THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1908.
FOR YOUTH
1 IRE
Juvenile Court Interposed
to Make Xaughty Boys
.. and Girls GoodHistory
-,. of a Jferciful Movement
- Scenes in Court.
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:-; . By frederic j. haskin.
Copyright, 1908. by Frederic J. Haskin.)
- , Chicago, Dec. 7. One year ago the
first court house in the world built ex
clusively for children was dedicated
hero In Chicago. Nine years ago Chi-
'' cago established the first juvenile court
In the world, followed a few months
later by New York, where the first law
In- this country creating children a
courts was enacted in 1892. As far
back (is 186S Massachusetts had a law
providing for the hearing of children's
cases separate from those -of adults, but
tiiis was practically a dead letter for
many years. Since 1899 twenty one
. states have established children's
courts and they are in active operation
In forty or more big cities. Long be
fore ' this, however. Judge Murphy of
Hurralo, judge inasey oi irnver nu
Judge Btubbs of Indianapolis tiad taken
. to hearing the cases of children sepa
rately because their own judgment
. deemed it best.
This new building Is in the part of
Chicago that Hull House has already
made famous with its settlement work.
-Jt cost Cook county J5. 000.000 and is
. dedicated to the service of dependent
-and delinquent children. It contains
the court room, waiting rooms, offices,
npartmetfTS for the matrons and teach
ers, school rooms, playgrounds, dlnin
rooms, dispensaries -and dormlntorles
for th children who are under arrest
or orphans who are waiting to be sent
to homes. 1 ' .
w learning Wills Yon Walt.
' A. ".. most interestlne school is con
ducted, every boy and glr detained here
for any purpose being required to
study. The school developed the fact
that many children brought here are
almost Illiterate despite the fact that
they were born and have lived most of
their -lives in Chicago, where the com-
rmlsory education laws are good.
Throughout the year this school has an
average dally attendance of 200. ,
' " The law requires that every boy and
' girl in the city under 14 must attend
, some school, and that every boy under
sixteen must either be in school or at
work. This is the best way to keep
them from mischief, and at the same
time make good citizens of them. It
they do not keep the laws, they are
s brought before the children's court.
- which hears all cases of boys under 17
and of girls under 18.
.No Criminal Under 16.
. The Judge is from one of -the circuit
courts, chosen-for a year's service by
; the Judges of the other circuit courts.
He combines with the wisdom of a
Judge the patience of a parent and the
penetration of a teacher long used to
the convolutions of a child's mind.
Each case is tried with the offender,
his parents, the witnesses, the proba
tion officers and the lawvers grouped
about the Judge's desk. No one child
may hear the case of another unless
thty should be charged with the same
act. Fear is gone from the little of
. fenders who come, and with the Judge
they talk over the case, and nine out
tit ten cases develop the fact that the
homo life has been broken by death or
divorce, or by both parents having to
go out to work,' and the little offender
has been the unwilling victim of ad
verse, circumstances. Tho law of the
state of Illinois specifically says that
. no child under 1 shall be considered
or treated as a criminal. The idea of
punishment Is eliminated, and correc
tion and formation, rather than re
formation are the ideas on which the
work Is based.
Soma Specimen Cassa.
' Here is a young girl of 17 taken
- from the- streets. She has HO" home.
She is an epileptic, the state has no
provision for people afflicted as she is.
hospitals cannot take her. she has
frightened the children In an orphans'
home, and it Is against the sentiment of
the court to commit her to the hospital
for the insane. "Keep her upstairs
awhile," the Judge ays to the matron.
We must find some place for her."
Here Is another young girl, a quiet,
beautiful creature, who has been
, brought before the court at the request
. of her father, because he believes she
meant to go- away with a man who has
not yet got his divorce. It is a patHet
Jc domestic tangle where a hard-working
father, too often given to drink,
has tried his best to be both father and
fnother to his three girls. The matter
'Is talked over between the Judge, the
- family and the man in the case. The
defense declares that the girl was onlv
.... to keep house for the man and his aged
jmotber until tho divorce could be had.
The heart of the familv life, with the
Vn, , suspicions of the Ignorant. Is
laid bare but only to friends and
when all the case In heard the Judere
pays kindly: Margaret, didn't vou
know It would be wrong to go to 'the
home of this man?" ' I do now. Judge
mce you hav talked to me." she confessed.-
"I think It would hp wise to
put. ,.hr ,n the school at Geneva for
while, says the Judge. He answers
I.o hrlll protest of one of the sisters
Since you have no home of vour own
yhere you can take her, and since nhe
..has been ordered from vour father's
house, this is the best and onlv home
2.rt?r;, ne the Probation officers
will tell you of the home so vou will
understand how good it is for your
sister."
Three dry Sad Soys.
Three little bovg have been brought
In by the sheriff from a Michigan
county Just over the line. One has been
before the Judge twice before and re
leased on parol. The second, the small,
wiry son of an Irish saloon-keeper,
who Is also known to the Judge, and
the third is a small negro of inkv
blackness. The charge is rather
grave. They had broken into a section
: tool house and. taking a hand-car, had
gone out for a Journey down the Pere
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HO NORTH THIRD STREET
ON
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Marquette railroad Just ahead of the
through express. lister they had
broken Into a barn, demolished twenty
odd window panes, and emptied several
barrels of lime down to the second
floor.
