The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-19


 Daddy George, founder of the fa- nous George Junior Republic at Free vile, N. r., has new scheme for mak- ing citizens-the Junior Municipality. If the plan spreads in the way it has already started there will be in every mayor and complete set of city of1- ciaIs in addition to the grown up ones Only the junior officials may not all be boys for already, in the i. fst Junior Municipality, there are in dicati of lively struggle on the question of Votes for Girls
 The Junior Municipality is no toy; it is organized for serious work Each junior official is to cooperate with the corresponding adult officer in the enforcement Of all laws and ordinances particularly those affecting boys and girls and their interests. The new plan is already launched in Ithaca, N. r.. where it has been officially adopted by Mayor Reamer and the City coun- cil. Another Junior Municipality has been established by MT. George in Cortland, N Y.. and Mayor Pagan of Jersey City has enthusiastically asked that one be started there along poets to adapt the idea to the larger cities.
 At the meeting of the Ithaca Com mon Council, when the plan was adopted Mir. George Illustrated con- creteIy how it would work out in practice. He did sof by taking up some of the matters which had just come before the meeting. Young van- dals had overturned and defaced some grave stones in one of the. cemeter- -ies The police had been unable to locate the cu1prits. MT. George point ed out that boys could best be Inter ested in the preservation of order by ex4xx of litv. A question had arisen as to whether the trains at a certain railway cross ing were unduIy obstructing traffic. No one knew just how many trains passed this point in a given time. There was no inspector nor money to pay for one. The councilman from the district was called up but he pleaded thai he was too busy. MT. George sug- eested that there were scores of boys in the district who had the time and would be glad to make the count. Such a matter could be turned over to his boy colleague by the 1ocaP council man.
 When the Junior Municipality was started there gathered in the Ithaca court house nearly a. hundred boys anc girls, the mayor and other city ofh- cials and Mir George. A committed was elected to prepare a constitution to bring before a constitutional con vantion to be held in the autumn At the close of the meeting represen tative boys and girls signed the fol lowing:
 PETITION FOR INDEPENDENCE
 we, the undersigned, being th' youth of Ithaca, N. F., between th' ages of sixteen and twenty-one. d. respectfully call to the attention O. our elders that, although not of age we nevertheless feel we have reached | the point where we could and should actively participate in the governmen of our city
 we respectively call attention tt | the fact that in time of war boy between the ages of sixteen and twen | ty-one are sent to the front to hgh | for their country and are frequent! as officers placed in positions of pc cl1liar responsibility and danger. IS l not self-evident that if youths cal thus honorab1y acquit themselves Il time of war, they could and should assume the less dangerous and oner l ous responsibilities of peace? | 'ewe find in the annals of h1stor! that from tin1e inamemroial youths | our age have, when placed in position l of trust, acquitted themselves credit ably. Before the age sof twenty-on