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Th MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1920 “Give Erring Boys and Girls Another Ch Will Make Good.” “Old Offenders Only Hopeless Cases,’’ Says Woman Head of Bar Association. By Fay Stevenson. saat Coosrisht, 1920, by The Press Publlsbing Co. (The New York Rvéhing World.) ah | ee & young girl or a young boy goes wrong I belleve in giving * not cure them, To me they are men- tajly deficient, and a home, a well, regulated institution where they can earn some useful occupation, 1s the only solution.” i Sitting in her law office at No. 5 Chambers Street, clad in a chestnut~ brown tailored suit, with the same shade sport hat, Mrs, Pauline O Field, the only woman member of the Criminal Bar Association and just recently elected President of that organization, uttered this good sense. The Criminal Bar Association was organized about eight years ago by Judge Rosalsky of General Sessions. ‘Mrs. Field has been a member only two years and during that time has btained the consent of the Board of Estimate to permit the association to hold its meetings and to use perma- nently for relatives and friends ofs prisoners rooms on the ground floor of the Criminal Courts Building which are now known as the “law- yers’ rooms.” In appreciation of this service, as well as for her capabilities, Mrs. Field was unanimously chosen as the head of the association. She will de- vote her entire term of office to up- lifting the status of the criminal law- ver, upon whom there has been the | mere suggestion of an inclination to hes @ slight as compared with tho lawyer who confines his work to civil Cases. “Then you have known cases where ‘the young girl or young boy has made after a second offense,” I asked Field, “and you do not believe in branding youth?” ‘ “Youth is not formed in character,” waid Mrs. Field, “and so we must them several cnances, I have i young girls who have been ehoplifters, stolen money from thelr employers and been arrested for dis- orderly conduct many times to final- ty turn out capable, splendid women. “I remember one case of a little ‘l who had been wronged when in fourteenth year. At sixteen sho ‘was brought into court, charged with disorderly conduct. It was her first offense, so we jet her off. Six months later ‘she was brought In again on jto @ home, discharged In due time ‘and geveral months later again ar- rested on the same complaint. “I had a long talk with this girl \I tried to explain that she was not branded with the letter ‘A’ and that ell life was open to her. New work was found for her and to-day she 1s @ sensible, fine woman, with a bank ‘account. She sends me postals every ‘Week and frequently comes to see me. “This is also true with wayward oys.. I have known boys who pawned their mothers’ watches, stole them another chance, even if they are second offenders. “When @ man or a woman has been proved ‘an old offender f believe ft ts in the blood,’ and six months or six years behind the bars will the same charge. She was sent away h MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1920, ance---Most —— NR RS POOLINEO FIELD from their employers and relatives and at times seemed so hard that n® human heart cOuld reach them to turn around just as {tf by magic and take foremost 1 3 in the world. “Usually I believe in some sort of confinement, either a prison or, better still, a home, for mental defectives and for the ‘old offender,’ continued Mrs. Field, “but it is always well to inves’ gate into the motive of the petty of- fender. For instancé, I remember the case of an old offender who had been in the courts many times for petty thieving, The last time I had his case I found out that he had sold some furniture which had only been inr trusted to him and did not belong to him. I found out that he had used the money for his f y and not for rson: » therefore T let_ him off His wite unstained t criminal may be the motive of meanor.” Mrs. Field has many such cases to relate and her constant thought and summing up of each case make one reaize why she was ed President of the Criminal Bar Association, Ooprrigt, 1920, The Bm Pabliad the Rew Yor breatna Wort), By Maurice Ketten 1 Gapgright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) “e AN’'T you do something to make the children keep quiet?” asked Mrs, Jarr, comptainingly, when her husband reached home the other evening. “What have they been duing now?” asked Mr. Jarr. “What haven't they being doing?” moaned Mre. Jarr. “Just listen to them!” ‘The sound of a door being slammed after a scuffle and the same door be- ing kicked to the accompaniment of muffled screams arose from the ad- joining room. “Willie wouldn't behave,” con tinued Mra. Jarr. “Hoe knows his little sister 1s afraid of the dark and he shuts her up tn the closet and