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Show Mill RE1) AS DEAD The parents of Richard Leob, sentenced sen-tenced with Nathan Leopold in Chicago Chi-cago to lifts imprisonment for the niunior of lit.!;" Robert Frunks, are reporioil in news dispatches to mourn their son an dead. He ha:; gone from them forever. Though hi' does not have to suffer the physical pain or the horror of knowing know-ing that he must die on the gallows, this young intellectual faces a bleak life ahead. Hut was not he and Leopold, too, practically dead so far as his parents were concerned before being arrested for the brutal slaying of an innocent boy? Everyone sympathises with these parents, and yet wonders If they really real-ly knew anything nbout their boys, who their associates were or how they spent their time. Hut were -the Loebs and Leopolds vastly different from the average modern parent? How much time do they give to their children? It's a dangerous system raising c'.ilaren by proxy, and so many pnr- m discover It too late, to their sorrow. sor-row. There are something that money won't buy. There are some things that you can't employ people to do. There are some relationships in life that can't be evaded; they must bo assumed or allowed to go by default. de-fault. All of the genius and wealth on earth can not provide a substitute for the responsibility of parents for their children. If the press of social engagements or business crowds out the time to which children are entitled, the price can't be paid with money or position in life. |