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to i THE MORNING NEWS, WILMINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, PUBLIC CREDITE Extends the Helping Hand And Bridges over all the Difficulties that stand in your way of wearing good clothes. Take all the credit you want. Don't hesitate a moment about buying because of a shortage in ready cash. Credit costs nothing here. Our After-Inventory Sale of Clothing For Men, Women and Children starts to-day.

We are clearing out our remaining stock, as well as a lot of broken lots of Coats. Furs, Dresses and Millinery at the lowest prices of the season. We do this in preparation for the Spring goods which will soon be here. These Low Prices in addition to our credit plan of selling makes this sale of exceptional interest to all. Beautiful Caracul Coats Good Fur Coats were never Lefore priced as low as these.

'An opportunity that deserves immediate attention. All to go at 1-3 off former price. Ladies' and Misses' Suits Dresses All the latest materials and models of the season. You are sure to find just what you need here. All reduced 1-3 to 1-2.

Men's Clothing It does not make any difference where you have bought your Overcoats or. Suits heretofore; the moment a man sees these he will be convinced of the excellence at the price. The prices will appeal to every man. One Dollar a week will get you anything you need. LOOK FOR BIG REDUCTION IN THIS DEPARTMENT.

W. T. FARLEY, 713 Market Street Wilmington Delaware OPEN TUESDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY EVENINGS. TO HELP CHILDREN Important Meeting of Club Women to be Held in Dover. Club women from all over the state will go to Dover to-day, the occasion.

being social service day, of which Miss Emily P. Bissell is chairman. The exercises will be held at the Century Club, and the entire day will be devoted to the consideration of the Welfare of the working children of Delaware. The principal speaker will be Owen R. Lorejoy of New York city, secretary of the National Child Labor Committee.

It is expected that Mr. Lovejoy will have many interesting things to say, as he is thoroughly famillar with the existing conditions of the working children of this state. He speak especially on the need of juvenile court in Wilmington, where children would be tried in a fatherly way. Miss Bissell will preside both morning and afternoon. It is expected that there will be a large representation from every club.

All club women have been notified to bring box luncheon, while the Dover club will provide coffee. Delegates from this city will leave on the 8.19 train in the morning. Those attending from Wilmington NewCentury Club will be as follows: Miss Emily P. Bissell, Miss Margaret chairman of the social service committee and president of the Consumers' League; Mrs. A.

D. Warner, Mrs. John Robinson, Mrs. Peter J. Ford, Mrs.

Charles I. Kent. From the other clubs who have notified Miss Bissell, the following members will attend: Zwaanendael Club of Lewes-Mrs. Rebecca Paynter and three other members. Twentieth Century Club of Smyrna Laura Bell, Mrs.

Joseph Smithers. Mrs. Edward Dwight, Miss Cora Tschudy, Mrs. Hannah G. Postles.

New-Century Club of MiddletownMiss Laura Willets, chairman of social service: Miss Eliza Green, Mrs. Charles Derrickson, Mrs. G. 5. Brady, Mrs.

Cuthbert S. Green. Georgetown Club Mrs. J. R.

Henderson, chairman of social service: Mrs. Edgar Morris, Mrs. Sara Richardson, Mrs. W. D.

Adams, Miss Julia Burton. Century Club of Harrington The president, Mrs. Iris A. Masten, Mrs. Kennerly, Refsnyder, Downs.

Round Table of Wyoming Charles H. Jolls, Mrs. Evelyn Sarde, Mrs. Annie Jackson, Mrs. Mary Jenkins.

Mrs. Sarah Cooper. Acorn Club of Seaford-Mrs. Madison Willin, Mrs. E.

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They have been Buying and Taking Cascarets at that rate for over Six years. a true, faithful, loyal servant of Mankind Over Five Millions of Dollars have been Spent to make the merits of Cascarets known, and every cent of it would be lost, did not sound merit claim and hold the constant, continued friendship, Patronage and Endorsement of wellpleased people year after year. There is also a ReasonWhy there are Parasites who attach themselves to the Healthy Body of Cascaret's success--Imitators, Counterreiters, Substitutors. They are Trade. Thieves who would rob Cascarets of the "Good Will" of the people, and sneak unearned profits, earned and paid for by Cascarets.

