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CIRCULATION: DAILY MORE THAN DO UBLE, SUNDAY MORE THAN THREE TIMES THAT OF ANY OTHER WILMINGTON PAPER. ’' • . "' * i Weather Showers Today, and Tomorrow. Putt Day and Night Servlet . v.■*■.:' of the Associated Prase, py 100 PER CENT AMERICAN cr:= * -V. ■P&A FOUNDED A. D. 1867.—VOL. CXI.—No. 77. WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY MORNING, M^Y 20, 1923. OLDEST DAILY IN THE STATE. , ford, miracle man OF MOTORDOM, LOOMS ON POLITICAL SKIES His Presidential Boom no Lon ger Considered Lightly. Both Parties Worried BORAH IS ANOTHER SPECTER ON HORIZON Idaho Senator Cannot Be Ig nor?d—May Lead a Third Party, Leaders Fear (By Robert T. Small) (SiirM.iI Correspondent of tie Sunday Star ((„pj right 1»23. by the Wilmington Star Co.) WASHINGTON, May 19—The shad rw of Henry Ford, richest man in the world, lies athwart the national capi (a1_if not the White’ House itself. There no longer is a disposition anlonu national political leaders to treat Tightly the “talk”—of Henry Ford for president. The miracle man of the ,,'nlor v.-orld has both old parties worri do to something approaching a panic. The democrats frankly are worried lea d Henry Ford run away with the.lr presidential nomination. The repnlieans are -worried for the ,erv same reason. They fear Henry Ford as a candidate against President Harding in 1924. Nor do the worries of the leaders stop here. , They believe that even If He democrats opposed to him are auc rssful in blocking his nomination at Hie next national convention, Henry Fold maj- run on a third party ticket on! so muddle the political stream thar in one can say who will rise success id from the darkened waters. Borah Also Looms Another specter on the political horl jo'i” is Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho. He is about to undertake a "swing around the circle” on his own i., nk to see if thero really Is any senti ment in the country for a third, or i'-Bsibly a fourth party. All of these moves makes for polt ticii 1 disorder and if there is one thing the professional politician dreads It Is disorder. lie muctT'prefers to havo i vorythinjr stated and understood in advance. so that he can. lay his well sutured plans accordingly and scram ble aboard the leading band wagon at the best appointed time. Leaders of both the old parties will Irankly admit to you in confidence that they do not know just how to go about fighting the spread of the Ford sentiment. They have found that sentl meat in unexpected place. They look ed for it and were prepared to discount it in some sections, but they find that the Ford, “bug” or whatever it is, has spread far beyond anything they had suspected. There Is no reasoning with it. When a man says "I’m for Henry Ford." he just keeps on being for Henry Ford no matter what arguments eon may bring to bear against his Conscious of the rise of the Ford tide, the old party generals neverthe less are afraid to attack him openly list they bring the movement to a focus and start the formation of a machine which might assume over "heiming proportions by the idea of it is a baffling situation; one mat is trying the ingenuity of the men "hose craft and leadership have (Continued on Page Two.) IN RUM RING INVESTIGATION Prominent men in New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and other eastern cities may be brought in to the government's “rum ring”' inves tigation resulting from the seizure of the S. S. Yankton, British steamer, off Montauk Point, Long Island. Members of the crew, some of them pictured above, are held as material witnesses. ATLANTA IS SELECTED FOR 1924 MEETING OF BAPTISTS OF THE SOUTH Churchmen Denounce Marathon Dancing, Mob Rule, and ' Endorse Prohibition KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 18.—(By Associated Press.)