Show STUDENT LIFE ble lie is kept on the list for a few weeks more and still if he improves he is turned free again e with no court record or entry on a charge book against him If he does not improve the Judge meets with him privately and gives him a kindly talk and then if improvement does not follow he is sent to the detention home where he is required to go to his school and after school hours tell-tal- work This detention home is one of the most valuable requisites of a successful Juvenile Court system This home provides comfortable quarters for dependent or delinquent children where they are well fed and are made to work and get There have their school lessons been cases where boys have committed acts of “deviltry’ in order to get to the detention home where as one little fellow put it “things are better than home and the Judge skins the old man alive” At some homes the boys are taught the rudiments of a trade which increases the attractiveness of the place for a homeless boy Civilized society yet has an improvement to make when one of its “great unwashed tribe of boys” must do wrong in order to have a home or learn something useful Judge Lindsey has made his court the great protecting arm of Denver’s children He has had the Child Labor Law enforced the Tobacco and Liquor enactment stringently observed and upon more than one occasion has sen 145 tenced the parents of some of “his’ hoys to jail for suffering their children to openly violate the commonwealth’s laws He taught the boys of Denver that the juvenile Court is the best friend they have and not an enemy It is a happy thing to relate that the youngsters have realized this and Judge Lindsey is their idol As has been said before the “honor system” prevails throughout Judge Lindsey’s proceedings and it is a rare occurrence that his trust is violated The boys obey his commands without and the oversight of a “blue-coat- ” is what more may be said that they enjoy their associations with the Judge and his methods It must be kept in mind that what has been said regarding the boys may be said just as well about the girls for there are bad girls just the same as bad boys The Juvenile Courts deal with all kinds and grades of young citizens who need governmental attention In conclusion it may be said that the scope of employment of the juvenile court is unlimited that there are no set rules to govern its procedure as each case is taken on its own merits and according to its Properly peculiar environments in “courts” not are speaking they the ordinary sense of the word but rather artificial parents created for the purpose of looking after young Americans who need a guardian Since the scope and work of these courts is so great it follows that the directors of them must be wise discretionary men who can read |