Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-10-24

IN the Chicago juvenile court .
small, blonde. fat-faced boy was
accused Of having twisted the
wrist Of . little girl, and taken
from It the dollar with which the
mother had sent her to the grocery.
I'D you Do that, 0sorgs?" asked
he Judge.
oeorgs confessed that he had.
AID. Mary. what did you DOT"
asked The Judge. turning to the little
Odyl
4 ruined after him, and chased
hin, but I couldn't kstch him." George
was . dest lid. you observe.
What did you do with the money!"
asked the Judge.
George hung his head, smiled slight
u. and replied: Il spent It for candy"
Next to George. in the court room.
stands his father. . Lithuanian who
cannot speak English. For this pur-
pose an Interpreter 10 at hand.
Georges mother IL dead. father and
son board ct little one-horse house.
but 1t IL vacation time. and while the
father works and earns . paltry
amount at the stock yards, George
roams the neighborhood and worries
the citisens and the police. Vacation
and leisure often hurt . kids morals.
Here the Interpreter tells the father
that the Judge decides George shall
20 Into tho country; that the father
must pay the farmer - = week for
the boys board. Money 10 always =
thumbscrew to lax fathers. and they
vince under the decision, but in this
instance the father frst pays back the
dollar George pilfsrsd. and then
agrees to pay the board demanded.
A the boz trots OF. the Judge makes
the suggestion that the boy has not
bsen kept % clean - he ought. and
suggests that the kids ears nesd .
bath.
Many such parents cannot furnish
the board money. and even whom
they promise to do 30 circumstances
cause them 30 default Here the
Big Brother and Big Sister league
steps In and helps. 1t has = salarisd
man to escort George to = proper
farm. to see that the board 10 paid.
that George has the necessary cloth
ing. and that he 10 brought back
whom school begins. When there are
no parents, or they are too poor to
assume these expenses. the league
shoulders the burden.
Farm life has Z civilising influence.
All that has been lost In the city IL
often gained amid waving wheat fields
and beside running streams.
Recently one father wrote thus to
the court:
Il never want to see that fellow
again.
He referred to his son. eight years
Of age. who had been tried In court
for delinquenciss. who was placed on
q farm. but who for some reason re-
turned. Tho letter continued:
As far d the girl Is concerned
10 had = sister who had also been
provided with = temporary home). I
am willing 10 take her back any day
whom they rot through with her. but
never again that dirty thing Of boy.
- he 10 called"
10. the young culprit, confessed
that hs had been untidy at home
merely to got back to tho farm. He
was . second time placed with farm
o. .. Narengo. ILL.,. where he became
orderly. industrious and clearly, and
made good in every way. The Big
Brother and Big Sister league thus
brought about . 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 offences or because of frequent
lapsss from goodness. are trotted on
summarily to corrective schools, but
thsrs are leftover" boys and girls,
who often become good men and
women in the highways Of life. mere
y BY being given q second chance.
A case like that Of Johnnie Jones,
which came up In court the other day.
% not dimcult to handle, but there are
others moro intricate.
Johnnie. little curly-hsadsd Quad-
room, stood before the Judge with not
. whit Of psnitence In his sallow boy
II fAeA His mother u eeloFeA I'D