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he'd be a lot better off not messing with and feel like giving a lecture? If not a lecture, maybe a good shaking and a stern, “Now, git.” There's always a question of whether. ar not it would do any good in the first place. And a kick in the shins is something to reckon with when you're trying to be serious with a young scamp. You know, pinbxll machines at a nickel a throw-and young punks puffing cigarets in front of them make my blood bell. E-have no quarrel with pinball machines as such but. when for some. reason they attract Kids, no matter how smartalecky they are, my dander begins to come up, I want to preach, I want to turn the lights out on the flashy things, and occasionally a good, hairbrush comes to my mind.

Par. Comes in With a Child

THERE'S SOMETHING atmosphere and the nickel snatchers that doesn’t seem quite as bad as the penny arcades and especially the basement “sports arena” in the Terminal Station, The sign in the entrance of the basement pinball alley which reads, “Children under 16 years not allowed during school hours or after 10 p. m.” is a joke. Children under 16 years of age shouldn’t be allowed in that joint at any time of the day. Characters and toothless bums who float in and out presumably waiting for a bus aren't the

SHARPIE WITH A NICKEL—Watching kids throw away their money in dingy pinball joints is "Mr, Inside’s™ pef peeve, ¥

Amuse Me, Bud-

NEW YORK, May 10—I am resting on the back of my neck, indulging in some deep thoughts on weighty things like international politics and baseball, when Mama says, abruptly, “You bettér stop that, or I'll sue.”

Now, having not opened my trap, I have some righteous indignation handy. And I venture mildly that things have come to a pretty state if a man cannot indulge in revery-—when for all the lady knows he is thinking up a plot t make a million, to keep her in luxury. .

That makes no never mind, says she, I have been reading in the paper that Henry Morgan, the radio elf, is being sued for divorce because he is not funny around the house. And also because he sometimes keeps quiet for days on end. . . 3a

Mr. Morgan's disenchanted bride, she says, is asking $750 a week and $28,000 worth of lawyers’ fees, and you better start amusing me, Bud, or I will hit you with a process or a subpena or whatever it is you hit them with,

It says here, Mama «says, that Mr. Morgan suggested that his life's mate commit suicide in one of their squabbles, and I seem to remember that you once suggested a slight leap out of the dormer when I was teasing for a new gown to wear to a party. I also remember, she says, a piece you wrote ahout fashion, when you said, quote, “If my old lady ever comes home in one of those French atrocities I will beat her to death with a baseball bat.”

Better Curb Your Words, Old Boy

THAT, YOUNG MAN, is not only a subtle, psychological method of ridding yourself of me, but the second part is a direct threat on my life. How..would you- like -to- piek -up the papers some day and read where I accused you of murder? . Furthermore, she says, Mrs, Morgan is saying that Henry threw some food at ‘her once and also scattered it around the kitchen—and I recall a slight argument we had one time .over the quality of my meat loaf, and it seems to me I've got you dead to rights.” :

wo MA Morgan, cites cruelty. in her action against,

~ Henry, who I think is a very funny man, because

Henry changed his voice on her and chased her

accent that he, Henry, had just been killed in an auto accident. I seem to remember a man

Oh, Mom

* WASHINGTON, May 10-—Mother's Day gives Me the shudders. Not that I object to mothers, you understand. Or to their special day. My Mother's Day debacle was strictly my own fault and if.you've got a minute for a now-it-can-

. betold newspaperman tale here is the whole

berve-shattering - story. If you are a mother, I think you will sympathize: The éditor said (and this was 15 years ago) to Write @ Mother's Day feature. ‘That, unfortunately, is all he sald. So I got to thinking about James McNeill Whistler, who painted that picture Of his mother. The one that used to be on the Postage stamps. Well, sir, Whistler used to draw maps for the Coast and geodetic survey, before he became famous. 86 I dropped down there to see if maybe I could find a yarn about the man who made his Own mother's . face a world-known symbol of motherhood. : An elderly employee told me an amusing story. Seem$ that Whistler was a fine draftsman all ght, but when he made etchings of the govern. ment's map, he always insisted on decorating 'em With sea serpents, mermaids, and other nautical turlicues, He also drank a good deal of “beer.

y Fired—Went to Paris and Fame

THE BOSS SURVEYOR said he'd have to quit imbibing suds on federal time. And more imPortant still, he’d have to quit irritating American ‘yea captains. When trying to read their charts

decorations. And the pext job he got was making ; and off the coast of south7 shin el

about a drugstore

; they're grown up. The cigaret really proves to ..them that the wet area around. the ears. is pretty

«outside, trying to imitate older good-for-nothings -- Who seem-10..appeal to some. types. of youngsters.) .