CAN It is not an Experiment, not an Accident or Incident, but a sound, Honest Business, based on Time- Tried -and- Tested Merit, never found wanting. There is a Reason. Cascarets are the implacable foe of All Disease Germs; the incomparable cleanser, purifler and strengthener of the entire Digestive Canal. They Act like Exercise on the BowelMuscles, make them strong and activeable to Help Themselves do their workkeep themselves clean. Cascarets are the safe-guard of Innocent Childhood against the Dreadful Deathdealing Dangers that threaten the Lives of the Little Ones.

They are Purely Vegetable, absolutely Harmless, always Reliable and Efficient, SOCIAL SERVICE CLUB DINNER (Continued From First Page.) that at the recent International Prison Congress, held at Washington, onefourth of the time of the Congress was devoted to the discussion of the many questions concerning the children, and that the largest in point of numbers was that section gave itself to this particular phase of the great problem. It is not that there was an especially strong sentiment that apPealed to majority of persons so that they were drawn to this part of the question. It is hard to conceive of a man or woman who will not be moved by the appeal of the child. He would seem to be an abnormal sort of creature. But there are other reasons for the interest in this question.

It is, in short, because there is recognized that here is perhaps the most strategic point in the great battle against crime and against so many of the social evils of our days. "Let us solve many of the questions concerning the child and we have solved many of the problems concerning the adult. Les us save the child and we have saved the man and woman to a degree that is almost startling To cleanse and purify the source of the stream means to insure the purity of the stream to a very large extent. In the judgment, of your committee then there has come before this club no question of greater importance than the one which is before us this evening. Of course, we are unable to fully treat the subject in the time that is allotted to us.

We can but give certain observations and suggestions, which we hope will lead you to join in a hearty discussion of the problem. "In the consideration of route subject we find that there are certain causes of child delinquency which are so evidently associated with the quescons of the remedies that we can not very well separate them in the giving of our report. These we will, therefore, discuss in a way more or less informat the latter part of our paper. But We must turn first to the consideration of certain Very evident, and serious causes of much of child delinquency. "Of course we know very well that there are many causes for delinquency in the surroundings of the child life.

This embraces the of the home life, the care child, conditions. whether done with intelligence or with only a modicum of intelligence, or with little or none. We know that there are many cases when delinquency could have been prevented had there been given but a fair chance to the child. Often this chance is lacking because of the ignorance of the parents and often because of the moral conditions amounting to almost a depravity. Again it is often because of some moral defect of the child.

There are some children whom we know do not seem to have the same moral caracity that others have or that is usual. Moral defectives we call them. "There are others whom we call physical defectives, and still others mental defectives. It is a nitiable thing that there have been so many children who have been sinned against by society instead of their sinning against society, largely because we have not found out that there has been some physical cause for those things which constitute delinquency. We are finding out nowadays that there are many cases where the rtmoval of certain physical ailments has been the direct cause of the removal of what we thought were moral deficiencies.

These are some of the causes which are so closely connected with the discussion of their remedies that we must defer the further discussion of them until we come to the latter part of our report. "But there are some other causes of child delinquency that are SO evident and so flagrant that we can, perhaps group them together under the head of causes. "Perhars the most startling of these is the street trades. To the casual observer these seem innocent enough and most of 1S have thought that they were a means for the bringing in of much needed money to needy families or widowed mothers. There has been placed in the hands committee the report of an inrestigation conducted last May in Wilmington by experts of the Nittional Child Labor Commission, giving us full and reliable data upon this subject.

The report is startliag, to say the least. "There are in all about thirteen Loys that are employed in the messenger service in Wilmington. Some of these are employed till after fall, and one boy each of the two companies, is employed till one o'cloce in the morning. It is a matter of the greatest concern that these boys many of them know and know GOT IT Got Something Else, Too. 4T liked my coffee strong and I drank it says a Penn.

