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Show TP?UT TI NG THE BAD BOY UND L K A MICROSCOPE Gjff FTER Having Cared for tyrl 700,000 Children, the Society s SStffor the Prevention of Cruelty '? xflto Children Has Created a New Department Scientifi- cally to Search Out the Weak-' Weak-' nesses or Disorders Thar Are Blamed for the Generation of s, Weakness, Viciousness and Crime. The society hns no plan for reforming children by surgery. At least, not literally. The new department depart-ment ex)o ts to plod alone the path It has marked out for Itself with tho dogged pershte u e that In required for the attainment of nil Important ends. The result may be observable la a short time or not for many year. They mny be In accord with what has been Seamed already or may niTord startling disclosures hitherto untnown to the experienced workers In these ne'rls The society cherishes no expectations of speedy returns for new endeavor. Patience, accu-racy accu-racy and unrcrolttlug enforcement of remedial agencies agen-cies are Its watch word, and Its emblem is not the scalpel, aj has been supposed, but the Investigating Instruments of the scientist. It Li true that at tlme surgical operations may be recommended, although Superintendent Thomas D. Walsb, who has been connected with the society for UJ MICROSCOPE I y aN A FTER Having Cared for The society has no plan for reforming children by ' , lV'wVx' 'V$Y LA -711 nnr rL'1J iL C "W:ry. At least, not literally. The new depart- WZZ7ffi7 ' &&0fiS& "JkW v HMA 700,000 Children, the OOCtety meat tets to pIch! along the path It has marked out VsffiA$ . . yyyy &r$$ffl J$VJv' ' &?335V ,t r t; ti for itself w ith tho dogged persistence that I required Vi-m'l 54 Jj iF'0r ne Prevention Of Cruelty for the attainment of all Important end,. The result livMs-' W!iPstV&tJ ' VyyrC. Si 5 VZf,X LffNi 4 ft 'tJ 7-o f-A ., may be observable la a short time or not for m.mv IJmt W CnildrCn treated a .,art. Thoy may be In accort with what h.. beeo Afew Department Scientifi- aTdy I y nrrord tart,,nK vsKsy? hitherto unknown to the experienced w-orkers In these J&fttk ' cav to Sedrc? Oaf tfze lfea Th" M? no expectation, ot VW V$55iiV 4tty?( I Vth T V t- fcVj.'A speedy returns for new endeavor. ratl;nee, hccu- n7--A1 T TVT C WPi rv''V neSSeS Or DiSOrderS That Ate " aul unreralttlup enforcement of remedial accn- ct tnJli? Uy: FkTK' Tt,?(v'-t,;x , ii f ? clc-s nre l,s watcD 'ordo, and Its emblem is not the f , ffi'KVJ&lll ?4 K?&MfP"&K Blamed tOr the UeneratlOn Of scalpel, a has been supposed, but the Investigating tS, tfy t&J r,r T' J Instmm. n.s of the scientist, 1 81 '-I XWvuwSll Weakness, Viciousness and n l, tm, that at tio icai operations ,ay be SwjSjl f f Cil,y ySKiVfV iV-'' " ' rfommeridM!. althontrh Supf-rln tenant Tlioiuai D. i iJf " fS'm-K fi fnij&$$ Hfe'M rime. WaL-b. wbo has beii connwted with the seMy for frrfUcht. 1010. bj the Sw York Herald Co. All right r-wrrod.) . t v -SA -. ' " "Vt ' ''' -. v f "J-- , 'V ' TrH i 5- , r- v-'-. ' j . . . new yokk. Saturday. When Eleven Years Old He Was I VERY delinquent child In New York city Is to rharmH ,;.h c.r d . .u , 1 ..n.f j-. Wail 1 'be carefully, thorough!, ami lentMooll, 4lCa,'nS? 3 Pockcthook I analyzed, ii, is. as it wcr. ... be piucM un- from a Woman in the Street -K: y Awa,t,ne Tr,al ,n thc Chtldren's I dr a microscope. Hi ancestry is to be ex- J -''- ' 4'v rV-----'x Court amlned and conclusions ure to be drawn as to V TiC" hU progeny. VV""'- V i 'WJ C . All this is in th elTort to discover whether the jure- J I - J&('-- 1 'fwr-"-- Uilo dellquent is a hereditary criminal; whether he i yj l'Ys? -A VS-r T the result of environment nr the product of a meotal . ff.K' WA s'"' " "r " or nervous condition which Is roncenlt.H and which , ; j J '''tf'S&i-' ba transmitted to him tendencies whU-h render him l'y y L '' dllllcult. of control and wpparently without moral JtM'Sx i''i The Society for the Prevention of PrueJty to Cbil- JWj' ' 'iyifCV " dwi Irt at work on the delinquent now. and Its new depurtmoot of psychiatry and neuroU.py will search I ''-2!$ out with an exa.