The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-29

- the boy turned over to him and today, after having served sometime Tn the Georgia Reformatory, he is doing ex- cellentiy and his father also IS aoihs better.
 Mir. Jackson said that he knows boys who are uneuually yoked together with hardened criminals. Their coils are side by side with those of lifelong criminals, regardless of race, color or age
 The juvenile reform worker said he had visited the Montgomery police sta- ton and had gathered the statistics that, from October. 1903, to the same month of 1904. covering one year. there had been 3,504 arrests, and S45 of these were children varying in ages from 10 to 20 years, more than twenty-five per cent of the total These figures, ne said, call for a juvenile court and probation system in Montgomery. By the Juvenile court is meant separate place and time to try the children and, IL necessary to imprison theu.s sep arate place to keep them. By the prn- bation system Is meant a separate pro- batting officer to look after the chil- dren, get reports on their conduct. and join with others in saving the boys and girls.
 Reading from The Chicago Tribune. MT. Jackson showed crime to have increased during the year leo4-05.
 Why Is crime on the increaseT he asked, "because we have been manufaet- urlng juvenile offenders and throwing them on society,""
 The institution, he asserted, was not only to take in the boy who had gone wrong, but also the boy who was going wrong. The desire was to have ten buildings to accommodate at least one thousand children. Mr. Jackson closed &t. ~-gz AH people to interest themselves in the cause he is promoting, and to come to It's support.
 The Other Speakers.
 The address Of Mir Jackson was fol- lowed by short address by Dr. Stake ly. who. in expressing his sympathy with the sentiments of the preceding speaker, said that, in the matter of re- forms, they were dealing here with real evils. He was happy to say that Ala bama was in advance of a great many other Southern States in this line of reform. He referred to the Boys In- dustrial School at East Lake, secured for the State by the unerring labors of noble women.
 Religion" said pr. staksly, "is of little value unless 1t leads us Into the syinpathies and humanities of life"
 He believed the reform could be suc- cessfully launched and worked out and he expressed his pledge of support in behalf nf the movement. Dr. Rice. the next speaker. introduc- ed by Judge Thomas, said his attention had been called Sunday to the fact that there is no place in Montgomery where prisoners may meet religious workers or have religious servires. The citi- zens of Montgomery. he emphasized should confer with those In charge of the jail and wipe out that shame. He was informed from the rostrum that the Boar def Revenue had the jail in charge, and be then urged that tho Board be begged to so arrange Its plans | for jail Improvements that such place be provided for.
 Dr. Rice. while in sympathy with Mir. | Jackson. saiN he had not come pre- pared to deliver q speech. He had, in l former years. read and studied the question of child reform, and experi- ence had taught him that in the ma jority Of cases 1t was necessary to be- | gin on the physical being of a child 1 and then to work gradually up to its spiritual being.
 D s. Hausman was called to the pull pit by Judge Thomas and he expressed his hearty approval Of the great move ment." To his mind no one better work. conducive to the hetterment of mankind, could be undertaken than l this.-
 Under the sanitary laws. he said, per- sons with diseases were separated from other persons. The same should apply to the segregation of wayward boys and girls.
 The congregation was dismissed at | 9:30 o'clock with a benediction by Rev. w. M Cox