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Show SAGE ADVICE FOR WILES Chief of Police Drowning gave nn Interesting talk before the boys and girls of the Stale Industrial school Friday which was greatly appreciated by tho Juveniles as well as their teachers. Mr. Browning choso for his subject Ihe matter of ambition with which every Inmate of the institution should bo Imbued, the Idea being that a few months or oven years passed at the school should not be looked upon as a punishment, but as an exceptionally fine opportunity to regain that which had been lost through unortunato associations and lack of homo training. train-ing. "Don't be disheartened, boys, because be-cause you are inmates of an Industrial school." said the speaker. "Look upon It In another light than that of punishment. pun-ishment. Not a single one of you Is here to be punished, but to be helped, to be taught, and to be given nn opportunity op-portunity to mako good men and women. wo-men. "I nm sure that many of you will admit that when you first reached this Institution you were ashamed of yourselves your-selves and regretted the life that you had begun to lead. You dared not hold up your head und look people In the face with that confidence that Is natural nat-ural to one whose life Is blameless. "The rhance Is before you, however, to regain that confidence, and If you but Bubmlt to the regulations of the Bchool and work hard to overcome tbe old thoughts and habits und Inclinations, Inclina-tions, I am sure that when the time arrives for you to leave the school and make another start In Ihe world, you will feel like young men and young women who have a purpose In life and who, notwithstanding the temptations which may beset your future path-wajs, path-wajs, can look the world in the face with a confidence that can only come with right living and a determination to put oil aside forever. "Did you know that many of our greatest detectives in this country have been Pludents In an institution of this character? I can assure you that it Is so. Some of them were boys whose parents died when they were very young and in knocking about the world fell into evil ways an-1 were finally sent to Industrial schools They braced up, however, and studied and worked and when they had learned their trade, they went out Into the world again and finally became members mem-bers of police departments. In time their merits were recognized with promotion pro-motion and they finally rose to be heads of departments and famous detectives." de-tectives." At the c lon of Mr. Browning's Brown-ing's reman superintendent E. G. Cowan complimented tho speaker on the Impression which hp had evidently made upon his young hearers and extended ex-tended a cordial invitation to repeat the courtesy at some future time. |