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Show SAYS PARENTS ' RESPONSIBLE If immorality attends the training of a large body of troops here, the" fault does not lie with the military-municipal military-municipal environment, the boys in khaki or the girls of Salt Lake but with the parents this is the belief of Mrs. F. W. Meakin, president of the Draper Mothers' club.' Her opinion opin-ion was expressed yesterday upon the social problem which is the theme of lectures by Dr. Mary Riggs Noble, a practicing physician of Colorado Col-orado Springs, Colo., and the subject of emphatic views by Governor Bamberger Bam-berger and Col. Alfred Hasbrouck, commander at Fort Douglas. "Parents are charged with the responsibility re-sponsibility of looking after their children, both sons and daughters," said Mrs. Meakin. "They may, through ignorance, err. in rearing the children hut nevertheless the accountability ac-countability is theirs. Should my own children ever err, I would not blame them but I would blame myself." my-self." The conspicuous position occupied by the soldiers now is likely to cause exaggeration of their deeds, the club president declared. "The boys' at the present time are in the limelight," she said. It Is their misfortune they are so projected project-ed before public attention that people peo-ple are intimately acquainted with their affairs. I think the best thing people can do is to let these young men rest, let them be in peace. Many of these boys have come from the Slate's leading families and they have been fortified by the best homo training their mothers could give." Mrs. Meakin commended the efforts ef-forts of Dr. Noble, who, she said, is handling a difficult subject in a very sensible manner. Herald-Rep. a |