park. The design is to make the scheme of buildings attractive and beautiful as well as useful and educative. To name the projectors of this enterprise, where all deserve unqualified praise, could only be accomplished at the risk of doing injustice, by omission, to others who have equally strong claims to notice. Cook county, represented by the president of the county board, the Hon. E. J. Brundage, and his associate commissioners, received a most loyal and hearty co-operation from the city, to represent which the Hon. Mayor Dunne appointed an energetic committee of citizens, everyone of whom was known to be especially interested in philanthropic work. The Board of Education, too, through a zealous committee, rendered valuable aid, both moral and financial. In this movement, destined to contribute largely to the fame and glory of Chicago and Cook county, there was no politics and no dissension. If rivalry there was, either between the bodies which sent delegates to the joint committee or between the members of the joint committee as individuals, it was the laudable rivalry of how best to advance the humane enterprise which was dear to the heart of each and everyone of those interested. It was peculiarly a Chicago spirit-the spirit which Chicago knows how well to put forth when interests which she holds sacred are concerned. Time or change will not weaken this spirit: they can only strengthen it. Though the personnel representing public sentiment in elective and appointive offices must necessarily be different at different times, the sentiment itself when grounded upon right and justice and charity, remains ever the same. The humane feelings back of the Juvenile Court law and of the movement generally to do justice by the erring young in their first wanderings from the straight and narrow path is stronger in Chicago today than ever it was. Recent political changes have transferred its destinies not to strangers but to friends who have already given proof of their devotion to the interests of the child. The Hon. E. J. Brundage, leaving the presidency of the county board to enter upon the duties of corporation counsel, finds only a wider field of opportunity and increased power to help along the noble work which has already received so much of his energy and good will. In the city's chief magistrate, the Hon. Mayor Busse, friends of the child-saving movement recognize an old ally and a tried supporter. They remember him as one of the stanchest advocates of the first Juvenile Court bills and St. Charles School for Boys, which he aided in passing when he served in the Legislature at Springfield. The outlook is bright, indeed, for the operation and development of the Juvenile Court law. Its friends may well anticipate for it a future of great accomplishment. JUVENILE COURTS WHAT THEY HAVE ACCOMPLISHED CHAPTER I WHAT THE JUVENILE COURT IS There is something in the half-famished cry of a neglected, ill-treated child that reaches the heart of the most unsympathetic adult, touches the chords of sympathy that have been silent, perhaps for years, and sets them to vibrating. The helpless wail of a poverty-stricken, sinenvironed child is maddening to one interested in that branch of sociology which deals with the saving of the child. It forces him to go deeper and deeper into the causes which produce such pitiful and shameful conditions, in the hope of finding, if possible, some remedy for them. Potentially, the Juvenile Court law, as adopted by the Legislature of the State of Illinois, provides the solution of the entire economic problem-the problem of ignorance, poverty and crime. The possibilities and probabilities of the Illinois Juvenile Court law broaden and deepen as the student of economics analyzes it section by section, sentence by sentence. It appears to the enthusiast to be the very ultima thule of legislation, securing, if intelligently enforced, the greatest possible good for the greatest number of people, and bringing about in time a millennial condition, as each phase of the law is developed. The real meaning of the Juvenile Court law, the motives underlying its adoption and the attitude taken by the court and officers in administering it must be thoroughly understood in every detail before an intelligent conclusion can be reached as to the results already accom |