The chronicle=news., 1914-08-24
DR.. ORNE TALKS
At MEETING
Of CITIZENS

in Trim dad of detention home for
the care of delinquent boys and girls
in which matter he seeks the cooper
alton of the city counciiand county
commissioners, DR.. A. S. Ornc yester-
day afternoon addressed an audience
of Trinidad people who are interest,"
ed in the welfare movement. DR..
Orne spoke for one hour presenting
his ideas and relating his experience
es In relation to the juvenile court
work and the safeguarding OF chill
dren, emphasizing the point that the
juvenile court and properly conduct
ed detention homes and Industrial
schools are the means of saving
thousands of wayward boys and girls
every year from becoming criminals
by keeping them from the poor hous-
es and prisons which are training
schools for criminals.
| DE-. Orne. was received with much
en- thlisiasm and has consented to ad-
dress the Spanish people Tuesday
night at their church. Today he will
inspect the San Rafael hospital. Mrs.
Orne talked on the white slave traf-
fic and pointing its menace to the
home. Both lecturers manifested the
wide range of study and experience
of DR.. and Mrs. Ornc, who have de-
voted their lives to this Christian
work. Dr. Orne said in part:
"The trouble with the American
people today is they magnify the
dirty, defeated, devils, dOpes and do
ings, and are being driven to sin.
sickness and sorrow: hell here and
hell hereafter. and minify the con-
Quering Christ. who leads by love
heaven-hieh, hell-decp. humanity
broad, whosoever will, eternity long;
God loves you still to holiness.
health. happiness, heaven, here and
thereafter.
Again. the American people have
made the fool and fatal mistake Lot
did; moving to town. booming.
boosting and building big cities. and
educating their children with view
only of getting n profession to gain
a position and grab possessions with
out work. Hence. American pare"ts
have become so sinful, sickly Ind
sentimental, they have spared the
rod and spoiled the child, and scarce
lily shed n tear when society finishes
them failure in the home.
believe God knew what He was
doing when He created man and wo-
man: told. them to multiply and re-
plenish the earth, that to constitute
home, and home to safeguard civil
ization. Failing to follow divine di-
rection. Deuteronomy, 11:lS, 10, 90
l21, has filled our otherwise fair land
with charitable and correctional in
stitutions.
Every mayor and chief of police
we have met. have said, welcome,
DR.. and Mrs. Orne, to our city; for
we recognize and realize that some
thing must be done speedily to reach
and rescue the boys and girls. with
emphasis on the girls, off the streets
and out of sinful surroundings,
where their course cannot be other
than criminal.
Ninety Der cent of the 5000, ,00C
lprodiSal sons commonly called
tramps, and NINETY per cent of the
$4,000, 900 prodigal daughters whom
we have met personally. claimed to
have come from Christian homes. \
The matron of n girls home in
Dallas, Texas, said recently at a
Methodist conference in Fort Worth,
Texas, cover $4,000 young women
are being claimed every year for the
scarlet life, and our church is stand
ing idly by apparently happy in its
ignorance of that which happens to
girls after they leave our institu-
tions. We are accomplishing only
half of the noble work of redeeming
fallen girls. We are caring for them
in our institutions. and after declar
ing them safe and filled with the
spirit of God. we turn them out to
go, God knows where"
Our murder rate scandalizes Chris
tendon. More crime committed in
Chicago annually than any other ten
nations. barring Russia. There were
81 murderers awaiting death in the
chair in New York last July: 200
murderers were put in prison in 1907
as against 1000 in 1887. Our GRIM
inals have increased 75 per cent in
the past ten years while our popula-
tion has only increased 2l per. cent
during the same period: 5000 sui
cides IN 1911. and America pays out
annually $1,000, 100000 moro to
punish crime than to press every
branch of religious, philanthropic,
educational and humane work.
The complacent old explanation
that this is due tc an influx of aliens
has been largely exploded. In look
ing about for some soundcr eXplana-
ton, the retiring president of the
American Institute of Criminal Law
and Criminology, mentioned the
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