-t eye Oie weaknesses or dlsoM. rs - fa ffifci that are Warned f.r the aeration of crime and weak- j''SM ' . SMW The rhty ha cared for 7N).fKiO children tlnrins jK KJ nSHttik Its exlstenec of thirty-live years. Every child In lli y&' fffl j J3. ''''pJZ AS'L city who hnfl become sutliciently delinquent to be tip- rit . yjyil'I J VV I yys ' prehended as a violator of the law hns been under Its ..JcJl yj (t-iX ' wTV11"'-- it- " V' '::N.VsS care from time to time. The eases of nearly fifty -J jWS Si W2?Jc Z. thousand children were consldcreil loPt year. Thus -vK Sj v V4''f'fk ' L 1 the society In the imtural course of its business -iiSt'' Jyftf w-f y sweeps Into Its headquarters all children who In any ' ""T; 1 Jtysffi&H. tyn rfi ' f y Jyzf'-y J circumstances would be proper Kubject of sin-h In- li---"'; C'UK yVi'iLT julry, auil nsaln In the nalurul trend of its affairs ob- --v --f ' i SjiC xVfL 'fj3 If BTt- "Sr'V Ken-es their development, tor a few year at leat. JLJ) WISPS. , J It record.s have been so precisely and so fully kept VVnS, 3y &gfc- j4&. AlJ fc.r many year that they are constantly tn the ser- V " " "lff 1 u&7?3? X vlee of the court when informiitlon touching on par- Ni jKr'Wvl v. '5 :'' 11 1 ZH tlrulnr eawe I required Therefore the roolcty neel I v k1 l&&f only to call science to It aid in the patherlnsr of these XwW r' Btatistics to become a perfectly equipped bureau of ,.Ni. , A iVl Lt-&v WVf fcjtU'ZJf I , the utmost i.nr-rtance to all who arc interested in 'iSil i K&ffi&M) ! improving U,rncc. ftfv Wffiii ' Ir. M. G. Srblapp. of the Cornell University Medl 1 1 Til 1 A ywmffi W cal School. Is the bead of the new department. VwV Ml ) fa? f 1 hWl cord the iDformaUon pathered about the child's an- 1 ' "I'M I cosiry. Symbol are lo he used to indU ate norrnvil an- Va?ffi i r-f7 BijiJ- ffftft ' t! l re try aieoho, op..esy ; bor,diur, - His Mother Is a Bum and Goes with W Iffifey . VKiW0ft.c julred imbecility, Insanity, hereditary blind no, a-:- 1 ' ' ill n juired blindness, tuberculosis, hereditary deafness. All the Bums normal boys of his own age, while at the same t!m he Is constantly watched. Neither medical nor surgical sur-gical treatment was necessary in hi case, and while It is thought there 1 some derangement of the nerve this will be treated gradually by other than tnedkal mean. Another boy, who wa found to be the victim of ft frightful Inheritance which undermined both physical and morn) -tructure hi not been taken from h!s home, but 1 beUij treated medically at one of the dty dispensaries. dis-pensaries. Fl ha led such a frightful life for the last two years that the Ko..!ety despairs of saving him. but If he Is faithful to the instructions of the physicians physi-cians he has a flchtlnjr hance. A case which has attracted jmu-li Interest and which will bo considered by the new department N that of a child who has been called the wickedest boy in New York He I one of twin, both of whom have been particularly delinquent. The father of the.se boys I a well to do manufacturer, and the family has a comfortable and attractive home In a hkhly regpecfable neighborhood. There are several other children, none of whom ever has given any trouble to his parents Almost from infancy the twin boys have been a ponreo of worry to their family They arc both very healthy looking boy and apparently have no physical phys-ical defects of any kind. Iloth are menially normal, quick at their t-onks. alert, animated and responsive. They have been fruilty of numerous vlolatlous of the law, some of quite a serious nature. Most of their scheme? have been for raisin? money, and It. J these, activities which have resulted In their beln font to ' an Institution. The wickedest boy In New York was the last to po becunse he wa ro brlpht and lnteretlnc Dial when be cam Into court chnrped with a misdemeanor he always talked the Jude over and pot anorher chance. Among hi exploits was a trip to California, which lie took without his fathers knowledge or consent, Ht the age of twelve. On his return to New York he started a candy syndicate syn-dicate of boys who were to -ei their wares outside the theatres. The wickedest boy met hl young salesmen sales-men pvery night and settled accounts with them. He wa doing a very good business when he was arrested ar-rested one morning at three o'clock for peddling without with-out a license. In the meanwhile his family had beeu entirely Ignorant of bis whereabouts. : "I'll Cut It Out." While he was being tried he astonished the Judge by Informing him that anybody can make money if he only wants to, and made goiKl his statement by various va-rious extracts from his own experience. On this occasion, oc-casion, however, the wickedest boy nict bis Waterloo, He departed for the Institution which was to shelter him with the announcement that he was entirely reformed. re-formed. "This crooked business don't piy," he remarked, seriously to tho Judge. "I'm going to cut it out." The authorities, however, nre by no mean convinced con-vinced of the permanent reformation of the boy, bo widespread was his reputation that the Institution to which he was assigned protested agalust receiving him. Since hi brother already was In the House of Itefuge the Judge could not send him there and th reluctant Institution was