Show JUVENiLE COURT COURTIS IS HANDICAPPED Report Calls Attention to the Urgent Need of Detention Detention Detention tion Schools The first annual report of the juve juvenile juvenile juvenile nile court commission was filed with the governor yesterday The report covers the period from March 24 21 1907 1901 when the new state sta juvenile court law went into effect until Dec 31 The number of boys sent to the in industrial industrial industrial school by the juvenile court of the state during the period p was thirty one and the number of girls nine The last legislature appropriated for the work of the court for 1907 and 1908 and of this amount 5 has been expended leaving a balance of The largest Item Ite of expense has been the salary of judges and probation officers which has amounted to 1718 The estimate for 1908 is which will ill leave for incidental ex cx expenses expenses During the tile year the commission has distributed pamphlets containing the new court law together with city or ordinances o or ordinances and other acts bearing on the work and an Address to the Pub Public Public lic lie setting forth the purposes of ju juvenile juvenile venile venue court work worle and asking for the support of the nubile The difficulties encountered have been due chiefly to the meagerness of the appropriation which led to the fixing of the salaries of judges and probation officers especially in the smaller counties at so 50 low how a figure that it has actually Involved consid considerable considerable erable sacrifice on the th part of ot those accepting the position The report also recommends that detention de detention detention schools be established espe especially especially especially In counties containing cities of ot the first firs and second class The need of or such a school is particularly urgent In Salt Lake county In regard to this the report says sas It has been the Hie experience of the judges and probation pra n officers In these counties Bounties that wayward children who are placed under probation and al at allowed allowed lowed to mingle freely with their th lr for former former mer iner associates are at a n great disadvantage dIsadvantage vantage antage In their efforts to reform They rhey cannot be remanded to jail and he the difficulty can only be overcome by b he the establishment of ot detention schools 1 |