The Nevada County picayune., 1922-02-02

Lindsay is founder of the juvenile
 court. and has done more for the
 uplift of young people than any man
 living today.)
 Of course boys and men are largely responsible for the troubles of girls And in spite of the best home training. you find boys and girls going wrong :; the exceptional case and where one boy or girl from a good home goes wrong. there are more than hundred who do not go wrong.
 In fact. the great majority of boys and girls in this country are whole some, pure and honest; and the great maj jority of homes are good American homes, producing the noblest citizen ship the world ever saw.
 am an optimist. and believe things are better: but you cant keep them better unless you keep up the eternal | HSIit tlidt ilt liSli AHuot hdSt against the evil and while crime is increas- ! ing: it must he remembered at the same time that good citizenship is in- creasing. Most boys like most men. are honest. but do, $1yTsitiilT say that there is q fearful am~,,nt of denrayitv among tfle Children in the cities of this coun- 1 try and I don't blame the children at l all, I blame the parents. the men and women and city officials. There are many who are not to blame, but there are many who are.
 Of course I will not be misunder- stood The average boy and girl who goes wrong deserves to he firmly dealt with. and I have sent many of the older ones to jail and many of them to reformatories and do not hesitate to do so in proper cases. They must suf- fer for wrong doing. and they must be able to know that after all. they are themselves responsible for what they do
 The point make is that they at 1 least deserve square deal for opp portunity. environment, example are everything in the life of an indiyidpal. and the boy or girl who does right may have been even worse than the hoy or wirl who does wrong, if these conditions had been reversed in their lives and while character can some times lift the individual above en- vironment we cannot judge these chil- dren with charity and justice unless we take all these things into con sideration.
 One of the chief causes of dishonesty among boys and immortality among girls k the fact that the newspapers teem with such stories I do not mean by this to blame the newspapers. as some people do. The newspapers pub fish what the people do and what the people want 10 know, and the fault. if there he a fault must he charged mp to the people themselves. to the pub lie sentiment of the times. which must change if other things change.
 Boys aud girls read about the graft and dishonesty among people in the supposedly higher walks of life and the example is a powerful thing for evil in their lives. Children become callouSed more or less to vice, and get really false notions because what they read in the papers is after all the ex- ceptional case. and too many of us tion by what is. after all. only an eX- ceptional or special condition.
 believe that the messenger seryics is one of the greatest corrupters of boys.
 There are many pure honest girls in the department stores and we dislike to speak of the dangers encountered here, because we have such a high re spect for the many good, pure girls who courageously lead noble life under all kinds of trials and tempta- tionS but no one knows better than endure and how many of their sisters fall.
 There arc certain young scoundrcls in every community who go about seek