Show Reforming Parents Through Children ren How the Reclamation Work of I the New York Juvenile Courts COlitis Is Carried On Cc 11 from Pare e 1 I. Magazine U 8 Section ton so 80 that it mil may well wen be realized tl that citizen saving is worth while when in seven years ears lives cs have ha been redeemed about redeemed about the number of ot men mon Servia placed In the tho field to fI hL Turks Turks and and all these from one ono municIpal I U ty Estimating roughly accord according to population if tho the same ratio were observed ed throughout the entire country couri- couri coun coun- tr try there would bo be an army of ot more than souls reclaimed from froni what t un until r recent t years t ha has been waste waslo material the material the same Bame material ma- ma that has filled penitentiaries and almshouses What hat the pauper and tho tIm criminal class cost the tho country a year eat c can n scarcely be computed ted In taxation alone alonet for courts and police the nation nation nation na na- na- na tion contributes between and arid The municipality of ot v New c York pa pays In the thc neighborhood of or annually for Its courts polIce and sheriffs sheriff's forces HOW IT 11 1 PAYS YS Ono One enterprising statistician has figured figured fig fig- that all l tOl told 3 tire the nation nUon pays p OUt a n day to the account of ot crime Add to this the tho cost ot or and nd it I Is patent that hat the elimination of or these vast expenditures through h tho the reclamation of children i Ia Is on ono of ot the tho livest issues of ot tho the day 10 Few people In Indeed ap appreciate that every evory one ono of thc these rescued youngster in time Hmo becomes becom to the com corn corn- Instead a it Is IK a a. drain too on the tt ot of f every I housewife Tho The corner Is forced to charge more for his produce because he must allow altow for Cor tho the bad ac accounts accounts uc- uc counts of ot the tho shiftless H class from which paupers ari and criminals are aro re recruited re- re Th The Tho butcher the baker haker and the candlestick mal maker junker cr must do like like- wise For any tny neglect of Its children the community pays pas dearly del The rhe encouraging ln feature of t the situation sit sit- Is Is' that t it is 15 as as' as easy to o rescue children a ns as it is Js hard to reform adults adult Practically all the tie wa wayward hO boys boya 8 and girls that h have ve comp under proper training have turned out w. w well wull ll says Justice Mayo It is not lair fair to class clas thom them ls' ls criminals delin delin- as they thc they are In tho tru true sense ot of the tho word yord It 1 Iii is natural for a healthy IJ boy to be bo and It if from lack lace of oC sufficient suf sue nt home horns discipline ho he gets goots in bud bad company compan on tho the streets he lie ma may inky go so MO far tar as to get arrested Once he liar hat been brought to se sos ses the error of ot his wa was vaNs s. s however Cr he is quick to appreciate ct ate the dangers of ot a n r relapse Of Ot course course Jn U zt tho great numbers of or children that have come corne before betor u us us a afew q few arc aro r really ally vicious but the thc percentage per lIer Is s so o small a as to ho bo hardly worth considering Practically all o ot th them m can be he ne with the single le ex exception exCeption exception ex- ex c cf ef tho the pickpocketS pickpocket I 1 have ha been told by hy the superintendent of our reformatory th that thit t there is hardly an cip instance on record of ot a real ref reform rm in this latter cla class claps B. B On t the e contrary cases casts havo have been known of successful business men who pickpockets in their youth could not in In after life lire resist an opportunity to lift urt a watch or a I purse There Is la little doubt I r believe that among th tile the sang n men inca of New york Vork there then are or i iTon 1 pickpockets who 10 ma make e a a. business of or children to rob roh For tho those thoo H who fall tall into their hands haud th thera I 11 is little hope Thin however is mero merely the exception exception tion that proves the rule For all other classes S of or delinquents delinquents- It is Js a moral certainty that If It taken In III tin tine c the they will turn out good citizens And as its s I 1 said before there thero I is for tor Ivory vory on one an association of ot some somo hint Kind merely awaiting an opportunity to give al aid J Last ast year r we VC pl placed our OUI dill dren dreir in tho the custody of or nearly nu fifty different homes and societies l' l I 1 A A most ins feature too I Is ir the interest taken in our wot work I iy by some sume of or our V Very city's s foremost wom women n. n r often orten I sec ace Mrs MrM Vanderbilt William WilliamO I K O In my In-my 01 courtroom and alilI when sho she I Ii I not there she is represented by Mr Mrs l f. f Madeline W W. l' l lan Evans an of ot tho the Big Sisters Sistels movement mo Mrs Ir Charles Dana nann Gibson Mrs Duryea Duren and anel others arc are 1 also frequently fre fre- in Iii attendance nc and take tako a n. real realand realand L and genuine Interest in iii iii thu girls brought before inc me Mr Mrs r William J K Vanderbilt Jr Is 18 tin nn active worker In lu close Chose touch With ith the ho work of or the he c ant aue and Mrs Irs Herman l n in is chairman of ot the tho Catholic Catholic- la ladles ladies les committee Such women are aro a 0 great reat Inspiration tion Lion both to children and parents They rhe I I I go go right into tho the humes homes nn an and Rive give hc practical practical tic h aid ail to those who arc are