Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-09
Chicago Judge Says Erlhg
Ones Must Behave or
Suffer
Men Forget Suspended Sen
fences and Seek Flow.
Ing Bowl
Believes Term 10 Cell VIII
Act As Good Home
Maker

Chicago, Nov. 8.-Husbands and faith
ers at liberty under suspended sentence
for non-support of their wives and chill
dren who fail to make The payments or
dered by the judge of the Juvenile Cour
Will have the usual workhouse Sentelce:
for such delinquency doubled, provided
their ailur to keep up the payments tt
their families due to drinking. Judge
Latimer said today, after a visit to the
Workhouse at Occoquan, that he had de.
termined on this course as the wisest on
to follow. la5f
1t has grownSto be rather a precedent
that a term Of six months be imposed
when the unfOrtunates who have hailed
IN their payments on account OF a whole
souled devotion to liquor are brought into
year have been Imposed. The judge says
his decision to lengthen the term is to
try to cure some of these men Of the
thirst for alcohol. Too often these men
have been given their liberty and a sec
ond chance 70 provide properly for their
TWO months of the six imposed by the
court, and generally they go back to
drinking within a very. short time.
Judge Latimer visited Occoqhan Satur-
Whitaker, superintendent ofeEthe work
house. The judge made a thorough in
epection of the institution, but the prin-
cipal reason for his visit was to deter
Hllie IL tHere was not some way. III WHICH
the reform of drunkards could be ac-
complished.
The families Of these men are often bet
ter provided for while the men are in the
workhouse than when the men are at
liberty, it is argued. The men work at
a large farm to be taken care of and a
great deal Of construction work going on
continually. For each days work that
they perform these dependent on them
rnnn$vvN Sn o1ynk a. =S~ ~, ,H-~~
than they get from the game men when
they are working elsewhere for higher
wages 1t is said.
While this longer sentence will be i'm
posed by Judge Latimer. in the future.
mates to regain their liberty before the
confidence in Mr.. whitaker" Judge Lat.
inner said; following. his visit, and I will
e. s"i men. by 4 his nv jd5udF WSi9aka in p raonris
that: in his opinion. one Of these men
has been really sured, of the drink habit. I
will parole him and suspend the remain
der Of his sentence"
Of a big brothers and sisters" organiza-
ton, for aiding in the care Of children
under probation at the court. They will
not In any sense take the Dlace of the
regular. probation officers of the court, but
will take charge of these charges after
need ADV and kindly companionship.
Each can take one child, and give a
little of his or her time to the very i'm
portant task of helping the chi . over
what may prove the greatest crisis in the
child's career. We hope to have enlisted
In this cause persons who will ADVISE,
see that the child gets the proper school,
ing and occasionally provide some whole-
some and healthful amusement for the boy
or girl under their care. In this way I
believe that such an organization will
prove to be the instrument for changing
a potential criminal or vagrant into a
useful citizen"
In a number Of the cities visited by
Judge Latimer on his tour of inspection
of the children's courts of the large cities
found some of these organizations in ex-