The following interesting story found in the Harrisburg Telegraph, 24 April 1911, compared “influences” in Elizabethville vs. “influences” in New York City by a Dauphin County judge who was passing sentence on two juveniles for were found guilty in his court:
New York Times Verses Elizabethville Echo
Why a father who wanted his son’s job to be amenable to the best influences should place the boy on the New York Times rather than the Elizabethville Echo, was asked by Judge McCarrell in Dauphin County Court today.
Leon Steven and Louis Black, arraigned for stealing leather, were before the court for sentence, Both were left off upon producing bail for June sessions. Judge McCarrell’s comparison of New York and Elizabethville answered a statement offered by E. E. Beidleman, attorney for one of the boys, to the effect that his father had secured him a job on the New York Times. If sentence were suspended, Mr. Beidleman pointed out, the youngster could return to New York, secure his job again and live with his sister.
“In New York?” inquired Judge McCarrell. “Is that the proper place for the boy? Why doesn’t his father get him a position on the Elizabethville Echo? The influences would be better.”
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