Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-23
Prominent Eastern Educator
Pays High Tribute to Judge
Lindsey, of Denver
ONE OF FIVE GREATEST MEN
winship Considers Judge Lindsey's
Work in Saving Bad Boys, of Sur
passing Importance Today-Jubilse
Singers and Moving Pictures-Great
Debate and Royal Hungarian Or
chestra on Today.

Good audiences continue at tHe
chautauqua assembly, where DR.. A. u.
Winship's lecture on "Rescuing Ras-
calls" was the feature Wednesday att
ernoon. 1t was preceded by concert
by AlexanderoSterl Jubilee Singers,
a colored organization, who appeared
on the chautauqua program here last
year. and who sing the old plantation
melodies, camp meeting songs OF
slavery days. "coon" songs and rag
time with equal ease. There are sew
en- members in the company. including
a male quartet, soprano. contralto. and
pianist.
Or. Winship's Lecture.
DR.. A. e. winship, Of Boston. editor
Of the New England Journal OF Edu-
cation, lecturers and pub1icists OF the
nation, was introduced by Superin-
tendent Aaron Palmer, OF the city
schools. It is said that DR.. Winsh1p
knows more educators than any other
man in the United States. and he IS
the personal friend Of the leaders OF
ind social reforms.
From this intimate acquaintance with
ths public mer OF two generations, no
derives q funt Of incident AMI anec-
d -, enli.t,iLe to any subject.
His lecture, Rescuing Rascals," Is
similar to the one given
here last summer by Judge Ben Lind
sey, of Denver, the beloved kids
jedge," whom Dr. Winship considers
one Of the five greatest men In the
United States today. Lindsey, he says
is saving boys not only in Denver, put
all over the land, and his influence ex-
tends beyond the Juvenile court to the
higher courts. Until recently, DR..
Winship says, 1t has been practically
to arouse the world to the
condition Of boys going to the bad. In
ten years, he predicts, we will have the
smallest proportion of young men go
ing to perdition, Of any civilized coun-
try in the world-because we have
grappled with the problem of how to
rescue the rascal, and have learned
how to do it. He asserts that nine
tenths of the cases Of rascality are
savable, to those who understand the
situation. But the churches, schools
and all institutions have got to take ON
new life, and the church to succeed,
must give the human touch to the
world around it. Statistics show that
nine-tenths Of the common drunk
ards, paupers, and criminals, come
from the estimated 40 per cent of boys
who have left school before the
eighth grade, and most Of the boys
who leave school are boys who have
been kept back-the majority on ac-
count of arithmetic, In the teaching
OF which DR. Winship advocates rad
ical change. Boys who are thrashed
most, he said, are the boys who make
the worst men, and when you begin
to arrest boy, you establish the hab-
it.
I'VE are not going to allow the bad
boy to go on communicating commun-
tiles as In the past" said the speaker,
is going to make good boy
Of him The idea taken up by Judge
Lindsey was already old in Massachu-
sets, but 1t had not been developed"
Another man doing a great work
along this line. he cited as John Cum
excl, of Toledo, O., who aided by GER
tain citizens Of wealth, built big
club house for boys, which is doing
wonderful good. Various incidents
from John Gunckels noble career were
related. The Y. NJ. c. A., he said, Is
making the greatest and best depart
ure OF It's life just now. and tho score
tary at Omaha Is largely responsible
for the general abolition Of the sign,
"for members only" He went out and
found who needed the Y. M. G. A. and
inaugurated great rescue work
among the newsboys Of that city.
DR.. Winship went on to tell what
he said should have been the story OF
the afternoon, the story Of the George.
Jr.. Republic. founded by William
Hartley at Freeville, N. Y. There are
about seventy boys and fifty girls IN
that republic, which will not take any
one who can possibly be managed else
where, and which saves nearly every
one Of these worst rascals. They make
their own laws, saving themselves and
their associates, and not boy or girl
in that republic gets anything which
he does not earn-because experience
has proved that this is the best way to
reform them. So. DR.. Winship con-
cluded. when we get enough Of these
in the land, there won't
be any bad boys left to contaminate
and in time, every state
in the nation is to have George, Jr.,
Republic.
Evening Program.
Another concert was given by the
Jubilee Singers In the evening, to an
audience filling the huge chautauqua
tent. Following that feature. a lengthy
program Of moving pictures, mostly on
the comedy order, and illustrated songs
sung by Miss Bartell, was given. w.
Robert Goss, who was on the program
here last year, was the operator and
lecturer. Mr.. Goss is an expert, and
his equipment includes the latest inn