Show DEMAND LAWS TO PROTECT CHILDREN Juvenile Court Association tion Adopts Resolution Favoring Drastic Measures WANT CRIMINALS PUNISHED EXPEDITION IS ADVOCATED IN METING OUT PENALTIES Tn In passing resolutions demanding of the next state legislature more stringent adult delinquency laws better Juvenile court laws and more money with which to enforce tho the laws also allO an law and a II law taw the tho annual session of the Juvenile Court Association of Utah came to t a n close yesterday after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon The session was waa one otie e of ot the most Important held by the association and was well attended at both morning and afternoon sessions At t the clo close se of ot the days program the following officers were chosen for the year A li C Nelson president A A ANoon ANoon ANoon Noon of ot Provo first vice president Mrs Adolph Simon of Salt Lake second vice president George Snow Gibbs o of at Salt Bait Lake secretary and treasurer with wIt H R C Jacobs as the fifth fIrth member of ot the board With these officers each of the tho seven Juvenile court judges are associated They are H IL A Peterson of Logan Volney C of ot Ogden Alexander McMaster of ot Salt Lake A A Noon of Provo Prove Joshua Greenwood of at the Fifth district J F P Chidester of the Sixth and A H Chris Christensen Christansen Christensen of the Seventh It was decided that each juvenile court worker In the state make a personal call upon the representatives of his bla district In both the house and senate of the com coming comIng comIng ing legislature to tell them the needs of ot the Juvenile courts of the state and to forward to the tho president of th the association lion tion a statement of ot the attitude of the legislator That the enforcement jf Qt the criminal laws of ot the state be to the Interest of ot this work Is the belief of the workers of ot the state as shown in the adoption of ot the following resolution which was presented by D H Christensen superintendent of ot the tha schools of at Salt Lake We believe that a more expeditious and a more consistent enforcement of at atthe the criminal laws in our estate would tend to lessen crime Prohibition Plank Defeated Considerable discussion was aroused when J 1 Fred Anderson of Salt Lake in introduced Introduced Introduced a resolution demanding of the next legislature the enactment of a strong prohibition law The resolution was voted down however with only Mr Anderson supporting It It was contended by the court workers that because of ot the poUt political politIcal ical questions Involved it would be best beet for the association not Dot to take a hand In Inthe inthe Inthe the matt matter r It was stated that the Juve Juvenile Juvenile nile nUe association always had re remained remained remained strictly out of politics and the passing of such a resolution would probably probably ably bring brag the association into the poUt political political ical limelight Members of ot an all parties voted against It Mothers were blamed for much of the faults of the t e child by Miss Lizbeth trough principal of the Oquirrh school of Salt Lake in a paper dealing squarely with the problem She declared I there was too often a feeling on the part of mothers that the school should take care of the children and show them the proper way of ot growing up Now the school does not and cannot do all the work of making citizens said Miss Mise It has Its in part of the work but it Is only a part The first and the great part must be done In the home bome For some years there thero has been an effort to make the school do the work neglected by the home It has not root only been a mistake It has been a harm the school cannot do the work of the home homeno no how great the th effort may be beThe beThe beThe The attempt has in many many cases caused the overburdened or indifferent parent to shirk the duty and responsibility ity with an nn easy conscience because It ItIs Itis itis Is Johnnies teachers duty to attend to that The school should be and Is an auxiliary to the home but that is the most that it can do It cannot be the home or supply what th the tho home falls fails to give It has haa always been the tho children of the Ignorant and very poor the children of ot the Immigrant population of the slum that society has bas feared But there Is a great and growing fear In the hearts of thoughtful thought ul men and women today that these are not a greater menace to the sta eta stability stability of our government than are the children of the more privileged classes Are the children of the classes getting dis discipline discIpline discipline In and as we are demanding of the children of the immigrants the Ignorant ones of at the slums It is only in the highly developed moral character that the sense of duty is para paramount paramount paramount mount But how often do children hear am that word How many of them have any y idea of a duty or ever once think of do doing doIng doing ing a thing because it Is a duty There Th re are thousands of ot children today in whose vocabularies the word has no place who arrange their dally lives with no reference reference to the idea The child chUd does things because be because because cause they please him Interest him amuse or entertain him but very rarely because it is his duty to do them Parents Too Careless Miss spoke of the discipline of our forefathers which is now red ered as cruel and took the stand that i iwas It was preferable to the absolute disregard of ot right and wrong of the children n of the present day whose parents do not show them their duty and the right of things She Se told of parents who visited her school and alid declared that nine out of ten of ot them then always said that their children were all al alright allright allright right if coaxed ceased so that they should no not punished But another boy was bad and he of course should be whipped within an inch of his life lite And she wondered why these same parents did not take the children in hand at home borne and teach them the right without coaxing and pay paying pa paying ing them for it before they got into the schools She took a firm stand in favor of using real punishment to teach chil children children dren discipline H C Jacobs chief probation officer of Weber county gave an Interesting talk of the work which confronts the worker E A Box chief probation officer of Box BoxElder BoxElder BoxElder Elder county spoke on How Far Are Parents Responsible for the Delinquency of Their Children 7 and took the ground that in most of ot the cases it was the fault of ot the parents that the children ever came before the juvenile court officers and workers Both churches and parents patents were re reminded reminded minded of their responsibilities by Gover Governor Governor nor William Spry in his address to the Juvenile court workers at the morning ses session session session sion in which he spoke