endeavoring enden to bettor belleI their ir lr c economic condition Parenthetically tlc JJ It mol may l ho be o remarked el that Mrs Vanderbilt toun founded ed the Big Sisters movement nt patterning It after the tile lil BI Brothers movement which has haa spread from Now New cw York to about tift fifty Am American rl h cities It In us but natural that the time reformation reforma tion of or girs gir's Is ta attended by br difficulties that do not al apply pl to bO boys 8 Quite often oCten It I la is y when whon it lt becomes noised about that a daughter ha tins been haled into the tho childrens children's court to assist h her r family tp to move inov to another I part art of or the city where the gossips will not Inter- Inter p tori with her efforts to m mend ud tier her Mils HEMS HEM'S who ins hall been actively active active- ly h is Mrs Ir assisting the tho lug WI Sisters Harr Whitney who was Gertrude Oertrude Got Ger trude Vand AH As Is wen well known she liar devoted a a. great deal of or her time to art ur more particularly to I 1 O Of late years rs sh she has hs ro regarded ar e ti tho childrens children's court as a recruiting round ground and has been glad lad to aid such Ruch of tho the juveniles s as showed talent along alon artistic artis artis- tic lines All AJl of or tho the Bi Big Sisters Indeed have ha lived up to their names When hen a girl Irl has hal no fit tit home the they find one for her If It her home Is not all It should be they I endeavor to Improve It b by material as assistance as- as I if It necessary I Other societies havo have not been backI backward backward back back- I ward In th the work vork of or homebuilding for forand forand and through h children Some Somo Idea of ot their character may b be he gained from a 1 partial list of at thorn thom as follows tollow American Ameri Amen can Female Guardians society Asylum of or the Sisters of ot St. St Dominick DominicI Colored Colore Orphan asylum Dominican Convent of Our OUI Lac Lady of ot die tIe Rosary Five Point House of Industry of oC Morel Mercy Hou House o of Good Shepherd Now York ork CIt City and arid Brooklyn House of Refuge Hebrew Infant asylum Hebrew Orphan Orphan Or Or- phan asylum asylum hebrew Sheltering Guar Guir dian l n society Institution of Mercy 1 anti and St. St Josephs Institution of Missionary Missionary Mis Mis- Slater Sisters of ot th the Third Order of or St. St Francis MIsSion of Qt Immaculate Vir 11 gin New ew York Yorio Catholic New ew Nework York ork Juvenile aH asylum Ium and so o on un un fo o the number of or forty n Not ot all ot of f these are ari represented In In- In In court but there thero Is IR al always cIl ai- ways trays present at least one Catholic andone and one Hebrew In addition to tr a 0 HIS Big Brother Brothel Broth Broth- er em and a a Big DIG Sister Sinter As to the court procedure Justice Mayo Uno saOno says saya Ono One thing I would a to emphasize ompha- ompha size Is la that ever every child brought me 01 is lEI represented b by counsel If Ie the par parents nt have e not iP J engaged ed an nn attorney there ls is a l kindly gentleman who in is ai- ai J Ways war Su In Vi court rt and ana who is invariably read l 1 to take an any ease caso that comes up til I T I h he occasionally gets a fee fec from parents who arc are able to pay but butta r I am am equally sure that he c w will l Put P up the e best fight fi that is 15 In him for tor a l youngster who cant can't give s him a R cent cent- Another point I would like hike to make Is that of or the juveniles ju convicted of ot petty pettI offenses a or vory few are subJected sub sub- to anything that might be bo called Imprisonment Ordinarily tho the delinquent delia delin quent I is merely merol assigned to an Institution lush lush- for tor his own Improvement ement or untIl until un un- un- un til his parents can be Induced and as assisted an- an to provide pro a xi suitable home for tor him huiri Once ho gets Into court you ou mo may he be certain that iii hilt hla future will bo well looked after arter How lion the thio cases are aro disposed ot of may be JulI Judged ed from a n report of or the work of ot tho the childrens children's courts courtR of oC Greater New York for tor 1911 as follows tollow of If children lisle MaJ l Fe Total Committal to reformatory cial I oIlier olber Institution rL iG 2 7 1 Committed In lu default of ot pta pv I ment of oC tiDe fire joi H umber Number of oC children released No o formal ernie ComplA complaints lor l taken CX Go 23 53 t. t 3 Acquitted nud sud N tO eo ra 63 13 3 33 On 4 after conviction rlou 2072 o O 70 iQ o 2142 HJ I od lol l hf f payment of or tin fine fIti 3 2 3 6 I Number ll of paroled Sentence usi after uner pro pro- r. r IJ J 3 6 I Committed 1 after r r- r vj On probation n 1 Igni I. 1 Ignition Lion tion j s SG iH Ca c p n iso ies st Total rota 1 1555 24 aa Number of ot parents ordered to pa pay for tor children I I ti ten co committed in nil t ted t to o i In Institutions us t I t u tI o n s. s week 1 O per week weel 2 2 per week 7 22 per week 7 2 per week 63 1 per week 1 per week seek 61 1 Iler hier w tc cic ek 19 1 per week ion 2 10 7 73 cents per week 3 50 cents cEntt per week wOE 2 25 cents cent per week 40 Total number of ot orders order to pay Of all th these e thousands thousand of oC children rE-n. rE virtually eVer every one had individual at at- at attention When aid ollI was WH needed b by young oun or ol old oid It forthcoming Virtually Vim Vir the he courts have o become clearing houses for family troubles and the tho sooner Fooner a wayward child gets into thorn thAm the better at off he lie and his family will be bc |