SCOTS AUTHOR ASKS HELP FOR JUVENILES

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6889, 20 April 1929, Page 7

SCOTS AUTHOR ASKS HELP FOR JUVENILES

EDINBURGH. Half the' misflts and failures in life were due to boys and girls taking Up the first job that offered, simply because they bad no chance of wise and friendly counsel, said John Buchan, the well-known writer, when speaking on the importance of wclfaro work among juveniles, at the annual meeting of the Edinburgh Juvenile Organisations Committee. They were apt, Mr. Buchan said, to think that the only young people who needed protection were those engaged in industrial factories. He had always felt that there were many other classes who needed protection just as much, classes like waitresses and typists. Ha was constantly shocked in the city of London at seeing the long hours and unwholesome conditions in which very young girl typists htul to work with no one to look after their interests. .Mr. Buchan ' strongly recommended this to the Juvenile Organisations Committee as a very important duty. Moreover, they furnished a kind of clearing house, an intelligence department for practical information to children and their parent's on their careers.