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ow.";"cancer"his neighbor's life. The sleepy driver is an egoist,assuming that he can safely operate a vehicle withpractically none of his senses functioning. Whenever human failure is a significant factor in producing an accident (and that means in nearly everyone) the failure can be seen as a violation of God'slaw, not just man's law.The effects of these driving sins are those always produced by sin. They are outreaching circlesof evilconsequences,wavelets receding from theinitial act. We are so enmeshed in the effects of thesesins that the honestly safe driver is often a helplessvictim of this mass immorality. We are caught up ina web of sin on the highways, and heroic measuresare called for.It is not enough to advertise and propagandizeagainst dangerous and illegal driving practices: sinhas seldom been noticeably affected this way. Thebest answer to the problem is to recover our moralsense on the highway. For when we begin to seemuch modern vehicle operation as moral degradation,we can restore safety to our highways as a byproduct of restoring morality in our drivers.RE5TJuvenile DelinquencyWhile juvenile delinquency and crimes by youngpeople have been rapidly increasing in America,United Press reports from London say that in GreatBritain effective means of reducing juvenile delinquency have been put in operation.The result such delinquency decreased in GreatBritain last year by fourteen per cent. Four probation homes and two courts for juveniles have alreadybeen closed because of lack of offenders.Some of the means used, as outlined by the UnitedPress writer, include the establishing of youth clubsin large numbers ; the requirement that parents mustappear in court with their offending children; thefrequent punishment of the parents if they are foundto be neglecting their young people ; public whippingof offenders at the order of the court ; allowing schoolteachers to use corporal punishment where such discipline is needed; strict supervision of televisionprograms ; barringchildren from some types of moving pictures; restrictions on the sale of so called"comic books even jail sentences for children andyoung people who are found to be incorrigible.Americans have been slow to use most of thesemeans in dealing with youthful offenders. At thesame time the means we have used have not beeneffective, for as one writer points out, juvenile delinquency is "a spreading in our society. TheAssociated Press feature writer, Hal Boyle, usuallyregarded as a humorist, is more than usually seriouson this subject. "It is a bitter commentary on ourcivilization,"hesays, that we should "regard in feartoday the generation that is our only hope of tomorThough punishment and the other means usedhave brought quick results in England, and suchgain is not to be regarded lightly, these means do notget to the real heart of the matter. Courts andjudges are not the final solution to the problem.Most effective of all preventives of youthfuland next to thatwrongdoing is religion in the home,according to Director Hoover of the Federal Bureau328of Investigation, regular attendance by the wholefamily at Sunday school and church. This fact placeschief responsibility in the long run on the parents inthe home, the teachers in the church school, and theleadership in the churches and the community.Christian ObserverPrayer is the mightest thing put into humanhands. If we know how to pray, nothing is impossibleto us. Prayer should be a thingof plan and purposeas well as impulse. The power to pray, and the powerto teach others to pray, is entirely dependent on thedepth of the spiritual life. The one real lack of todayis a lack of spiritual life; the one great need therealization of the constant presence and power of theHoly Spirit.Robert E. Speer.CURRENT EVENTS Continued from page 323Johnson, a millionaire industrialist of Chicago. The wholetransfer cost Johnson and his associates nearly three anda half million dollars, and theyexpect to spend anothermillion for new players. The seating capacity of the KansasCity ballpark is to be doubled by the beginning of nextseason. The Kansas City Blues, an American Associationfarm club of the New York Yankees, will find a new home.The shift of the Athletics should benefit baseball as a wholeand make the American League better balanced.COVENANTER WITNESS