Show Power ewer o of Juvenile Judge JudgeS JudgeD DID D as ns arc are the tho recommendations for S SPLENDID remedial legislation made by Judge Ic I rosters o of the juvenile ju court in his annual report the public will bo more deeply desPy ly interested in his recital of the decrease in juvenile delinquency A childrens children's s court may bo be grinding busily throughout the year and yet et fail to accomplish the beneficial results for which it was designed such a n tribunal may be handling but fc foxy few C cases yet achieving illg a great Teat measure measure meas meas- ure of good Tho The method that reforms that seldom finds it necessary to deal twice with tho the same Bame youthful youth youth- ful offender is the the most successful and the tho report of Judge ge lief asters McMasters c asters shows that in this particular his bis court may mar congratulate 0 itself The Tho people also will add their felicitations Juvenile court work is easily tho the most important m of all tho the tribunals whose duty it is to punish or reclaim this for good or evil il is greatest Offenders arraigned before it are arc of tender years in the formative formative forma forma- tive tho period of their lives an untactful or unwise jurist may launch them upon a n. career of wrongdoing ing that no course of training in in after l life e could correct A judge who fully understands the thc human equation who wile can choose with intelligence whether he should punish so-erel so severely or exhibit unusual clemency clemency clemency clem clem- ency is rare and when found his contribution to the cause of humanity is equalled by that of none other The juvenile court judge must discriminate between be tween timely severity and sentimental clemency he ho must decide whether leniency can reach the thc sullen youth and the weeping girl more moro effectively than punishment Ho must gauge by his observation whether tho the kindly tone tono of a friend may inay accomplish more than the severe se castigation of one whom tho they I may be taught to fear The attitude ho he adopts is ismore ismore more moro pregnant with weal or woe than that of the higher tribunals when ho understands this to the full and puts his bis conclusions into practical opera tion he is is indeed of tho the proper stature Honest Difference of Opinion INFERENCES between tho the Department Deportment of D DIFFERENCES J Justice and the Union Pacific company concerning con con- corning the tho disposition of the tho Southern Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- stock owned by tho the other company are so vital ital that the public will approve o tho the plan to refer tho the matter to the United States Supreme court and pray pra for an immediate determination By Bythe Bytho Bytho tho the rece recent decision of the court on the Harriman t merger it was ordered that the tho Union Pacific immediately surrender its interests in the thc Southern South South- I ern Pacific The attorney general declares his failure fl to understand how these interests are abandoned if the stockholders of the Union Pacific are arc merely to absorb tho the Southern Pacific shares to the proper proportion of their holdings Such a transaction transaction transaction tion the government go declares would merely transfer the thc control from tho the Union Pacific corporation to its individual stockholders and the effect would be p practically the tho same flame as though the Harriman corporation still held it Attorney General Wickersham Wickersham Wickersham Wick- Wick is willing wining that Union Pacific stockholders I shall shaH ha have e their opportunity to bid for the stock at a sale salo if the shareholders of the Southern Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- be bc gi given cn an nn equal opportunity In his statement to the public the thc president ident of the tho Union Pacific holds that the method he ho proposes proposes proposes pro pro- poses has been followed b by the tho government go in the dissolution of other industrial combines It is quite true truc that the stock of the tho great Standard Standard Stand Stand- ard md Oil holding company was distributed among the thc stockholders of the subsidiary companies but butin butin butin in that instance the holding holding- concern ceased to exist Neither the Southern Pacific nor the Union Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- p passes out of existence by this transaction and must continue as competing lines it is doubtful doubtful doubtful doubt doubt- ful if they could do so if this great block of I stock in one company was held by stockholders of a n competitor The Thc conclusion that the United States Supreme court consider and adjudicate the matter without the delay that action by the thc lower courts would render inevitable seems just It is essential that the tho work of reorganization may proceed as rapidly as possible and for that reason it is hoped that the supreme court will concede an nn early announcement announcement announcement announce announce- ment of its determination z Will Dr Wilson Stand Pat ROM DR WILSONS WILSON'S announcement the day F FROM after the election that he be w would uld rece receive o at the White H House use all that came to see him to his most recent decision to abolish even tho the time hon ore ored l and traditional public receptions that have been the thc practice ever since Dolly Madison's time it itis itis itis is indeed a n far cry Yet the latest pronouncement will arouse approval rather than the storm of derision derision derision deri deri- sion that was evoked by the other Public life is a novelty to Dr Wilson the professor in a college or even cven the president of a uni university is not so sought b by the tho public as to g give ge e him a taste of the throngs that beset a n President of the United States Stales most of these thes desire only the privilege of gazing upon his august person at close range and who tremble with joy at the opportunity to grasp his flabby but authoritative authoritative au au- liand hand The President-elect President is a w wiser seir ind individual than he lie was six weeks ago The tons of mail matter that reached him even in off far-off Bermuda the tho Hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- that endeavored to get at him upon his recent appearance in New York the crow crowded ed trains that ca carry seekers office to Princeton all have combined to teach him that even the thc Democratic President of the tho most democratic nation in the world must assume as ns- sume sumo some of that divinity that doth hedge about a king Bearing great responsibilities tho the day daJ far too short for the tho demands his duties make mako upon them the President who has the courage to deny himself to the merely curious and to see only those who ho have vc J legitimate business to transact will thus carry more jauntily his burdens and render better service for those t to whom he is chief servant It is one of the queer quirks of human nature that persons who would hesitate to inflict themselves upon a busy minor official without sufficient reason do not hesitate hesitate hesitate hesi hesi- tate to demand audience with the busiest man in the thc nation The President-elect President has bas made a a. wise decision decision decision deci deci- sion but we wo fancy it will soon be reversed From the circumstances surrounding the shooting of Humm tho the French champagne manufacturer by byan byan byan an American woman one may deduce that neither was extra dry I A J |