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 Treating the Child as a Criminal shall determine how they can best aid man in the upward march to higher and higher stages of developments unceasingly, for now we know that as a law of his being man was created with the desire and capacity for improvement to which, perchance, there may be no limit short of

perfection even here in this life upon earth. Let my trustees therefore ask themselves from time to time, from age to age, how they can best help man in his glorious ascent onward and up ward and to this end devote this fund.

(Signed) ANDREW CARNEGIE.

Senator Root has been made perma nent chairman of the Board of Trustees, and James Brown Scott is secretary. The other trustees include Nicholas Murray Butler, Joseph H. Choate, Henry

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S. Pritchett, Albert K. Smiley, Charles

W. Eliot, John W. Foster, Andrew J. Montague, William M. Howard, Thomas Burke, James L. Slayden, Andrew D. White, Robert S. Brookings, Samuel

Mather, J. G. Schmidlapp, Arthur W. Foster, Charlemagne Tower, Oscar Straus, George W. Perkins, John Sharp Williams, R. A. Franks, Austen G. Fox,

John L. Cadwalader, C. L. Taylor, Robert S. Woodward and Cleveland H. Dodge. ' President Taft has consented to be an honorary president of the organiza

tion.

Treating the Child as a Criminal UDGE LINCOLN FROST told a

entirely overlook the real objects of a

story at the monthly banquet of the Lancaster County Bar Association, at Lincoln, Neb., November 26, which strongly emphasized the inapplicability

trial in the juvenile court. A certain lawyer, employed to defend a boy caught in a theft, objected to the story being told to the judge as ithad been confessed to an oﬁicer, on the ground that “this boy shall not in

of the ordinary criminal procedure to juvenile courts. Judge Frost has for the past three years presided over the juvenile court of Lancaster county.

He said: The attorney looks upon every law suit as an adversary proceeding, while

a case in the juvenile court is a. case in the interest of the child. If you will look at the petitions used in the cases ﬁled in the juvenile court of this country —and the same is true generally—you

will find every petition is entitled “The State of Nebraska, in the interest of

criminate himself with his own testi mony." A jury was asked; many witnesses were called to prove what the

boy would have told in ﬁve minutes. A lengthy trial, costing $150 and an attorney's fee, resulted in lasting injury to the boy, because he felt less guilty on account of the attempt to justify him and to get him free. That night when the lawyer entered his home he was met with an exclama

tion from his little girl: "Oh, papa!

, a minor." The following incident, told by Judge Brown, formerly of the juvenile court

Harry stole some apples from Mrs. Fern's yard; Jimmy Peters saw him." After supper, father said: “Come

of Salt Lake City, illustrates how an

here, Harry, and tell me about it;

attorney, who was thoroughly imbued

am ashamed that my boy would steal

with the spirit of the criminal law, may

apples.

Why did you do it?"

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