The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-05-17
DEPENDENT
CHILDREN

st. Louis, Mo. May 10th, do not
tedi Il ehild how bad you think niln.''
said F.. E Gardner. Superintendent of
the Sockanosset School for Boys, of
Howard, r. L., in an address on In
dustrial Training in state Schools, be-
fore the seventh annual session of the
National Conference on the Education
of Backward, Truant. Delinquent and
Dependent Children, which began it's
sessions here this morning. Rather
show him now useful he can become.
Lead him to think that good is expec-
ted from everyone and that ne a
mounts 20 something This was the
keynote of this session.
Tne speaker defined n state indus
trial school as an institution provid.
ed and supp )rted by the state for the
.are and instruction pf delinquent
children sent there ty The authorities
for cause. and whose object il is, to
fit them as useful. law-abiding citi
zens. independent of the condition
that was their undoing.
Other speakers at the morning ses-
sion were William b. Baker, Superin-
tendent of the Parental School of Spo-
Kane, w dSn.. dHu Mt btn DithN tNl.
Superintendent of Schools of ST. Louis
This conference is a forerunner of
the National Conference of Charities
and Correction which begin its SEES
sions here on Thursday.
In an address on the Dependent
Boy VS.. The Delinquent State" here
last evening, the Hon. c. f. Faulkner
of Minneapolis arraigned the states
of tae Union for their failure to make
proper provision for the protection OF
dependent children. He contrasted
the manner in which dependent chill
dren are treated with the treatment
accorded delinquent children and con-
cludci that lit cannot be truly said
hat the juvenile court to de-
| pendent children the just equivalents
FOR advantages lost by the transfer of
their causes from the probate or guar
dian courts The largest docket of
the juvenile courts in the cases of de-
.inquent children and adults who con
tribute to their d~elinque&Sy, and the
atmosphere is u~navo!dably that of the
criminal court. Delinquent children
compelled to go from city to farm do
not enjoy equal privileges with farm.
er's cnildren to attend schools where
farming is taught. No state secures
to its wards this necessary schooling
and all states are thus delinquent
debtors to the children whom they
| compel TO become farmers. Through
the mistaken kindness of Judges.
| many border lire cases of semi-delin-
| queat children are committed 10 an
association with innocent dependent
children, apon the theory that a bad
bov will not harm so many good, ones
but MAY himself be reformed through
the association. h courts must re-
slect the law of social quarantine or
stand cond ,mned by their own rul-
ings.
Fiftv-fve people out of lightweight
, counties il Ohio now have county
Caild:en's Homes which cared for an
aggregate of 4.307 dependent children
last wear. according to a statement
nade by seymour II. Hathaway of
Marietta. O.. last evening.
The law of Ohio requires that the
dependent children shall De placed
ont in family homes by these insti
buttons as early as possible land Wis
tied at least once a year. The care
of these dependent children cost the
hfty-fve OHIO counties s~26s.942.00 last
wear. or a per capita of $133.76 per
year.