The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-03-23
SPLENDID MEETING
AT CITY HALL

The Social Service department of
the Community Club certainly has
reason to feel pleased over the large
attendance at the meeting yesterday
afternoon at the city hall or rather
the Commercial Club rooms, which
was crowded to capacity by those who
had gone there to listen to the very
interesting program prepared and Civ
en- on this occasion. Miss 0ubelman
presided and after the routine busi-
ness has been disposed Of very neat
ly introduced the first speaker Of the
afternoon, Mrs. F. w. Heidel, who
gave most excellent, interesting and
full of concrete facts paper on the
subject of Crime, It's Causes and
| Treatment. Mrs. Heidel did not
mince matters and hit right out at
| the causes for great deal Of this
crime wave that is passing over the
| country She contended that if the
parents would use up a little more
time in the bringing up of their chill
dren and by healthy environment
teach them how to live better this
would help. She spoke of the laxlty
! in the enforcement of the laws on
our statute books and contended that
if men were elected to office who
would enforce these laws, then the
courts mete out punishment commen-
surate with the crimes committed,
there would be less lawlessness in the
| world. Mrs. HeidePs paper was a
| very good one indeed. The next on
the program was paper by MISS
| Inez Noll. of the Teachers College,
| on the subject "The River and It's
! Possibilities for Rehearsals." Miss
Noll contended that Valley City was
| most fortunate indeed to have the
beautiful Sheyenne river here and
| went on to show the possibilities the
city has in providing for so many
clean, wholesome, outdoor sports un-
der proper restrictions to provide rec
| reation for not only the young but
the older folks. Miss Noll's paper
was full of interesting suggestions
along these lines and was of interest
to all those who listened to her.
Judge NJ j. Englcrt was then very
heartily introduced by Miss Gubelman
as being a man who had the welfare
| of the children at heart and one who
could speak from experience on the
bench as to the many ways the young
folks-particularly girls-were tempt
ed and led astray by young men and
| men devoid of the finer sensibilities
of life. The Judge is an earnest and
pleasing speaker and for nearly an
hour gave a splendid talk upon sub
jects that should cause all parents to
sit up and take notice. He contend
ed that nine times out of ten where
girl had fallen it was the fault of
the man, because he said, they were
the ones who made the advances, and
after a girl had once fallen it was
easy for her to continue on the down
grade unless she was pulled up sud-
denly and set Alright. Judge Englert
gave some of his experiences since he
had been on the bench, which were
pitiful in many cases, as young girls
were brought before him, but he said
he tried his best to temper justice
with mercy and many young girls had
been reclaimed by the proper hand
ling and this spirit of "giving them
another chance. The Judge had for
his subject "The Laws for the Protec-
tion of Young People and the Machin-
cry for their Enforcement" and gave
sections of various laws relating
thereto. But the main thought in the
judges whole address was-that most
of the responsibility could be laid at
the door of the parents who allowed
their children to grow up without any
thought of their restraint along the
right lines and the proper home en-
| vironment It was splendid ad-
dress and much appreciated by his
hearers.