Evening journal., 1912-12-10
TUESDAY DEC. 10. 1912.
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r r is not right that the judge of the Juvenile Court in
this city should without compensation II tho
court be worth having at all il should be placed upon
respectable footing and supported properly from tho
municipal treasury. Experience in other cities has
shown that such inferior courts, when properly
ducted do much good in community. To be effective
agencies for good, however they must be under the
direction Of persons who have not forgotten the days
when they themselves children, and committed in
mischeyous spirit most of the little msdemeanors that
committed by the boys girls Of today short
they be persons who the friends Of children
who venture beyond the line which divides the realms
of mischevousness and malciousness.
policeman who would arrest a boy for indulging in
the innocent pastlme of tossing a ball or playing
marbles in a public thoroughfare and thereby dis
grace the child for doing what he himself did when he
a child is enemy to society. The may be
said Of Juvenile court judge who would punish child
for indulgence in such pastimes, when, in the buit-up
sections of city, the streets the childrens only
easly-accessble play grounds. In other words.
policeman who does not sympathize with the natural
inclination of children to play and have a good time
their homes, is unfit to have anything do with
children in official capacity, and parents should re-
sent TO the utmost his Interference with the innocent
and heathful pleasures Of their boys and girls. They
should not submit for instant TO any terrorizing in
huence which he seek TO exercise children in
the neghborhood of his home in those sections of the
city which he covers when patrol The policeman
who knows his business is looked upon by law-abding
children their friend and protector and their
enemy and prosecutor.
BY the same token ii may be said that be a proper
Juvenile court judge, must have heart that is
overnowing with sympathy for boys and girls who
takes into account the chances that they had in fe
who is keen enough to distinguish between childish
mischief and malicious mischief and who rather would
child from disgrace than inhct upon Juvenile
delinquent. Tie should be a man who glories in
the small number OF brought before him. the
small number Of sentences he has found It necessary
impose He should follow the example OF Judge Lind
say. Of Denver, who is regarded friend and bene
factor by nearly all the children who are taken before
HIM That is because he has used everyday common
sense and human sympathy in dealing with the
Of children. He has the happy faculty OF mentally
placing himself in the childs place and asking himself
how he would like to be treated were he the child and
the child the Judge
man who possesses such faculties and who exer-
cses them for the public good, is certainly deserving
Of adequate compensation for his services Judge
Lattomus OF this city done good as the head
Of the Juvenile Court No doubt longer experience
viii enable him to do better work He never should
have been asked the work for nothing 1t speaks
well for his interest in the aims the court that he
has worked this long without compensation. The
people would be unjust to him to themselves were
they to oppose the present movement to make the
Office carry with it a reasonable salary In view Of
the fact however that in substantially one year and
half only $50 have been tried or an average
q less thans one day; doubt that the tax
payers will approve OF the building up of ai ex-
pensiye judicial establishment for the handling Of
Juvenile cases.