+ girls” ‘greedy hands off them,

By Ed Sovola

type of péople a kid should even De near, and it beats me to see a parent with a youngster on "his heels come in and start playing the various games, " The guy I watched put'in five or six nickels ought to have his pants kicked. I wish you could have seen the shape the boy's clothes were in.

The father would have been doing much more|

if he had spent the money for a quart of milk or a pair of rubber heels. You wonder about the logic of some parents. ; Ah, but the dis you see thréé boys ih their early teens pounce on the contrivances, It usually isn’t long before

one df the older boys whips out a pack of cigarets| .

and passes them out. Big shots. Wise guys who know all the answers,

With the lighting of the fags you can see a

cockiness “come over “them. The atmosphere of! ‘§

the place must be conducive to that sort of thing.

Not unlike sneaking a cigaret behind the coal

yard or high fence. : It's almost funny to watch them shop around for a machine, You'd think they were school books or food in a school cafeteria. More often than not there will be a small discussion on who is to put the first nickel in

the slot. The way I figure it, there must be a

feeling of gambling. Gives the kids an idea that

dry. Haven't been able to make up my mind what a man could say to a trio like that. I've seen policemen shag them out. I've seen them laugh for a full block after convincing an officer that they weren't doing anything wrong. Well, they really weren't. It's just the idea of seeing them throw their nickels away, wasting their time, breathing foul dir when they could be on the

Almost Stopped Two Fellows

I ALMOST stopped a couple of young punks but decided against it. Why not mind your own business? There's something to that. i!

iA l0AR-100KING. chap, of about 14 trailed be-|

hind a typical loudmouth of 16. Why and how the two got together, I couldn't figure out. Anyway; -the-older-boy knew immediately what -pinball machine he wanted to play. The younger one either was the treasurer of the team or else the older boy was broke. It was disgusting to see the youngster finally dig into his watch pocket and hand a nickel to his cigaret-puffing companion. Fun? Darn if I know, I do know it isn’t good. How can it be? About the only thing that happens when I spend a couple of hours watching such goings on

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“MONDAY, MAY 10, 1948 nr PAGE

How Boys And Girls Get Started rong And End Up In The Courts—

{Photos by Henry Glesing; Times Staff Photographer)

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DELINQUENCY PROBLEM — Judge Jose ph O. Hoffmann of Marion County Juvenile Court probes inta the ‘past of a youngster who got himself into. trouble. The youth's father also came in for his share of the questioning at the hearing. Assisting the smiling, white-haired judge in the case are Mrs. Margaret Turner; Probation Officer Lawrence (sitting next to Mrs. Turner], and Charles Moran, court bailiff.

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is that I get teed off and then I say, “Brother, if T ever have any kids, they won't be and won't| want to be found playing pinball machines or, smoking on the sly.” |

I wonder if it does any good to get steamed | 4

up like that?

By Robert C. Ruark

pounding on the door of our bath, Mama says, shouting that the house was afire and all ashore that was going ashore. Does that strike any responsive chords in your memory? she asked. However, Mama says, do not worry too much, because I will never, never ask you for $750 a week alimony, because you know ‘the axiom about blood out of a turnip. And I do not think my lawyer will demand $28,000 for writing down the whereases and aforementioneds, but you had better curb your tongue, old boy. I have a keen memory, and while some of your coarser quotes over a period of 10 years may have been said in the heat of the moment, they are engraved on my mind, and would look very unpretty on a bill of divorcement. } —

‘The Way Things Are Today—' " ‘WELL, I SAID, I am never the boy to deny a lorn lady her rightful share of the loot, espe-

cially if she is an old-time workhorse like you, who deserves some severance pay for all the

breakfasts she has built for her errant knight. If there are children in the deal, a dusted |

Mama is entitled to every dime she can pry | loose. from the old man when they come around to part. ) . But when love's idyll has been of short’ duration, I said, and there are no hungry heirs resultant from the severed union, then what is | there about matrimony whic hmakes these em-| bittered wives figure they are worth that kind of dough? What have we taken from you that is worth $750 a week until you slip the noose on a fresh victim? , Well, she says, we have given you the best years of our livés,. our- beauty has faded, and we are no longer desirable on thg marital block. Our tender souls are scarred from contact with your brutal ways, and also, if you happen to be in the chips at the time, it is a good idea to take some of those chips with. us, to keep other

However, Mama- says, I do not think you -ought to take the boy for his hat, spats and overcoat if you have contributed little to the marriage and you are as pretty going out as you were coming in. : "Hut, Mama says, Tet this pana YOu “ne tase’ security. The way things are today, a girl can get a divorce mighty easy, even if she is unmarred by combat and ripe, like Miss Judge, for her sixth shot at enduring bliss.

