Show STUDENT LIFE fined as one who breaks laws associates knowingly with law breakers frequents questionable places indulges in games of chance or who cannot be properly controlled by parents or guardians In addition to the judge and clerk of the court there are also created “probation officers’ In larger cities particularly where the judge’s jurisdiction is extensive the officers act almost in the capacity of associate judges These are the persons who are intimately acquainted with the individual cases and who look personally after the children of the court In smaller courts the duty of the probation officer is principally confined to the hunting up of delinquent and dependent children and acting in the “executive” function while the judge sits in the “judicial” position Most of the Juvenile Court laws have the age limit of eighteen years Other additions to the Juvenile Court Law such as the Parent Delinquent Law Compulsory School Law Child Labor Law and the creation of detention homes have proved invaluable of the With the the Juvenile Court Compulsory School Law has been made more effective Boys and girls have been taken from shops and placed in school The parents are punished if they keep their children from school or if they encourage truancy The truant is easily ap- prehended through this new method and is sent back to school If co-operat- ion 143 a boy is unmanagable in school the teacher reports him to the Court and he is placed on probation to bring the “white card” on report day All of this has made better discipline in our city schools After these laws regarding “juvenile disorderly persons” had become facts the greatest task of all arose that of securing proper officials who possessed tact and experience enough to enforce them successfully Chicago was lucky when Judge Julian Alack became judge Denver boasts of Benj B Lindsey and within the last year Salt Lake City has shown that a good man is at the head of the child’s court in the personage of Judge Willis Brown Indianapolis has been very successful with her court under different judges and with the volunteer probation officer system employing 150 volunteer officers Alack and Lindsey have particularly distinguished themselves on account of the immensity of their fields of labor Brown has had a lesser field but has had success in his attempt to make good citizens out of rough material It would make too lengthy an article to attempt to describe each individual court procedure other than to give a general outline of how the court works in practice In Chicago Judge Alack has had great difficulties to surmount on account of the large foreign population he has to contend with However many a boy has been placed on the right track through the ef- - |