The Holbrook news., 1911-11-03

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 small, blonde, -fatfaced boy was
 accused of having twisted the
 wrist of little girl. and taken
 from 1t the dollar with which the mother had sent her to the grocery.
 Did you do that, George?" asked the judge.
 George confessed that he had.
 And, Mary, what did you dor" asked the judge. turning to the little girl.
 >'T runned after him, and chased him, but I couldn't ketch him." George was a fleet kid, you observe.
 What did you do with the money?" asked the judge.
 George hung his head, smiled slight ly, and replied: ''I spent 1t for candy"
 Next to George, in the court room, stands his father, a Lithuanian who cannot speak English. For this pur- pose an interpreter is at hand. Georges mother is dead, father and son board at a little one-horse house, but it is vacation time, and while the father works and earns a paltry amount at the stock yards, George IOdLu6 tue eAA0 A-AONS the citizens and the police. Vacation and leisure often hurt kids morals.
 Here the interpreter tells the father that the judge decides George shall go into the country; that the father must pay the farmer $2 a week for the boys board. Money is always thumbscrew to lax fathers, and they vince under the decision, but in this instance the father first pays back the dollar George pilfered, and then agrees to pay the board demanded.
 As the boy trots of, the judge makes the suggestion that the boy has not been kept as clean as he ought, and suggests that the kids ears need a bath.
 Many such parents cannot furnish the board money, and even when they promise to do so circumstances cause them to default. Here the Big Brother and Big Sister league steps in and helps. It has salaried man to escort George to a proper farm, to see that the board is paid, that George has the necessary cloth ing, and that he is brought back when school begins. When there are no parents, or they are too poor to shoulders the burden.
 Farm life has a civilizing influence. All that has been lost in the city is often gained amid waving wheat fields and beside running streams.
 Recently one father wrote thus to the court:
 .'T never want to see that fellow again"
 He referred to his son, eight years of age, who had been tried in court for delinquencies. who was placed on a farm, but who for some reason re- turned. The letter continued:
 'As far as the girl is concerned (Jo had a sister who had also been provided with a temporary home), I am willing to take her back any day when they get through with her, but never again that dirty thing of boy. as he is called"
 Jo, the young culprit, confessed that he had been untidy at home merely to get back to the farm. He was a second time placed with farm CA AS 4AdA CA6O8 AAA-g WAC4C AC OCN1LAO orderly, industrious and cleanly, and made good in every way. The Big I Brother and Big Sister league thus brought about a wholesome reform.
 There are cases of dependents in the juvenile court-minors for whom homes must be found-there are de linquents, who, because of the gravity of the offenses or because of frequent lapses from goodness, are trotted off summarily to corrective schools, but 1 there are leftover" boys and girls, who often become good men and women in the highways of life, mere ly by being given a second chance.
 A case like that of Johnnie Jones, | which came up in court the other day. ] is not difficult to handle, but there are others more intricate.
 Johnnie, little curly-headed quad room. stood before the judge with not a whit of penitence in his sallow boy 1sh face. His mother is colored and l