile court rooms room Wednesday night Some of or thorn them had been pre pretty pret pret- ty bad Some of them had been caught caugh just in time to prevent their beIr being 9 m more c than foolish They are arean all under unde S. S orders to report While each has perfect per per- feet freedom to Sf go and come to work vork where he will to study or to otherwise otherwise other other- wise improve himself each must go when order ordered d. d and make ale report to the officers of the Juvenile court And thero they cams camo They Thoy talked confidentially with the officers assigned as as- signed the task of directing I them hem All An through the room was felt the tho Incentive incentive tive for tor better things the tho impulse to higher life Putting It simply thero there in tho the h heart rt of was as tho demand every bo boy to tb do clo right And Ancl It cannot ho be doubted that all aJl were benefited b by the tho meeting anti and that all aU are a little nearer nearer near near- er today to that safe sale and und m useful manhood man man- i hood hool toward which It Is desired they shall shaU go go The Tho newspapers bring a different picture from Kansas City A boy who had hail been In trouble was before the court and the principal of or the school the boy lOy hall hail attended appeared Wo all know that ho boy In Is a bad one ones said the principal That Is the reason I didn't send him back to your school replied the tho judge I Wo Ve believe beHove that boy will live to buy huy I awl and sell both t teacher acher and Judge We Ve hope to know In later life that he lie will be lie honored above the honor that thatIs Is given ghen these two who publicly placed upon him the brand of hopelessness lIe He is n not net t hopeless it at all No bO boy 7 I Is And it is more tho the duty of teacher and find jud judge e to lend Jend him a hand than to gratify graUf an any grudge by putting him him officially of of- tidally on record as a lost Jost and irredeemable irredeemable irredeemable irre irre- soul This meeting cf cr the Ule and the judge julge of the juvenile ju I court with the boys hos who have been put under orders is a helpful thing No word worl was said b by p either of the men there which will lodge In a boys boy's heart and live I there in resentment Every Influence was kindly and ancl helpful There was no pamby coddling Every boy realizes the He knows that ho lie will have ha to do right or be punished And he Is trying tring to todo todo too do o right We think he Is doing right not ot alone from the hope of escaping punishment but but BECAUSE IT IS RIGHT And that Is where whore the work of the themen themen themen men men was a credit to them as rs s well weB asa as asa a help f for r the boys bos |