would have met all the cost of the 
preventive measures, while the saving 
of boys would have added untold val- 
ues to the economic resources of the 
city. 
lf the financial burden upon the 
Massachusetts cities is a heavy one, it 
is not because the expenditures for 
schools have been extravagant. The 
school committees have not kept pace 
with the other departments of the mu- 
nicipal government. 
I have dwelt at length upon the 
city’s debt to the boys on the physical 
and intellectual sides because the evi- 
dences of obligation there seem less 
clear; but city life interferes with the 
development of a healthy moral na- 
ture. On the moral side the city owes 
to its boys protection, restraint and 
example, — protection from _ entice- 
ments and suggestions to vice and 
crime; protection from open saloons ; 
from gambling dens; from lurid bill- 
boards, flaming with criminal and 
libidinous suggestions; and from low 
amusement resorts. 
The boys are entitled to be taught 
by the firm hand of the courts a 
healthy respect for law, a regard for 
the rights of persons and property, 
the distinction between mine and 
thine. Much of the administration of 
justice has been feeble and vacillating, 
o that boys have mistaken leniency 
for encouragement. They have a 
right to be restrained for their own 
salvation. 
And they have a right, in prepara- 
tion for active citizenship, to the ex- 
ample of a city administration that is 
| clean, honest, business-like, public- 
spirited, broad-minded, progressive. 
The National Bureau of Commerce 
and Labor has recently published a 
bulletin-of State and municipal in- 
| debtedness. It shows how the debts 
of the cities have increased at a con- 
/Stantly accelerating rate. It did not 
}include their heaviest obligation, — 
/what they owed to their own boys. 
| Had they paid this debt earlier, they 
might have owed less to other people. 
There is an ancient story — classi- 
(cal scholars know it well—of a 
Theban boy who was cast out by his 
| parents and left to die in the wilder- 
mess. Preserved by fate, he came 
‘back in after years, unknowing and 
unknown, to become the slayer of his 
own father, the incestuous husband 
of his own mother, and to bring down 
the wrath of the gods upon his native 
city. 
Who shall write the new Oedipus, 
the tragedy of the modern city boy, 
—for the Fates still live, and remain 
inexorable. 
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