Apple Pickers on Fruit Farm of J. G. Lambert, Le Grande, Oregon

198 IMPROVEMENT ERA. individual and the community, stemming the craze for divorce, and separation of parents; and last, but not least, establishing better industrial conditions, so that every person who labors shall receive as nearly as may be, the full product of his labor, and thus avoid the extremes of wealth and poverty, which are both more potent causes of crime than most of us are willing to admit. To the above might consistently be added, furnishing to parents, guardians, custodians, and teachers of the youth, a better understanding of the period of adolescence, which would bring with it a greater sympathy with youth and a greater desire to minister to youth during the critical period when frequently, by mere accident of circumstances and a brief temperamental outbreak, those who are capable of the very best that is in man are condemned to lives of crime. Salt Lake City, Utah. ^-mm ^m ^^^ * : . ^- -'■' ^ ■; Hi f ' ^ HRi ^m^ ^ ■'*• 0 1^^^ its APPLE PrCKERS ON FRUIT FARM OF J. G. LAMBERT, LE GRANDE, OREGON.