The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-10-28

zens of boyville are in favor Of law
and order, but the small minority Of
boys who will not play square" are
lost to the cause because there is no
way of enforcing the provisions of the
statutes of the juvenile municipality
and retaining them as citizens.
In Gary this defect is to be remedied
by having the boyville movement un-
der the control and supervision of the
schools of the city. In this way the
boys will make and enforce their laws
as they did in Hammond, but the in
corrigibles, instead of being expelled
from the city as q punishment for
breaking boyville laws, will be taken
in hand by the truant officer and the
juvenile court will exercise Its author
ity in the interests of reform
Brown In Charge.
Judge Willis Brown stated today that
he will personally supervise the work
in Gary This is the first opportunity he
has had to develop his ideas under
such favorable circumstances and 1t
will be his purpose to make the Gary
| boyviile a success.
Gary has taken up the work here
where Hammond left OFF and as result
| it's schools will probably be advertised
over the entire country as the leader
| in one of the best movements for the
moral education of the community that
| has yet been devised.
| Judge Willis Brown stated that the
plans have been in the process of de-
velopment for some time and only now
have they reached a stage where their
contamination is assured.
| Judge Brown gave out the hrsi
authorized statement OF his plans to
| the public today. 1t follows in an in
terview in which he outlines the work
he has undertaken in Gary:
/ Knowing that Boy City which we
conduct at Charlevoix, Mich. every
sumner is a success from every view
point I am satisfied that the method:
which we adopt there for its conduc'
| will prove as effective in a Boy City oil
Boyville as we call it, where ma
jority of the boys of any city can be en-
rolled as citizens.
The active work of Interesting ant
holding the boys who play square cal
be done as was evinced in Mr. Hahn
work with the Hammond Boyvflie
However for permanent success Their
must be the added department of Civ
ing attention to the boy who does no
play square. who becomes part of
rather respectable minority who def,
public sentiment. This latter depart
ment closely encroaches upon tn
official duty of those in authority II
school and court, that for the real sue
cess of Boyvilie there must be in &C
tive cooperation this official depart
ment, which can say to the boy who i
willful, you must obey law II tina
law be a statutory one of the city o
state or in connection with the dis
cipline of the public schools.
I'm Gary, every boy in the city vii
be citizen and 1t will be assumed tina
there is no unfair boy living. The
the undesirable citizen of Boville Wi
be given immediate attention. Per
haps he is sick, maybe misunderstood
perchance his environment is bad, h
may be neglected and mistreated. Thes
: various agencies which contribute to
childs moral condition will be CAREFUL
and scientifically ooked into. with n
other purpose than to help the boy, an
all facts discovered will be given t
those who are in proper authority owe
this boy When a boy is normal, an
violates law. then there shall also b
: the stronger hand of legal authorit
to protect the boy from himself
The Gary Boyville, which 1 expect I
3 superintend will be instituted as a sys
tenn of civic and moral education, 1t
for constructive work for boys, but
will also interest itself in the boy VIII
proves by acts that he canot or wi
not play square. Ny experience he
been that there are few of these La
summer out of the total number In Be
City at Charlevoix, only two were III
| fair that the city council denied the
citizenship and sent them home"
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