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Show Nominal Salary for Juvenile Judge Commission Cuts Compensation to SJ200 a Year, and Yet Contest Is Quite Lively. TVhocvor is appointed Judge of the Juvenile court will have to serve for the handsome stipend of $200 a year. Iiv Og-den, Og-den, the Juvcnllo Judge will get only ?100 a year. This was decided at a meeting of tho commission yesterday afternoon In the Mayor's offlco. Chief of Pollco Lynch dissented very strongly from this resolution. He maintained main-tained that It would not bo possible to obtain a competent man, a. lit and proper person for such a position, a such a niggardly nig-gardly salary. Ho urged that J1W. the maximum limit allowed by tho law, was small enough but to cut that down to ?i(0 was ridiculous. In spite of this tho Chief was outvoted. Mayor Morris and Superintendent of Schools Christenson, tho other members, both supporting thi idea. This is taken by tho opponents of "Willis "Wil-lis Brown to Indicalo thut his appointment appoint-ment is certain. Tho contest has becomo quite animated. Mr. Brown's opponents fay that his supporters sinj anxious to keep tho appointment out of politics, but that somo or them do not hesitate to pull political wires on behalf of their man. Mr. Brown'u .supportors say that tho fact of his having helped to have tho bill passed should bo considered In his favor; his opponent!! say that it does not look well In view of tho fact for him to bo a candidate. Tho most important ivasoh urged for Mr. Brown's proferment Is his undoubted knowledge of the moral needs of erring boys, together with his faculty of winning win-ning their confidence and impressing upon tliem the advantages of doing right. It is contended that the Juvenile court, without with-out the one man in several thousand who con exert this peculiar lnflucnco over boys, would miss altogether tho object aimed at the reformation rather than the punishment of wayward youths. Other candidatoft for the Judgeship are J. M. Bowman. 11. S. Hnmcr, H. II. "Wll-klns "Wll-klns and N Sonnedecker. |