—The Southern Bap tist convention here today selected At lanta, Ga., as the .place for the conven tion next year, endorsed the establish ment of a seminary for negroes In Nashville, Tenn., and approved plans for the erection of a $2,000,000 hospital In New Orleans, La. Marathon dances were characterised as disgusting exhibitions; mob vio lence, whether by persons masked or unmasked,, was declared to "trample In the dust every human right.” and pro hibition laws were endorsed In a report of the social service commission adopt ed tonight by the convention. On the Question of dancing the report said in part: , “The ever present and ever insolent dance evil continues. The latest form of nauseating excess to which this de stroyer of modesty and morals of man (Contlnued on Page Two.) .. .' ' 1 RUSSIAN QUESTION STILL EUROPE’S MAJOR PROBLEM, IN OPINION OF M. TARDIEU Br ULDHE TARDIETJ former I S peril (r°PjriuT (Aft*r fil ^°n rrrripf Tardieu chaticr tH Anyhow, ^nouch ,llosc wh\l cJudf'p >. Slontmisaloner1 to tates latch to the ar) ' the Wilmington ny) i si the Russian ques uzzle of Europe, insists there is no L lies can solve It. jiinion, Europe has 'without , assuming ussian problem in Paris, After five years the "•■'an remains the puzzle of I'-urope. the armistice - was •igned therf^^B much discussion of the so-called^BP^sian front. It was "ot i becff.se the allies, then as n,J' re not united. ' ceau had given orders to pro p' iania gnd to occupy Odessa. ' a few weeks later Wilson , ;d George proposed bringing ® legates to Paris which the government -peremptorily re used. Finally the unfortunate Prin Po conference was held and we all wall what a lamentable failure It Fas. v"‘ all remember, likewise, the trance discussion at the peace con 'enoe of the Russian question. Lloyd jeorgo refused to take Russia serl 0,,,s'v. declaring: Tiic boishevist peril Is a mere scarecrow.” Wilson dia not ht(,ve the earn# cipln hut by a different process of views r.yrd at the same conclusion. His p rticular phrase was. His Pet Phrase . ,11 Projects for reconstructing the i ,crn front are like trying to sweep ck the ocean tide with a broom.” 'iMnwhtle, Clemenoeau said things d, lcrl 1 now destre to cite because car. Were n<>t known then and Ameri n..,® wiI1 And therein policies which r government since has adopted. f*I do not favor conversations with the bolshevlsts,” he insisted, “not alone because they are criminals, but because by talking: with them we augmenttheir power. They are only clever at,set ting snares. They would make a trade agreement with us so that they could say: ‘When we talked principles the allies would not , recognize, us, but when we talked money they were glad to do so.* . “What shall be done? We can not wait until evolution settles the Rls slan question. If I had my way I would immediately establish a cordon around Russia preventing contagion. But I can not act alone and muSt yield to the views of the other highest al lied authorities." TheSe words trace prophetically t}ie curve . of England’s ; Russian policy since then. Lloyd 'George fell into the the trap. Tempted by alluring Rus sian promises he became the soviet’s advocate at the various conferences. What is the result? England has not done any business with Russia, /hut the soviets have been immensely strengthened, through their contact with the great powers. N 1Vo Permanent Relation Experience has proven that- it is impossible to establish normal perma nent relations between the soviets and the rest pf the world. Because .the people morally and intelligently are backward they have submitted -for live years to a regime that no other peo ples would have tolerated a moment The only way to deal with Russia is to adopt the same general policy. ; Europe has enough troubles without assuming those which the Russian problem includes. Our, governments have failed to settle Germany’s dis armament, reparations or exchange. We are not even in agreement on the question of inter-allied co-operation. Every effort to. . .touch -the Russian problem has ended in a miserable fiasco. The wisest plan ,is to. abstain while taking necessary precautions for self-protection. The soviet has every thing to gain from relations! and noth ing to offer in exchange, j. > « DEBATE ON QUESTION! OF FEDERAL COUNCIL! STIRS PRESBYTERIANS Char&e of Attempt to Inject the Church Into State is Made . at Assembly -. * ___ . MONTREAT, May ' 19.—(By Associ ated Press) >—Spirited debate on the question of remaining in the Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America, during which the organiza tion was charged with maintaining a lobby in Washington for the purpose' of injecting the church into ■ state af fairs, tonight., had been imprinted In the reoords of the 63rd general assem bly of the southern Presbyterian churches) when it recessed. Majority and a aninority reports of committee on foreign correspondence, which yes terday received the official report and i address of Dr.