"By Frederick C. Othman

ern California. He finished it, took a swig of beer, | and that old impulse came over him. He couldn't resist it, Me decorated that island with a flock of seagulls in full flight. . That was the end of Whistler in government service. The experts fired him. He went on to’ Paris and to fame. The mapman who told me this little story hauled out of his desk a copy of the etching Whistler made. Complete with seagulls. I admired it and started to hand it back. {

‘Now | Check on Everything’

HE SAID NO, keep it for a souvenir. He had plenty. The story was such a curious one that the bureau kept the Whistler etchings in stock. “Can anybody get one?” I asked. “If he’s got 20 cents,” the man replied. | That waé enough for your, er, reporter. I wrote a. story beginning: “Get your genuine Whistler etching. Twenty cents!” { Seemed like everybody wanted bargain etchings. The letters, enclosing two dimes, piled up until they filled 4 whole room at the survey head-

quarters, I received hundreds of notes, each with

20 cents, from trusting souls who wanted me to forward their etchings. And then I got a sputtering telephone call from the coast and

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been done.” at ‘New York, and JUVENILE COURT Judge Jo- hogey HWE a ie 4 manors * the] criminal careers beg 3 nih. Lo emus rummenner 6% | by a ve tynistied But T still get the willies many of the major crimes com-| "Miss Blotz, please notice how | spell my name on the pink slip in For Jost ody BR Marke) sa mitted: by Juvuniies are-gmmit-| } your pay envelope this waht" 4 {boxes tor’ . mail letters. §!

STI-RLKE—AIl is not work at the Juvenile Center where delinquent youths, involved in more serious offenses, are held in detention pending hearings at the court. The center is at 2401 N. Keystone Ave. : :

its probation system Whenever) the businessman suggested a, Betty's plight was brought te : to youngsters from | party at a tourist camp to his the attention of juvenile authorhaving to go to institutions as maid. He asked her to bring ities when she became ashamed punishment for law violations. | Betty, | and refused to continue her illicit But so long as there are chil-| The party was easily arranged means of earning a living. She dren who are victims of neglect’ and the three went to the camp. revealed the entire, sordid story and deprivation, of inadequate There they drank a lot of liquor. to the police. ; housing, of family. disorganiza-/ Ann passed out. Then, the illicit y nw

1 . . . . | / relations between the business-| THE BUSINESSMAN, whose INTERVIEW —Probation Officer Mosser is patient [ton and of parents who saster man and Betty began. [name bas been withheld because

wa, Co. y {from mental illness the cou , ! in his attempts to gain the confidence of .a ward of |cannot blot out delinquency, The association continued sev-|of the damage it might do to his

thc hy Cae | Charles Boswell, chief probation eral weeks until Befty, frustrated | three children who are of highthe court: The youth soon blurted out ffie story of [Charles Bosmer, Ce Pre "and immature, lost her job. It|sehool age, was fined $400 and his law violation. |was not long before she went sentenced to 120 days on the state : broke, : jlarm, : ’ : x x ® a x Mr. Boswell said the girl told, Though the sentence was suse him this was the first time in her pended, Mr. Boswell said he feels

i . ) life she had become involved in that the man has paid a high Lead to Tragic Course of Maladjustment Young girl from a normal and nis kind of an affair. price for philandering. He would

