Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1916 — Chicago Tries New Punishment for Bad Boys [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Chicago Tries New Punishment for Bad Boys

CHICAGO. —Punishment of a new brand is being imposed upon Chicago’s boys. It is punishment without bars, fences, locks, or prison walls. Sunshine is substituted for solitary. Now, when the juvenile court starts its

corrective machinery, the sentence i» a course in intensive cultivation of onions, or, if the culprit prefers, fruit growing,-or chicken raising, or a trade. If the boy, is unusually well behavttd while serving his sentence, he will be permitted to drive the motor bu» which meets visitors at the car line. If lie insists in smashing institution regulations as he has city ordinances, he will be forced to watch' a less formidable left-hander than himself pitch for the “dorm.” championship or a

slower half* miler try to maintain the track supremacy of his house. About 200 educators, lawyers, judges, and business men took part in the dedication of the Chicago and Cook County School for Boys. In place of the grim walls and barred windows of the house of correction, the boys have a group of buildings resembling a private school or The main building was designed by Arthur F. Hussander, school architect, iS 1 the same manner that he designs school buildings for ordinary boys and girls who have no occasion to consider the law unfriendly. The building cost the board of education $75,000, and there are 75 acres of land. A low hedge, which the boys will care for, takes the place of the usual iron fence or stone wall. There are no physical obstructions to prevent boys from running off. But the men and women who have worked for the idea have no fear that boys will run away. '