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DANFORTH, intimately every house if f1 fame in the city, that the majority of the late ered messages, that to are or to from be rouses, and some of these boys make the most of their money piloting men to these resorts and in running errands for the inmates, some of them knowing intimately every one of these women. These errands sist of bringing lunches the ininates, carrying messages to men from them, making deposits in the banks for them, etc. the case of one boy, 11 years of age, who had been last May in the employ as a messenger for nine montaz there was displayed a boasting attitude of familiarity with ot these matters. This boy attended schoo! till 2.30 in the afternoon. At 3.30 he went on duty ag a messenger and remained at work till 1 o'clock in the morning.

The only case where there seems to have been some real need of hard work to help with the family support is that of a boy, 15 years of age, delicate in health, who late in the night. On May this worked every day from 8 a.m. till boy worked from 8 o'clock in the morning till 12.30 the next morning because the home was short of money. And this fellow, afraid to go along the streets in the late hours, takes his younger brother with him. His brother goes to school.

It is not the purpose of this committee to recommend many and specific laws to be enacted for the protection of children But of this we are sure, there should be a law which should prohibit any person under eighteen Sears from entering knowingly any house of prostitution. There is a law at present, we understand, which prohibits the employment of such in Gr about these houses, but the strict interpretation of this does not prevent the entering of the minors into the Louse. Such, we believe, should be done and such a law strictly enforced. We are even of the opinion that it should be made a criminal offence for any company or for any person to send any boy under 18 vears of age to any such house with messages. "The conditions of the newsboys are also far from what they should be.

There are between fifty, and seventy newsboys engaged in this sort of work Wilmington. The investigators, whose report we are following, investigated some forty cases. Two-thirds of these were found to be ten years of age and under. Most of them work regularly from 3.30 until 7 or 8 o'clock at night, a smaller number work until 10 o'clock, and on Saturdays until an hour later. On May 21 we found a child of eight years selling newspapers close on to 1 o'clock Sunday morning.

There is not the intimacy of knowledge among the newsboys with the houses of ill fame as there is among the messenger boys, at least not to the same extent, although there is no doubt a vast deal of it, and one boy boasted that he knew all the resorts and served papers to the inmates. The effects of this kind of trade are evident. The loafing on' the streets. the dangers to the boy as well, such as boarding the cars while in motion and the dodging in and among the with the hardened the resortfast-moving vehicles. the, consorting ing to beggery and to trickery in the disposing of the 'last These and others make it evident that it is no place for the boys and girls of such years.

It has been commonly thought that these boys helped put considerably with the support of the family. But in the case of only one boy of all the forty investigated, was there anything that was given to a widowed mother. That case was the case of the little brother of the one referred to in the messenger service. The earnings of the newsboys average one cent an hour: two-thirds of the boys investigated earn from 25 to 50 cents a week. The most of this is found to be spent in the cheap picture halls.

The investigator visited one of the low -grade halls and found, much to his amazement, that the hall was wellfilled with children, no less than five of whom had unsold papers under their arms. The 'ice cream sandwich' pediar takes his full share of the profits. One peddler told the investigators that between the hours when we not we for of but are some give lot the Malt Whiskey the stimulant is one of the greatest It aids in destroying disease, properties assists in restoring manner, thus keeping the remedy in the prevention grippe, bronchitis, coughs, of PURE DE MARK is at MARKET AND SECOND STREETS. new editions are being distributed he sells 100 to 175 sandwiches, and did he to not have a competitor he could of sell 200 to 250. be seen then the very meagre profits of these boys so are wasted for their own pleasures and comforta, as and tend in to ways help that the are boy.

not To at what extent cigarette smoking is indulged in we are uncertain. It is likely that it is not done to a very great extent by the newsboys, but we are still strongly of the opinion that this is one of the greatest sources of evil. These who have investigated this subject tell us that their opinion is that this alone accounts for mora delinquency than almost any other single thing, dwarfing the physical and the intellectual growth, and perverting the moral sense of the boy, and many times making him almost irresponsible. "We must mention now the pool It is known that in some of these there are employed one or two boys late into the night. We need not argue here that this is a menace.

The surroundings are anything but what they should be for the boy. The language that is usual, is not such as should be constantly listened to. But we remark that it is not alone in the case of the boy that is employed there. that there is the menace, but to all our youth it is one of the greatest evils that we have in our city. Henry B.

