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The Juhenile Protective Association
The Work and Its Plans Tor the Tuture—What It Means to the Young Offenders of Georgia
What is the Juvenile Protective Association? It
is a society formed by many of the best citizens of
Georgia, for the purpose of taking charge of youth
ful criminals, so-called, who have been convicted
before the Courts, and who, under the present law,
may be sent by the judge into the care of this
Association, instead of to the chaingang and peni
tentiaries. This Association puts these juvenile
offenders into a new home (not a prison), having a
good school, a mechanical workshop on the farm,
all under the guidance and training of Superin
tendents, who are experts in this work.
Second, this Association will take the wayward
girls and uncontrollable boys from guardians, trus
tees, and others who desire to try this new plan of
redeeming youths who are mischievous or criminally
inclined. W. S. Witham.
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What is the Juvenile State? Answer: It will
be a sure enough, but miniature, state where boys
become citizens in the small, and later in the larger,
commonwealth. It* they violate their own laws
they are punished by each other, and cease to be
citizens until their fine is paid, or the period of pro
bation is over. The Executive Committee of the
Juvenile Protective Association will constitute the
Supreme Court of the Juvenile State.
If asked to define briefly the Juvenile Court and
Probation system, I would say, it is such a court
as proves, in the person of the presiding judge, a
wise father to the wayward child in the adjudica
tion of his case, and in the person of the probation
officer an intelligent and patient mother to the
same neglected and delinquent child —thus combin
ing the best principles of motherhood and father
hood as well as of jurisprudence, the Juvenile
Court is pre-eminently a family court.
Crawford Jackson.
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I am right with you. Character making
is a problem of selecting environment. To
reform a. man is thus a matter of changing his
environment. This applies to all criminals alike
Biggest results can be had in dealing with the
youthful delinquents, of course. The whole Geor
gia scheme is not only pagan, but lacks the com
monest kind of common sense: it is suicidal.
W. A. Covington.
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OUR CIVIC JUGGERNAUT.
The Golden Age for July 16, 1908.
Mr. E. C. Callaway says:
Just as long as the individuals of the State are
prospering as they are, and inasmuch as the State
of Georgia, not counting certain public buildings,
has taxable property amounting to $690,000,000,
the State can do anything she wishes.
Mr. Julian Harris said in part:
I have your favor of July 8, in which you
state that you hope to erect at the Juvenile
State Farm a Juvenile home, raised as a tribute
to the memory of the late Joel Chandler Harris.
The compliment you suggest is of course a very
beautiful one, as it is intimately allied with young
people, nearly all of whom may need just the he.p,
encouragement and teachings that they can acquire
through your Association.
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Dr. Leu G. Broughton says:
The time has come when all good people in Geor
gia should join hands in this good cause. The child
criminal is now coming io be the one great topic
in the discussion of criminology. I believe this
movement proposes a wise adjustment of the mat
ter.
The whole question in a few words: Take a rude,
rough and depraved boy, and, by frequent little
touches of love and wisdom, by oft-repeated acts of
study and patience, make of him a shining and use
ful member of society—this is the art of all arts;
and is the more transcendent because the more di
vine.
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The late Joel Chandler Harris, 1 ‘Uncle Remus,'
said March 16, 1908:
“I shall be delighted to be identified with the
movement you have in hand.”
Mrs. Emma Garrett Boyd says:
By courtesy of the house and senate, a meeting
was held in the hall of the house of representatives
Tuesday evening, June 30, to consider these ques
tions. Its sentiment was overwhelmingly in favor
of establishing juvenile courts, which are to be
presided over by the ordinaries of the various
counties, and of reforming the so-called reforma
tory, whose inadequacy and improper location are
condemned by our prison commissioners them
selves.
Editorial in part from the Atlanta Constitution:
In connection with the bill of Representative
Holder, of Jackson, introduced at the request of
the Association, it may be of interest to note that
while an appropriation of $25,000 is asked from the
state, the Association pledges itself to give two
dollars for each dollar received from the legisla
ture.
The legislature should be as generous in its treat
ment of this philanthropic organipation as circum
stances will permit, and encourage to the fullest
possible extent the splendid work it has undertak
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The Georgian says editorially:
A bill has been introduced in the legislature
known as the Holder bill. This Holder is plain
John Holder from the country, whom everybody
knows and whom everbody loves. The truth of the
matter is, the whole outfit from top to bottom is a
lot of men who live for something besides money —
men who love unfortunate boys,’and men who stand
for the best interests of Georgia. It should hardly
be necessary for The Georgian to ask the people of
the State and the men of our legislature to give a
hand to such a movement as this.
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Judge Henry McAlpin of Savannah, Ga., says:
I was not in favor of the bill previously intro
duced in which the Judge of the Superior Court
in the first instance, the Judge of the City Court
in the second instance, and the Ordinary finally all
had concurrent, jurisdiction, because I am firmly
of the opinion that three Judges cannot run expe
ditiously or judiciously the work that, must be done
by the Judge of the Juvenile Court.
Appropriations by the Georgia Legislature in 1907.
The Deaf and Dumb Institute, Cave Spring,
$42,500.
Academy for the Blind, Macon, Ga., SIB,OOO, ap
proximately SIBO for each inmate.
Old Soldiers’ Home, $20,000, or $l6B per capita.
The State Sanitarium at Milledgeville, $390,000.
The Juvenile Protective Association is asking
for only $25,000 for buildings to properly train
Georgia’s wards, and her most unfortunate child
ren, who can be converted into constructive citi
zens if wise methods are employed.
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OUR MODERN MADONNA.
Take the case of one boy, who had been sinned
against until he found a Friend who helped him
again and again, and but for this friend that boy,
several times in jail, would have developed into
a hardened criminal, costing the State thousands
of dollars per annum. Now he is married, gone
to London, and is making a salary of SIO,OOO a
year, which he turns back in whole, or in part, for
the good of society.
By our foolish system we are losing money both
ways.
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