The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-12-04
CHILD LABOR
REFORM WORK
JUDGE BEN 3. LINDSEY OF DEN
YER TELLS OF coNDi-
TIoNs IN THE SOUTH.
SMALL BOYS IN CHAINS
OKLAHOMA WANTS NEW LAWS
AND Is FILLED WITH
QUAckS.

Denver.TAlthough elected president
of the International Juvenile Court So
ciety, Judge Ben B. Lindsey will still
retain his position as Judge of the Ju-
venile court. He returned on the 10Th
from his trip to Chicago and an
nounced that he would retain his posi-
ton and run for the judgeship next
term.
Il want to remain in Denver and
build up this court. The work is
dearer to me than any other" said
Judge Lindsey. Il want to run for the
office next term and stay in Denver
permanently. / will be travelling for
the next six months, but expect to ie-
turn at the end of that time. Head
quarters for the society have not yet
been definitely selected, but will prob
ably be in Denver At present the
headquarters are in Milwaukee, where
the secretary, Edward w. Frost, is 10
Gated"
Judge Lindsey made an extensive
trip through the South while away.
Conditions there" he said, ARE appal-
ling. The factories of the South IRE
working an alarming social and econ
omical change. The owners will not
employ negro children and as a result
the negro children are going to school,
becoming educated and growing up
straight and strong, while many of the
white children are becoming weakly,
ignorant and degenerating physically
and morally.
1.-THE child labor problem of the
South as 1t is now Is one of the great
est problems 1t has to face. have re-
ceived frantic appeals from most of
the southern states for this very rea-
son. They have asked me to come
down and explain the system being fol-
lowed In the North.
Children ten and twelve years old
are working with chains on them,
alongside OF desperate. thieves and
murderers of mature age. l saw little
boys-white boys-who were locked
up In the same room with murderers
In jails, and what chance have they in
the world under such conditions?
These conditions / wound to exist In
Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, Ten
nessee and other states.
oklahoma found to be the most IN
teresting state in the union at present
The state has no old laws and moss
backed conditions to contend with. 1t
is entirely new. The Legislature and
people want new laws, however, and
have started out to get them. At pres
GIT tut Whole State Is IlIleu WITH
'quacks. There are 'quacks' OF every
description. Everybody who has a
scheme Is there to foist it upon the
young state. Old customs have been
taken down there and preached as new.
Judge Brown. formerly from Salt Lake,
Is there with pamphlets containing
what he calls his system for juvenile
courts. The pamphlets contain Colo
RADIO laws copied word for word.
Quacks on every subject abound.
The people there are beginning to
realize this and have secured through
the associated charities of New York,
the leading men on all branches of re-
form. Leaders in the movements for
associated charity work. for child and
animal protection, prohibition, juvenile
work and every reform law have been
secured to deliver a course of lectures
there at the next session of the Legis-
lature. The governor and Legislature
will attend the lectures in body and
model their laws accordingly. No sim
liar case can be found in the history
of the country"
Judge Lindsey will spend a consider
able portion of his time in Oklahoma
The people have no money to bring the
lecturers there, but have appealed to
the trustees of the Russell Sage fund
for education, for money enough to pay
the expenses. No greater use could be
made of the fund, they believe. than TO
use part of 1t in educating the law
makers of a state in modern laws.