The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-01
HOW TO MAKE
BAD BOYS GOOD
Judge Ben B. Lindsey Of Denver Ju-
venile Court Makes Address.
PRAISES LOCAL OFFICIALS
EXPLAINS DUTY OF STATE TO
THE CHILD.

How to make good citizens out Of
hayward boys formed the theme OF a
talk by Judge Ben b. Lindsey of the
Denver juvenile court last evening. An
audience which nearly filed the Salt
Lake theatre heard his address on THE
State and the Child" None of that
audience when the lecture was ended
wondered why the Denver court is re-
ported to be the most successful of its
kind in the world.
The meeting was held last evening
under the auspices of the Boys Better
ment League. and the boys section of
the Y. M. G. A. Mayor Richard 2. Nor
ris was to have made some opening re-
marks. but was unavoidably absent
and Mathonihah Thomas, the president
or the league, was also absent. The
speaker was therefore introduced by
Rev. Benjamin Young of the First
Methodist church. who is the vice pres
ident of the league
Judge Lindsey was greeted with hearty
applause at many points in his talk but
none was louder than that given when
ne said words of praise for Judge Will
lis Brown and Captain NJ. NJ. Woods
His talk was filed with personal anec-
dotes. and the many boys in the audi
ence who had come to hear him were
entertained well as interested.
Before the speaker was introduced
Miss Agatha BerkhoeI sang Mrs
Bedch'S June" and the Twenty
ninth infantry band rendered three Sc
lectiOns:
Address by Lindsey.
Judge Lindsey said:
OF course I am interested in other ju-
venile courts than that Of mN own city
There IS national committee on ju-
Nenile courts and probation appointed by
the national conference of charities and
corrections. 1 have the honor to be
chairman of that committee. 1t has
been a part of our duty to encourage
and assist as far as possible the organ
1zation of Juvenile courts in every state
in the Union and 1 am proud tonight
that our sister state of Utah is not only
not behind in this procession, but has
suddenly gained an enviabIe place in
and in fact is just what / expected when
last winter in Chicago l learned from
one of the leaders in work for children
in this country that he was going to
enlist in the fight for the Juvenile law
this gentleman in Denver several years
ago said to myself: What "A spIen-
did Judge of a juvenile court he would
MAKE several times had L planned to
put him in charge of our own work
when suddenly learned that the City
OF SaIt Lake mad recognized his ability
and made him judge of your juvenile
court i am therefore proud tonight to
congratulate you upon securing the SerV-
ices of one of the greatest students of
boyhOOd in this country, Hon Willis
Brown, judge of your Juvenile court He
has been telling me that he received
some inspiration from the chiidren-s court
at Denver and while / know that what
ne is doing for you is due to his own
remarkable ability. 1 could wish no great
or honor or keener satisfaction than to
feel that what We have tried to do has
met with his approval. for l know of no
man in the United States who is any
out the good and suppress the evil in
errlng childhood You will pardon me
no one man IN the city can be render
ing greater service TO your people than
Praise For Captain Woods.
where they concern children LegisIa-
tors, like other citizens. are generally
KIND and generous in dealing with this
SUBJECT IL IS quite another thing how
ever, to get men who are adapted to
such work, and no matter how perfect
your law may be- poor indeed will be
the result unless YOU get the right men
70 enforce them. You have been there
fore peculiarly fortunate first in get
ting what seems TO me is an excellent
law. and second two remarka BILE men
TO take the lead in their enforcement
Captain Woods seems more DecuIiarIv
fitted by nature and disposition for pro-
baton work than any similar officer it
has been my pleasure to meet
me juvenile court is an effort at man.
an educational institution, which is go
ing to become as important as the SCnOOl.
Tor after all II is but one step above
the school principals office. The method
OF the juvenile court is as far removed
from that of the Sentimentalist as il is
from that OF the heartless advocate of
brutality ana vengeance who demands an
eve for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
It avoids leniency on the one hand and
brutality on the other. IT affords a svs-
TEN of effectiveness. Its motto is: over
come evil with good, not the iaiI the
strap or degradation" Its success must
come from knowledge of a higher law
than that upon the statute book and
that is. the laws of childhood and the
laws of humanity. A knowledge of these
latter laws, and sanity. sympathy and
common sense. tact and ability in their
enforcement. is the most important
requisite 1t is for this reason that I
long ago took the position that Judges
q eho
tied 20 lawyers. I do not mean to saw
that some lawyers are not equally able