The Children s Judge
The Children s Judge Uf IIKN Jacob Panken first mounted the bench of the Municipal Court in 19)7 children were still dealt with by means of the crude and crushing machinery devised for the...
...The courts had no notion of child psychology...
...His deep patriotism is a natural result of hit creative cooperation in American social life...
...At the end of 15 years in this country he had graduated from law school and had entered upon his success story...
...As a judge of the Domestic Relations Court he represents the community in the work of saving and rebuilding homes and human livea...
...Since then—and partly through Judge Panken's ceaseless efforta—much of this has been changed...
...America gained much from the admission of this boy...
...His addresses, his articles, his books, have done much to create a sense of social responsibility...
...There was no thought of the social causes of the wayward-nees that was stamped as crime...
...On Saturday evening a widely representative group of citizens will join in recognition of the services of Judge Panken...
...At the age of 11 he was brought here from Kiev...
...His sympathetic insight into the cases brought before him has given the public a new picture of tha function of the judge...
...With patience and ingenuity he has driven home his basic idea that "there are no delinquent children but there is a delinquent society, there are delinquent parents...
...The folio-wing year he entered a shop as a child-worker...
...The Children s Judge Uf IIKN Jacob Panken first mounted the bench of the Municipal Court in 19)7 children were still dealt with by means of the crude and crushing machinery devised for the punishment of adult criminals...
...The New Leader joins them in wishing him a long-continued period of activity on the bench and the realisation of more and more of his humani and civilized ideals...
...In these days when we arc once more assessing our immigration laws it will be well for America to note the Horatio Alger story of this man's life...
Vol. 27 • May 1944 • No. 19
