The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-05-14

the judge with his card and together they go over
the questions and discuss hopes and fears
With some of the worst urchins he tells them that
if they are not good, another judge be ap-
pointed in his place and then he and they will have
a hard time of it, This appeal to the little fellows
rarely fails in producing good results. In short,
''Ben'' Lindsay is good judge of the human ma
ture of the boy, and this may account for his
cess
The Judge has written readable book, to which
he gave the catchy name the 'Beast and the Jun
ge'' He is also the writer of series Of biogTaphi
cal articles now appearing in leading American
magazine.
Another man who seems to know something about
boys is Mr.. George Martin, secretary of the Massa-
chusetts State Board of Education, who has recent
w contributed an excellent article on Getty Boys
to the New York Tribune. Mr.. Martin goes back
to first principles and attempts to explain what
boy is by nature; that is what boy wants to do
as result of inherited instincts from thousand
or more ancestors. He writes: "The boy finds
himself under an irresistible impulse to measure
himself against every external force, to test every
limb, every organ, every function to its limit, and
to do this every day. He gains in strength and
ability, in power to handle himself-to direct his
energy in the most effective way. He comes gradu-
ally to learn his limitations, how far he 60 In
matching himself against the forces Of nature how
much is worth while in his struggle for supremacy,
what is the margin of safety in the risks he takes.
All this Mr.. Martin assures us, is essential ele
ment for successful manhood
In the country it is comparatively easy for the
boy to obey his instincts. In this city he finds
them thwarted every side. There trees, but
he must not climb Them stones, but he must not
throw them flowers, but he must not pluck them.
That his natural instincts thus confined should burst
out sometimes, and often in wrong directions, is
only what we may expect 1t is the duty of the city,
Mr.. Martin contends, to give the boy some whole
some substitute for the brthright of which it has
deprived him. If this were DONE he thinks there
would be little need for children s courts.
Before Judge Lindsay introduced his methods of
dealing with incorgabIe boys or Mr.. Martin pro-
pounded his theory, Mr.. w. L. Gill experimental
with his ''School City, in Philadelphia, and Mr.
Ernest Thompson-Seton organized his nature study
class for young coughs But all of these expedi-
ents doomed to failure With the passing of
Judge Lindsay, the personality of the movement and
the movement itself will perish The experiments of
Gill, OF Ihompson-Seton and the alluring theories
OF Martin are impracticable of accomplishment
Human nature has not changed since the DAYS of
Solomon His proverbs, he himself tells u.s. are the
fruits of his most profound meditatons and of his
most excellent wisdom. In the proverbs of Solomon
we find rules for the conduct of persons in all con-
d1ons ;'for kings, courters and men of the world;
for fathers, mothers, servants and children And
here is what he advises for the boy: FTrain ND a
boy IN the way he should go, and when he is old
he will not depart from it prov XXI. g.. And
If the parents will not train up child in the wav
it should CO. then the school and the Church mist
do it.