Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-08-09 | Page 4 | Serious Offense, but They Are Boys

a SERIOUS OFFENSE BUT aUT THEY ARE BOYS BOYC Two boy out of o a good food homo hoo and with put past records In their fa- fa faor ta f tor or have pleaded guilty to the stealing of ot two automobile automobiles after makIng l lis reparation for damage done The Th youngsters have committed a serious often which calls for tome om form toria of or punishment but it would be b an nn appalling stigma to them to b become ome convicts Theft of ol an automobile should ot ot bo be b lightly treated and yet there ther arc bos bo who have hay taken talen automobile bites bile as a there are art boys boya boy who have hatO ha hatol stolen tol n grapes rape and d without a full rull s ot of their offending and without a corn com complete con breakdown of o moral suasion Can they th y be b saved laved and are r they worth saYing saving They cannot be b aved If IC 1 robbed of all nil elements or of o respect pelt They may be b restored If K ghen another opportunity to lift their heads beads up In the tb doIng of honor bono able abl service Wo We can afford to be b generous l in 1 I IWo dealing with boys boyi who are not en- en entirely entirely entirely lost lo t to the tho decent of life lit 00 00