The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
GOVERNOR APPROVES
 JUVENILE COURT Endorses Project for Estab- lishment of One in
 This City.
INTERVIEWED BY DIR. oRME
Similar Institutions Have Been Established in Thirty
 Three States.


 homeless children in this state, advo- cated by Dr. A. S. Orme of Chicago, who is now in this city
 Dr. Orme is known as the father of the juvenile court system and is an authority on crime and criminals, having spent thirteen years studying the subject. He has canvassed every class and condition of humanity and personally inspected every penal and semi-penal institution in America,
 Dr. Orme is trying to interest Con necticut men in the movement to which he has dedicated his life and which has been adopted by thirty three of the states of the union.
 New Haven is comparatively moral city," said Dr. Orme, after spending Thursday night around the slums and with the police. You have few youthful criminals such as New York and Chicago support"
 Tt is the press and not the pulpit which has carried through the move- ment for the juvenile court and the industrial schools" said Dr. Orme yesterday, for the pulpit is not in sympathy with it"
 My proposition Is to found an in- dustrial training school which shall take into it's fold homeless children, not necessarily orphans, give them a healthy Christian training and teach them a handicraft. It should not be like the Meriden reform school, open to the children who have shown crim- inal tendencies or committed crime but should take the children before they commit anX crime and start them on a life of right living.
 The juvenile court decides what children should be sent to this institu- tion, but this court has none of the earmarks of criminal court of jus tice, It is simply a legal body with Jurisdiction over such cases" Besides Governor Woodruff, Judge Tyner was interviewed and expressed himself as much pleased with Dr. Or me and his views of the care of our homeless children, The citizens of | tomorrow"
 Governor Woodruff cordially well comed Dr. Orme this morning at his office and talked with him for some time. He said just before the doctor left T heartily endorse this move ment and shall encourage the idea and will do all that can for Connecticut's 1 future citizens"
 Probation Officer Louis Leyerzapf is also enthusiastic over the matter as presented by our visitor, and will enter | heartily into any movement for such a juvenile court.
 In an interview Dr. Orme gave the following figures and facts which have been compiled by him as a result of his years of study at first hand. Some day he intends to write book on this subject.
 Criminals have increased 75 per cent. in America in the last ten years The population has increased only 23 l per cent. Now 100 per cent of our criminals come directly from homeless children. I have met personally in my tours of the country 100000 male tramps, of whom 99 per cent tell me that they began life as homeless chil- dren. We in America paid out last year $500,0o0,o00 more to punish crime than to push religious work in this country. That is something for the ministers and the churches to think over"
 Dr. Orme says that it is the lack and lavity of parental control, of the care and culture of children, and lack of Christian homes that Is to blame for the increase and the enormity oi our criminal class to-day. This is tht age of laws and yet the most lawless age of history.
 In a nutshell Dr. orme's idea is just this; Lack of home influences leads tc lyouthful crime. Commitment to re- form school, semi-penal or penal insti. tutions makes confirmed criminals Why not rescue the homeless childrer and train them to life of usefulnes. and give them a handicraft whereby to earn an honest living? Get thC children before they become criminal. and keep them from evil influences "Thirty-three states are doing it. says the doctor, "Why not Connect. cut?"
 Dr. Orme does not deprecate tht value of reform schools but rather ad vooates the establishment of a system to relieve them of the flood of youthful criminals which more than fills thes institutions to-day.
 Personally Dr. Orme is a most inter esting character. Thirteen years az, he turned away from five thousand dollar salary as minister of the EOS pei in Haverhill, Mass. Since then h has, with his wife, travelled 100, ,0O miles and started great work whicl has interested people in every countr, of the world. He and Mrs. Orm
 started from home with seven cent
 and his capital stock this morning wa twenty-five cents.
 pr. Orme says God puts it in tn
 heart of some one to provide for hir and his wife while they travel througl the country doing their work The, have walked but twice and only twic gone to bed without supper, he says 5 in their thirteen years of travel. Dr. Orme says that the church ha drifted away from God, that minister preach for money and 1t has come t be d matter of mo money, no sermon.
 He turns to the press of America [
 help him in the work of reducing tn
 crime of the country and of regenerat
 ing the home, and not to the puipi
 He says that, the really good people