OCR Text |
Show At some time in their lives lives they were happy innocent little boys. Whatever has heppened in their intermin is the result of blundering on the part of parents, teachers, and society at large. Regardless Re-gardless of how we personally feel toward them, these boys are mentally men-tally sick. The malady from which .they suffer has been slowly in creasing in severity for many years. What treatment they have received if any, has been to say the least inadequate and ineffect-ove. ineffect-ove. Society owes the youth of the land something better than this. It is our fervent prayer that the new Utah Valley youth home will fulfill the hopes of its supporters in a program of sound and effective effect-ive juvenile rehabiliation. Mere routine confinement for a few weeks or months can do nothing. Individual cases must be carefully diagnosed, and the causes of rte- , linquency mitigated. . , "inventive measures in these cases are so much better than cure. Karl Banks koL.J- '--J-1 BUILD YOUP FUTUPE IN UTAH VALLEY.' The decision on the part of the administration of Brig-ham Young University which resulted in the expulsion of three out-of-State 18 year olds, was without doubt a serious one to make. The trio, recently re-cently apprehended by police officers offic-ers after an orgy of Utah Valley robberies, have committed a serious ser-ious crime against society. Punishment Punish-ment should be swift, sure, and of sufficient severity to bring the young hoodlums up standing. During my years of service as a high school principal, it occasionally occas-ionally became my painful duty to expel a youngster from school, and remove him from the association of his teachers and fellow classmates. class-mates. Regardless of how hard I tried to justify myself, I always had a guilty conscience. Fundamentally Funda-mentally it seemed so akin to banishing ban-ishing a patient from a hospital, when desperately in need of medical medi-cal attention. One of the sad aspects of our social relationships with the youth is the fact tha.t we have practically practic-ally no effective facility between the school on one hand and tiie jail on the other. The three afore-mentioned teen- , agers were not inherently bad. I |