The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-07-09
SMALLEST REPUBLIC IN THE
WORLD

SMALLEST REPUBLIC IN THE
WORLD
Washington. Farch 17.-One o
y the evidences that the world is grow
ing better Is found in the earnes
work given to the training and pro
lection of youth-a desire to implan
RICH. principles, rather than an over
eagerness to punish slight acts Of
wrongdoing, such as characterized
the "unco guild" century ago.
The enigmas Of sociology are each
year more zealously studied. The
very life Of the nation demands
prompt action along moral and edu-
cational lines, to meet the great In
flux Of iliterate and unframed for.
eigners. Municipal schools are being
established In almost every progress
sive city Of the United States, in
which home training Is supplemented
and the home circle of ignorant
strangers entered by considerate laws
and human sympathy Lectures up
on the constitution and duties Of citi-
zenship are being given the Russian.
Italian, Polish, Hungarian and other
immigrants, and their children as
we'll, In New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, st. Louis, Philadelphia,
Buffalo, and also in many OF the
smaller cities Of the country; and in
the same cities institutions are being
established wherein these foreigners
are given wholesome and patriotic in
struction.
The pertinent question. Am my
brothers keeper" is more vita, today
than ever before. The pathetic utter
ance OF condemned murderer has,
like a poniard, reached many hearts,
and given American men and women
a stronger, sterner sense Of personal
responsibility. The criminal said:
4 didn't have chance. There was
no one to look after me when | was
boy. The feeling that made me bad
would have made me good Now,
when boys father and mother
don't know how to take care Of him.
some cities invariably do it for them
instead.
It is certainly better policy to
spend money In training children in
honesty and usefulness than to spend
It In building jails and warehouses for
them. when through neglect they have
become paupers and criminals. A ST.
berian prisoner truly said II served
my hrst term when boy; even a
saint by nature might grow up a
thief II imprisoned in his youth. -
When William R. George, a score
OF years ago, in the kindness Of his
heart, gave friendless New York boys
In the country, he soon reali-
zed that he was nourishing the vici-
Gus traits he sought to eradicate
that getting something for nothing
was an embargo on, their moral ma
lures. The inspiration Of having
hem work for their good was tried 4
md 1t finally became the cornerstone
u what Is now known as the Junior
Republic II
The Junior Republic had It's origin {
18th William r. George of Freeville. 7
!. r.. in 1890. He had been taking 7
oys and girls from the New York \
lums to his country home every sum =
Ter, where they lived and had an 9
11oyaDle time. After four summers K
fperience, he thought 1t all over. G.
ne children were learning to be sell CT
~ and greedy. They were learning n
othing else, and there were better "a
lings to know. So, Mr.. George fin
ly announced that all who ate there In
: got clothes must work. OF course. le
ere was mutiny, but one by one tn
g children fell in with his ideas. ia
e had freely administered corporal oN
with little visible moral o,
'tterment. So he instituted trial by to
nv, and appointed his worst boy as
eriff to see that the DEGREES of the lie
ry were carried out. He then be
und that law-breakers can be turn tn
into the best law makers; that all bi
average bad boy Of the world hs
g a chance to become indust- m
u ~. 'ligent and helpful; and he be
ant that h. : new institution should a,
reafter offer that chance. tn
rho Not,or.1 u Nor Republic, in vi
porated in 1899, un> ~ 'ho Jaws OF -
ryland. is an adaptio y u mr. ~.
,rge's plan. It is located VI u -
napolis Junction, in Maryland, a.. ~
sible to both Washington and Ba. -
ore, from which cities its popu-,
on Is chiefly drawn. 1t has IA
es Of good farm land, the gift boz
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