Show t AMERICAN YOUTH SOUND AT CORE DESPITE W JAS AUTOS AND GREED CREED OF BOOTLEGGERS So Declares es Two Noted Students of Boy and Girl Delinquency Improper Home Life Chief Cause BT By THOM l C 15 GRAIN lN Copyright 1925 1921 W WASHINGTON May Sur 19 19 Sur Surrounded Surrounded rounded by jazz bv by preying preying- DOOt- DOOt le by a tact fast moving mo lifo life or of Americas America's youth nevertheless never never- nevertheless Is sound Bound at heart The rhe automobile and the modern moden v dano danco teach tr many to say good lI morning Judge it ft s true t uc but only in utterly Indifferent h Is among the young on t the Increase In a 0 majority of or cities It stead stead- steadIly steadily steadily Ily deceases And And prohibition as ns It affects the th thoune young oune lung Is tremendously triumph triumph- triumphant triumphant lilt ant Who Vho thus thug brand the age as M rIot rIot- OilS vet set et throw the dell deft In its teeth the thc greatest authorities i 11 rn the land representatives 11 es of the th oldest commonwealths J Hoge Hoge- rick ricks president of the National l Prohibition association ana jadro of oC the juvenile ju court In tn Richmond Ya a and Herbert C Parsons former for for- former for former mer president of ot the same organization and state probation corn com commissioner corn missioner in Massachusetts They talked on childhood and Its present dangers this evening just after acter the thc adjournment of the an- an annual annual an annual nual conference of o the national as- as as of o juvenile court judges and probation officers 1 either believed youth was doomed for the tha bow wows neither believed belle ed that th any Individual is beyond salvation no matter how depraved depra he ho may seem mayI I The automobile is one on ot of o our 41 IglI problems they admitted f Parents of high standing tell tellus tellus tellus us they ha have hate e no control over their youngsters There Is one vicious association of Ideas we e find It hard to combat Boy girl gul automobile speed seclusion alcohol immor Immor- immorality It Is an enigma to be solved In fn Inthe inthe the home borne After all they assor asserted assert d the mot most ot of the delinquencies among mong the young young- can be traced to Improper home life lito But one of the former causes of ol wickedness by children has lias vir- vir virtually virtually vir virtually been eradicated by dry laws laws they said Despite the activities of otHie the bootlegger there Is much less In tho the average home to- to today today to today day Only 0 the old toppers and the people of or the so-called so upper classes cla es Indulge and juvenile court records reflect the good Influence an rt the children In these homes now temperate Judge Ricks Is 9 a champion of the be rod in the home but only a hen ben intelligently used When When a a parent whips a child to inspire fear then he has lost his I case he declared I 1 do not ad- ad advise ad advise vise vlee the for tho the strong willed med youngster Really I dont don't Inow exactly where to draw the al I 1 do not believe belle In the lar- lar custom handed down by bythe bythe bythe the l little hUle the red A A teacher has no right to wl whip p any man mans s child but his bis own o Look ot at Florida and you'll see sec what flog flog- flogging flogging ging by outsiders leads to The churches also must tan take cognizance of the presidents plu- plu plutocrats plutocrats plu plutocrats and plumbers of tomorrow tomor tomor- tomorrOw tomorrow row they said aid Give a child surrounded by religious and aDd In most cases the child Is de- de decent decent de decent cent Heres Here's what I consider co a start startling ling fact tact said Judge Ricks In my court last year 80 per cent of the boys puked picked up on the more serious ch charges were ere not affiliated with Sunday Sund-iy school church or oth- oth other other oth other er Christian Institution The proper home life and re- re religious religious re training arc are not all aIl a child needs they saidI said It It Is the dut duty of 0 every overy cry com com- to give giro h 0 Its children a sup sup- supervised supervised I hed Er and aad sate sale place to play 11 they asserted Hi Cry cry healthy health child I energetic He cant can't throw off oft his Ilia surplus energy on the tho fire tiro escape or on the front walk wain and an l t t play in rn the street HeI He needs neds recreation as he needs food I land and clothing And It if ho doe doesn't nt I get it one way nay ho he will In another and so 80 Me we receive him hint Into our I i courts Lastly tI there tro is one group of chil- chil children children dren dren who are bad simply because their minds are warped They are arc I bon boTi detective defective There should be psychiatrists to examine these I youngsters that they may bo be given expert treatment and Is cured even as Influence Is cured We are aN merely giving our ideas mind as us to possible panaceas s forthe tor for the social Ills among children Mt Mr Parsons pointed out They rare are Jod l ed on studies of the Indi- Indi Individual vidual not on en classes classe or groups But we pass our information lIon along alone I to others for tor what It Its s worth even though eventually e we may work and teach ourselves es out of a job what hat were we're coming to No Ie I ve e no flo doubt said Judge Ricks seriously but but alas that I la afar off |