The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-04-22

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STEMMING CRIME THROUGH PARENTS
Chicago is to try something In the way OF peno
logical experiment the wave OF crime and lax moral
i Instead of depending political reform 1t Is going
to enter and discipline indifferent parents in
cases where children before the courts under Cur
cumstances indicating that their transgressions arc
traceabe absence of family training in right conduct
insufficiency Of that influence vcousness of it,
The experiment will be watched with interest by the
remainder Of the country. There is feeling that the
American family has become too largely penetrated with
an indifference the welfare OF Its children and there
is tendency everywhere blame parental neglect for
a growing contempt by young people for balanced and
orderly behaviour. The American home is regarded as
breaking where that collapse has not already taken
place.
The Rev. Walter E. Water made an imprisoned analy-
sis OF conditions at the recent state Woman din
ner pleaded just erventy for return to the
old ideals and family fe He traced his indictment
through the evolution Of the largely now
mere sleeping apartment that It's social values OF tho
past extinct and Its group influence in tho
molding Of character has deterorated where 1t has
not become actually impossible
There arc those who will dispute SO comprehensive an
indictment there still homes OF the character that
made the great men of the nation In the past II IS
the other type that creates the pcturethe impression
of what the modern home Is 1t occupies the stage OF
public attention daily and dramatically In the volume
Of law violations in the varied OF crime and IN
tragedy that the nation cannot but view aghast the
situation and the conditions that revealed in the
newspaper records and in the activities Of the courts
The Chicago experiment has developed out Of ono Of
the episodes Of tragedy that recently stirred not only
that city gave the entire country an uneasy feel
0ttNvN GSAnr0
Lux grammar school youth was killed in an over
turning automobile after he and party Of school boys
and school girls had participated in cabaret gin party
and were going home In the condition resulting from
their drinking
jury Of six distinguished educators, Professors
Sherman Steele OF Loyoa university law school: W.
Burgess head Of the sociology department Of the Uni
versity OF Chicago Samuel Stevens, head OF the
psychology department Of Northwestern University:
Edward j. Tobn county superintendent OF schools Paul
r. Buzi superintendent OF Lutheran parochial schools
and Benjamin F. Buck, assistant superintendent OF CHI
cago schools called by Coroner e. N Bundesen to IN
vesgate the Lux death and to determine whether there
was an unusual amount Of drinking among school chill
dren held that died the result OF accident but
added ut Is our opinion that the fatal accident was at
least partly due to the ntoxication Of this boy driver
Frank Cekanor. H."
The Jury called on flaming youth" to work out its
salvation by discardng the code of the boy the
girl and the bottle" This gin code was propoundcd by
two girls Of the party in to reveal young Lux as
q martyr to the binding influence Of its convention.
Where 1t dominates the social contacts Of the young.
none has the hardihood to hang back in the general
abandonment to its corruptive ethics.
The Lux tragedy took q wider application when
the courts began to shape their action with view to
suppressng the spirit and practices Of the gin CODE
among the school boys and girls The bench decided 1t
must get the Of the evil and, believing that
it al may be the result OF neglect In parental discipline
examples Of this type Of father and mother were hailed
before the law big drive under the auspices OF the
school authorities was instituted suppress the wild
tendencies among the Students the inquest into the
Lux boys death having revealed that fully 10000 other
chicago boys and girls carousing similarly the night
the grammar school lad was killed AZ result. the
courts imposed on four-score parents an edict to reform
their axtes toward their children and to compel
their attendance 1t school and to spend their evenings
1t home instead Of in roadhouse drinking parties and
also fined s. Of the parents.
"A young couple . bottle Of moonshine and auto
mobile are the most dangerous quartet that be
cocted for the destruction of human society,"" said Ed
ward J. Tobn county superintendent Of schools who at
on the coroners jury Of educators investigating the
Marty that ended with the fatal automobile crash.
Tchin estimated 70 per cent Of young men between
10 and Is accept the regular standard Of recreation
party IN automobile ride. dancing and bottle Of
gin or moonshne About 90 per cent Of the girls above
the age Of II accept this same code, Tobin said.
The superintendent and other educators on the jury
were unanimous in saddng responsibility for the way
wsrdns Of youth squarely on the shoulders Of the par
entA
- home Of family tied With bottle Of bootleg haa
foundation Of quicksand." Tobin said.
what u needed to accomplish the reformation Of heed
- youth = ethical and moFal influence rather thar
IN penalties Thsss lattr protest society per.
- bM they also only confirm the vicious ten.
oin - "a fMth9 benish to the young lives. ten.
- th1xg - dsysIop permanent violatoss and Grim
4atity Is would seem that this task Of reform Is thu
cVee q parents n the RATIO Il succeeds fails
sA r T. lotonIned tho hatnrs volume Of juvenile and