The Washington times., 1910-04-15
Young Criminals Are Made
Over Without Term
In Prison.
MATERIAL A-PLENTY
FOR EXPERIMENTS
Great Strides Made IN OvercOm-
ing Evil Influences
of Youth.

The bad boy is naturaIIy-at any
rate. until we reach Uropia-aI7vays
With Us; but the vital point is TO see
hat, If possible. he becomes an honest
self-respec,ing man, and no stone
should be left unturued 10 secure such
an asset for the nation as he then
would be
Happily. public Institutions and pri-
ate individuals have long been work
ing to this end, and recently great
strides have been made in the difficult
but altogether necessary task Of over
coming the evil Influences Of early en-
FlrOnmeut and OF making youthful
criminal - more siuued against than
s5nning-into an industrious and useful
That there is no lack Of material 10
work upon Is obvious from the fact
mat IN one way or another over 10000
children under the age Of sixteen come
annually In contact with British Grim
1usl courts and that IN the last record
ed year nearly 10000 Of such children
Irates- What treatment they receive
Immediately after conviction, and what
becomes OF them I'm the eud-wnat, ia
snort are the results of our treatment
II viii row briefly relate
Thousands Go TO Schools.
The vast majority of young crimi-
nais do not 80 To prison-happiIy- in
A-ttaErr no l.N'fH VIII Nov hIaElll. AIIfF
go. instead. 10 the refOrmat0ry and in
dUstrial schools. which are over 20 in
number and last year there was a
total Of -6,-56 children In such schools.
OF whom Pies were boys
ReformatOry S-TOolS- OF course, are
reserved for tie more serious cases.
and. indeed. - boys in them are
eTs. while IrNse IN TIE industrial
schools ave technically described as
children. simply. TIL this year chill
Qren under twelve could be sent d
refOFmatOry schools. bat in future the
ages Of those transmitted 10 such
schools viii be between twelve and six
teen and. as heretofore the terms OF
detention VIII be. not less than three
years or more than FIVE, while afJe~
eighteen months Of detention the same
power Of releasing them on license in
order to learn a trade or obtain employ
nent VIII be enjoyed.
Kindness Is Shown
After careful inquiry I have s1-mei
the opinion that the 5000 boys in the
refOrmatOry schools are treated in the
right spirit. The atmosphere OF the
place is that Of a school rather than
peniteutiarJ- The STATS of the schools
are Loyalty rendering a great service 70
the state by the way in which they
approach a very difficult problem
Games Of all kinds. education iu many
directions, ameloTa-inC Influences
everywhere. and a close com animation OF
rigid discipline with personal kindness
have done wonders with a class which
might WEI oe regarded as hopeless.
How we'll these schools have succeed
ed with the worst boys Of the nation
may be Inferred from the known re-
suits And 7 VIII give the latest Oh
Tsinabie- T. the three years OF 1875
1870 ana 1871 s6ls boys were placed
out In Q0siuOnS-the army navy. farm
lnEr the mercantile marine and general
labor taking the majority At the end
OF 1913 uftE-elCnT Of these bows were
dead and, Of the $500 boys then living.
no fewer than = per ceur-cO be- exact.
-sisi ooys-Were in regular employment
Industrial Schools.
Five per cent, or 1ss. were in casual en-
Pioyment, Is per cent, OF f58. had been
convicted again. and rEs- or 3 Der cent
had been lost sight Of il speaks wei
for the SIperv' sion maintained over
those who had Jeff the Institution than
only per cent should have been lost
SIN better are the results Of the
industrial schools. where the younger
and less guilty children are sent IN
such numbers that last year there were
1887 children In them of whom H.
5S6 were BOYS.
The atmosphere % the industrial
school is naturally more free and rIae-
tic than that Of the reformatorv
rhoOi-iDdeed. f. is constant cause
Of astonishmsit 20 visitors from abroad
tlf1- me spirit OF Nl-r place should ne
permeated with, the best features Of
family life The conditions of life f-
fact are perfectly natural The one
object % the place IS the real good Of
the children
In consequence or this Thr variety Of
agencies al work IS eEtraordinarv-
Football cricket hockey. and every
game known To boys i PLAYED here
with infinite ZcSt- the miniature rifle
range lS extremely popular I'm SWIM
ming the BOYS Of the industrial school
are so proficient that they are wen
known as prize winners all over the
country
Employment Of BOYS.
out Of 1900 boys Who left the in
dUstriaI schools in the last three years.
IOChI hEENTIOhr