Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-22
New Things in Philanthropy
By Washington Conference.

and neglected children. All honor to
the memory of Catharine Fay Ewing.
Her work was as great as that of Flor
ence Nightingale, John Howard or
Clara Barton. Indeed where is there a
movement that is accomplishing more
good today than the movement which
takes the neglected and homeless chill.
d1en out of the poor houses Of the coun-
try and makes good citizens of them?
That is the work that Aunt Kate Fay
Ewing started. me system must be
improved, however, like all pioneer
movements it has many crudities
which should be corrected. If. how
ever, the Legislature would authorize |
the appointment of visiting agents as |
above indicated, to find homes for the
children and visit them after they
are placed cut. our child saving system
would be all right.
DELINQUENT CHILDREN.
Two new phases Of this work were
made prominent at the conference.
The George Junior Republic idea and
the Juvenile Court plan We're presented
by able papers. Most of your readers
are no doubt more or less familiar
with the George junior Republic
scheme. This institution in New Jer-
sey has, however, passed beyond the
period when it could be called 4
scheme There, it is an all around
success. The delinquent boy, appre-
hended in the City of New York for
some Cffcnse, is sent out to the Repub-
lie. This is complete world all by
itself Governor, courts, juries, hotels,
money, laws, etc, same as outside.
Every fellow has to earn his own way
| and pay for his food and lodging wiCd
the coin OF the realm. If he won't
work he cannot eat. If he steals or
uses profane language he has broken
! the law and he is arrested, tried by
court and jury of boys and sentenced
according to the law. They have leg
islature which makes the laws and
they obey them the same as people do
in the outside world. A boy is thus
taught the lessons of self support man
Illness and independence. morality,
honesty and industry. in the Republic,
in a way that these lessons could not
be otherwise taught Several states
are agitating the question of adopting
similar systems. An institution near
Bosom has adopted it in part, but finds
it difficult to graft on the new idea to
= an old and settled system.
JUVENILE COURTS.
No movement. however, looking tc
the sav.g OF delinquent children, has
attracted such widespread attention as
the Juvenile Court law of Illinois
which was enacted April 21st. 1899. 1t
is called the Probation System, and the
main kernel of the whole thing is thai
where a child has no parent worthy
of the name the law steps in and pro
vides one. The state in other words
, provides a code of morals and behav
1 ior for child who never before knew
there was such a thing and thus hold
: the child by kindly council and adVlc
u TO behave and at the same time took
well into the conduct of the parents to
ward the child and compels prope
treatment of it and thus helps bot
parent and child to get along better
The statistics thus far point to the fol
lowing results, that under the old sys
d TEN of dragging a child who has com
mitted an offense, off to the police sta
ton, and then sending it to the prison
that 95 per cent of such children Wer
u lost and went to the bad. whereas, un
j der the Juvenile Court System S5 pc
Z cent. of these tile offenders are save
= to become useful citizens. For the bet
ter information OF your readers, | Wi
- close by giving you statement OF tn
u operation of the Juvenile Court Law
II taken from the Juvenile Record, whic
~ am sure will be interesting to a
of them:
PROBATION SYSTEM, JUVENlL
- COURT.
ID Illinois is to be congratulated on tn
- Juvenile Court law which was passe
by the Illinois legislature in Apri
~ 1899, and in force July /, 1899 entitled
IL IAN act to regulate the treatment an
~ control of neglected and delinqueT
y children" Before the passage of tn
u law the delinquent children were tir'
H. arrested, taken to the police static
u kept in association with hardent
III criminals until tried, then charge
IL with a crime, and, if found gun
le thereof, were convicted and thereaft
I'd branded and hunted as criminals VI
OF der the Juvenile Court plan OF proce
IN ure the child is treated as child II
ht pressed by the court with the idea TN
IL while he may have been guilty OF
he technical offense for which he mig
We be punished, yet he will be given
~ / lo ;e made