JUVENILE CRIME.
LOSS OF HOME INFLUENCE. “Increase of juvenile crime is due solely to separations >of fathers and mothers,” it was said by Jmdge "William 11. Smathers during a conference "with ministers of the Atalntie City, called by him to aid in preventing increasing’ crime by youths in' the city and county. i“I aru issuing public warnings,” Judge Smathers continued, ‘ ‘ that in the next case where a boy is charged with breaking and entering, I will make a personal effort ten see that the mother and father are brought before the grand jury and indieted for criminal neglect.” Judge Smathers proposed that the ministers get in touch with parents of delinquent boys in their parishes and endeavour to restore the home influence. The Rev. Dr. Thomas J. Cross, pastor of the Chelsea Baptist Church, speaking for the ministers, announced that the Atlantic City ministerial union would zone the county, assigning a minister to each zone who will follow the court’s suggestion.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 January 1929, Page 3
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161JUVENILE CRIME. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 January 1929, Page 3
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