Show IT HAPPENS EVERY SPRING Every year along about this time for as many years as we have been mature enough to notice there has been a arash arash arash rash of wildness among young p people Especially high school chool kids Most of it Is quite harmless Some of it may result in lasting trouble But whatever the extent its it's nothing new Call it Spring Madness if you will Call it the sap rising in the young tree ree at springtime Since time immemorial ial fal young people p-eople have felt the urge tp tJI raise a little Old Ned in the springtime We feel a normal sympathy for parents and teachers and religious leaders who worry wor about it and weve we've be been n through h ft he fhe e parenthood pHase se ourselves and the worry is nothing put but it jf may milY help heir t to J remind that its it's happened happen g every ry May Mill for centuries Were We're very much in favor lavor of ot the young people We c cannot condone and we definitely disapprove of some som of pf the wildness which is being carried to an nn extreme Buwe But Bu we we can find no fault with the kids themselves themselves especially especially in irl the spring We think that after the example has been set right and the teaching has been done and the parental laws ws have been established and the prayers have been said its it's pretty much up to the kids themselves Which le leads ds us to the po point nt Grownups who contribute to the delinquency of m minors nors in ANY way should be thoroughly punished The man who will secure liquor for a minor furnish him with pornographic pornographic pornographic por por- material urge him to sin through encouragement or example is just as guilty as the wretch who entices a little girl with a promise of candy Too often such people are handed a slap on the wrist in lieu of legal punishment Were We're in favor of the judge who throws the book at them And the bench and chair And all too often such people are shielded from publicity publicity- please dont don't put it in the paper it cant can't do any good and it itI I might harm innocent ones A stretch in the jail h house use and a story in the paper might provide a future deterrent one Ninety-one of a hundred of the kids who are celebrating Spring Fever right now will outgrow it in a hurry and become become become be be- come staid settled pillars of the community You doubt it Look about you Look in the mirror And a quarter of a century from now they will be worrying about THEIR kids Lets Let's worry less about them and more about the source of that portion of their which is illegal or immoral |