The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-11-12
MORAL ANDF|NANCIALE ECONOMY
Many Officials of City Attend Dinner
Given by City Club at Which Well
Known Chicago Man Speaks in Place
of Judge Mary M. Bartelme.

The movement to secure a probation
officer to look after delinquents, both
boys and girls in Kenosha, was given
notable support at a luncheon of the
City Club held at the Elks club rooms
this afternoon at which Joel D. Hunter,
chief probation officer of the juvenile
court in Chicago was the principal
speaker. 1t was the most notable
meeting leld by the members of the
new organization among the women of
the city and they had as their guests
many of the prominent men of the city
who have shown a great interest in the
big problems of the boys and girls.
Covers were laid for sixty five at the
luncheon and Mrs. E. S. Jordan pre-
sided.
Mr.. Hunter spoke especially of the
work Of gh, court in Chicago and
showed the great moral and financial
value that this court had been to the
city Of Chicago. He emphasized the
fact that the functions of the Juvenile
court in Chicago was not so much to
punish the children for crime, but to
study the causes which brought. them
into the courts. He held that the crime
itself was only a question of jurisdic-
ton and that for the most part the
court was not interested in the amount
that the boy had stolen but rather in
the causes which led him to steal He
told of the great organization in Chi
cago to look after these delinquents,
of investigations Of the home life, the
school life, the employment and most
important of all the physical condition
of the boys and girls who were brought
into court for study. He spoke Of the
humane idea Of the court in seeking
rather to remove the cause of crime
than to punish fo- it. He showed that
an infinite greater protection was be-
ing afforded society by the removal of
causes of crime than by the punish
ment of the few boy ind girl Grimm
ais. In every case he urged that the
boy or girl was as much worthy
to consideration as was society.
heard in the juvenile court IN Chicago
during the past year and the handling
of this vast number of cases .gas made
possible only by the efficient work of
probation officers who We're able to lay
before the court the life history of
every boy and girl who was brought in
for trial
Mr.. Hunter spoke of the big problem
Of the delinquent girl and declared
that in most cases these victims were
much more sinned against than SHINING
and that they were properly the wards.
He made strong plea for friends y
for these girls and declared that one
roman who was real friend to an
erring girl could do more to bring her
into the right path of living than all
the institutions that a state and nation
could build. He spoke of The humanity
of the great problems of the work of
probation officers and asserted that the
problems that are being daily met in
Chicago were no different from the
problems which must be met in Ke-
nosha.
Mr.. Hunter showed heart interest
in his address and he showed that his
long association with this work had
made him an expert in telling Of it.
He declared that it had bee the his
tory of all these great movements that
they had been started by private enter
prise and that later the officials lad
been brought to see their value and had
adopted them as part Of the machin-
cry Of the government.
There were also several addresses by
Kenosha people.
At the luncheon a movement was
started to provide municipal Christ
mas tree for the children of the CITY
and Mrs. R. Ell. Welles was named as
chairman of committee of the CITY
club to cooperate with other organiza-
lions in the city in making arrange
ments for the big treat for the poor
children of the city.