Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-03
MRS. c. H. HIRST
TALKS TO CLUB
ON JUVENILES

Mrs G.. H. Hirst, juvenile officer
for this district, made the principal
address before the Kiwanis club yes
terday noon. Mrs Hirst has been
juvenile officer for IA years and dur
ried experiences with youngsters, of
many classes
The slogan for the Kiwanis club is
"a Square. Deal for the Underprivil-
eyed Child, and much of Mrs. Hirst's
talk centered around efforts being
made to bring about this condition.
The talk given by Mrs. Hirst was
warmly applauded and much favor
able comment was made upon it
Douglas is most fortunate in hav-
ing so many organizations which are
cooperating in the upbuilding of our
girls and boys, Mrs. Hirst said.
"Here we have the Y NJ. G. A. the
x. W. c.. Az the boy scouts, the camp
fire girls, the churches and Sunday
schools and last, but not least, the
Kiwanis club, with one of your aims
being to give the underprivlleged
child square deal
During the vacation months IN
Douglas children have many things
to occupy their attention. There are
the American legion swimming pool,
! the summer Bible school and the
public playground, with it's trained
! supervisors During last summer not
d single case for the juvenile court
| came from children who attended the
supervised playground or the sum-
, per Bible school. I expect to keep a
record again this summer as check
on the direct results obtained from
| these and similar agencies.
I'm my IA years of work here I
have found that the hardest problem
is !, to find occupations during June,
July and August for boys in their
early teens, for, you know, Satan
| finds employment for idle hands.
MANY times the question has been
asked: When is the proper time to
begin education of the child? The
answer is: One hundred years before
| it is born. Every child is not only
entitled to good mother, but also
should have good father, mentally
and physically fit. And every child
| is entitled to the companionship OF a
considerate father and loving
mother. 1t is a terrible thing for a
: child to be born into the world with
: its little body afflicted with the ills
which the scriptures tell us extend
to the third and fourth generations
"But child born with weak
mind is doubly afflicted, for the body
though it be the temple of the SOUL
would not long remain undeflled II
tguided by a defective mind. To me
the mind is the pearl OF greatest
price.
IN this era of Fire Prevention
week, Clean Up week, ETC., one might
almost hope we would have a Stay
at-Home week, so all the members OF
the family could get acquainted. q
social worker told the American con-
ference that the American home Is
rapidly becoming like tourist camp
or a filling station. People nowadays
make an occasional stop at home, 1ol
refueIiing and other supplies neeoec
for gadding about.
''In our Juvenile work we nave
children of all types, the bright ones
get into trouble through the Wiling;
mes sof many of us to try anything
once. But children with bright mlnd
seldom go far astray. Our RECORDS
show that so per cent of juveniles II
4 ,our correctional institutions are men
tally deficient. Of the adult prison
ers in our penitentiaries the percent
age of men tally deficient IS ou
slightly less than SO per cent.
( "From 1910 to 1927 the number 0
feeble-minded or mental defective
No Breakfast Complete Without