Show Schoolmasters ers as Juvenile Judges THERE THERE is ig a distinction between holding holding- parents to 1 accountability for the conduct an and education of their children and regulating reg the con conduct of parents in such matters Alter After all the parent is by all the laws of naI IlaI na- na I ture turc if not indeed b by higher laws tho the responsible custodian cus- cus toman tolian of the child Ono One of the theories upon which thui i nation vas as founded is that the family is the tue cornerstone of the state The family is as it w were rc n n. little state in itself with rights rights' of its own upon which even cn society may not trespass This idea is embodied In the old English common law maxim I An Au An Englishman's house is his castle One wonders wonders then when ono one hears that the school authorities authorities authorities author author- of ot Utah propose to have hac conferred upon them extraordinary ex mc- judicial a and anil regulative powers over O the tho patents patents pat pat- and children of Hie state whether they ther are arc not treading treading- upon extremely dangerous dang ground The Thc theor theory of juvenile e courts is that they shall be c th the agency through which parents shall be held to account frn fm n i 1 fr tn Pt Iso fohn flint rf Hl 1 offspring that society has bas the right to exact of f But the theory of the proposed newer dispensation would seem eem to be that thal certain designated school authorities shall have power to regulate the parent in his control over his bis children Tho The plan has several inherent langers aside from tho one one already urged This tendency t to me meddle with willi the parent and and tho the family is a sp species of ism I of If syndicalism and of communism m to tho the na- na 1 I Hon tion certainly is not committed by any of ot its a Ji- Ji lions Hons It is an nu entering wedge of a s system can hn have havo no BC other effect than to weaken the t l. political structure It i is H foreign to the constitutional and t traditional ra conceptions this country has of the functions of gov- gov To confer judicial powers s upon a distinctly distinct distinct- ly Iv department lor oC the state is an on innovation a tion hon haral desirable If the hardly plan were elC carried carrie out it can ensil easily be guessed g that its principal accomplishment accomplish ment would woula be to sow irritation and o 1 and thus to add fuel to the fires of discontent which radical agencies arc attempting to enkindle through through- S OU out thc the land The fhe plan a apparently intends intend to regulate children and parents in ill several sc ways The Thc parent would bt supervised f in his attention ou to the childs child's health it hours of study stud and its hours of work From this it is but a SIC step to to regulation of every ClY detail in the relationship rela rela- between parent and child Jt lt be he well veli to remember the axiom of the old Roman who remarked that when people become most regulated the they become most corrupt A dan dangerous autocratic power would be lie established would put child and parent at It the thc mercy of the thea a caprice price the tho poor jud judgment ent and the tho ill timed t ll-t mcd zeal of lany of those into whose choe hOE hands the proposed power would come Our juvenile Ju court powers are adequate to deal with who parents neglect their responsibilities rc- rc 01 and HI w with th children n wb who are aro delinquent Thc Ilie is IS hardly ripe for this tillS species of l 1 m I t tea to It toi b i |