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Show I JUDGE TALKS ON BIG" BROTHER MOVEMENT rroi P. Judge J. A. Howell addressed the p0 Sunday Night club last night in the q. Guild hall of the Church of the Good uij! Shepherd on the subject of the "Ri ean Brother Movement." This movement was started in New York it by t Ernest K. Coulter, clerk of the Ju ttfe venile court, in 1904 and has since attf spread all over the country'. Judge telis Howell stated, and its purpose is tb'- saving of the youth. The judge is i ll the chairman of a local committee rtsK- of ElkB. appointed at the recent na- gfl tlonal convention at Denver, to intro- n n- duce the Big Brother movement 1n iW Ogden. Concerning it, in part h ptr- said: b;; "When the future historian trace tut? UeVOIUyiUBUl Ul mr- mil gjgj undoubtedly say that the greatest ad jt. ance made in the administration of ilol justice in the Iuhi year? of the cen- pr, tun thai is part nud the bouinnins nml2 l'lc present, was the creation of juvenile courts, and the institution of a special judicial method of handling han-dling the cases of juvenile offenders. "The prime purpose of such courts and the laws appertaining llxn-'o was that a child who had broken some law, either of the state or the municipality, should not be n gardt d 3b a criminal, tried as such and pun . d lshed by fine or imprisonment The act which the Child had done and T which, if done by an adult, would have cons' ituted a crime was to be ;7 looked upon slrnpl as beurinu on tlv hi" I status of the child, as evidentiary of the delinquency or dependency of the child, as bearing upon the question as to whether or not the state, in loco parentis, ought to step in and exer else parental care over the child. The idea actuating tho&e who advocated the change was that the system would be preventative rather than punitive, looking to the future of the child, rather than his past. "No matter how kindly the judge's lecture, no matter how friendly the probation officer's supervision. the juvenile court boy felt that they represented rep-resented the state, even though they sought also to represent him. that tin tate the body politic, the world, was against him and be In turn must be against them all Now again re-membering re-membering back to the time you were boys and were the recipient of the parental whipping and scolding or surveillance, were not perhaps some of you fortunate enough to have an elder brother, whose outlook uion life was similar to yours, who sympathized sym-pathized with you in your difficulties, in your little troubles, which seemed at the time1 so big to you, whose heart entered Into yours, whose honeyed words of comfort removed your resent re-sent ment, and guided you on the upward up-ward way toward right thinking and right living? Start of Mov'tment "But all boys who arc In trouble have not such elder or big brothers and it was to create such a big brother out of you my brother, that this movement was started One of the little brothers who had thus suddenly sud-denly found that In adversity he had a big brother, defined him in thes words- "He's a feller wot knows all about yer. an' likes yer jest the same." and all unconsciously thin little lit-tle fellow uncovered the dynamic force of this movement. "The movement is simple in Its op eration. It is bound neither by rule nor by lines. Its fundamental provision pro-vision is Kindness which, when exer cised by the Big Brother, brings the Little Brother In touch with the fact thai he is not an outcast and that the world Is not so harsh as his previous pre-vious experience may have led him to believe The Big Brother is not an officer of the law. He Is an officer of Humanity, Hu-manity, of Charity, of Good Citizenship Citizen-ship and of Kindness. The street gamin is to him a Little Brother. The Big Brother, especially in cases of boys who have been discharged Irom some correctional institution, takes note of the Little Brother. Beeks his acquaintanceship, encourages him is kind to him and by kindness leads him from evil ways to a higher standard of morality and to good i citizenship. But what concerns us more par cularly hero tonight is. what shall I '. done In Ogden to forward that, movement? In the first place, the committee of the local lodge which has the matter in charge proposes to carry into practice here the Ham-mum! Ham-mum! plan with respect to boys that 'ire brought before the juvenile couii and to earn,' Into practice the plan outlined by the committee of the rrnid lodge with respect to boys that nia lie discharged from the Indus trial school But the committee be lb ve that there is a larger duty im posed upon us in Ogden than this, that we should not simply content oursidves with taking care of the so ( ill- d bad boys, boys who are about to be brought before the courts or have already been disposed of by the courts but c believe that we should also deote our energies to helping all the boys of this community and we want 'o launch here this evening a more omprehensive plan than has ever been suggested in this movement move-ment before, we want to launch the idea ol establishing here In Ogden a home or a club for all boys of the community, a place where the boys of our city and Its surrounding coun-tr coun-tr can go for healthy physical exer-cise exer-cise under the best possible instruction, instruc-tion, including a gymnasium with proper equipment, including swimming swim-ming pools, a placo where the boys i n go tor amusement under Ideal . md it Ions, where they can learn about the various vocations that they may follow in life, where they can learn about better living and better citisenshlp, where they can learn the ideals for which all men who are i Dilated under the banner of fraler nlty stand, a love of their fellow i reatures and, if you please, lor that God who is the father of us all "Although Ogden is a city which we boast of as having over 30,000 inhabitants, there is no Y. M C. A. ben--, nor anv huihliin- in whirli hnvti i .in obtain thai which is uBuall) ob i tim d at a Y. M (' A but we hould hi;.' to see established in this city an organization which should do the same work done by a Y.. M C. A, but upon a broader plan and upon surer i on uilatlons, undestricted by any sort i eUirian control an organization In which every boy of whatever faith or condition of life may teel free to join We have now clubs and homes for the men of the community and even for tie- women and shall we not 1 ave -nt h an institution for our boys, who are to be tin men of tomorrow'' I or they are bo lal beings Just the as men and v. omen, and just as th 1 1 should be a community life for men and women ther should bo a I community life for boys, yea, for the girls "I know that It may Beom a somo-what somo-what lofty ambition for this committee commit-tee to undertake this work. It means a tremendous amount of work B means the expenditure of large sums of money, it may take years to accomplish ac-complish it, but the Ideal Is a worthy one and we believe that the men who constitute tho membership of the local lo-cal lodge ot Elks are men of whom It may be said that what they dare to dream of they dare to do, and we believe that In such a work as this they have the right to ask the aid of the entire community.'' oo |
