The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-05-08
was rissing something mNself, thug
it MOULD not be a square deal II hs
Record CT a Tough Aad.'

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threw me down.
Record Of a Tough Cad"
After / had made him understand
my theories and made him feel u
he himself had become 81 factor in dem
onstrating the practicability OF ehosa
theories j let him so on probation. UT'
der our system he was expected 10 re-
port to me in person at least once j1
two weeks.
Jimmie did SO II the reports from
other sources too were all favorable.
Dur agents learned that Jinlnlie's OLD
comrades had sneered when he refused
to resume his petty thieNil,g and pocket
picking. Their former leader told them:
ON de level. now dat judge gave n,G
a square deal an I'm not goin' TO t'row
him down. Why. he's treated me white
an II l goes back to swipin' thjngT
again de judge, Nike enough, will los.
his b
"~Jiinnlfe's record was SO good that
after d while we got him employment
In the Pullman car shoDs In Denver.
He was a big, strong fellow. %5nuscula1
and quick tempered. One day i learned
that Jimmie had fallen from grace.
They told me he had hurled a ham.
ner at his foleman's head. The Pub.
! man people feared he was hopeIessiy
bad. and Jimmie was brought bach.
TO my eour In disgrace. i talked WITH
him and learned that he ha.i throw
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later had sneer;ngly called him a con-
Wet.
"o,sow. Jimmie WASH. a convict. !.
did not condonc his assault, OF course,
but I confess l thought it rather a gco.i
sign that the youth resented that ap-
pellation. Well. ! persuaded the Pull
man people to take hin bach and give
him another chance in another depart
nlelit.
After a while l heard tina the fore
man had made himself SO generally OBJ
noNiuus and had become so hard a
drinker that he had been discharged.
Jimmie improved steadily, became az.
apt pupil, regular and reliable. He bas
had his age raised. has beer pro-
NOTED II is now regarded as one OF
the best men in the force. His en,-
ploNers informed NE not long ago thai
he will soon have a f%orenlan's job hir1-
SELF
Beat Prison Cell Record"
In the course of all your experience"
Judge Lindsey was asked, what per
centage Of your probation cases turn
out successfully like that and what pre-
portion OF them d%isappoint YOUR
~ think / am well within the facts ,.
Judge Lindsey replied, when I say that
our failures are no more thar 6 per
cent of the whole plumber. But. silr,-
pose they represent 10 per cent, Ger
tainly a liberal estimate. TINT easily
beats any percentage you can show
from prison cell records"
Judge Lindsey was asked what he
thought of the movement which starteG
in the New York city board OF educa-
ton in favor of a return to corpora
punishment in the public schools in tn.
case of incorrigible pupils.
II think 1t is distinctly a retroeradc
movement" he replied, and a sad cor
fession of Weakness on the part OF
those educators who advocate Fl. There.
may be cases where corporal punish
preceptor may be ef1cacious. provided
always the punishment il administered
in such a way that the offender is nor
rendered more resentful than contrite
Unfortunately the parental spankjng OF
whipping is too often administered IL
than useless" S:>