Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-04
JUDGE DAVIS ADVOCATES
TEXTBOOK ON RELIGION.
Arthur D. Chandler Also Talks
to New England Society.

land Society of Orange, and by Arthur
d. Chandler. president of the Orange
Board of Education, were features of
the meeting on Saturday night Of the
New E~nglanders in Orange. The re-
quirement that morality be instilled
with the rule of the three RS into the
juvenile minds at school was urged by
Judge Davis, after President Chandler
tod of the difficult problems in Orange
classrooms of correcting the untutore l
minds of children criminally inclined,
a large proportion of whom were sons
and daughters of foreigners. Judge
Davis urged a non-sectarian textbook,
which would be acceptable to all de-
nominations, in order to teach the diff
ference between right and wrong to the
children.
Judge Davis said the local Juvenile
Court is steadily growing in Importance
and that the time is coming soon when
the State will be compelled to appoint
a judge of that court alone. instead OF
placing the work upon the Court OF
Common Pleas. He commended the
bill now pending, which will keep
juvenile cases out of the police courts
and send young offenders to the newly
completed muse OF OeltIillOl uillll SuNl
time as they must appear at court.
Judge Davis followed an address by
Arthur D. Chandler, president of the
Orange Board of Education and a
member of the society, oil THE Board
of Education and Some of Its Prob
lems," who stated that the incorrigible
or, rather, the criminally inclined
youth, largely of foreign percentage
constituted the gigantic problem OF the
orange Board Of Education. Mr.
Chandler urged the establishment of a
parental school for the Oranges anC
Essex county. Judge Davis told about
the Juvenile Court. in response to .
request by Mr.. Chandler.
THE two years experience of the
Juvenile Court in Essex county just
passed." said Judge Davis, has shown
that most of the children who come to
the court simply do not know the diff
ference between right and wrong. Nine
ty per cent. of them tell the truth
hen they are questioned in the privacy
of the judges retiring room, with only
the judge and the probation officer
present. We try to teach them the diff
ference between right Inc wrong, but
the question is raised, why cant the
public schools do something?
ut seems to me that the solution
ought to be put UP to the clergymen
They ought to be able to work out to-
gether some system of teaching, some
textbook embodying the bare principles
Of religion and morals that all could
agree on. I do not say that this is pos
s.ble. but I do say that the last two
years in the juvenile Court has shown
that in the training of the children that
come to il there has been something
wanting-that there has been a missing
link"
Mr.. Chandler said there were thirty
boys now enrolled in the public schools
of Orange who nave criminal tenden-
cies and thai they get together in
gangs and read dime novels. thus alb
sorbins evil ideas,
A resolution was adopted directing
the president of the society to appoint
q committee of five members TO cooper
ats with the Newark Board of Trade
and other bodies which are known tc
favor the election of q smaller Board
of Freeholders, with the object of bring
ing about that improvement. Senator
I Ackerman's rail- DAD bill was also dis
cussed and a resolution CONCERNING it
adopted. The secretary was instructed
to send a copy to the members OF the
Legislature.
Joseph w. Stoyer declared himself OPP
posed to any payment by municipalities
toward the cost of grade crossing elimi-
nation and also against the elevation OF
the tracks through the Oranges. George
f. Sp~ottiswoode pointed out that an
other bad feature of the Alderman bill
set a period of six months on suits for
damages resulting from the track
changes. President Davis appointed
Peter V. Huyspoon. Frank H. Jamison,
John Lenord Merrill. Alton H. Sherman
and Thomas w. Williams as the lecture
committee for the coming year. and fol
the COMMITTEES on Forefather's Day DIN
per named Walter 7. Mccoy. Richard
C. Jenkinson. Thomas r. Creole. John
d Everitt and Ira A. Kip, tr David L.
Piarson. chairman of the local history
committee. recommended that the So
cietv spend 5000 for a hag-pole In Or
ange Park. The recommendation was
referred TO the board of officers for a
report at the Nav meeting Of the So
cietv. designations were received from
Horace Hill. Robert Ward. the Rev. DR..
Frank B. Reazor and James r. I. Nc
Carroll.