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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1924 - 37 Hold Health Clinic at Evanston Next Tuesday possible to supply nurses immediately | The records of the Red Cross are without setting up a new organization.! kept up to date at all times making In the 192 disasters which occurred in| it locate nurses at a BAD' CHILDREN possible to ~ City hall, wvansion, from 10 until 2, service. valuable work possible. » [os 103 clinic ¢ ted by th- sil g : ; : . cohenlt cline condoms wll hie the United States last year, many of [moment's notice. It is memberships held Tuesdir, November 25, at th-| these nurses were called upon for| in the Red Cross that makes this Help Rather Than Punish- ment Is Prescribed When the schools extend their be- nificent supervision over misbehaving children sufficiently far to reach the point to which the courts in their kindly treatment of juvenile delin- quents have gone, then the day will be here when a perfect arch of sym- pathetic instruction is reached and humanity will advance that much more rapidly. This point was one of the strong ones urged by Prof. Thomas D. Eliot, of Northwestern university, in his radio talk Wednes- day night over WMAQ, Chicago Daily News broadcasting station, on the topic, "The New Day in the Treat- ment of Children." The speaker is professor of soci- ology at Northwestern university and both he and his father before him have made a searching study of cor- rect training of misbehaving and de- linquent children... In his speech Prof. Eliot referred to the comparative modernity of sympathetic education of juvenile delinquents. He said that probably Charles Dickens with his Oliver Twist nad contemporaneous novels stimulated the beginnings of the child welfare movement. In the old days (indeed, in our own colonial times) children were unmercifully abused and persecuted, he declared, for such misdemeanors as a desire to play. "An Act of Mercy" Even as late as 1876, the North- western professor recalled, Jess Pome- roy, a boy of 15 was convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged. However, "as an act of mercy," Pome- roy's sentence was commuted to soli- tary imprisonment for life. "After forty years," said Prof. Eliot, "during which time he is said to have seen only his guards and his mother, he was at last permitted by the enlightened government of Massachusetts to mingle with his fellow convicts. That he was still human is proved by the fact that he had repeatedly tried to escape and that he had learned seven languages. Yet, the circumstances of the original crime were such that a modern juve- nile court would undoubtedly have sent for a doctor, a specialist in men- tal diseases, who might have sal- vaged him." Two years after Pomeroy was sen- tenced to solitary exile the Bay state enacted the first probation law, the professor pointed out. This was fol- lowed by gradual improvement in all reform schools but as late as 1919 the federal Children's bureau reported that in every state in the Union could still be found counties where children were being put in jail. Not Punishment, But Help "The next milestone of progress in the treatment of misbehaving chil- dren was the establishment of sep- arate courts for children in Australasia, in Canada, and at the opening of the twentieth century, in the United States," continued Prof. Eliot. "The juvenile court does not seen to pun- ish the guilty but to help the neg- lected, the tempted and the fallen." He cited vivid examples of how this protective supervision benefits misbehaving youngsters, and disagreed with those sentimentalists who say when they hear of a vicious child, "Oh, he's never had a chance; he's not responsible,--turn him loose." Answering this, the professor said: "On the contrary the more irres- ponsible a person is shown to be, the more the need of education or re-education; the more thorough, therefore, the treatment which the scientist prescribes. The child must be made to realize the seriousness of the situation so that both he and society may be protected." Educators throughout America are now striving mightily to help the de- linquent, subnormal and misbehaving child, the professor declared. Education, the Need "The juvenile court built the bridge | out from the criminology side as far as it could toward non-compulsory educational treatment for misbehav- ing children," he concluded. "The schools have been building out from the educational side and now it only remains to join hands across the little gap between the courts and the schools. The keystone will be set in the arch, and the erring steps of child- hood will be guarded and guided along the highway by education rather than by punishment." THE DESTROYER Silent are the harmonicas of the cicadas, Stilled, the tender leaflings, Livid, the hard-crusted barks; From the westward comes the dismal moan of distant drums, Faintly sounding and resounding, Dim--but surely, ominously rolling comes The angry thump of destructive drum, Sweeping life to senseless scum. Grim Scar-eyes will sear all in his ruth- less sway; Ieaflings and cicadas, and the hardened barks Dallied too long in their blithesome way. 2 Banle Wilmette, Ill. o'clock. A specialist will be in at- tendance and the nurse of the Grosse Point Health Center will assist in con- ducting the clinic. These clinics are held regularly twice every month. A Child Welfare conference is held every Wednesday from 2 to 4 oclock at the Grosse Point Health center. A child specialist is in attendance each time. SPECIAL LIMOUSINE SERVICE Ward & Buchholz, well known Ev- anston undertakers, have arranged so that high class limousine ambulance service may be supplied at all times, it is announced. Red Cross Nurses Ready To Meet All Emergencies The Chicago Chapter of the Red Cross has an enrolled reserve of over 1900 Red Cross nurses available in case of a disaster or any emergency. These loyal women realizing that such service is invaluable to the state and nation have constantly enlarged the reserve. 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