obliged to receive him. How he Is developing under the Institutional system It wll' be thu business of the new department to consider The boys' parents will be examined to see whethe! there has been anything in the history of the familj which would account for the perversity of hlmsell and his brother. No treutmeut of any kind will be given to a child by the physician of the Society without the conseut of its parents, nor will Buy child be scut elsewhere for treatmeut without Its parent.' couscnt. While the children are iu the earn of the Society, either before they Imve been tried or afterward when they arc waiting wait-ing to bo taken to an institution, they are examined by physicians wllh the object of detecting contagious dlsea.se. They also receive such medical treatment ns Is immediately necessary for the preservation of their health or, should a surgical operation be necessary neces-sary before their parents can be notified, they are sent to the hospital, but none of this Is a part of the work of Uie new department This always has been so, aud speedy action in such matters Is not now taken any more frequently thun it ulwnys bus been. When the. new department wlshtu to do anything of this klud there Is no such hurry about it and the parents are always called. Thc Society is able to examine tho children on an order of tho Court without consulting the parents. When Eleven Years Old He Was Charged with Stealing a Pockcthook from a Woman in the Street (Orrrfcht. 1010. bj the Nw York Flrld Co. All rlsbti r-wrrod.) NEW YORK. Saturday. VERY delinquent child In New Y'ork city Is to 1 be carefully, thoroughly ami scientifically I analyzed. He Is, as It were, to be pluccd un- I tier a microscope. Hi ancestry is to be examined ex-amined and conclusions ure to be drawn as to hLs progeny. All I his Is in the elTort to discover whether the juvenile juve-nile dellqncnt is a hereditary criminal; whether he I the result of environment or the product of a mental or nervous condition which 1 congenital and which has transmitted to him tendencies which render him dUficult. of control and apparently without moral f ense. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Chil-dren I at work on the delinquent now, ami Its new depiirttneot of psychiatry arid neurology will search out with an exai-t eye the weaknesses or disorder that are blamed for the generation of crime and weakness. weak-ness. The RoHety ha cared for 7'H),fKN" children during its existence of thlrty-tlve years. Every child In the city who hns become sutliciently delinquent to be apprehended ap-prehended as a violator of the law hns been under Its care from time to time. The cases of nearly fifty thousand children were considered last year. Thus the society In the natural course of its business sweeps Into Its headquarters all children who In any circumstances would x- proper subjects of such Inquiry, In-quiry, aud again In the natural trend of its affairs observes ob-serves their development, tor a few years at least. Its record. have been so precisely and so fully kept for many year that they are constantly tn the service ser-vice of the court when Information touching on particular par-ticular canes s required Therefore the roclcty needs only to call science to Us aid in the gathering of these Btatistics to become a perfectly equipped bureau of the utmost Importance to all who uro interested in improving the race. Dr. M. i. Scblapp, of the Cornell University Medl cal School, Is the head of the new department, for whh.b chart have been prepared which will record re-cord the Information gathered about the child's ancestry. an-cestry. Symbol are to he used to indicate normal ante-fry, alcohol, epilepsy, hereditary Jmheclllty. ac-julred ac-julred imbecility, Insanity, hereditary blind no, a julred blindness, tuberculosis, hereditary deafness. His Mother Is a Bum and Goes with All the Bums Then If the results are such as to suggest a radical course of treatment under Dr. Schlapp's direct Ion, . the parent are Informed, and so far all of them have shown a sincere desire to aid tho effort for the assistance assist-ance of their children. Whether there are to be special Institutions for the care of those children who are found to be In need of the ministrations of the new department the Society Is not at present ready to state. They never have maintained any institutions or homes fur children chil-dren except the temporary home In the headquarter of tho Society, where youthful delinquent and those who have been taken from their humes because of Improper guardianship are cared for until the Children's Chil-dren's Court decides on their future home. It is said that the six farm recently purchased by Mrs. Will-lam Will-lam K. Vandcrbllt In the upper part of New York State ara to be used ns homo for loy.s who need exceptional ex-ceptional care and treatment. The Children's Society, So-ciety, however, U not prepared to make any statement state-ment In regard to this. jcrjnlred deafness and other physical condition. Th-.