Thompson remarked to the ministers' association some weeks ago that there had come to him the father of one of our fine boys. begging him 10 use his influence to get his boy into the Y. M. C. and stating that he was in the habit of going direct from school to some pool room and there spending the rest of the afternoon Then Mr.

Thompson adds that he believes the pool room to be one of the greatest menaces to the youth of our city. Surely we need say little further upon this. It is our opinion that we have not adequate or strict enough regulation of these places. The vouth should be prohibited from them. conversation wtih Chief of Police Black: this subject valuable information was given us.

Chief Black speaks in no uncertain terms of the menace of the pool room. He considers it 'the most damnable thing with which we have to contend, the worst and most troublesome of all In his opinion it is far more serious than the saloon and more threatening. He would tar rather have the saloon open all night than the poolroom. Yet he tells us that his letter is now on file with Council asking that some ordinance be passed which will regulate this evil. At the present the police have no jurisdiction other than there should be no disturbance and the keeping out of all boys under 18 years of age.

These rooms allowed to be open all night and are full of young men between the ages of 18 and 21. (They can keep younger boys out). There is no doubt. but that a fearful amount of gambling goes on there. In form they tell us it is worse than poker and more money can be lost on pool than at the card table.

While the saloons are closed it is possible for any man to carry a large bottle of whis, some pool rooms and tippling is indulged in at will and until the small hours of the morning. Chief Black tells us that he knows of a score or more of young men who are serving a term at the workhouse who have received their training in crime at the poolroom and club Yet for some reason our Couneilmen refuse to act for the elimination of this very serious menace. "Thus far we have dealt with some of the evident causes and some of the perhaps equally evident remedies of delinquency. We must hasten to turn now to the other side of the problem and consider some of the remedies. "Let us consider first some of the problems that confront our schoo board.

This is of first importance, fo course where there is illiteracy there will be also delinquency. Now we have no word of criticism to offer upon the work of our schcols. They are doing their work well; but there are solde things that they need. and in some ways they are not able to do alt that they might do cr should do, if We hope to solve many of these problems of delinqueney. They are not to be censured for what they are doing nor do are in that of if is mal ual or censure them for what they arr doing because they can not.

But hope that we might find it possible them to go further in the work. "We have spoken of defectivesmoral, physical and intellectual. This suggests the first remedy that is sorely needed. It is an adequate medical in spection. Other states are far ahead us in this regard.

There is no doubt; that there are many children who: at school who are handicapped by serious physical difficulty, These: difficulties many of the parents do not know; we could hardly expect them to know them. Even the teachers can not know them. What is needed is a more adequate medical inspection that will the child a fair chance when at present he has not one. "Closely allied is question the ungraded school. There are, we informed, 1.700 backward children our city who should be in special These are many of the mentally deficient.

That does not imply it is necessarily to the discredit. the children. But we know that there are great possibilities before us we can take the child of arrested development and teach him in a way ditferent from the way the normal child taught. The benefit to both the norand the deficient child is incalculable. "In this connection.

we wish to most heartily commend the Board of Education and our superintendent Of schools for the establishment of mantraining courses, etc. This is but beginning of the plans that our superintendent has, we understand. In recent prison congress at Washington, this point was very strongly emphasized. Teach the boy a trade. Make it possible for him to learn something that will enable him to earn an living.

This no doubt is a most important adjunct of the work of education. Of course there is the question funds; but we are told that the school board receives only about twenty-seven per cent. of the city and county taxes, whereas the law allow? them 33 1-3 cent. Did they receive their full apportionment they would no doubt be able to carry on this work they now do, and all an most of that which they plan to do. "Of course we must mention here such things as the lectures in school buildings upon pertinent subjects, the opening of the school buildings for club purposes.

The boys and the girls need something of that sort. and times it is for the schools to furnish these club facilities. Then there the playground. What that has been accomplishing in our city, we all KNOW. Nothing is more important.

The boy heeds to play and he has the right to He has also the right a place in which to play. It is ono the very great sins of our modern city life that we have built our cities much congested, that our boys and girls are compelled to go into the streets for play. Many and many 3 time it has been proved that boys have fallen into mischief which has proven very serious because they lacked, the opportunity of play. The play instinct is native to the child and we do not wish to eliminate it either. Let us then be quick to recognize the value of play and the importance of the playground as agencies for prevention cure of much of child delinquency.