-Robert E. Speer, New! York, president of the federal council, j read on the floor of the assembly, started the debate. The majority re port, signed by 11 members, asked that the assembly not only remain in the council, but also appropriate a fund to pay a proportionate share of the organization’s expense, while the other required withdrawal. E' Dr. A. M. Frazer, Staunton, Va., a former moderator, supported the mi nority report, signed by six members, declaring he did not believe It proper for the church to continue in the council, adding that. the. body was maintaining a lobby in Washington for the enactment Of civil law and that "we can not improve our spiritual wel fare by legislation.” ! Interference by the church in state and commercial affairs of the nation, Dr. J. C. Molloy, Columbia, Tenn., state? *s in conflict with the teach ings of the apostles. The only course for the south to follow if it can not sanction the policies and certain ac tions of the council, he continued, was to withdraw. - ■ Burned Child Fean Fire "We must remember we separated from the Northern Presbyterian church bepause of the latter’s entrance to state affairs," he asserted. “The coun cil’s activities often are of a political nature. The burnt child should fear the fire." Charges that the council had been "useless” and had never done anything for the church, and that the co-oper ation of the church with it was against Presbyterian traditions, were advanced by Hr. K. ■ M. Hall, ' Long view, Texas. , “The council has no right to make deliverances on creeds” declared \Dy. Bussell Cecil, Richmond, Va., another former moderator, upholding the ma jority report. "We ought to remain in it and protest any action we do not approve, but notwithdraw. Not Separatist “I am not a separatist unless lf.lt r. I call' yonr attention to necessary. * ™.. ------ , the past history of many divisions in our Church in Scotland; ' Tet, there has been a concerted movement under way to unite these1 branches and some day we may. see them united. We. can not say the Presbyterian church always stood for separation for it has not.” 1 “Shall we refuse to associate our selves with other religious Jodies simply because we do not approve of some of their conceptions or actions, he ask«d. ^ ’A communication from < J.• H-. -Gauss, president of the Brook's. Blble.Insti tute, of St. Louis, asking, the assembly.** serious consideration of the sollowing overture, which he said the Presbytery of St. Louis would intftjduce,. was read; “In view of the wide spread teaching and preaching of doctrine that are both unsriptural and contrary ttfour evangletical faUh, as once delivered un to. saints, we pray; , •*l_That the synods be instructed to ..... . (Continued on Page Two.) ACTION TO RESTORE G. F. AND Y. V. RAILWAY STARTED BY MANNING <r : ;■ Suit is Pursuant to Resolution Passed by Last General As-. , sentbly of the State DISMEMBERED IN 1899 BY A. C. L. AND SOUTHERN RALEIGH, May 19_Pursuant to a resolution passed by the general as sembly of 1923, Attorney General Jas. S. Manning today filed in Wake su perior court a suit for the restoration of .the old Cape Fear and Yadkin Val ley railroad, which was dismembered In 1899 by the Southern and the At lantic Coast Line railroads, following its sale by a receiver appointed by the federal courts. • The Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley was originally >t>uilt as a coal carry ing railroad W connect the mountains and the seashoyb, and' citizens of Wil mington, Greensboro and other points^ along the road subscribed to its stockr while the state itself was a' minority stockholder. Financial difficulties forced the rail road into bankruptcy and a federal court order was signed directing that it be sold and operated as a unit. The sale was made in December, 1898, and two months later a friendly general assembly passed an act permitting the Wilmington and Weldon railroad to change its name to the Atlantic Coast Line, and authorizing the merger with anoy dther road "in whole or in part.” The actual division of the old road occurred in May of the same year. Under the division made at that time and which is still effective, the por tion of the old road from Sanford to Mt. Airy is known as the Atlantic and Yadkin and.is operated by the South ern, while all of the road east of San