DON'T BE A BUM, JUDGE SAID.
Weary Willie Is No Good to Any-
body, Court to Youngster.
"Uncle liked sister, and my aunt liked me. It got so that uncle always took the other side when I said anything. So I just left."
That's the way Jean Corwin Miller, 13 years old, late of Calvert, Morton county, Kas., began his story yesterday in the juvenile court. Both his parents are dead. He and a sister were living with Jasper A. Miller, a farmer at Calvert.
"I had $3 when I left," said the boy. "I rode on the cars to Colby, walked to Manhattan, and rode the cars again to Lawrence. When I got there I found I was 10 cents short of the fare to Kansas City. A man gave me the dime."
"Well," said Judge Porterfield, "where did you want to go?"
"To Mrs. Ella Hogan, my aunt, in Ottawa, Kas."
After a talk with the boy, who is bright for his age, and seemed rather homesick, the court ordered him kept at the Detention home until his relatives could come for him.
"You don't want to start out in life as a bum," said the judge. "Grow up into a man and make something of yourself. Bums are of no good to anybody."
