THE JUVENILE COURT COURTW WHILE W lAY HI HILE iT IS TOO TOb Tbt EARth EARLY EARLY i to speak ak I positively about the work of f the th new flew Juvenile court presided over by b Judge Brown it is only fair to say that thus ihUs far the court has lias made madea a splendid Impression If It Judge Brown Bro n continues as he has begun there is lit littie littie tie doubt but that he will accomplish a vast deal o of He to have havethe havethe havethe the knack of handling th the youthful yo of offender offender fender impressing him without oppressing oppressing sing sins him and of instilling in the young breata a desire to do bettor better We ye note with satisfaction that Judge Brown Broll is making a sort of specialty of finding out where boys who drink Intoxicants purchase pu chase them thorn One Oe bar bartender bartender bartender tender has already been taken before the court and Is now under probation The police pollee officers have va never navar seemed to take the matter of g liquor to minors seriously ly enough They have not brought about the punishment of any finy offenders of ot this thus character though they have havelu mid had l wise case after atter case casa of drunk e S among boys bos s TO reply to criticisms they the have con confessed confes fes d an Inability to make out positive cases esses against the sellers of ol liquor Judge Brown s seems ms to have found the way The only possible criticism of his first firm official action n in a liquor selling case is the practical lack of punishment for the offender In is difficult to un understand understand understand how mitigating circumstances are in ill a s transaction tra like this thi but th the defend wit tt has evidently heen been given the of the doubt The Thenet next net time lime a saloon sAloan man Is caught sell selling leg ing y to a boy bay Judge Brown may maybe maybe maybe be depended upon to see that he is properly punished For llor our own part wa 6 w of few penalties too severe to inflict upon a n aman aman man who for tar the tise sake of a few cents cent would auld deliberately ly aid in fastening upon a n boy a ruinous habit a habit that might result In the childs con consignment consignment consignment to an early earh grave And the same thing is equally true of the sale sae of af tobacco and cigarettes to boys ba s The Thela law la w forbids such transactions the law provides es a penalty for those who so far overstep the iules roil as of decency as to engage in them tham th We Ve would rather forgive the boy who offends a hundred times over ocr than to toone once one forgive the man who offends for forthe forthe forthe the n man an is the tha guiltier party part