El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-01
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SALVATION
OF BOYS
Judge Lindsey Says Do Not
Mistake Brutality For
Firmness With kids. "
DENVER'S kid"
JUDGE" is HERE

one Of the first boys brought before
me was arrested for having en- eIe-
waited railroad in his back yard. It was
no crime to have a railroad there but
the car was soap box stolen from the
corner grocery and the rails were lum-
Der stolen from nearby lumber yard.
That is not the only railroad that
mas ever been stolen. Men nave stolen
railroads. But the boy got in jail. The
men who have stolen roads by watering
stock have almost got into the United
states senate and we have had a hard
JOB Keeping them out of the senate"
Ihis is typical Of the things that
judge Ben LindSev-''the bows Judge Of
Denver'-said in his lecture Tuesday
nlgst TO an audience that nlled the first
moor OF the Ell PasO theater. 1t was the
last OF course Of entertainment
offered during the winter and spring by
the FL PasO Woman's club.
AOur children are not safe unless
your nelghbor's child is safe" he de-
cared, by way of showing that il is
the uuty OF every parent not only TO
look after his or her own children. but
10 help take care of other peoples
children You haven't done your duty
10 your child until you do it by your
nelghbOr's child" he continued.
There IS good in all children-even
the pad ones are just as good as they
can be Mothers often encourage their
children to he-they don't think they
are doing so, but they are. NOuu hear
a mother say Willie didn't do it. I
Just know Willie didn't do it, and thus
Willie is encouraged to lie and saw he
didn't. If you'd be square with your
child you'd know how to get the truth
from him. a child is so truthful when
he is understood; get him alone. Fear
is the father Of lies. a boy will lie
when hs is afraid
Firmness Versus Brutality.
BE nrm, but remember there is a
difference between brutality and firm
ness; there IS danger in too much len
iency. too God help you when child
learns that IT is easy to get the best
Of you.
we shouldn't control children or
men by artificial restraint-unUil every
other means is exhausted. Teach a
boy in his own conscience TO do right 7
because il is right, because it is square (
viii come out on top and maybe if he (
follows this the first election he goes F
into he loses out; then he wonders If (
to be good always wins.
"Jails won't cure. jails are deterrent. !
but they are not cures. We forget the I
natural restraint TO impose the artifi- (
ciaL The force of sympathy. interest.
friendship love. are the re-
deeming things, you never can redeem
a child through violence.
Crooked Politics.
Crooked politics and vice control the I
cities of the country. injustice prevails
and countless thousands mourn because
men depend too much on artificial
restraint.
a child PLAYS harder because his in
crest is in it; a child viii work just
Is hard when his interest is in his
work, hence the public playground and
manual training in the schools.
1t has been said that skill IN
handling marble is as nothing com
Jared to skin in handling men The
BEST time OF handle man is when he
s young and plastic
what a child is. depends a good deal
IN what he eats You can't make q
rood citizen out Of an underfed kid
This is a great problem in the cities
many children have not enough to eat.
t was recently said that $4,000 children
iaily go to school in New YORK with
Tut breakfasts. and there was q great
Tue and cry; some people denied the
gures-said there were only so 600 Of
hem. Think of IT.
The mother problem IS another one Z
What are we going to do about the
hildren of widowed mothers, who have
o work at home all day, while the .
oys and girls run in the streets We
re going TO vote on a law in Colorado
Don TO keep these mothers at home /
nd pay them to tend to the kids-and .
{ is going to pass, too, for the women I
ote in Colorado.
Prisoners on Honor.
Ninety eight percent of the boys I (
ave had in my court turn out we'll
,uring my term OF office. besides the .
thousands I have released on parole. Z
have been forced TO commit $50 bows
nd men to the state institutions and
have never sent any Of them under