ford, consisting of one line to Wil mington and another running into South Carolina, , is a part of the At lantic Coast Line, The legality of the transaction has been repeatedly, questioned ever since it took pla.ce in 1913. , - , i" 1 1 . > aWIUIWI FORECAST. ' ^ AS JflLNGTjM&'v. tow .Akc^Virglnia: f^ftwtrtiKliftVlayi ntpndfac«!ei*ft4s»i(ff#SiSjf and/fooler; probably showers ittJawutK portion. ' . . . North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor gia, extreme northwest Ftprlda. Ala bama, Mississippi: Showerd and fcrob ably thunderstorms Sunday and Mon day; little change tv temperature: moderate south and southwest winds. MIGRATION ol plo TO NORTH AND WEST WORRIES THE SOUTH Senator Dial |Jrges 3tjwn|gration of Norsemen to Tilw *’ Their Pla*#s ’ \. _________ . ■ By H. U. C. BRYANT, WASHINGTON, May 19. — Senator Dial, of South-Carolina, is worried over the labor situation In the south. . He thinks that the negro migration to the north and west is more serious than most people consider it. He has launched a movement to induce Scandi navians, Swedes, Norwegians and Danes, to go to the southern states. "I had a long interview with Mr, A. F. Wallenberg, Swedish minister, and Mr." Daniel Steen, Norwegian min, ister, in an effort to interest them in our section of the country,” he said. “They informed me that many of their people who have come to this country and gone to altitudes similar to those of their own counties. These gentle men had no prejudice ‘against the south. Their people are splendid ag riculturists and a great many of them experts in cattle-raising and dairying.” “The Swedes and Norwegians are prepared to carry on agriculture other .than raising cotton,” Mr. Dial added. _ To Interest Swedes. ’ ‘T shall inform any southern organ izations, land owners, extension as#.its, if they desire to communicate with people from these countries, they can take it up through the oonsuls gener al of those countries in New York." Senator Dial described the situation In the south as critical. "To be perfectly frank with our people, I feel that our agricultural in terest are in a very, critical condition,” Senator Dial declared. “I have always been an optimist, and am yet one, but there is no . use to conceal the facts. Our negro popula tion Is leaving rapidly. Large numbers have gone north and west, and 1 am satisfied that many more are going to leave. While many people think that this is to the advantage of the south, and it may be in the long run—yet se rious con sequences will result to many landowners in the near future. Some may say that we will get the white population, to take the place of the negroes—and this is to be hoped, but la cannot be' dbne at once. ■)' '! Will Not UOlttO UBOK* . ‘‘Furthermore, others will say, that the negro' will come back from the north, but this I do not believe—cer tainly not to ftny great extent, for the feason that the negro lives on less than the white man, either at the north or the south, and he can under-bid, the white man'lh'th'e price of his labor. The people who will suffer at the north will be the tvhite laborers, whose places -trill be taken by the colored people, but. this !» a problem that will have to be settled among themselvep.” »-lCr.'PIM !*% well-to-do business man, j|*. t» financially interested in farms, »» and cotton mills. ■■■. .wUl, take “effort, education and cl-operatlon,”: he thinks to meet the .. “on. The negro move.* srlous, he thinks. ' present; s|tu_ niddt la very i HH Six Americans, Prisoners of Bandits, Staring Death In Face In Chinese Hills -- *— Four of 15 Foreigners Held by Brigands poomed to Die Tuesday Morning [diplomatic CIRCLES IN .PEKING STIRRED Realized That Unless Agree ment is Reached Captives Will Be Slain PEKING, May 19.—(By Associated Press.)