Carefully the case is gone over. Just
why had they played there? Did they
not know it was wrong to destroy prop
erty? Did they not know they had
broken laws? Why did they break the
door and go into the section house? The
Irish lad Indicated the little negro. "Hs
climbed In. the window." "Oliver, why
did you break hi the window?" I didn t
break no window; It wui already broki
an' I Jes' dumb in." "You Just couldn't
resist it, could you Oliver?" says the
Judge smiling. Matters are sifted, and
finally the two boys who had been given
parole before and had not made good
are committed to a reform school, where
for half tho day the idle little hands
will be given manual training, and for
the other half the idle little brains com
mon school studies. It is Oliver's flrt
offense, and after a lecture by the Judce,
he is committed to his mother's car';.
"Yo Honor." says the mother, "ain't
there no place I can send the boy to
study workin' with his hands? He ain't
over bright In his had, but he can do
things with his hands if he learns." A
probation officer takes up the case, and
Oliver will be put in a trades school.
Parsnts Who Don't Cars.
Another little negro, a girl, is brought
up to answer why she has not kept
her word, gone to school regularly and
conducted herself as she promised. She
argues her own case with the shrewd
ness of a lawyer, meets every charge
with the cleverness of a trained fencer
and finally dparts under a negro pro
bation officer to be given a trial In an
other school where the mother and the
teachers seem to be on more harmon
ious terms. Two little boys are charged
with taking a bicycle. It is the third
time one has done such things, though
complaint had not been made but once
before. The old offender is sent up (o
the John Worthy school, and the other
is released with his name cleared. Tho
father and mother of the convicted one
are there apparently indifferent to the
results of the trial, and when the littlo
fellow pulls out a bit of red cotton
handkerchief and begins to cry. it Is in
the arms of a probation offioer that he
finds comfort not thoso of his pa
rents. If those arms had always been
a refuge for him he might never have
been brought to the children's court.
Another boy. working at 5 a week,
hug been brought in at the instigation
of his parents. He had made away
with his last week's wagea without their
permission. "I didn't take but $1.50.
Judge. I needed a new hat, and I bought
that and a tie. The rept of the money
was in my pocket, and when I went to
sleep in a loft that night the other
boy took It." "Why didn't vou p home
to sleep?" "Because thev would whip
me for spending the $1.50." sobbed the
boy. "and they'll tell you now that I
took money before, and I never did
They've cot so they always make out I
steal. ' The mother stands stolidly by.
This child, too, appeals to the Judge for
sympathy, not to his own people. It
is one of the most pathetic cases, yet
the child had once before been brought
up for this same fault, and because the
foundations of his future character
must be honesty, obedience and depend
ableness he is sent to the reform school
for a year.
And so it goes on through the long
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Politicians of Every Name
and Order Prepare for
Coming Storm.
(United (Teas Lsnsed Win.
Chicago, Dec. 7. The wholesale In
dictment of politicians for frauds in the
last primaries has caused Consternation
amor.g local politicians. Several are
said to be already preparing- to sell real
estate and get ready "for the worst."
The "worst" is expected to come when
the defendants are placed on trial.
It Is reported that- several Indicted
men have offered to turn state's evi
dence and thus gain Immunity.
Special State's Attorney Loesch ex
presses the belief that Chicago Is about
to be treated to the same sort of graft
disclosures as San Francisco and St.
Louis had. He says the rottenness of
every election held here In the past 20
years Is incredible and declares the
reason It has net come to light before
is that, the politicians have united to
cover it up.
Retiring State's Attorney Healy has
been the first official in control of the
inquisitorial machinery who was "de
feated by the bosses" and many reve
lations have already been made by him.
How far he will uncover the condi
tions is a question of Interest to the
alarmed politicians.
The Brand Jury having the mater un
der consideration will meet again this
week when other indictments are expected.
tiusv day. There are parents bringing
'".children whom they cannot control,
officers bringing In little fellows wno
have found mischief more attractive
than home or school, girls who are
aC,.ut to KO "Stray, and pathetic little
children who have been thron on the
eounty far support by the death or in
competency of a parent. In everv in
stance of delinquency there is the ef
fort to show the child the difference be
tween right and wrong, which no one
had ever shown him before, the effort
to awaken the principles of honor and
obedience, and over all is the great
friendliness of the court for the boy
and girl, the eagerness of even the pros
ecution to see that the childlf rights are
preserved. The Chicago court has not
the advantage that Denver has of be
ing able to make parents responsible
for the good conuuet of their children.
This is one of me wisest laws on the
statute books of the state of Colorado.
H More Forcing Into Crime.
The one great aim of the Juvenile
courts of the land Is to keep the youth
ful offender from prison or reformatory.
1-or this the probation system has been
instituted. At the last special census
made for this purpose it was found that
thore were over 23.000 Juvenile delin
quents in this country. Before the days
of children's courts 'thesf were herded
with the most debased criminals In pen
itentiary and workhouse and were lost
to citizenship. Today the majority of
these can -be kept out of Institutions
of any kind and made into good citizens
niiuugn ruucuuon. inoustr a training
and a. system of supervision in their
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