The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-04-30

should be worked for as a measure
for prevention and cure of many ills
that children are heir to;
Sidewalk laws should be made and
enforced in crowded districts, and
where streets are crooked, and for
certain distances in front of schools
so as to lessen congestion on the pub
lie roads.
Laws Which Could Be More
Rieidly Enforced
CD The curfew law reads as fol
lows: ANY child under fifteen years
of age who, except in case of necess-
ity, or except when permitted so to
do in writing by a judge of the
juvenile court, shall go or remain on
any public street or highway after
seven o'clock in the evening or before
four o'clock in the morning unaccom-
panied by an adult person, shall be
deemed a delinquent child, and may
be punished as by law provided" If
this law is necessary it should be en-
forced; if not, it should be written off
and one provided to cover situations
that may arise.
(2) The law pertaining to billiard
p%arlors; amended, this reads as fol
lows; mo male or female person un-
der the age of eighteen years shall be
permitted to be or remain in or about
any premises where licensed billiard
or pool tables are had or operated,
etc" If ii seems necessary for a
mother to wish TO restrain her child
these two laws are valuable, as they
are at her command to have enforced.
CD Another law which is helpful
to the parents as well as the school
system, and if they are being enforc-
ed doubtless do much to keep up the
school morale, is that one which pro-
vides that the deputy sheriff or a
police officer designated by him shall
not less than nee a week visit every
school, private or public, in which
English is the basis of education,
within the district of which he is
deputy sheriff, to ascertain from the
teacher, or officer or agent in charge
thereof, what children, If 80" u
school age persist in - mem
selves from such and it is
also his duty, tC all children
under school age to Il, end school
whether or not complaint is made by
~anX,gteacher, officer or agent.
a. Laws regarding eXpectorating
in public places. Common decency
makes its w comment regarding
this law.
Laws Which Might Be Changed
To Meet Larger Conditions
O) A recent law passed by the
Legislature is a step along advanced
lines of community help. This act
provides for the support of children
Of INDECENT, widowed or abandoned
mothers and also provides for local
boards TO administer such support.
This act is a very beneficial one, but
is lacking in not being wide enough in
scope as orphaned children and chill
dren with incapacitated fathers are
not provided for.
(2) When the Legislature raised
the age of majority for girls from IS
to 20, it would have been a construc-
tive step to have also raised the age
of consent.
(3) When a man is convicted and
imprisoned for cruelty or for white
slavery or for any crime and who has
a wife or children or both, he should
be put at such labor that it would be
on a wage-earning basis so as to sup
port his family and the community
would not be doubly burdened by
supporting them as well as the con
Wet.
ca The present Board of School
Commissioners is composed of 6
members, and the law provides that
Of this number two, but only two may
be women; there is no reason why,
the ratio should not be equal, or even
the majority be women instead of
men