Ine Andwer to Juvenile elinquency * By W. Westwood * If You Want to Keep Down the Crime Rate, Here’s One Recipe—Active Police Participation in Local Boy’s Clubs, and Leadership Along Wholesome Lines— If You Want to Know How to Go About It, Read This Account of Prov. Const. {ERE HAS BEEN a great deal of k lately on the problem of juvenile inquency and the evils of many ‘ms of entertainment offered the boys 1 girls of our communities. Some say it certain types of moving pictures are ponsible. Glamorizing the gangster d crook, surrounding the lawbreaker th every luxury he can purchase with _ ill-gotten gains, travelling at high 2eds in super-powered cars, and using sry weapon of modern warfare which 1 be concealed, the thug becomes a ychological hero to many youngsters, d they, in a modest sort of way, re-enact > scenes they have witnessed on the ver screen. True, much of this is in ry. But how far is the dream from lity ? The same argument has also been ad- need with respect to the many radio me stories. Try and get the boy to go bed if there is a crime thriller on the works for 9:30 p.m. He'll stay, ear ied to the loud speaker till the last tim is shot, and the poor, deluded, wronie police officer is shown up as a mplete dud by the brilliant amateur tective who always retains the secret how he caught the crooks until the last v moments of the play (and often after > “commercial”? advertising so-and-so’s licious, dazzling and devastating soap- ds). The ayerage boy wants action, and lots it. In many European countries boys thirteen and fourteen, and even unger, have been employed in coal nes, farms and sweat shops. In this en- htened Canada of ours, we know that Wilson Freightways Lid. Operations: Motor Transport Alaska Highway and Southern Peace River Block Lumbering: Peace River Block and Alberta Planing Mill Dawson Creek CONTRACTING H. S. Patrick J. Gordon Wilson Supt. General Manager DAWSON CREEK, B.C. GHTEENTH EDITION Harry Twist’s Worthwhile Programme. the employment of children is an evil not to be countenanced, and that every child is entitled to a good primary educa- tion. But a formal education is not enough. We must also develop an outlet for the youthful animal spirits with which every boy is endowed, unless he is ill, or what his young friends call a “sissy”. You buy yourself a new pup. After he is house broken, the fun starts. Shoes ripped to pieces, sweaters and odd gar- ments worried and growled at till they end up as a pile of nondescript rags. So what do you do? Kick the dog? Of course not; you're not that kind of a chap. Why blame the pup that doesn’t know any better. So out you go and buy it a rubber bone, or something for it to worry with- out risk to your property. But how about the boy? Of course, if you can afford it, he goes to summer camp. Many join the Boy Scouts, a won- derful organization. Others are members of junior classes at the Y.M.C.A. and so on. But are there enough organized out- lets for bubbling juvenile “pep”? And are the available outlets sufficient to cope with the adventurous and romantic ideals Dudley & Wilson CASH STORE GROCERIES, MEN'S WEAR SHOES, FLOUR AND FEED : e Phone 31 DAWSON CREEK Constable Harry Twist watches his juvenile boxers. Page One Hundred and Thirty-five