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Show tude of the teachers, preachers, and other people of the highest standing in the community. 'ihey mused to believe him. When one school principal learned, learn-ed, thru accident, of the morai delinquency of a girl pupil lie was shocked to the point oi cruelty. In his fury he expelled her and branded her as a moral leper. But the Judge declares that this girl was no worse than many others. But wnat humility humil-ity to her parents, who did their utmost to give her a high-school education, and may-be deprived themselves to aid her. Early abdication is worse than a mistake it's a crime. There are always a lot of near sighted or blind optimists who are ready to pop up and say "The present generation of youth is as fine and clean as any that ever preceded pre-ceded them." 'those who pronounce pro-nounce "everything all right" should join the rest and try and make parents realize the error of their ways. Was Pope right when he stated "Just as the tw ig is bent so is the tree inclined" inclin-ed" or Solomon who said "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it." We know it is easy to preach and dictate and it is a popular theory that children these days should be permitted to have their fling. That idea might have been taken from Russian anarchists, but it is a well known fact the moment that people are forbid to do a certain thing thatj is the first thing they want to do. Let the parents devote themselves them-selves to their children, especially espec-ially at the critical periods and make their welfare the one great object in life and not "spoil" them by saying "I can't do a thing with her, or him" The present day is a critical one for parents and children alike. Even tho all may do their utmost there will be failures. Scarcely no children are alike. And what may prove a success with one may be a wrong thing for anoth er. But whatever may be said the parents of children do know what is best and they must have courage to stand for what is right for their children and the generations yet to come. EDITORIAL WHO IS TO BLAME? A mother recently came to us with the appalling statement that her only son.a mere youth had openly "cussed" her, using language that was unfit for any mother to hear. But we ask the question "Who is to blame for this state of alfairs?" The fact is that the mother is largely responsible for the lack of restraint so common now a-mong a-mong boys and girls. Judge Lindsay of the Denver Juvenile Court recently published publish-ed some startling relations of what he claims is going on generally gen-erally in our high schools. But the most striking part of his story was the skeptical atti- |