Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-30
JUVENILE COURT SEEKS
AID OF BIG BROTHERS"
TWO Boys Are in Need of Funds
to Attend School in
Mountains.
INSTANCES FROM DAILY DOCKET
court Officers Tell Of Boys I'm Trouble
who Never Had Chnnce-Pro-
baton Workers Appeal for Assist
ance In Meeting Problem.

In New York some years ago Il man
VINO mad leisure to give thought TO the
httle fellow who occasionally took
WHAT ne dared not ask for started
mo biS Brother" movement. II was
the big brothers." duty TO help the
tI'''e boy who had never had n chance
10 stand sponsor for him when his
NATURAL procl:vi'ies got him into po-
nee Court: I'm way to be a god
father to him e
nat movement spread until hun
arcds OF men In New York took tho
big brothers. part and gave a helnin,,
i ana TO the lad Of the street The
Iu:a mas begun in Richmond and ..
school Tor the maynard and unfortu-
nate urchin has been started in the
,a ear. OF me virginia mountains. It
tikeH only 400 TO pay for "A scholar
snip, emitting boy to tuition and
bonrd ut the school as long AS Il NAV
be necessary for him to remain there.
and $40 Il month viii cover tnar .,,,i
tuition '
The need for this big Rrotbor"
movement has been exemplified many
times In the Juvenile Court of Rich
mond. II was only recently thu, :,
t"ciVe-year-ol boy was brough, into
the court on charge OF larceny He
was the eldest of three children. and
mis- mother was widow. on her plea
ana nor assurance that the boy would
DC sent TO relatives IN the country. an
other chance was given him. The
mother married again, and the second
marriage was n mistake. She had 10
return TO her work in the factory and
me boy went back 10 the streets lie
ieH among evil companions and he
saw things he desired. and had not the
m u,,h 10 phy Tor. II was a question
with the Judge whether TO send him
BACK to his home and TO the same
temptation. II is e question which a
big brother" may answer
ANOTHER INSTANCE WHERE:
"BTG BROTHER" NIGHT HELP
mere was the case Of another boy
thirteen years old who was halcd into
court on a charge OF houscbr.nklup
ana larceny. The Judge was not sa,is-
red with merely hearing the evidence
against tho boz. He wanted to know
why the boy had done this thing. SO
INC case was continued. and the pro-
baton officer was Instructed 10 n,d
Sut All he could about the boys lie
and his upbrinEing. and the circurn
stances which led him To break i'm and
steal
lie found that the boys father was
ia an asylum and that his mother had
been loft with family OF i've chill
nren. OF whom Harry is next to the
cidest He had worked hard and suf-
Tered. as his cmaciated form showed:
"ui he had had none Of the pleasures
81 childhood: lie had had no play
'hihcS say" those he stole. ~ WAS =
question with the judge whether he
could doom such a boy TO q reforma-
tory. II was only natural that he
sn"uld play som. times ana that he
should have things to play with There
Was none To give him, the littl. things
nc desired, and lie helped himself when
n" could. 10 others plenty
For these the probation officers Of
The Juvenile Court ask the big
BROTHERS help. For these TWO cases
III. Juvenile Court officers ask con-
tTibutions 10 scholarships at q sui,a-
Elc school