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Show BOfrS WHO LACKED TRAINING linterestlng Investigation Made by Juvenile Protective Association Pew Had Trade. Failure properly to train boys for useful work Is a prolific source o vagabondage and crime. An Invest Ration made by the Juvenile Protei tlve association of Chicago and r ported by Its president, Louise D, Koven Dowen, In the Survey, deve oped striking facts. A study w made of cases selected from imntu 1,328 confined In tbe Cook county ja, In 1911. Mrs Ilowen writes: "Tbe Investigation einphaslxes tb fact that only three out of the hut dred boys bad a trade. Only six he been allowed to work at the occup. lion which they really desired. Mo-of Mo-of them bad been put to Work t anything attainable. Sixty-six hn begun to earn their living at fourteci years of ago or younger. Accordin to the government reports, the wa of unskilled laborers wbo leave scho before they are fourteen incresf slowly from S3 to $10 per week unt tbey are twenty years of sge. Het they remain stationary until they a forty years of age, when their ear. log capacity again begins to decline "Out of tbe 1,321 boys In tbe Jai 721 had been engaged In unskilled o cupatlons. Nineteen boys had wish to become machinists; out of tbti number four drove wagons, one wai a farmer, three were messenger boys one an office boy, four were laborers three were errand boys In stores, on. was a chauffeur and two were grt eery clerks." |