The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-09-30

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"He told so many things not true"
said she, and besides he had no busi-
ness to go into matters which would
reflect upon some Of the best people
here. For instance, there is Mr..
Cheeseman, who, you know, is dead.
Well, Mrs. Cheeseman and her daugh-
ter have to live in Denver, and these
things said about Mr.. Cheeseman, after
he is dead, make it very unpleasant for
them"
An that is unquestionably true, the
making of it very unpleasant for some
of the grafters and their families.
"Society," you know, doesn't like
man who makes it unpleasat for folks
who are in E'society.'
have just visited the most famous
juvenile court in the world, and-the
thing I am most proud of of all my re-
cent experiences-I have had the great
honor of taking lunch with the judge
himself. Now do not think I boast
of this as an achievement. I do not,
because anybody else might do the
same thing. Judge Lindsey, like all
really great men in this world, is one
of the most easily approached, one OF
the most democratic, one of the least
formal. So often, nowadays, as I go
about in the world and come in con-
tact with all sorts and conditions OF
men, T am constrained to believe that
one test of a mans greatness is his
lack of senseless formality in the
greeting of strangers and entire free
dom from the I-am-greater-than-you
manner generally. No really great men
has the grand manner" and but few
Of those who are even temporarily en-
inent. OF course, this is not univer-
sally true. Some men are great in
spite of their innate assinity; but these
are very exceptional.
Judge Lindsey is physically small,
scarcely five feet tall, frail in body, and
in his court, as we'll as on the street,
and, I am told, everywhere else he be-
haves Just as any ordinary member of
the great crowd who move about on
top of this old earth, strive and strug-
gle, shove and jostle, and all for a
purpose not yet revealed to us. There
is no ostentation, no court formality;
be doesn't seem to have even any
dignity" to preserve, labor which
takes up so much of the thought Of
judges and other officials have seen.
The Juvenile Court.
This juvenile court is a unique in
stitution, or at least it was unique un-.
til efforts have been made in all parts
of the civilized world to pattern after
it. Judge Lindsey is the originator of
it, that is, of the idea itself, that when
a case involving children is tried, the
one supreme principle of justice to pre-
vail is the best interests Of the child
or children. He tries the case accord
ingly. He established this court only
by making a desperate fight against
the old order of things, thwarting the
grafters, and stopping the playing of
politics and the looting of the public
at the special expense of the little chill
Gren. 1t used to be custom to arrest
children whenever the constables and
other court officers were running short
of money, for they got fees for each
arrest. It used to be the custom to
lodge young boys and even girls in
jails with the most confirmed GRIMM
ais, and the jails we're schools for
crime. There was graft in this, and
to put stop to it, Judge Lindsey had
to fight the powers Of graft. Now
when a boy is accused of an ofense
against the law, he is brought before
Judge Lindsey and tried. He is held,
pending this trial, at a house Of deten-
ton, with wholesome surroundings. If
he is found guilty the judge sentences
him. In innumerable cases, boys
found guilty have been given railroad
tickets and told to go alone to Goulden,
to a reformatory, some miles from
Denver on the railroad. Marvellous as
; it may sound, the boy always goes, un-
attended. Judge Lindsey knows boys.
He has private talks with them, shows
them that he is their friend and not,
as most officers of the law are, or are
! supposed to be, the natural enemy of
all boys. He puts even the apparent
incorrigible boys on their honor, and
some of the things he has accomplish
ed with bad boys about this town are
really wonderful. Even the worst enc