for a concerted effort among the churches of the state for forthe forthe forthe the uplift of the tho children He declared that with the churches the parents should make an influence for the children and maKe them into better men and women The Govern Governer said aid that 80 90 per cent of the boys In the state Industrial school were found either to be without either one ono or both of their parents or they were forced away from home by the conditions there He declared that a great deal could be done by the parents In the home But much of ot the success of the work wort depends upon the churches of at the state said Governor Spry Churches of every denomination have a responsibility In Inthis Inthis inthis this matter which should not be dodged They have a wonderful work to perform in this line and they can do much toward settling the question of Juvenile delin delinquency delinquency delinquency quency But I do not leave the fathers and mothers out in a discussion of this great problem for they are to blame in inmany Inmany inmany many cases and tho the management of the tho children at home is responsible for the wrecking of countless lives If we cor correct correct correct the evils at home we will be striking striking ing lug at the very ery root of or the platter matter atter More Money Needed We all know that the state commission is greatly hampered by the lack of funds with which to carry out the work w rk but to tomy tom tomy my m mind there should be no thought of money In a 11 matter where the tho future citi clU citizenship citizenship of the state Is concerned But even If It we are am hampered by lack of ot moans moons all nil interests in tha state should combine toward oward establishing the public libraries rand and gymnasiums In every city of the state which has a population of or at least 1000 This will give th the children and young people of or the towns some place to togo togo go and will do much t toward war making m king bet better better better ter men and women Governor Spry scored Juvenile court oft oM officers cers who bad had not sent In la reports of their work to the state board because they were not to do so 80 by this law lam lawHe He die said that much of the th work Wll waa out outside outside outside side of the law and must be considered in this light and that each should hould do everything possible in the work The Governor said that in Utah there is one oneat of at the best educational systems of an any state in the union that good and effi efficient efficient efficient men and women were Interested In Inthe Inthe inthe the work and he believed much good could be and had been done through the schools The Governor pointed out that of the t e leG men committed to the tho state prison last year only 26 were and de declared declared dared this was a record which could not be bo met by other states He spoke for a n general consolidation of effort In behalf of ot the Juvenile to equip him better for forthe forthe forthe the long and trying life ahead Some Somo of the many problems met by the Juvenile court Judge and the workers were wei I mated by Judge Alexander McMaster of or ortho the tho Salt Lake juvenile court He Ho said in part The Juvenile court laws of Utah are similar In iii h many respects to those of ot other states The chief advantage In favor of lour our system is that it Is a state system One of the foremost Juvenile court co rt work workers ers in America in a recent article stated that It is a weak spot in our Juvenile court law that its Us influence is confined to the state alone and does not roach the unfortunate lad in the country It will wll willbe willbe be but a short time no doubt till this good feature will be adopted by other states The convention of ot state tate school superintendents super superintendents superIntendents which recently met in Salt Lake deserves the tha commendation of ot every Juvenile court worker every father and mother and md every good citizen for the stand taken on the subject of child labor and tobacco The cigarette habit among amons boys bos Is one of the most destructive of the physical mental and moral growth to the boy that thatIs Is known Many a father fa ther and mother has seen the once ruddy cheek of their boy become pale and sallow their bright eyes become dull and lusterless their tastes for books lectures and company become depraved Sin Sets Many Snares There Is another evil which is rapidly growing especially in the larger cities titles of the state and an that is the selling of at liquor to minors We Va can not go to any of ot the summer resorts around the larger cities without not only seeing boys and girls of tender years patronizing these saloons and In many instances becoming intoxicated intoxicated Intoxicated and many beautiful girls and prom promising promIsing promising ising boys have dated their downfall from the time some scoundrel has sold the In Infernal infernal infernal fernal poison polson to the tho unprotected boys and girls It Is our duty to see eee that this con condition condition condition shall change Every probation officer officer officer in every part of the state should be vigilant on these lines and leave no atone stone unturned until he has run to earth the miscreant who has violated the law Judge Joshua Greenwood of the Fifth Judicial district of ot Utah struck out from the shoulder In to declaring that the last legislature was negligent In its duties in allowing only to conduct the Juve Juvenile juvenile juvenile nile court work worle In Utah for two y years H He hady stated that money must bo be bo had for the e eH work and that the saving of the tho life and character of one boy or girl was worth the whole appropriation of the legisla legislature legislature legislature ture Ho He declared that stricter laws should be enacted and that the legisla legislature legislature legislature ture should furnish money with which to enforce them Judge Greenwood took tooka o oa a stand in favor of teaching religion in inthe inthe inthe the schools as ag a means of striking skin at the root of ot the Juvenile problems and de declared declared dared that the h people p of the state t were too a afraid to too start the teachings of the Bible In the schools He said the work of the churches would amount to a great deal but that the real work could be bedone bedone bedone done with the teaching of religion in the schools More stringent laws were de demanded demanded to handle the adult who con contributed contributed contributed to the delinquency of ot the tha chil children children children dren and declared that In many cases where a man had sold liquor to children nothing could be done Mrs Adolph Simon read an interesting paper pager In regard to Juvenile delinquency She showed that the lack of a stringent law preventing child labor was as t the cause of sf so o many children not being enrolled in inthe inthe inthe the schools III |