"We come now to the most important of all cur problems; it is that of the juvenile court. No one movement in cur modern times has done so much towards the illimination of deand prevention of crime as linquency has the juvenile court work. It is not our nor would it be necespurpose sary for us to explain the system. There are some fundamental principles however, that we desire to emphasize. "First of all the very foundation of the juvenile court work is that we at once and forever abolish the term criminal when applied to the child offender.

Now we are not ready to say that there is innocency in every child. That is the extreme way of putting it and it cannot be borne out by the fact or by Tag9on But we do say that no child is at the first criminal at heart. It must be a very exceptional case where there is the slightest of criminal motive. To attach to the child the term criminal with all the stigma and with all the terrible handicap chat that entails is a crime that society is committing against the child when the child had committed no real crime against society. The idea that underlies the juvenile court work is that we must try to lead the child to see that there is something better for him to do to help him over some of the rough places and to see and remedy if possible, some of the cause.

for this delinquency. This done a as you all know, by the probation officers. In the matter of. most inportance to us here. Chief Black tells us that We should have at least four probation officers now in our city- men and two women.

The supervision that these officers have is such that the police could not possibly have. We do not that it is necessary for us 10 further explain this system of prohation In the matter of the enforcement of the truancy law this is a most important thing. The probation officer can enforce this law as the police cannot nor should. It is possible for the probation ofricer to investigate the causes of truancy. Sometimes it is the fault of the parents and not of child.

Sometimes it is because of sickness and sometimes because of need of lothing or because of hardships of poverty. All these the probation officer can and should investigate. And the probation officer is the only way of adequately dealing with the first offender. "Ore of the most pressing needs is the detention house. That the boy or (Continued on Page Seven.) Horsey, Mrs.

L. B. Cannon, Mrs. Alberta W. Rawlins.

Tuesday Night Club of Bridgeville- Miss Carter, Miss Trout, Miss Ray Heydrick. Milton Club Mrs. Mary R. Ponder, Mrs. George Waples, Mrs.

Frank Carey. Felton Club-Mrs. A. B. Connor, Mrs.

Jane Clifton, Mrs. Lizzie Clifton, Mrs. Kate Schabinger. OBITUARY William Collison Died as Result of Recent Accident. On Monday afternoon William Collison, aged 59 years, of No.

207 North Jackson street, died at his home as 2 result of an injury received at the plant of the Harlan and Hollingsworth Corporation. Collison. with a man named Wardell, were injured in October, being crushed by a piece of steel ship plating, which fell from a crane above them. The steel plating fell to the ground, where it rolled over. catching the two men between it.

The man's head was crushed so badly that physicians at the Delaware Hospital, where he was taken, thought he would suecumb to his injuries in a very short time. The injured man gradually and speedily improved. however, and was removed to his home about a week later. Having suffered a relapse in the meantime, Collison gradually grew worse up to the time of his death on Monday afternoon. Mr.

Cllison is survived by his parenets, Mr. and Mrs. Stansbury Collison; three brothers, Thomas Collison of Kiamensi and William Collison and John Collison of this city, and three sisters, Mrs. John Raimer of Philadelphia and Mrs. Columbus Neal and Mrs.

Wharton Derrickson of Wilmington. to former The home funeral on will Thursday take place afternoon from his at 2 o'clock and interment made in Riverview cemetery. Funeral services for the late Zachariah Pickels, a former Wilmingtonwill be held from the home of his daughter. Mrs. W.

F. Pennock, No. 1D. to-morrow mornings at 11. $11 A.

street, S. Washington, o'clock. The deceased was engaged in the stove business in this city number of years and for over" forty years he resided in this city, having been born here. During the latter Fart of his residence here he joined 11 partnership with his brother, Henry F. Pickels, in the stove business.

Mr. Pickels was a member of the G. A. R. and also of St.

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Mrs. M. E. Jackson desires to than? her friends for their kindness during the illness of her, late husband, Andrew Jackson, for their expressions of sympathy in her bereavement Fire Chief Was Busy. Members of the Liberty Fire Com- pany have been busy for the last Sew days trying to rid their house of the rats which have a habit of using the stable as a lounging place.

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