-mother's history N to be scanned cpe-Hl)y in order tn discover whether she has suffered nny shock of rltul Importance, since the beginning of her married life. The Red Headed Boy. Much of the material with which the new department depart-ment will have to deal drifts into the society thus: I.-nr sir, society "Plea's? call at lt ave between 31 and ?.2 and you will I'md a red headed boy who has no home, and his mother Is n bum and goe.s with nil the bum, it would be a god send to put biro away. A mother" A ray of light thns cast ncros the path of the red hatred tir re'u'ts in a visit from the acent of the Children's Society, who finds him accurately dc-fcribed, dc-fcribed, both as to personal charms and home surrounding. sur-rounding. Nor has the social circle of hi mother been unjustly characterized. The mother Is a drunkard, drunk-ard, and, worse, the friend nr.d dally assocbite of petty tulcve ami bepcars. SoniellmeM she deserts her hijme for days and leave the boy to hi own device and to tho companionship of others, only le destitute than himself. Sometime sho has wretched lodging, which the boy shares and lu which ho Is wltnes. to Innumerable Innumer-able brawls and debauches. In the mind of liio boy two convictions, the fruit of much observation, grow and wax strung one 1 that a mother l h jmtsou whose principal use Is to send oDe tot beer and the other I that borne Is a place on whose altar all things, including the beads of the family, are broken in time of stress. As to tho future, be si-es hlrtwelf aa th vkrUiD of a lerltsce. The neighbors mv warned hlra of tt In-evliable In-evliable triumph, so have the policemen, and so has hi mother, when she has noticed him at nil. This heritage is that be will be "put away." It has happened hap-pened several times to ht mother, and if he understood under-stood hereditary traits he would at once concede that being "put away" whs one of tbem. A It Is he awaits bis doom without qnextlou and Is uot at all tnirprlsed when the Children's Society appears ap-pears and take hlra. He feels it h!s duly to protest, I partly t-caue It l the tradition of th neighborhood to do ho and also Ivecause the love, of llborty Is strong. JTe la l1 tt-AY, and nftrr n session In the OMMrrti's (Joint be is made over to the society until be can get a permanent home, in some charitable Instil ul ioij. He learns for the first time lu his life what It Is to have a warm bath, a well prepared meal and a comfortable bed. Then a home is found for him, the best that Institutional In-stitutional life can afford, and the boy passes out of the care of the Children's Society. His cue Is not In the least remarkable. . He Is one of the 7o,i. Red haired boys ami tow haired girts, black and brown and yellow crowned youngsters ur In and out of the Children's Society headquarter, at Twenty-second Twenty-second street und Fourth avmuc. In Increasing numbers num-bers year after year as the population grows. The society protect them from physical nbnse and moral degradation, provides temporary relief for the desil-lute desil-lute and Dnd permanent homes for them If necessary; neces-sary; prosecute all j-rsons engaged iu robliini: them of their honesty and their innocence or in protithi by their degradation. The Crucible. If a boy happvns to Ivecome g'x! and Industrious, a desirable member of society, then be has rl.-:en above the evil of hi early environment. If be turns out to 1? not exactly a boon aud a blessing to mankind, but an improvement on hi mother, he still Is to be considered con-sidered a n 11 cce.s and a triumph for In-sttliitlon.il training, train-ing, if ou the other band he should turn out not at all a worthy member of society he Is not to be won-densl won-densl at. After all he t what might have lwen cx-poetcd. cx-poetcd. Kut there are other boys and girls wlio come under the care of the society who present problem not so easily solved. Here are a few reconls which will give some Idea of the many pcrplexltJc which beset the path of the person who is seeking to solve the prob-leia prob-leia of Juvenile crime and vagrancy for which on-ironment on-ironment dvr not account: IUy with good home, surroundLugs in eTcry way desirable, well dressed, jn no need of money, when ten years old broke Into a shoo store und stole several pairs of shoes. He was tried for this offence himI dlchartrN. When eleven years old he was charged with htenj. Inc a prwket hook from a woman In the street, convicted con-victed of graDd larceny and paroled on susjiemied entence. Knatchlug a pocketbook from a woman'6 hand ond was scut to the- Catholic Protectory f-ooii after coming out of the Catholic Protectory he was found Intoxicated, taken U-fore the Court on the charge of Improper guardianship and discharged, as It was found that there wero no evidences of Improper guardianship and hi home was a good one. A few months later, just before be was sixteen, be was convicted of petit larceny for stealing a horc blanket ;inl was sent to the House of Ib.