The Paducah evening sun., 1910-02-02


thanks Judge Barkley for not making
the salary $4,000, as he very well
could.
We only ask that the new court
and the officer make good, and 10
this end we invoke the aid and sym
pathy OF the Woman's cmb-wheae
would we turn for support in disin-
terested public enterprises did we
not have the Woman's club?-and
the religious organizations. inns
court can be made a great blessing
to the community, an insurer CT
peace, a protection against iawless-
ness and a money saver. WIN such
possibilities and the assistance OF
his father can Judge Barkley ask
for a greater opportunity to make
himself useful and popular?
Whether an invitation should be
extended by Judge Barkley to the
Woman's club for conference,
concerning the work of the court, or
overtures of assistance should be
made by the proper department OF
the club, we know not. We lay 1t
upon the consciences of both parties,
trusting that mutual bashfulness will
not defeat the ends of humanity
Much could be accomplished at such
a conference. The conduct OF a
well regulated juvenile court is as
different from that of regular
court of law as Il well could be. The
Judges first aim must be TO gain the
confidence of the accused, If he may
be so termed. This must be done by
avoiding all semblance of accusation.
once that Is gained. the court then
proceeds to ascertain the cause of the
child's delinquency, and these
causes are multitudinous and multi
form. often it is parental neglect,
often starvation, some physical dis
case produced by either of these,
adenoids or other durable trouble. or
conditions, which may be remedied.
II is in the discovery of these
causal conditions that the Woman 5
club and ministers and religious or
carnations can help, as they can in
remedying the conditions and assist
ing the probation officer. The
name. probation officer, signifies that
the child is to be released on proba-
ton. once the conditions are ascer-
tained and remedied. and the proba-
ton officer Is to see that the condi-
tions are kept so and the child re-
ports to the court at proper inter-
walls. How the cooperation of these
others can aid the court is easy to
see: and the various churches and
where there is foreign blood-races
should be represented among the
courts assistants. because the work
should go on with the least possible
religious and racial friction in the
home. the preservation of which !:
the central idea of the Juvenile sys.
TEN.
There are not so many cases IL
Paducah, that the strain upon tbs
courts unsalaried assistants would bs
excessive. and direct contact thus
brought about between the religious
Organizations and the great Won
ans movement and the homes of de
linQuents will go far toward the ap
plication of curative policies to oui
social evils. The same method
should be adopted in the treatmen
of colored del.nquents, by enlistinl
the better element of colored people
in the relief and redemption OF theii
own people.
OF course, the attention of physic
ians should be given the delinquents
We would not wish to punish n chill,
for the deleterious moral effects o
physical disability. or r'attempt th'
hopeless task Of overcoming a ply
steal defect by moral suasion.
The expense need not worry us
It costs the county SIS every time +;
boy IS taken to the reform school
out OF which there Is a rakeoff fo
the officer accompanying him o.
from s45 TO 500. We can afford tC
spend ten. twenty. fifty or ever
seventy-five dollars on each deAn
quent, If II will restore him tC
health and redeem him as a citizen
II will save us spending a like
amount 10 send him to Lexington
10 be turned in with a herd OF othel
incorrigibles. absorbing their Grim
inal knowledge and having il harden.
ed in him by the pressure of severe
uncharitable discipline. and then re.
turned to us graduate criminal
ready for his career.
We bespeak for County Judge
Barkley this cooperation. We take
him at his word, when he says he
will endeavor TO inaugurate a real
juvenile court system. and believe no
more deserving work presents itself
TO the women. the churches and the
than that of saving the
next generation from the curse that