—Fifteen foreigners, six of them Americans, ■ some of them ill, all | of them weary, bruised and footsore, poorly fed and worse olad, tonight are looking death in the face in the Paot zuku hills of Shantung province as they approach the end of their second week as captives of the bandits who -raided the Shanghal-Peking express near Suchow, May 6. If the foreign and Chinese govefn ments are uitable to satisfy the bri gands by Tuesday that their terms for the release of the prisoners will be met, and the robbers’ chieftain makes good hie threat, two of the Americans and two Britishers have little mpre than 48 hours to live. They will be shot as a warning that the marauders mean to force compli ance with their demands under their chief’s ultimatum sent, out Saturday. Pleading For Live* “We are pleading for bur lives, and unless Peking, Washington and Lon don realize that the bandits are ready to sacrifice their own lives and those | of all their captives in their fight for reinstatement in the Chinese govern ment, immune from punishment,'', we are surely doomed,” is the,, statement made by Leon Friedman, one of: the Americans, speaking for all. Friedman’s message, sent to his brother in Shanghai, has stirred the foreign communities of China. In Shanghai tomorrow a mass meeting will be held to pass resolutions de manding that American and. British give a guarantee that the promise of I the Chinese government to the outlaws I wjll.be cajfrled. out. and wtn. tha free dom of their imprisoned nationals. The shadow of death has descended seven times this week on the bandit prison corrals in the Paotzuku hills. Two of the Chinese prisoners were thrown from the cliffs because their promised ransoms had not been paid, and five others were shot in cold blood for failure to obey orders. Frenchman Is Freed. One man, Marcelo Berube, a French man, of Shanghai, yesterday was given his freedom with instructions from Wang, the -bespectacled, scholarly young bandit leader, to go to Peking and lay before the Chinese government and the foreign diplomatic corps the desperate plight of the 15 others. Be rube tomorrow will tell his story ana present the ultimatum of the outlaws to the diplomats, including Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, American minister, who has returned to the capital from Shanghai and the bandit zone. WASHINGTON, May 19.—Failure of the Chinese government to effect the release of the foreigners, captured by bandits in Shantung led officials of the American legation in Peking to cable the state department today that “either foreign guarantees or intermediaries seem to be necessary” to produce re sults! Direct negotiations between th bandits and Chinese officials, the dispatch ■ declared apparently are im-r possible because of mutual distrust. On the other hand the dispatches re ported that the military governor of Shantung had offered commissions in' the regular military forces of that pro vince to the bandit leaders provided the captives should be released. Whether this offer will be found ac ceptable is not known, here and fur ther information is anxiously awaited. BRITISH COURTS HIT GOVERNMENT A BLOW IN O’BRIEN AFFAIR Despotic Powers Assumed Dur ing War Period Dealt Smash " ing Stroke by Jurists By A. G. GARDINER Special Cable Dispatch to Sunday Star Copyright 1823 by Wilmington Star Co. (The sharpness of the court’s rebuke to the government In the O’Brien case has created a sensation in England and indicates the executive branch of the government hereafter will be com pelled to observe the law in its deal ings. There is gratification in Eng land that the differences with the So viet give promise of speedily being Ironed out.) LONDON, May 19.—The smashing blow which the law courts inflicted on the government in the O’Brien case is the sensation of the moment. The ex ecutive branch during the war had be come so habituated to the exercise of despotic powers over individuals it was assumed that law'and the liberty of the subject could be over-ridden with impunity. The judges Of the high est court now had administered the most crashing lesson ever addressed to a British government) from the bench. The severity of the rebuke is taken to represent the feeling of the courts that during and since the war the judiciary has been too subservient to the will of the executive. They have encourage* the assumption that the executive tUs above the law and that liberty of .the subject does not (Continued on Page Two,) Mrs. H. G, Connor Is Resting Easier —- - : (Special to the Star.) WILSON, May IB.—Mrs. Henry Groves Connor, wife of Judge Con nor of the Federal court, who had. an acute attach of the heart yester day, Is resting; Very well tonight; The judge, who was holding court in Wilmington, is at her bedside, as are her sons, Judge Qeorge W. Con nor, of the luperior court, who was called from Washington, where he was holding court; R. D. W. Connor, of Chapel Hill) Louis Connor of Ra leigh, and David M. Connor, this city. I ‘ FRANCE’S EVOLUTION TOWARD FACISM FAST ROUNDING INTO FORM Only a Leader of the Mussolini Type Seems Lacking in Gallic State By WILLIAM BIRD, Special Cable Despatch to The Sunday Star. (Copyright, 1923, by The Wilmington Star Company.) PARIS, May 19.