South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-01-02
JUDGES SENTENCE
Is HOME INSTEAD
OF REFORM SCHOOL
Records Unique Punishment,
Including Going to Bed
at 6:30.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-Curfew on
Christmas eve-and no presentsi
II sounds like a new puzzle or a
blue law, but It was actually the SEN
tence passed upon three mischievous
boys OF West Orange. y. J.
Recorder John i Lander is re-
sponsible for the unique rebuke TO
juvenile delinquency. The sentence
included bed at $50 every night. adm
very sharp $50 on the evening Of
Dec. "a And no stuffed stockings
or presents Of any sort!
Cruel and heartless Of the record
er is the superficial reaction upon
hearing Of the verdict
But is it heartless2 The mlschiev-
1 Gus three. purposely namely, since
their Nemesis doesn't want them
publicly impaired, committed de-
predations that might have put
them in a reformatory. and If they
were older. in Jail.
/ Enforce reform measures in the
/ home" Is Recorder Landers RENE
\ dy for hayward children. Instead
of making the niscreant go 10 the
! n eformatory, bring the refOrmatory
/ 70 the miscreant.
Discipline is not thereby offset by
new an devil association. Better 70
punished by father and mother
who are not apt during the process
TO teach the pickpocket business or
bond-snatching trade.
Better to stay home and crack
nuts over resentment than 70 Ian
guish in Teformatories, learn e
crack safes and become a graduate
guttersnipe
Gives His Reason
Many bows come before me foI
trivial offenses. But their pranks
often result seriously" says Record
er Lander.
They pull down the hook thai
summons the fire department. just
TO see the engines hurry by. They
knock down tailOr's signs that have
to be replaced If they get broken.
ION such charges as these boy:
can be sent TO the Parental Home
But I've always held that there
exists enough virtue and intelligence
on the part OF our parents in Yves
Orange TO enable them to aid the
court by bringing up their children
without polishing them off at a re
formatory.
Boys of a tender age always ge
a lot OF sympathy. Suppose They
were older-over sixteen-and com
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three boys I sentenced. They woulC
do time in jail 70 rit.
"Reformatories are damaging 4
the morals of the young and Z
their futures At an impresslonaDI,
age they meet older boys expert
enced in crime and are adept pupils
Il don't hold with such Ideas.
can't take boys away from GOO
homes and put them in correctional
institutions.
Il put the correctional idea in tn,
home instead.
I'm Newark they claim that
have no right TO put curfew' oil
boys and no call 20 try their cases
l hear they Will haul me into thei
court about II.
They can commit me TO an in
stitution If they like, but they won
commit li.tle boys!
Remembers Punishment
These kids burst out crying whei
told them they must go TO bed a
$50 every night, including-and es
pecially-Christmas Eve, and get n,
Christmas presents.
L may seem cruel" continued tn
Recorder, but / am that way TO b
kind. The idea came 70 me all of
sudden. I remembered my father
when l was a boy, long ago
am seventy-ope now stole an ap
pie from a mans orchard. My faith
er made me ask the owners pardon