-fusc. Iloy of ten years home conditions apparently excellent, ex-cellent, charcsl with burglary, discharged. At eleven, c harged with Mealing brass and lead; discharged. dis-charged. At twelve, convicted of stealing a bicycle; paroled on suspended sentence. At thirteen. Implicated In stealing lead: discharged. At fourteen, convicted of burglary and sentenced to the Juvenile Asylum. At fifteen.' convicted of breaking glnrs In a showcase; show-case; discharged. Hoy f thirteen. god home, convicted of grand larceny lar-ceny for snatching a handbag; paroled on suspended sentence. Arrested four times In the following year for grand Ian-en, etii larceny, disorderly conduct and bur-glary; bur-glary; discharged or paroled on suspended sentence. What I to account for this sort of boy since environment en-vironment does not? That 1 what the Children's Society Is asking. And this question account In some measure for the ew department. Not Always thc Knife. When it was announced that the society was about to open n department for the reformation of Juvcnll criminals It was at ouce concluded that the society had in view widespread Deration for turning bad Iwys and girls into good ones on the theory that h II evil behavior In youth wo the result of some abnormal ab-normal construction of the sknll or of some other physical malformation. it was currently reported that the society would engage n large force of I'hyalelona to perform mystej I-oiih I-oiih otratious that were to result )o the Immediate reformation of al Juvenile ,..n quency, und to cause the Instant return to tb paths of virtue of oil children chil-dren who from thejr Infancy had been mor or lot ft n h.,-''"" ..r." c-rr,.,r.Or many years, said to a HtRAi.n reporter that be never had seen a boy In all his experience who had become a crlmlual a a result of a fall or a good boy when the lump caused by a fall was removed Operation for adenoids and for swollen tonsils undoubtedly will be recommended for some of the children, oxactly as these operullons are recommended for perfectly good children who never have come within the society's building. The remedy will vary with the Individual case and will bo principally directed toward an Improvement of the nervous condition. It may includ medical treatment, treat-ment, surgical treatment or simply a change of environment. en-vironment. That will be decided according to tho fuel of the particular case. A Boy's Two Sides. . One of the cases which has come before the society already Is that of a hoy who seems to be a congeuita! delinquent. He Is the sou of a well to do mau who provides an excellent home for his family, where ail the conditions are of the best. There Is nothing la the home environment, at b-Jist nothing apparent, which possibly could account for tho boy's delinquency. delin-quency. Tbo boy is vry docile and sweet. Is never bad tempered ond Is apparently obedient. Uut he Is continually engaged In working out dishonest schemes whereby be can got money. Ho is well dressed Mud ha all the money to which boys of hi ase nre accustomed, accus-tomed, but he continues to thiuk out plans for extorting extort-ing money from friends of tlx; family. When he is found out and reproached with hi wrongdoing he does not attempt to deny It but do- cllely admits bis guOt and says he knew what he did wa wrong. Nevertheless he Immediately begins to play a similar scheme Just ns dishonest as thc one be has so recently been regretting. This has happened so many time (hat bis father ha become discouraged In his effort. to improve the boy and has appealed to th society for aid Investigation Investi-gation of the case has brought out the fact that events which took place at the time of the boy's birth and for some time previously to it which vitally affected his mother may hae been th cause of making the boy a delinquent. As an example; of the varied treatmeut which tb new department will give, this boy has been taken from his homo and placed In an institution whom hit . ti hnre h constnM --.ni-'snlriiMT of poTfeWlT |