BL — | {be ruined socially if his deviaFirst of Two Articles | The girl, an attractive 18-year-| a. eee ET A old, whom we shall call Betty, IN DESPERATION she turned tons became known to friends “WHAT MAKFS a career criminal out. of a youth ‘who slips| Was reared OW" a farm near a to the first man she met, a 48- yl once?’ . ’ small Indiana town.- , year-old-floater with a long police] * The other principals in the case, © In Indianapolis, according to Charles Chute, executive director] She lived with her father ana record. who or to b ok ¥ So instuding i¢-0f The-uef th of the. National Probation Association. in New York, who visited Stepmother. The stepmother paid or ant ri ti 0 oF Jome who a8 Agents, hEing ined here. recently, the local Juxenile Court system comes closer to little “attention to her but “her thin’ dime he. time Betty ane, 6, Sae_ the git, Husa measuring up to the ideal stipdards than that of any other com- father allowed her no privileges : v ' (heavily and handed stiff te . munity. in the nation. ee eee aA “doTOINAted her life. He -re-| The TIP ShAraGISE; on the State Farm n for contribute . - . ’ ! } » 11 of her reaiizing y's predicament, in-|ing elinquency of a miner, ot. there {ed by those who have been con- quired her to devote a i ween a steady If per cnn worm fined previously in correctional SPare time after school to work-| duced her to become a prostitute. | “Betty is now at the Girls’ ; ; Se ing on the farm. She never was Fie placer her in a downtown School at Clermon! increase in the number of institutions, : HE tied td hotel hops re Gene sters brought nto the eity's Juve | ‘He. and other j il th | ftted to play.. ~ - . -. lt i ry oe £-0b</ahe Wait La -4 A uvenile author- ain customers. 3 1 Wha nile Aid Division since its organi- ities realize that certain youths Finally, in disgust with her uh- Becoming more deeply { volved or Tet. the Tuture hua zation in. 1938. t be reasonable parent, -she ren-away; . ..4eeply In Hor-her. is. a. .question-only.she ag must committed to state in- from home“ and came to Indian-|'D this sordid element of soclety.\can answer, : Evidently the price words of stitutions fr the protection of | & polis. Here she obtained empidy-| Betty met another man who also|

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Lack of Affection, Parental Love Often restraints can do to sidetrack a

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Junior Red Cross Plans Safety Club Vacation and warm weather news, : } _ Because of the two, the IndianThe series, of food handling|apolls Junior Red Cross today | coats for hotel employees of lag plans Tor the opfanisation of “Istaté parks, sponsored by the!® _Dicycle Safe uo, [Indiana State Board of Health Every bicycle-riding’ youth in land the Indiana State Depart. | Marion County parochial elemen-

itary schools is being urged to ment of Conservation Will On| oin. Each enroliee Will receive

| The schedule includes: May 17 3 Youkits on, sunuty.: he has had |and 24 at Turkey Run State Parkin, gecidents, he will. receive a (May 11, 18 and 25 at McCormick’s| permanent Red Cross emblem for Creek State Park, Spencer; May nis two-wheeled mount. 12, 19 and 26, Spring Mill State A motion picture on safety also

Park, Mitchell; May 13, 20 and|ig pei hown 27, Clifty Falls State Park, Madi- BE Show in the schools,

son; May 14, 21 and 28, Brown SEEK 8 IN BEATING

County State Park, Nashville; Police today were seeking three

June 9, 10 and 11, Indiana Dunes ’ men who beat Francis Russell, State Park, Chesterton, and June of the Salvation Army Hotel, in

15, 16 and 17, Shades State Park,|y y.oui near Union Station Sat

Waveland. night. Russell is | . The first courses were held last aa) ih RB 18 in General

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our Juvenile autforities are not society and to protect these - talked her into making some making the “Yhpressioh {hey | youths “from themselves. is A MO MA CH eHRy ney 8... 02008 should. They agsert that Indian-| However, they are aware that ' % S apolis is permitting criminalityithese youthful offenders will re. RBOUGH. JEW: Tov. Doky ( to grow by allowing unhealthful turn to society more set in their | on vey and several days later C Se family conditions and unwhole:| ériminal ways die to ‘thelr a880-{ Ann introduced Betty to her em- . . some communify factors 10 ciations in the. institutions -and|

| v t thwart the normal development the stigma Attached to their con-| ployer. a fal fy prom trite and i . of children. 0 . [finement, | three children. = an ing C : ich ’! { In consequence the court uses| Once when his wife was away, : THE CONSTANT struggle of] - e—— —|

our social agencies to bring about Carnival- -By Dick Turner

better conditions for our children in which to reach maturity as solid citizens is' making little headway against the factors that lead to crime. Dr. Fritz Redl, professor of, social work at Wayne University in Detroit, Mich., perhaps, has hit upon the fundamental solution to the vital delinquency problem. He says: “In contrast 40 a widespread lay’ illusion about delinquency the real delinquent mind is not easy to produce.. The bacteria of | criminality cannot grow in every soll. * ’

“Give me a youngster who is

has a well-balanced diet of stimulating work and satisfactory play, known that the people with! whom he lives love him, and has something worthwhile to grow up into before him--givé me such a youngster and let. me throw a few delinquent bacteria into the path of his life. “I'll bet_yoy dollars, to doughnuts that it won't make much differenice at all. He will either ignore them, or he may get into] trouble of -one kind or | another. With a little time or a|

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