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March 12, 1927 WINNETKA TALK SAFEGUARDING CHILD CALLED FIRST DUTY National College Students Hear of Tremendous Problems With City Children "During the last twenty-five years movements for human betterment have centered about little children, and a new approach to the old problems of crime and delinquency was made when we began to understand all those prob- lems as they apply to little children," said Miss Jessie Binford, director of the Juvenile Protective asociation, Hull House, in addressing the students of the National Kindergarten and Ele- mentary college this week. "The educational, medical and sci- entific forces are trying as never be- | fore in the history of the world, to | safeguard children, but in a social service organization we have a rare | opportunity to see whether we have | failed in the home in the school, in | the community life, not only to give | the children as they grew up those] things which are going to nourish them and permit them to grow as all chil-| dren should, but we also have an op- | portunity to see those influences | which are demoralizing and even] vicious." | Unwanted Children Problem Miss Binford told of the work of | the association in investigating com- | plaints from teachers, parents, neigh- | bors and from the children themselves "A day in our office would picture | for you very vividly many of the] phases of life in this great city of Chi- | cago with which you are not familiar --scenes from neglected, misunderstood children, through the adolescent years which are so sensitive to impressions and impulses, and on into adult life. 'Among the most urgent cases which come to the attention of the associa- tion are those of unwanted children, | abandoned by their parents, passed | along from one family to another, sent to school irregularly, beaten, ill-treated, living with immoral adults or put into homes whose keepers are cruel anc often insane. The association tries to remedy conditions in such homes, as well as taking the individual child and placing him in a proper home. In speaking of another group of children, those who come from "bro- ken" homes, undermined by drink or gambling or deserted by father or mother, and also of children living under horribly crowded living con- ditions, Miss Binford said "The hard- ships which little children endure in trying to comg to school, to be clean, to get there on time in the face of perfectly impossible conditions, are fre- quently unguessed by the teacher." A third group of children which fre- quently comes to the attention of the association, are those in fairly good homes, who present behavior prob- lems which completely baffle their parents. Responsibility With School "All these things place added respon- sibility upon our schools," continued Miss Binford, "and not unless we begin in the early school years of the childs life, not unless teachers are equipped to at least detect these problems and ask for hélp with them, are we going to be able to progress very much with juvenile delinquency." According to Miss Binford, many cases of early delinquency point not only to conditions in the home ana school, but in the community life-- obscene literature, movies and vaude- ville which distort all ideals of life and undermine the work of the home and the school, child labor, gangs under the patronage of politicians, inadequate facilities and ineffectual handling of problems of delinquency which finally reach the police courts. "Home and school and community life may safeguard children or they may contribute to their delinquency and crimes. Do not think that these are conditions which do not affect us or our children, or that they do not exist in your community or school. As Julia Lathrop has said, 'No child is so highly placed that he can be safe, or so humble that he can be overlooked." " aN NCS . Nara | Hubbard Woods Fish Always Solves the Problem PULLOM ana REGAN Grocery and Market 1062 Gage Street . Saat SAR Nx NS = So NAN ANAS Phones: Winn. 710-711 WINNETKA FOLKS By C. R. Patchen SMELLS THAT CIGAR - GET IT DIRECT FROM] CUBA? Y/ oy 4 < | = tion. store worth while. 750 Elm Street GooD --| FROM] FROM Y NOPE, TAMPA SHOULD KEN WES) Father's favorite cigar! 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