The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-06-05
THE GEORGE JUNIOR REPUBLIC
Every State May Have Little De-
mocracy to Straighten Young Lives.

New York, June with Califor-
MIA, New York, Connecticut and
Maryland as it's original states, ma
tional republic of boys and girls has
been founded in this city today The
Plymouth Rock of this young nation
lies at the George Junior Republic
in Freeville, where New York S
strayed youngsters have reclaimed
themselves for fourteen years, and
Daddy" George, who has proved it's
Columbus, will be it's Washington
That every state in the older union
may eventually have the same sure
means of turning it's young incorrig-
ibles into good citizens is the plan
of the national association which
has just been formed to stand behind
this juvenile United States.
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Illi-
nois are already planning state colo
MES to join the National George Ju-
Nor Republic, while a dozen other
states have today applied to be rep
resented, each with its little working
democracy of boys and girls. Just as
modelled exactly after the life and
representative self-government of
any American town, the national
body of young republics will repro
duce the government of the larger
land for which it will turn out thous-
ands of good citizens from bad be-
ginnings.
At the first meeting of the adult
organizers of this national move
ment today William r. George
Daddy" to over five hundred useful
young men and women and to the
idea which has Strengthened out
their crooked starts in Interpreted
his four original states to be reor-
ganized and ready as a basis for the
new nation. Pioneering from coast
to coast, Mr.. George has settled a
band of young colonists in Califor-
mia, near Los Angeles and paved the
way for planting and nursing other
colonies in other states. Connecticut
has been reused to make much of it's
struggling junior republic at Litch-
field and Maryland's older organiza-
ton has also been reinstated in the
national federation.
Working their way to self support
and respect, some two hundred boys
and girls less than sixteen years old
are today enrolled as citizens in this
four-state nucleus of the national iu-
Nor republic. Each of them has
gone wrong in the outer community
and is learning for the first time the
self satisfaction of getting on the
right side of things in their own lit
tie democracy. AS judges, jury, po-
lice, public prosecutors and legisla-
tors they hold the fate of their fell
lows and the young commonwealth
entirely in their own hands. As fore
man, skilled laborers or apprentices
in the farm, furniture factory. bak-
cry, printing plant and laundry these
youngsters are finding out that they
must do work and reap its reward
or loaf and starve In all the four
teen years of the parent republic in
this state few of the many hundred
Junior citizens, originally sent
there as incorrigibles, have failed in
the end to see the point and impress
1t on those who followed
The fine art of leaving absolutely
alone the young wills to work them
selves right has proved a rare gift.
and today the adult sponsors for the
national republic movement are
searching high and low for Just the
right men for the hard positions of
superintendent The California col
ony has been placed In charge of
graduate of the original republic and
other such trained workers are to be
produced by practical experience in
junior republic work. AS the new
states are taken in, a colony of Sc
lected citizens of the George Jun
Tor Republic here will be put in