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Show One Idea of Justice. . (Brooklyn1 Eagle.) The youngster had got hold of a newspaper, news-paper, and it just naturally happened that the first thing to ca'tch his eye was an account of a crime. The offender, it said, had been traced to a certain neighborhood, neighbor-hood, where all track of him had been lost. "I wouldn't like 'to live there," said the youngster. "Why not?" asked the father. "Would you be afraid of meeting him?" "Oh. no." answered the youngster, "but I wouldn't want to be locked up." "Whv should you be locked up?" "Why, they krow that somebody in that neighborhood did it, don't they?" - "Certainly." ' "Then., of course, they'll lock up everybody every-body there until they find out who it la." - The father laughed. "You have strange Ideas of justice," he said. "They've got to find the right one and lock him up. They can't lock up everybody who lives in the same district." dis-trict." "They can't?" "Certainly not. That would be unjust and against the law." "Say!" said the youngster. "I wish somebody would come over to our school and say that." "Why?" " 'Cause what ain't fair for grown-up people oughtn't to be fair for boys." "Of course not." "Well, when our teacher can't find out who's been playing tricks she keeps the whole room after school, and sometimes it looks to me like it doesn't pay to be good." The father went back to his paper with some new thoughts relative to methods of school discipline. Justice to the child is even more important than justice to the man. |