Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-20
JUDGE CONKLING
IN EARNEST PLEA
FOR The KIDDlES
Chamber of Commerce
Hears Urge For
Sympathy
President Scott Tells
of S. DIS Desire to
Help

The chamber of commerce lunch
con today was fraught with much
good general discussion and inter
spersed with impromptu talks that
were of great instructive value an1
provided food for thought for every
one present.
Fred Nebel-Thau was called on to
open the program by singing song.
He was accompanied in an able man
ner by Captain Addison \. Clark,
engineer for the Scheeline Manu-
featuring Company of San Francisco
Open forum was then held as to
the most advisable time to hold the
annual watermelon festival. 1t was
the consensus Of opinion of most of
those present that sometime between
the first and tenth of July would
be the most suitable.
Judge Conkling was then called
upon to talk. After indulging some
what on the "reminiscences of his
own boyhood, the judge led into the
problem of the bringing up of our
boys and girls. He declared that
the outbursts of mischief on the part
Of children was no more or less than
the expressions of desires that exis,
in the youthful mind. He consider
ed that there were too many
"dont 50 used and not enough intel
ligent instruction to children in
regard to the effect of their diff
ferent acts.
Don't Use Word Don't"
The household would be far bet
ter off if the word "don ~ was
abo'is entirely and in its stead
an attitude of kindly interest and
little time taken to win the child s
confidence. "Give the child credit
for the knowledge that it possesses .
he declares! "Get the child s view
point. The father should be pa
to his son and the daughter com
panion to the mother. How many
children are there who would tell
things in confidence to their play
mates which they would he afraid
to confide to their parents.
There seems to be chasm of sus
picion and distrust, he believes be.
| tween So many parents and theli
children that ever widens as years
90 on and ends in permanent en-
arrangement Of relations between the
parents and child.
"Tt is quite the same with many
of our laws. Instead of making il
easy for people to behave, the rule
seems to have been to see how diff
ficult we can make it for them,
he continued.
The Judge showed all through th1
cour0c of his talk that he had made
n thorough stpdy of the subject at
hand and his statements made q
deep impression on those present.
In his daily work on the bench
| the Judge is in position to see tn,
bearing out of all the statements
he made.
Scott Tells of Meeting
President Charles C. Scott gave q
resume of the dinner that was held
| by over 50 civic bodies Cf San Die
90 in honor of John ID. Sprecklcs
Mr.. Scott was invited to sneak at
that meeting and took to San Di
20 message of increased prosper
itv from the Imperial Valley.
Mr.. Scott stated that at no time
in the history of San Diego had
such spirit of cooperation beer
shown as was found at that meet
ing. They have very friendly feel
ing for the Imperial Valley for they
recognize it as their most valuable
back country. They are doing al
in their power to unite with tn,
other cities Of Southern California
and Arizona to divert traffic froU
the east in this direction, he de
| clared.
In fact, John d. Spreckels inform
ed them that a huge advertisinS
program was being carried on IL
the east featuring the Apache trai
in Arizona, the Imperial Valley anC
the Carriso Gorge, which lies on tn,
San Diego and Arizona railway be
tween FL Centre and the city Of
San Diego.
The meeting was adjourned ant
announcement made of the director !
meeting tonight at seven thirty
o'clock TO which all members ar,
invited to attend, and also other
that are interested in the upbuilt,
ing of Ell Centre and surroundin;
territory.