Show allocation OF MONEY M 0 EX FROM FINES S because of my keen interest iu in the younk young of our county I 1 am ain pleaded d to reply to the article will you tell the reaper llen per which appeared in last weeks issue orthis of this paper it seems quite evident that the funa resulting from tile the collection of fines could not be better spent than for the benefit of our boys and girls durana the plastic period when they lire arc forming lifes habits a attitudes and ideals if the tl leoy boy and the girl can reached at the right time in in me and then carefully guarded from slipping in the wrong direction the greater part of the juvenile delinquency and later crime can be prevented and the 9 general net level of our young citizenship ant proved tile the organizations of scouting M men gleaner girls campfire Camp flie girls etc are ahr for want of funds with which to finance them thein selves selles and ami they must either fall all far short of their possibilities 5 of lecorn accomplishing pil shing good or else solicit financial support fronT the people of the com comman ties atles the moi proposed losea allocation of tile the money from lines fines would solve this dit 11 culty society in the past llast has failed or partially failed with certain of its members and these members now have to le be handled by the courts it seems ver very V logical that the piles fines collected as ft a result of these failures should be spent in preventing future failures the poem fence or ambulance which I 1 have frequently quoted illustrates the point at issue very well fence or a dangerous cliff its as they freely confessed though to walk near its crest was so pleasant but over its terrible edge there hal bai slipped A dulce and full many a peasant so 90 tile the people sald said something would have to be flone done but their projects did not at all tally some said put a fence round the ahr edge of tile the eliff datt some an ambulance aul bulAn p down in the th valley but the cray for the ambulance carried carrica the day for it spread through the neighboring city A fence may be useful or not it if 14 true vhf I 1 but ench each heart became brim ful fill of pity for those p who slipped IlD ped over the dangerous cliff and the dwellers in highway ant and alley gave lave pound or pave gave pence not to put pill up tip a fence but an all ambulance down in abo th valley for tp cliff Is nil all fleat if youre va careful refill they sald I 1 and ali if folks ever slip and are dropping rt it the that hurts them so much As the shock down below when they re stopping so day after day us as those thoe mishaps occurred quick forth would these rescuers rescue ra sally to pick up the victims who fell off the cliff with the ambulance down in the valley then an old sage remarked its ita a marvel to me that people give far more attention to results than to stopping the cause when much better aim at prevention let us at its source all this mischief cried he come neighbors and friends lot us rally if I 1 the cliff we will fence we might almost dispense with the ambulance down in the valley oh lies hes a fanatic the others rejoin ed diponte DI with tile the never I 1 hed dl dispense range with all charlt charities les too if lie he could no no I 1 we well 11 support them forever I 1 1 arent we picking up folks just as fast I 1 as they fall and shall this man d dictate to us shall he be why should people of sense stop to put up a fence when the ambulance works in the valley but a sensible few who ar arc C pr practical fretic 11 too will not bear with such nonsense much longer they believe that P prevention Is bettel than cure and their party will soon bp be thi stronger encourage them then with your purse voie voice and pen and while other philanthropists dally dallal r y they will scorn all pret pretense nc ami put a stout fence I 1 on tile the cliff that hangs over ahn valley better guide well tile young than re clim then them when old for tile the voice of true wisdom Is calling to rescue the fallen is good but itis best to prevent other people from falling better close up the source of temptation and crime than deliver front from dungeon or gai ley better put a strong fenc fence around ero round und the top of the cliff than an ambulance down domm in th jhb valley why not lot uie ilse the fine money in built ing the strong fenc 0 at the top of tile the cliff R n D LAW rupt of schools rich county utne |