she kicks and screams to get out.” "Why don't you make them be- oe?" asked Mr. Jarr. 9 got a headache and T've been waiting for you to c e home and correct them. Willie's got beyond my ¢contrdl,” replied Mrs. Jarr. “The trouble is that you speak to them too much,” said Mr. Jarr. “You ould just #peak once, and then if y do, not obey you you should yh them.” iw very easy for you to talk,” replied Mrs. Jarr resignedly, “but if you \were here all day with them you'd find out different. Some days they are not so bad, but other days one cannot do anything with them!” “Well, I'll show you I can,” sald Mr. Jarr, Then be raised his voice end cried, “Children, behave!" ‘There was quiet in the next room for about half a minute. Then the two children began to snigger and giggle, and once more Mr. and Mrs Jerr heard @ struggle and a scuffle and the business of the boy dragging the ecreaming little girl to the dark closet, “There, you see!” sald Mra. Jarr “Now go in and punish them!" But Mr. Jarr muttered that he'd at. tend to them later, as ho was going out for a cigar, and, so saying, he got his bat and slipped away. He had hardly gone when the bell rang, and Mrs. Hackett, a middle-aged neighbor, was ushered in. “l just thought I'd.run over and see you @ minute,”|said Mra, Hackett, “L \ TAR. JARR FAMILY BY Roy lL “(98 CARDELL do declare, my nerves are all un- “Yes,” replied Mrs, Jarr, the strung. Those two gi of mine do 4re able to ta care of the elves ROLE ubimorted and they are not always in your way, e day and night about cloth they fuss and rel from morn till night.” fs At least t are grown up," closet and poiso sighed Mrs, Jarr, “If wish mine were, 1)" Out In the stres At the age of Willie and Emma chil- grown up," sighed N dren ure a di ‘ just wait “Care!” Irs, Hackett, ften wish “Mrs, Jar vt know what declared Mrs worry is w iren when th Just then th small. T! have some dow Mrs. ver of them n, at least, you get s limbusine and both einfort out of them. ‘But wait how sad she lookec ey grow up and get sorts It's because she snobbish notiéns in their heads tonal want to keep up with millionaire daughters in ¢ und) running around to plac n people who money ’ Hac have ten times the WONDERFUL COLOR! [ S THis CAR std) law (& Pp, (aie THEY TT SEEM INTERESTED Cries “Votes OTDS for babies! Andrehy for. women Drinks for everybody: The above may be taken—!/ ha of Theodore Maynard, one of the ga: yy OSE poets, who is now paying us a visit, Nobody hag to ask young Mr. May nard for hia yiews on Prohibition, who has read The gorgeous drinking songs in his “Poems,” recently pub- re - Jue DON'T WANT A CAR WEWERE SRP f NRTIRING The DRAPERIES )\ { INYOUR WINDOW. VA he WHERE DID SOU Ger et > THEODOT D ~ MAYNARD lished by Mrederick A. Stokes. Mem- bers of the Ant!-Saloon League must feel that (hey are worthy to be sup pressed by a specia stead act. Wha Jolet of Deplorat mendinent to do yout Se wouldn't sell my noble thirst Vor half a dozen bags of gold; * I'd like (o drink until | burst. 1 wouldn't sell my noble thirst For half a dozen bags of gold.” Phen there is another in which the poet tells us how the Roman poet, Horace, “must have gone to bed the rae for good Falernian wine"; how hakespeare and Jonson, too, dr deep of barley brew,” and, fnally, what happened “When Patrick into Ireland went The works of God to do, his excellent intent ach men how to brew To WOMEN OF (OTE saw rs Jarr they y we Hackett, from the has fo sald Mrs. aid lren are So ngre your freedom and can and not be at the ing themsel ve: $ being run gun. » and Dabies win- in her ladies remarked hildren Hac cl oa gre 4. Me MANUS Mies EVELYN MUAMES P. SILEC, JN NOTE THE HIGH RUSSIAN BOOTS wisn BY MRS, Misa ADA WEINTZE H. Those boys are still hours matinee days. to pay. x The ¢ Now York YHOUSANDS are idle in this land, but the Preee Publisdina Co ening World.) seem to be with overtime No wonder New York is theatre-mad, the prices they have y scalpers are stick- ing ‘em up for tickets, you'd think they were selling eggs A Wall Street guy last night by trading h Stock Exchangy for a pair in sixteenth row. ticket busy. working two saw a show seat on the the He only had to pay your own conclustons TICKET SCALPERS=235.2 (Bete Co; $50 to boot, which shows you that prices are coming dowy. ‘Two West- ern buyers managed to see a show by hocking all the goods they had bought, The theatres still keep the box office window open, but that's #0 the treasurer can get the air. The only seat that's ever left in the B. O. is the one that the ticket guy sits on, A Broadway show can be good, bad or fair, A ticket scalper isn't good and he can’t be fair—you can 6ketch The way a ew York Society Women on Fifth Avenue HE first of the group of woman suffragivt pioneers who founded the modern Americr tt movement having “votes for women” as