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Show A WORRY TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICES It has been our observation, particularly locally, that one of the toughtest problems law enforcement officials have to contend with is the child drinker, the lad who smells a cork and imagines he is drank. And glories in it. Here indeed is a quandry presented to representatives of the law. The offender is not drunk in most cases. Were he to turn around in the midst of his boisterousness and see his mother observing him he would be as sober as the next one. It cannot be said that he is intoxicated and his condition condi-tion usually does not warrant his being jailed on that charge. We have seen our officials call such boys aside and give them a scolding at public affairs where the boys were disgracing dis-gracing themselves by their silly actions. That is about all . that the law can do. It is handicapped in taking more severe measures. And then public-spirited citizens come to arms to aver that the lav should be better enforced. Indeed it La a problem. The contemporary type of such fellows of whom we write is the dizzy flappi r. She bestows her favor upon the cork smeller and incites him to further efforts to show off. About the time ho is proclaiming how drunk he is and is offering to take sundiy friends to his cache and give them a drink, he wonders why 'he law takes him aside and almsvs his feelings. .The ii.aiure 'piain cL ank' is much more to be respected. He citutes a distuibaiiu, is thrown in the basiiie with no lit tie force, sieepo over lus griefs, and the next day pays his fine like a man. There is no maudlin effort on the part of loving parents to sac hlni from the spotlight of publicity. He knows it and usually decs not act like a poor sport in attempting to make goats out of officers of the law. |
