Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-01-28 | Page 4 | The Police Court Problem.

TIlE POLICE COURT COUnT l l. l After all aU the tho problem of ot the time police court can best be bo solved before it gets there That may sound like a a. paradox parado But Dut it is the tho simple truth Judge Bowman Dowman is making making- a stu study y of his work wod He realizes tho the significance significance significance cance of a a. bad element In society He knows knors tho the men who appear before him go entirely out of ot his lila hands pass from any corrective or reforming Influence And he Is wise enough to wish h he knew know better what to do There is the difference between en aman aman a aman man who doesn't want to be Instructed in instructed instructed In- In and the ono one Who who looks for fol Information There is no value in the former A man who doesn't know an anything can not learn anything The wise man grows wiser But Dut the tho trouble lies far tar back of ot th the police court It i is la found round In the youth Tho The mature man who cares nothing for the tho disgrace oC oS arres arres' or 01 the tho odium odum of ot punishment has little on which corrective corrective cor cor- cor- cor redeeming influences ma may work Ho is a human being but he heIs Is so Is-so so far as students student see see sec hopeless J. J There Thore Is nothing to appe appeal l to 11 no ito character on which to build Habit Habit- and habits havo hairo have taken him very far down The time to solve the police court cour problem Is long before tho the problem gets gots up to tho police court Nine Nine- tenths o of the mono mone money and effort do de- do- do voted to care caie of or boys bOs has I a good cf of- of feet tenths Nine of ot tho the caro care and money bestowed on the tho adult prisoner the puzzle of the police court is s wasted wasted utterly That Bible man mau was right who tolus toll tol told us to train up tho the child In the wo way he lie should go and when he lie Is old he will not depart from it It rt CO cost cons 8 J less ieee to save a 0 bo boy than tItan reform a 3 man The Tho problem Tho-problem problem la Is with the young oung Aro Are wo we as fiS a n elt city making tho the boat boa possible solution of ot that problem