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Show Education in Respect for Law Would Do Much to Check Juvenile Crime By GEORGE M'DONALD, President Bif Brother Federation. Few children are ever told of the difference between childish pranks and law violation. If children had the seriousness of certain things impressed im-pressed upon them early in school life there would be less juvenile crime. I believe we spend too much time on routine matters in school. Preven-tion Preven-tion and not prosecution is the biggest need in dealing with children who prove wayward. Get to them before they have to go to the reformatory or penitentiary. That is what the Big Brother federation is trying to do. If I fiad my way every child would be encouraged to plant trees along the public highway and encouraged to see that those trees flourished and grew. No child engaged in that kind of activity can go far WTong. I would have them plant fruit trees and then between those fruit trees oak trees, so they could study the difference in them. I believe in prosecution but I believe it should come in the case of children only after all preventive measures have failed. Kiwanis, Rotary, Civitan, Optimist and other national bodies are more active than ever before. As the result, this year will be a happier one in thousands of homes safely removed from the shadow of wrong, doing. |