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Show ipGE LINDSAY SAYS CHINESE BOY REALIZED TRUE CHRISTIAN SPIRIT DEXVEp. Colo., Dec., 22. (W) A recent , Christmas oxiierlence is mink' this year the outstanding " nislniiis for Judge Fen B. Lindsay the Denver juvenile court. "Tlie Christmas recollections of ' ii''s chilillinod are usually Identi-il Identi-il with the conventionalities of the ,.' a-istnuis season, and conveulional- J . like pUitltudcs, are oflen witb- !' t much meaning," Judge Lindsay 1 ''! 1 "Thcrefove,., I prefer to speak of recent .('Uristinas experience in ' juvenile and family court of Oliver. )(,,. 'Trccoiing . Christmas day. it is lr eustoi)i tp have n special nieet-f nieet-f of all,, .our boys who are on "hat Ion , to tli,. court to Impress !!'"i them-.the real meaning and Mt of Christinas. This group of probationers repented rep-ented about a dozen national-f national-f K Front my questions to tlie ! to bring out what they really ( 'lerstnod fj.oiu the lessons taught U mi, I found it was little .limuiy J 'in. the. ..'hinese Imy of 12, aiust whom parents and teachers 4 had warned . , their children because be-cause of his nationality, who appreciated ap-preciated the lesson of Christmas time. "It was Jimmy who said: 'Treat others as you would have them treat you.' And again, after our 10(1 polecat pol-ecat Christian Americans, had var ! iously .answered : Because the cop would get them,' or the'd 'gel a liekin' or 'go to jail' or 'the hot place if tliey didn't do right.' It was Jinunie Chin who answered, 'I'll do right because it is right.' "It was also Jimmy Chin vim answered my quest ion: 'Who should be your policeman?' by the response, 'Myself,' after all the others h id said 'llie cop.' 'the teacher,' 'the probation proba-tion officer' or 'dod.' "These were all good, average children, attending school and Snn-dnv Snn-dnv school, but it is significant that tho follower of Confucius should have been more ready with Christ inn answers than were tlie so-called t'ol lowers of Christ. "I think (here is more lo lie had from this mosl recent Chrisliuas story than from some less concrete, childhood remembrances." v |