Milford chronicle., 1922-12-01

ARE MOTHERS AND FATHERS RESPONSIBLE for
wayward girls boys Are the parents doing their duty
towards their children by permitting them to be upon the
streets without mature and capable persons
them before and after school hours? In each city and
town of the country the report escapes Oh
voung girls from assaults after having accepted riding
trips in automobiles driven by young men, whose hunt
for easy victims seem to In Wilmington this
week three young school girls entered auto with three
young men or OvergrOwn boys who were unknown TO
them driven into rural district Wnere atteps
to assault them resulted in two of the girls jumping from
the machine while the other only escaped further along
the road These girls ranged from twelve to fourteen
years age and supposed to be attending 10 scnoo
sessions Right here in Milford have the cond-
tons prevailing and the attention OF parents generay Is
called to the dangerous conditions surrounding tne cn
dren from adoescent boys, from young men who should
know better than to take dangerous chances of heavy
punishment by the courts when such are brought up
after discovery and most dangerous of all from the men
who practice enticng girls in automobiles, for the sole
purpose of accomplishing their ruin. In the public
of Milford several of truancy investigations
brought the fact that girls from twelve to fifteen
years old were absent from school without authority and
were ridng~of afternoons into the rural districts with
young unknown to parents friends In another case
bright girl whose parent supposed that she attend
ing school and remaining night in town with girl
friends absent from home two more days. Inves
cation revealed that she driving late at night in au
tos with young men and harborng at night at house
morals of the people suspconed to be unfit
vrtuous girls to associate The girl restored to
the parent in this In other cases. girls seen to
enter autos along main business street of Milford and
away with young in the school period of
the day. when they should be in school, The mothers in
these have permitted their girls liberty without
investigation and the result is trouble In the adolescen
period of human life all children will be inclined to mis-
represent their comngs and gongs-and for that reason
they should be carefully overlooked regardless of personal
statements to parents Better be safe than sorry in all
matters pertaining to the child Milford is better than
other cities or towns in its morals 1t is only the
that found out that know about How many others
happen that are discovered or made public
which bring disgrace to the girl occur in the
towns and ces only surmise account-but they
many in proportion to those who found out Lets
have beginning in moral training, enforced by the
parents Police will not meet the situaton-for
this after the damage is doneonly the moral
physical restraining of the parents in the homes
will get the results desiredand then only few
will have saved from degradation Parents Of Milford
all of Delaware, will you accept the responsibility of
bringing your children through the dangers of unresran
ed freedom? Will you do it before it is too late. You
may think that this does not affect your daugh
ter exactly what the other parents thought be-
brought home to them Better be safe
than sorry"