Show IS WORKING TO TOE SAVE E CHILDREN Annual Report R port of the Juvenile Court Was Issued Yester Yesterday Yesterday i day by Judge Brown WANTS COUNCIL TO ACT MANY CONTAMINATING INFLUENCES INFLUENCES E CES EXIST IN CITY Declaring that the purpose and mission ml slon of the Juvenile court Is to make safe the he heme me to save the children and to build buildup buildup up Ull citizenship Judge Willis Brown in his second annual report issued yesterday scores the th practice e of allowing those of immature years ears to frequent cheap thea tres public dance halls saloons and pool rooms and asked the city council to legis late Jote in such a manner that the work of f the court may ma not be at least partially nullified by there contaminating Courts Great Work The greatest work of the juvenile court is in keeping children out of the courts said raid Judge Brown and I contend that the successful Juvenile court Is the one that not only onh redeems the unfortunate and mistaken child chUd but deters others from making mistakes In this connection he intimates that the court would be much more successful If some means could be devised to t keep children away from con Influences as much as possible As Good as Any Regarding the tho work of the local court he says I r can say without fear tear of suc sue contradiction cont that no other Juve nile court in existence can show greater beneficial results than can the th Salt Lake Lak Juvenile court In order to substantiate this statement Judge Brown shows dhows by b sta I that during the first seven seen and nd one ons half months of oC the courts existence bej be tween April 12 l and Doe Dee 1 1903 19 26 juve j 1 nile delinquents came before It while dur ing IH the twelve months from Dec 1 30 00 I to tf Dec 1 1906 1900 the total was an aver ayer age of nineteen cases per par month as against an average of for the first period of the courts existence Of thin number it is interesting to note that during luring the first period only thirteen were girls and during the second only twenty I three Petit larceny arcen profanity use of to bacco and truancy were the most common I offences I I Adults Before Court Adults to the number r of ot fifty were brought before the court the past year ear for contributing to delinquency The ma of these cases eases were for selling liquor and arid tobacco to minors The work af If f the probation officers is highly hj hl commended In tie the t e report Over Oer 20 visits were made by bJ them during the year to homes of probationers and so success ful WI have been their efforts that only 13 11 per Pr cent of the tho delinquents have ha appeared appe red In n court for subsequent offenses Judge e Brown himself has taken a great deal of f I interest in the probation work and has I I personally visited many man Homes Few Were Committed I The judge reports ports r that th tt during the year I only i ur boys and aad line girls were cc mantled to the he t state stat industrial in school 8 Dering the period from April 12 ISCo to toc I c I 3 ther there were tw boys and three girls irIs commuted This com corr comparative comparative I decrease is explained e by 11 the ini int in provement in the condition of the children of the he city inaugurated by the methods of ot f the Hie court Although it might naturally b be beE b E that the environment of be worse in a city the fact remains i that Salt Lake Luke containing a population of of the entire sends s only a of the inmates of ot the industrial Industria school chool feature of the report is a sum summary summary mary of tho the work of the physicians ph em on employed iIO Ed by b the court to examine defective children c A great work has been accomplished along there the e lines as it is often ott n found d the cause of or crime among amon children is not due so much to natural criminal tendencies as to physical defect daf ct The report akes takes up the work of the She th Morris Detention Home and anti the auxiliaries to Its work in a Po comprehensive manner and closes with recommendations for laws to bs be b passed by the council to toe exclude e lude all children under 18 from roller Flating rinks theatres theatre public dances sa saloon saloon loon Ion and pool rooms unless properly es escorted escorted |