Show ADD ANO ITS I CAUSES AMONG CHILDREN I An interesting meeting of the teach teachers teachers ers of the tho schools of the city elty was held Friday at the council chamber in the city hall The meeting was held un under under der the auspices of the its as I seem I Nearly all the teachers were present I and they were all much mach interested In Inthe inthe the of the time lime or of orthe the meeting was taken lip up by Dr Gowan Cowan sl of the State Stale school chool In III a on Dr Df anti Its CallS Causes n Amon Among 0 en I Dr Gowan Gonan stated that truancy Is In Inthe the first delinquency IT and II that if the first step could he be ch checked or the tho child c lo o retrace It much I trouble h avoided and aurl many mam children front from the downward Wit 11 path I II I The causes tuf delinquency h he said I are aro varied but the universal rule Is IsI I that hint it Is caused primarily front flom either a mental or 01 physical abnormal condition H said sald too that thaL environ environment ment at home and nt at school had much I to do with the growth of delinquency Death sickness drunkenness anti amid quarreling at the homo home were con I causes of delinquency Lack Lacle of sympathy anti and encouragement to th the ho boys s and girls befit bolh at home and In Inthe the school chool had he skid driven man many children to delinquency I I The romed remedy for 01 it would ho he found I In Il a hi hel psychological knowledge ge geor or of the child on the part parl of the lie parent and ancl a muro scientific conception of I 1 the psychological condition or of lie in I I individual Itu student ent on the part or of the I teacher ire He thought thaI lint there should he more concerted action het between weon I the he parents and the teachers of the schools in order to bring about the tho best man The Tho parent and the teacher should olle and amid I In the development of the child and where symptoms of delinquency were ero every ef effort ort both with the parent and the tho educator should ho bo hu I exercised to stamp it out I I |