Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-05-01
JUDGE Lindsey HAS
FAITH IN CHILDREN
FUTURE GREATNESS OF NATION
LIES IN DEVELOPMENT
OF CHILD MIND
Noted Jurist Will Lecture at the Biiou
Theatre Tonight on the "Misfor.
tunes Of Mickey"

tunes Of Mickey"
Judge Ben B. Lindsey OF Denver,
! was an arrival at the state capital
Monday morning on No. 4-Judge
Lindsey will lecture this evening at
the Bijou theatre on The Misfor-
tunes of Mickey" He will tell sine
of his experiences at Denver and 9TH
err cities dealing with the boys OF the
street. He will tell why they do bad
things and why the bad things are
seen to be good when they are under
stood. He will show how rebellion is
misdiraction of loyalty, theft is a
misdirection of energy. and lying is
due to fear and a misdrection of the
; imagination. Judge Lindsey appears
here under the auspices of the lecture
course association and his lecture
will be one of the rarest treats ever
afforded residents of the capital city.
He should be greeted by capacity
house tonight.
! When one sees Judge Lindsey his
! first impression is that of a man of
fairly short stature and slender phys
ique with small black mustache and
certain repose of manner. But
when he observes him closer he notes
two piercing black eyes. from which
radiates kindness, a high. intellectual
forehead, and boundless reserve ener-
gy. Mention child to the eminent
jurist and there will be transform
alton. What the judge does not know
about children. about child life. child
psychology and the manner of dealing
with children, would not fill a very
large volume. AS he warns up to
his topic he fairly bubbles over with
enthusiasm. for he states in most EN-.
phatic terms. 1.-THE future greatness
Of this nation depends not on poll
ticians, nor on statesmen. but on the
proper development of the minds of
the children OF this nation
Said he: 81 am glad to see that
this state now has a juvenile court law
! This is a step in the right direction.
But the law is only one thing to be
considered in dealing with children.
1t is only means to an end, and there
are many other things far more i'm
portant than the Juvenile court law
which must be considered.
I'm the first place we must consider
the psychology of the child What
makes boy or girl lie: What makes
children do wrong? Did you ever
stop to reason this out? There's a
reason for it. Why is it that we say
a child who lies, or steals, or throws
rocks through windows, or does other
things like that is bad? These acts
are all governed by certain laws. Did
it ever occur to you why boys just
out of school throw snow balls at men
passing by! There's reason for all
these acts, and we know some of these
reasons.
I'm the first place we must consider
the school system itself. This is one
of the reasons boys and girls are bad.
For the school generally speaking. is
Jail to the boys and girls under II
years of age Eneley is suppressed
and repressed and is not allowed to
flow naturally. Put child at desk
for five hours and at the ned of that
time his pent up energy comes out
like steam and he will do all sorts of
things. Some of these things we call
wrong, and we say that that boy or
that girl is bad and will make bad
citizen. You never hear of juvenile
lawlessness in Japan. 1t is absolutely
unheard of there. But the Japanese
school children are not nailed down to
the floor. They are allowed to talk and
to whisper and to wiggle and to giggle,
and their giggling and wiggling is not
looked on as a crime in the school
Their energy is allowed to flow natur-
flow naturally as it should.
1--WE have to repeal the present laws
of the school ROOM not the laws of
the statute books. Some day we will
understand this. We must allow the
child's soul and body and mind to de-
velop naturally, and must not put the
boy and girl in clamp like Chinese
woman's foot. The hope of the nation
is in the proper development of the
mind of the child. Therefore the
future greatness of the nation rests
with the parents and the teachers-not
with the politicians, or with the states
men of the nation.
Another thing which we must con-
slider is lawlessness among men-men
who disregard the law and who show
disrespect for the rights of others.
Children are natural imitators and un-