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WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1926.
BOY SCOUTS AND
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RECENT FIGHTING IN HUNAN
CHICAGO JURIST'S STRIKING EVIDENCE.
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constipation, There is very little niewa 'to of sorts through Chicago, 111, April. 12. report from this city. No officer billousness or disordered liver. prominent Chicago jurist recently from the pro-Wu Pol-fu side has As gently as nature these dainty asked a group of people dla-yet arrived bearing higher rank little Taxatives remove the causes cussing juvenile delinquency, than the two who are in charge of sick headache, flatulence, ill- "What percentage of boys brought of martial law and of the poliga. smelling breath, conted tongue, before me on charges of juvenile But they are able to keep things foul taste in the mouth, bring. delinquency do you suppose is en- going. Speculation is pretty rife back that daily regularity which rolled in the Boys Scouts?" as to why Ye Kai-haing does not is essential to health.
His listeners made varying come. His non-arrival is, of chemilyt sella Pinketts, or post guesses, none of which was right, course, producing a bad effect pr free 60 cents the vail, from the for the judge declared with satis-not only himself, but on ideas of Dr. Williame' Medicine Co., 64, faction that not a single boy the efficiency of the now regime as Klangsc Road, Shanghai, arrested and charged with delin regards Hunan, quoney had ever been enrolled in the Boy Scouts or had even
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Another condition of life was work. For self-respect a map must have work. Yet recently we had one and a quarter million out of work on the registers. How many more there were who were unregistered he did not know. This led inevitably to moral do terioriution.
thought about that great or- the Siang river at Lukou, which such conditions, and God never ganization.
Undeniably, the Boy Scouta oz-les well hidden from ordinary meant them to bo. ganization by providing an outlet Slang traffic, until you are quite close to the town, on the right for boyish energy which, mis bank of the Liling river just be directed or unguided, so often before its entrance to the Sinng. It comes what is commonly known is some 10 miles to the south of as "badness" in boys, badness Chuchow, the river junction of which leads them into court and the Pingsiang. Colllery line which eventually, although not always,
runs through Liling. Into professional crime, has cut down juvenile delinquency with Tang's men made a stand at great, sweeping blows. In Chicago Ichiawan, a town five miles above alone, the rate of juvenile de-Stangtan on the Siang river, and inquency has fluctuated around 15 miles below Chuchow. (The a lower level since 1920 than ever mart of Siangtan stands at the before. The decrease in New western end of a deep bend of the York has been quite marked. Siang river which causes the The Boston figures show a marked river to wander some 20 miles as decrease since the war years, ex-compared with the five mile rall cept for a slight rise in 1928 and way run which takes you across 1924, as compared with 1922. the eastern boundary of the peni- But the Boston rute for the years sula by part of the bond). "But since 1920 are considerably lower they were preased back. The than the rates for any previous North is in possession of the Col- liery line of railway, Tang's men will be easily pressed back a few tens of miles further then the boundary will run through low hills and we shall see what we shall see.-N.C. Daily News.
years.
These figures, from compila- tions made by the United States Children's Bureau" in Washington, are both interesting and encourag- ing. The decrease in juvenile de- linquency, despite persistent claims advanced in an effort to convince the public that the youth of the land is being corrupted, is offered by the investigating bureau in recommending "anne and thoughtful consideration of the problem, rather than news- paper headlines,"
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"Some people say the words of The period covered by the the Prayer Book are exaggerated, figures furnished is that between especially that part where it is 1915 and 1924, inclusive, and in said that the burden of our ains case of some cities, the year 1925. is intolerable. When I think of This period embraces the years those slums and the million of un- during which, it is claimed, pro-employed, honestly I feel that that hibition has tended to lower the national sin is intolerable, and I moral standards of American pray God every day.to point us a boys and girls and to make way by which we may rise to same- parents more careless in supervis-thing higher," said the Bishop of ing and directing the conduct of Woolwich addressing & religious the young. Fourteen cities are demonstration attended by over uclided in the survey.. These 2,000 people on Blackheath, are New York, Boston, Chiengo, London. Buffalo, Detroit, Minneapolis, New
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The showing, properly regard- ed as indicative, of conditions In London alone," he said, "there are a million people each throughout the United States should supply the answer to those living either in one or two rooms. It has been said that we create enemies of prohibition who are
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