The San Francisco call., 1913-09-22
KEEP YOUTH
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WARNING
tsSan Francisco Needs Curfew
{ Enforcement Most" Says
Mrs. SChIeSingeF

What San Francisco needs most
. IS that the children be kept off the
street, particularly at night, declares
5 Mrs. Bert schlesinger. president of the
Juvenile Protective association, and to
satisfy this greatest need she and her
organization are pledged to work in
defatigably.
Children have been more or less
neglected" she said, and we have
become so accustomed to seeing them
on the street that we do not realize
how distressing it is, nor 90 we help
TO keep them from it as we should.
One of the main influences against the
best good Of the child is this matter
of being continually in the streets.
Our object is to get at the causes
that make for delinquency and de-
tendency and remedy them.
Preventive work, rather than rem
edial, is the purpose of the associa-
stion. We aim to make philanthropic
work Constructive. to help people help
themselves and not to pauperize them.
PARENTS IGNORANT OF LAW
Parents in many cases do not know
or realize that such a law exists, nor
do they grasp the use Of II until ii is
pointed out to them. ] heard not long
ago OF a man who asked his little
son to go out after dinner and return
q a book for him. The child demurred
because, he explained, his teacher had
Jhat day told of a law which pro-
hibited boys and girls from being
on the street after a certain hour,
and ne was afraid he might be ar
rested
The father confessed that he had
mot known of the law, but il seemed
like a good one. and he was willing
20 aid in enforcing it,
1t would be most encoura ging if
there were more such fathers, but
we believe that failure to act in such
cases is frequently the result of ig
norance on the part of the parents,
and we are seeking to teach them.
POLICE NEED PARENTS AID
tAs for the police, you must real
lie that the policeman has his view
point. He is generally a great, big
strong man out to preserve the peace,
and he feels that 1t is rather beneath
his dignity to see that the children
are sent home promptly on the hour
unless he has the cooperation of the
parents. It can hardly be expected
that he act in such a manner with
out the backing of the community.
We are receiving the greatest as
Eistance from the board of education
in our fight TO save the children from
the street, and the cooperation of the
teachers is assured US as we'll
They are using every means to
improve the actual conditions and
q they are. by the way, receiving much
assistance from group of friendly
visitors formed 10 aid the teachers in
reaching the homes
In every school may be found chill
dren who are not responding either
in conduct or scholarship TO the de-
Inands made upon them. The teach
ers are too busy personally to visit
all the homes and try to find through
the parents. the cause 0g the lack
in the children The most satisfac-
tory results have been achieved
through the calls and interviews OF
these visitors, who were chosen By
our association because of their spe-
cial fitness for the task.
DR.. GROsZMAN TO AID WORK
This winter we are to have a psv-
Geological clinic here under the direc-
tion Of Doctor Groszman, and we ex-
pect to accomplish much through the
insight thus to be gained.
Conditions are not, l believe. any
worse in San Francisco as regards the
children than in other cities They
are all about the same and are all
working along these constructive
lines. People have been too busy
heretofore with charity TO pay proper
attention to what ! call social JUS
tice We shall do our best along
these lines and try to meet the need
OF the. city in keeping the children
from the streets.