its obgect " a was Lu tla Mott who dt 1 Philade' BAL uno. Sh thirty-five was born in * Nan- tucket, Mass., In 1793. At twenty- the Society of Friends, and from ticket bandit will raise on a pair that time until her death her shows you he's betting on a sure full 3 voice Was always raised in’ be pons a 1 half of the downtrodden of all house classes, From the first #he was The high cost of seat checks has @ deoply impressed with the un- equal political condition of her siven the dramatic critic the best sex. With Elizabeth Cady Stan- Job om the paper. A dozen years ago, when George M. Cohan con- ton she held the first suffrage convention at Seneca Falls, N Y., in 1848 While Mrs, Stanton trolled forty-eight stars and thir- @ thus shared the honor of initiat« teen stripes, seats to @ hit went on ing the movement Mra, Mott was a grown woman when I) Cady was born sale four weeks in advance to the pavatn public. To-day, any show with a scene in the boudoir goes on sale to “~~ 2 — : the scalper four bucks in advance. poycott the amusement business. So In the show business now the ad- far, the boygott’s heen so effective vance man is the guy thet thinks yoy only have to get up at 9 A. M. up the scale of pricos. If a middle-class guy is seen In the orchestra on the opening night of a hit, the auditors go on his books the next morning. It is getting so now that only multi-olltonaires can afford to pay the war tax on passes. Back in the old days when there was somewhere to go between the acts, two dollars would buy you @ seat for a show and a bouquet of orchids for the soubrette, ‘To-day you pay two dollars for the privilege of buying @ four-dollar seat for $12.60. There {s only one thing about the theatre that’s the same as It was a decade ago, and that's the asbestos curtain. to get a seat at a movie show. The scalpeteers buy up everything on the floor but the carpet, The reason Jullet went to the balcony was that the specs had copped al! the seats on the floor. Gerald Any Broadway theatre will sel! yon standing roam for two dollars a foot. ‘That makes four dollars wn lens you're a one-legged cripple. Or you can always buy a box that wil! seat seven passengens for $2485 with a hatrack, programmes and a few other accessories tossed in for $50 extra As near as we can analyze it, the plot of every Broadway show ts how to get $6.60 per ticket. And the mo- tive of every plot is robbery. 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Now as to his views oa the third member of the classic trin- ily—woman “Woman,” the poet said the other day, “is the eternal anarchist, and I “in not anxious for her to conform to pattern and type. Men made laws so that women might break them. The position now seems likely to be a reversed,” pres © young man} you perceive, has #% the courage of his convietions- ashe “« had, a decade ago, when he was a Congitgational clergyman in Ver= mont. In his second sermon he de. jivered to that staid New England *% congregation a discourse on fools—-. wtf “willy tools, stupid fools and damned fools!" After that spiritual faux " he bad to earn his living * hand, inste: timately worked hig w England on @ cattle boat Over there he became a Catholio and associated with Hilaire Belloo and the Chestertons—Gllbert K, and Cecil--in the editing of the N Witness, Therefore it is not surpris- lng that Mr. Maynard's views on Sut- frage parallel those which the late Cecll Chesterton expresséd when he oo visited America in 1915, "The proper unit of society,” he said, “i the famly, rather than the individual. A man should have a vote for every meurber of bis family, in- cluding his wife. Every baby should have & vote to be exercised by its father, Tam a bachelor and 1 think that a man with a wife and eleven |" children ought to have twelve times as much power in the state as Ty. “I believe,” saya 4 Mr. Maynard, ©% hat the vote should be cast by ~* families, as the family, not the indi n viduai, js the unit in healthy society. And surely a family vote implieg a baby vote He believes in this procedure if the vole means anything, which he saye \t doesn't in England. And in Cues- lertonian paradox he gays: “{ am against Womar Suffr not on the ground that it Is a case eryl, for the moon, but a case of moonshine. ‘The entrance of women into politica Will mean that a discredited system will have 6 new lease of Hfe. After ‘¢! I have refused to waste my valyable » + time choosing between two c&ind!- iaq dates, neither of whom I want, and .__ I have never once in my life voted at °™* an election, I don't want to gee women wasting their etill more valu ; able time over the same futilities.” However, Mr. Maynard la no Daniel, come to judement on the sex. “Ido “© not profess,” he lwughed, “to have ©% ‘Tolstoy's knowledge. 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