Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-10
THE JUNIOR REPUBLIC
The Meeting Tomorrow Night at Columbia
Rhsatn.
The Little Govefnnert as Seen by q
Boy-what Ii Does and How
1t Does 1t.

from all reports inc complimentary meet
ing in the interest of fife National Junior
Republic to be held tomorrow night at
o'clock at the Columbia Theater promises
to be big success. Mr.. John Joy Edson
the president of the board of trade, will
preside, and addresses will be made by
Senator Depew, Mr.. Blair Lee and several
of the citizens of the little republic Among
those who will be present are President Nc
Kinley. Secretary Hay, Secretary Long and
Speaker Henderson. cordial invitation
has been extended the public
The Junior Recorder, a paper published
by the boys of st. Johns parish, in an arti-
Gle on the Junior Republic has the follow
ing:
Boys Opinion.
when one enters the boundaries of the
republic he seems to have come upon a
new country, where the Inhabitants are
the same as in his own land, but sur
rounded by an INDISPENSABLE combination
of boyhood and manhood which is preva-
lent in the very atmosphere itself. Still,
the boys are like other boys; they run and
shout and play, but underneath this air of
youthful happiness lies a denser cloud of
sober manhood. They realize the stern but
beneficial demands which the republic
makes upon them and that they must,
during the working hours, throw aside the
IiINOuly Ol youth anu take upon Ilem-
selves manhoods responsibilities.
''They carry their government with
dignity and sense of their responsibilities.
The president feels the weight which rests
upon him: the judge needs but gray hairs
and a pair of spectacles to equal judge Of
the Supreme Court.
"a few days ago they held an election
with the following results: President, Gill
bert Jackson, sixteen years of age, cti-
zen of the original George Junior Republic,
xryhN en low ic nav. rrtoo
dent, Harold Leyham. seventeen, receiving
81 per week; commissioners, Chairman Ed
ward Bagnall, fourteen; William Klank,
the same age, and Oscar Ohms, sixteen
whose salaries are $1.50 per week, respec-
lively. The judge for the ensuing three
months, Randolph Hancock. a bright
thrifty boy, whose future certainly lies in
the law, is but thirteen years of age and
receives So every week from the secretary
of state and treasury, Arthur st. Clair, n
lad Of sixteen, with a weekly income Of 81.
Next to the judge, in the judiciary depart
ment, stands the chief of police, terror to
the culprits, William Miller, who in recog-
milton of his important services receives a
salary equal to that of the president: the
chief has assistant in case of armed
resistance a special policeman, Walter
Posey; then comes the attorney general,
the courts lawyer, Make Trepaynier,
twelve years old, who has an opportunity
The librarian. Henry Burgess, fifteen, has
nearly two hundred books in his care, for
which he receives $3.50 per week.
The Superintendent, e thoroughy con
farmer is Mr.. Shipely. p graduate of the
Maryland Agricultural, college, and last,
but no doubt first IN the hearts of the boys,
is Miss Parran, the matron, a motherly
woman who watches OYER them and does
her utmost to brightensthe lives of these
little men.
1.-The following IS Brief outline of the
form of government: The president and
vice president, chief of police and the COM
missioners are elected by popular vote; the
president appoints 'nhe jsdge, the secretary
of ana treasury the
president serve for six months, the others
for three. - IS
THE currency of the republic is of alumni
nation with an impression OF, the Capitol
and the motto Liberty ,Exalts Labor on
one side, and the date, value Of the coin
and the words National Junior Republic
on the other.
There is code of written laws providing
for every offense possible and criminals are
subject to fines Imprisonment work on the
gang and even to thu striped suit. The
citizens buy everything; nothing is given
them. This at first thought, seems hard,
but they are paid quite literally for their
labor, the average boy earning about 81 per
week, while their board and lodging is but
50. Thus they are taught to depend upon
themselves for everything. The boy who
don't work don't eat is well known. Lib
erty EXalts Labor is their matte, and they
work with will.
Considering the boys themselves and
their consequent tendencies to do evil, the
strictness of the demands made upon them
and the natural instinct of a boy to be free
and unrestrained, the question arises, Have
they been morally bettered by the system
now in force?' Yes, most emphatically,
yes; and visit to Annapolis Junction will
prove this to your own satisfaction. They
have, almost without exception, thrown
aside the evils of their street life; they ap-
preciate the shame of wrong doing and are
proud of the respect good character COM
mands. One of the members of the board
is so thoroughly convinced Of this that in
speaking to me he expressed his willingness
to take almost any boy from the republic