—France’s evolution toward Fascism has taken definite shape. There is lacking, however, a leader of the Mussolini type. Until he is found any experiment along this line risks failure. Minister of War Maginot is reported on excellent authority to have declared in his recent conversations with polit ical leaders that, should the new parlia ment, which is to be elected next spring show a majority of radicals, the government will decline to summon it and will continue the existing reaction ary chamber in power. This declaration takes on the high est significance because It is known that Maginot is slated to become min ister of the interior, a position which corresponds to that of postmaster gen eral in the cabinet at Washington so far as being the chief political official of the government is concerned. In that office his task will be to organize parliamentary selections through perfects and other govern mental officials throughout the coun try. Since 1919 the national elections have been held in the midst of a bolshevist scare. French sentiment has drifted steadily toward the "left" organiza tions but the parties of the “left” are hopelessly divided and it is feared their victory would mean chaos. Therefore nationalist leaders woujbd undoubtedly approve a Fascist coup that would keep control In the hands of a united minority whose motto would be Fist. It is unlikely that any such coup would produce any more resistan&e , here than took place In Italy when the “black shirts” usurped the gov ernment. GRIEF-TORN CAMDEN! TURNS TOWARD FUND FOR FIRE SURVIVORS Care of Those Left Dependent? Will Be Assured Through it Subscriptions - : m RUINS BEING COMBED m FOR GRISLY SOUVENIRS Mother Who Forced Son to At' | tend Now Crazed With Sor row at His Death CAMDEN, S. C., !May 19.—(By Assp-| cited Press.)—Still dazed by the trag edy of Thursday nlgnt, In which 75"' persons lost their lives In the Are at! Cleveland graded school, eight miles* from here, the Cleveland school and Camden communities, and Kershaw county are preparing with acute reali zation of the extent of the tragedy to care for In every way those left de- . pendent by the Are. Only this after-, noon the funerals of the last of thg dead were held at the Buelah church-.;, yard, and at Antioch, and this evening-, the relief fund being collected by the ; Chamber of Commerce of Camden and5 Kershaw county had amounted to over $5,000, with committees appointed' to supervise further collections- and* disbursements. A plan for a fund tff : Insure the education of the children left motherless and fatherless is be ing worked out and the work on farms where the head of the family perish ed will be supervised and aided hy men designated or employed out of tbs fund by the Chamber of Commerce. - Ruins are Combed. , '■/ The ruins of the little frame school- ■ house were thoroughly combed ■ today in search of possible additional bod-*: ies, but none was found and the t6-S§ tal of 75 dead Is authentic according! to undertakers, clergymen and rela tives, who assisted In the work of identifying the bodies as far as pos sible and in checking up on: all who were reported to have attended the commencement exercises. The ruins were searched jnot only for bodis today, however, Orief-strlck en jrpotbers and fathers searched for Keepsakes, keys, knlvds or anything which might not have Been destroyed and which they might treasure in-mem ory of their daughters and sons. Many; visited the heap of charred wood and ashes • spread between eight little mounds of brick which once formed' 'the foundation. pillars of the school, and in several instances the bereaved; ones left with some ^ort of remem brances. One white-haired woman a?