The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-29
DELINQUENCY
IN CHILDREN
DISCUSSED
Serious Problem Is Created by
Increasing Delinquency,
kiwanians Told
JUDGE NUEsSLE TALKS
Jefferson Steiner, of Wash
burn Ignite Coal Company,
Gives Views of City

Venlle delinquency was driven nome
with emphasis by Supreme Court
Justice w. L. Nuessle before the
Kiwanis club at its weekly luncheon
today.
That there has been an increase
is borne out by reform institutions,
educational heads, Juvenile judges
and other agencies, the speaker told
the Kiwanians. Perhaps, he added,
there is not greater increase than
there is in crime among adults.
The difference between a good boy.
and bad boy, or a good man and a
bad man, Judge Nuessle told his au-
ditors, is "the turning of a hand" at
sometime or other in the persons
life.
Every man." he said, Sought to
live so that his life would be good
example for the children who look
up to him. And every man, no mat
ter who he may be, has some child
who is looking to. him. 1t is a mat
ter of individual responsibility"
without seeking to ascribe what
may be the manifold reasons for the
present condition Judge Nuessle said
that if he could suggest anything it
probably would be the American
home.
There has been a decline of dis
cipline in the home, he said. Most
parents desire that there children
avoid the difficulties and tribula-
tions that they endured; and in en-
deavoring to make the life of the
child easier, often an injustice is
done him, he said. Children, he said,
are not subjected to the proper dis
cipline in the home.
Judge Nuessle told the kiwanians
that the problem Of Juvenile delin-
quency caused him more concern
than any other problem before him
on the district court bench. Juvenile
delinquency, he said, was not con-
fined to homes of the poor nor to
any district, but as often is found
I'm the best neighb orhoods and among
the children of leading citizens.
He suggested that the condition
may be in part result of the indif-
ference Of the American public to
the consequences Of crime and vio-
lation of law. He pointelpout that
in 1921 there were between 5000 and
10000 murders in the United States
while in England and Wales, with
nearly half the population, the num-
Der was less than 100. The convic-
tions for murder in England and
Wales, he said, were far greater in
proportion than in the United States.
Judge Nuessle also referred to the
lack of interest shown by parents in
education. While, he said, misedu-
cation may wreck the life of child.
few parents visit the public schools,
know the teachers or consider what
the children are being taught.
He suggested the Book of Proverbs
as containing the best advice ever
written in the handling of children,
and declared that we would not
have less juvenile delinquency until
we have better homes.
Speaks On City
jefferson Steiner, treasurer of the
Washburn Ignite Coal Company who
recently came here from Minneapolis
and established offices, spoke briefly
upon invitation of chairman of the
day Ben Tillotson. Asked to state his
impressions of Bismarck, Mr.. Spencer
told the Kiwanians that it would be
somewhat of task to resort to cri-
ticism and he believed his hearers
did not wish to hear praise. In
passing, he mentioned that one thing
that occurred to him since moving
into the residence district was the
fact that there was an electric light
only on every other corner. 1t had
also been brought to his attention,
he said, that there appeared not suf-
ficient capacity for providing pro-
per treatment for charity patients
in hospitals.
In connection, he said that there
appeared to be feeling that the
great charitable institutions of the
east often neglect the west. He
communicated this feeling. to a
a friend in the east, he said, and the
response was that the Rockefeller
Foundation was willing to spend
several hundred thousand dollars in
the Northwest if needed to relieve
distress.
Mr.. Steiner recalled the recent
message of Major Stanley WAshburn
to people in many cities of-the state
to have faith in North Dakota. 1t is
sound doctrine, he said. Worthless
optimism is not needed, but recog-
milton of the resources of the state
and an underlying faith is necessary,
he said.
Mr.. Steiner, having spent couple
of years in Wall street, also said
that any belief in the Northwest that
the financial east was not concern
ed, in the well-being of the North
west was mistaken belief.
Birthdays of DR.. C. O. Robinson
and Schuyler Dietz were celebrated,
Dr. A. M. Brandt informing Kiwan-
ians of the secrets of the life of the
former and ]. B. Smith reading the
history Of the latter.N The attendance
prize wet to Justice sveinbjorn
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