New-York tribune., 1909-01-31
HTY'S DUTY TO YOUNG
u-DGE LINDSEY SPEAKS.
discussion of Reforms at City Club
Series of Lancheons.

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nsnver. was the principal speaker yesterday af-
-, ST the fourth Of the winter series Of
-.n.ons arranged By the city Club. The subject
=. s,.crssion was The City and the Children. "
-.h.- sneakers were Miss Jane Adams. of Hull
-. Chicago: Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen president
-.h. Juvenile Protective league Of Chicago: Rich
$ watson Glider. Austen G. Fox. William jay
s..~s1,- president Of the Citizens Union; Robert
zK-,lkin Justice of Special Sessions In Brooklyn.
- D- E r L Gould President McAneny OF the
CITY Club presided
nudge Lindsey said IN referring 10 ths recent
.;Ao-,on in Denver. which carried him triumphant
=, tito Office on q non-partisan ticket. that IL Il
- mi been tor the women. who vote there, the
,esssIopsI gamblers. the seloonkeepers, the poll
..,,sas and the public service corporations would
h,va made short work OF the Juvenile Court He
,s,5 that It has been the women OF this country
.bo have brought about legislation for children.
-.s tod OF an incident during the recent campaign
-As, bows IN knickerbockers took part One Of
thern while making speech, was interrupted by a
,z-s politician, who said: kid. what yer maxim
., rn,ch noise about? Yer amt got even a vote. -
no said the young fellow. but my mother and
,ste-s have votes, and they are all going TO vote
tbe right way when they know the conditions"
Then Judge Lindsey said
II is the big business man, some Of whom con-
t-ibuTe to sending boys and girls away sum
through public franchises. And these conditions
prevail everywhere We can make no real fight
roitics The child's cry is cry for justice We
bsS Sot fought political corruption And we must
fest the public dive keepers and the public gam.
bEers who are responsible for the hundreds Of
Thousands who are hurled into courts every
year.
n discussing the development Of Juvenile court
legislation Judge Lindsey said the first Juvenile
court vas established in New York and the next
me IN Boston But it remained for Colorado and
ultnois. he said, 10 put on the statute books in
1888 that child could be corrected without being
charged with criminal offence. He added:
One Of the courts in Pennsylvania declared that
EgisIafion but the credit OF Pennsylvania that
The next great step was the passing Of a law in
Colorado declaring that oil persons should be le-
Sre1 Careless parents were held responsible for
@ mora! lie Of teir M children afo ~ The The laws laws are re- not
hep he parent n the discharge Of & his duty
Of parents and guardians-for you lose control over
the child when he hates you-end leniency, for the
sssv sr6 Te has onlv Contempt for Won And Won
iose ooat-ol over him who has contempt for you.
getting justice and he is loyal
;uveniIe Judge I have sent thousands Of boys to
refor-natc-y institutions, giving them tickets and
se9r1eEs and have never lost a priso9er is Dur
ing that tire The police have lost five prisoners.
Our boys know that The state is fighting for
mental. neither DO We advocate vengeance. In the
fight f0r The children there is no justice without
At the close Of Judge IAndsey.s speech the entire
company CT more than three hundred men and
women arose and cheered him as he LEFT the club
70 take 2 train for Philadelphia
Mrs. Joseph 7 Bowen outlined the work that is
being done IN Chicago by the Juvenile Protective
League. The city is divided into fifteen districts
she said each Of which is presided by trained
ard paid heads. whose duty # to look out for
the welfare Of The children They guard against
saloonkeepe-s and tobacco dealers who sell 10
minors and Junk dealers, who buy principally
from children
selling, she said and follow closely the moving
picture shows Of the cheap theatres, the penny
srcadeE obscene postcards. slot machines involving
chance crap shooting and various other evils. In
speaking of New York Mrs Bowen said:
You have abolished the scent theatre IN this
CITY don't know why The scent theatre can
he made Of educational value and power for good
log ca2J tale away an evil without putting some
Richard Watson Glider sounded g note Of Opt
nisn Ee said
.r s sounds e M aitnF 535 and hew.ing from Us re-
We are getting better ali the time mere vas a
tine in this city when a fire meant riot between
@ tie ire o as i2 to Re0 s0Os f6s not oSer so dopa nG to
s.! IVA! Jlst now We are hearing some pretty hot
"9uld not have been done short time ago
raai To 0 s n IRs Popqe9n question It Is
VIA has been done in other cities
Mss Jane Adams. among other things. said:
= leading Judge in Chicago has said that four
t-lS q f1e criminals brought before the of
.-'o5 county are between the ages Of thirteen and
tNe1ty-three- This decade is the golden age that
Lle poets sing Of the age when youth are busy
ElIn tne problems beyond human existence II
tbs period ~
Do We do .nough in helping children over the
UL@nsllon period from school TO work?
mere are Lhree-quarters Of a million children IN
,v ! OK = properly guided they might make
justice Wllltn decried the practice OF the city in
Uinshs children from the reformatories and dump
As H1en INTO the streets without q cent in their
tSAeS a1o no place 70 60 He said, however that
-7~ fork vas now working along lines laid down
y NE previous speakers-perhaps with so
inoch spccess-but, nevertheless he said good BE-
ginning had been made.
NJ ochieffelin said that the same conditions
prevailed to-day that existed twenty years ago
eh q small group Of refor1ners IN the face of the
'-Hiete control Of the city by Tanamany Hall
01gnt about the repeal Of the Central Park speed
eS ecI We are the threshold OF a similar
tAuon4 he added The people determined
" nave the same kind Of Demonstration against
S1naluolk that exist"