*? sisted by ,a lad yet in his teens, walk-r ed slowly away from the ruins sob bing, fondling the frame of an iim-t brella, warped and blackened. Her daughter had carried an umbrella fo; the commencement exercises and thei mothet was conAdent it was the one,? for on Thursday; night there was a," cloud in the sky, and some comment^ had been passed , when the daughter! announced she would take it anyway/ "just in case.” Forced to Attend, A story frequently heard in Camden today was how one mother had forced her 14-year-old son to attend the ex-; ercises under threat of a whipping, the lad having demurred on the grounds he "didn't want to Bee ‘Miss Topsy-Turvy,' anyway; its not a real' play. Why X know all the people gi irig to play in it. Tf anyway it’s sis-. (Continued on Page Two.) . ‘ ? AMERICAN YOUTH SOUND I AT HEART DESPITE EVIL 3 TO WHICH HE IS EXPOSED , By THOMAS CRAW, Special Dispatch to The Sunday Star, (Copyright, 1923, by The Wilmington Star Co.) WASHINGTON, May 19.—Surrounded by jazz, by praying bootleggers, by a fast moving life, full of hazards, Amer ica’s youth nevertheless is sound at heart. The automobile . and the modern dance teach many to say "Good morn ing, judge,” It is true, but only in ut terly indifferent communities is wick edness among the young on the In crease. In a majority of cities it stead ily decreases. ■ ■ . ’ And prohibition, as it affects tna young, is tremendously triumphant. Who thus brand the age as riotous, yet throw the dell in its, teeth? Probably the greatest authorities in the land, representatives of the old est commonwealths. J. Hoge Ricks, president of the National Probation as sociation and judge of the juvenile court in Richmond, Va„ and Herbert C. Parsons, former president of the same national organization and state Proba tion commissioner in Massachusetts., Dangers of Childhood* They talked on childhood and its present dangers this afternoon just aft er the adjournment of the annual con ference of the national association of Juvenile court judges and probation of ficers. Neither believed youth was doomed for the bow-wows; neither be lieved that any individual is beyond, salvation, no matter how depraved he may seem. .. . ' ■ •'The automobile Is one of our great est problems,” they admitted. "Parents of high standing in the community tell us they have no control over their youngsters. There is one vicious asso ciation of ideas we find It hard to com v.„t. rot girl, auto, speed, seclusion, ^cohorimmorallty.” . It Is an enigma to be. solved In the home. After all, they asserted, the most of the delinquencies among the voting can be traced to linphjper home life Fathers and mothers must appre ciate the risks their children are run BnVone former causes of wickedness M. i by children virtually has been eradica ted by .“’dry” laws, they said. Respite the activities of the bootlegger, there is much less drinking in the average* home today. Only the old toppers” and people of the so-called upper classes indulge. And Juvenile court records reflect the good influence on the chil dren in those homes now become tern-* perate. * . Judge Hicks is a champion of the rod; in the home, but ' only when- intelli gently administered. “When a parent whips a child to In spire fear, then he has lost his case,'";’ he declared. "I do not advise the hick ory )for the strong-willed youngsters': Really, I don’t know exactly where to, draw the line. I do not believe in ths‘ larruping customs handed down from; the ‘little red sohoolhouse.’ A teacher has not right to whip any man's child' save his own. Look at Florida, and-: you’ll see what flogging by outsider*1* lead to." The churches also must take cognis ance of the "presidents, plutocrats and plumbers of tomorrow,’’ they’ said. Given a child surrounded by religious Influences, and In most cases that child Is decent. * ■ “Here’s- what I consider » startling:: fact," said Judge Ricks. “Hi my court; last year *0 per cent of the boys pick1-; ed up on the more s«flota) charges were not affiliated with Sunday school,: church or other*Christian institution^" Proper Home Llf*. But proper home life and religious training are not all a child needs, they said. - “It Is the duty of every <y>mmunity to give its children a- supervised and safe place to play," they asserted,, “Every healthy child Is energetic. Ha can’t throw off his surplus energy on the fire escape or on the front walk,'? and shouldn’t play In the streets. Ha needs recreation as ha needa food and. clothing. And If he. doesn^t get It one. way, he will another,'and so we receive-^ him into our courts." - Lastly. - there Is one group of chil dren who are bad simply because their* minds are warped. They are born de« V (Continued' on- Page Two.) 'i i,
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