OCR Text |
Show Affection of a Pet May Allay Many Juvenile Problems Wolf packs . . . teenage punks . . . vandals! Black-jacks . . . brass knuckles . . . knives! These are glaring headlines on shocking juvenile delinquency all too currently cur-rently familiar for us to be repetitious, re-petitious, says Raymond J. Han-field, Han-field, executive secretary of the National Dog Welfare Guild, official offi-cial non-profit sponsor of National Dog Week, with headquarters in New York city. In his opinion, if we could climb up into the family trees of these unfortunate youngsters, we would discover why they are out on a precarious limb. Most of them come from broken homes where there are no mothers and fathers, home where there is drunkenness. And mostly from the slums of big cities where the children' have so few privileges and are starved for affection. af-fection. 'Double-Track' Approach The statement from Mr. Hans-field Hans-field added that if these so called dead-end kids had some dog pals, some warm, breathing creature for which they felt responsible and respected re-spected they would have affection, friendship, happiness and a feeling of security. By day they could play and run and let off the steam of young energy. By night they would be nice-tired and safe as their dog pals curl up at their bedsides. The world, too, would be spared much of the heartbreak and shame of vicious juvenile delinquency. The Guild's 1950 program has a "double-track" approach that is, it concerns both children chil-dren and dogs. As a team they bring out the finer qualities of each such as sympathy, kindness kind-ness and respect. Put them all together and in any man's language lan-guage they spell character development, de-velopment, better citizenship and less juvenile delinquency. National Dog Week, this yeai, will be observed September 24-30. The official poster (below) was executed ex-ecuted by artist Albert Staehle who is the owner of the famous cover dog "Butch." . : . s . . ." IS - . , |