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Show COURT OFFICERS I Third Annual Meeting of Juvenile Court Associatioil III of Utah. .ill" PAPERS ARE READ OX ' J TOPICS THAT ARB TIMgr Jj Detention Homes for at Lei lw Four of the Most-Populoujjfc; Counties. The third annual conference of yi P. Juvenile Court association of Utah ijjjTf held Monday iu the session rootn f the Board of Education at the City ' I ' Counry building. Owing to some ml understanding concerning tho dnteV iflSr which tho conference was to he h l5 , there was not as large an attendance; i(l ' had been expected, and a numberi 5' changes were made in the Hchedul programme. The earnestness and (tf1-. thusiasm shown ou the part of 'ttl members of the association wore raarlir characteristics of both the morning a litf afternoon sessions, and the papers ti"' were listened to with great interest fifliLI Prof. D. Fl. ChristciiHen. president) -the association, called the meeting) ii tf; order and introduced Jiidge E. 0. Gq Iote ans, of the Juvenile court of this $ t who delivered the opening address, 1 j jjn subject of which was " Suggestions 'i the Working of the Law and aUl tc Court." Jtj Judge Gowttns maintained that ;x t Juvenile court occupies a place in i tio .judiciary of this State and that a fui 'SJ-her 'SJ-her of defects exist in the law goyei.'' an ing this judicial phase. The law ats now stands gives the Juvenile cotHv .lurisdiction in the case of adults Cfjui tributing to tho delinquency of minbi ( bur. provides no procedure for dealt ij with such cases, other than in the co8n of the Justice of the Peace. He siLr;ur if the Juvenile court was Riven t same authority as the Justice's ooiiv' this difficult would be entirely on ufh come. .Something should therefore 1, donp, he thinks, to amend the paragra ' on jurisdiction relating to that subj jjy Suggestions Discussed. mIIu Judge Gowana's suggestions were 3? ciiBsen by a number of those pregq 8 i and a resolution was adopted to 1 point a legislative committee, to aril''"' for such changes as they may see's P-? in the law, at the next meeting of tJ'? Legislature. The committee appoint is composed of Judijc E. G. Gowanar"-' Salt Lake, Preston D. Richards of Si Lp6.1 Lake. George Ch'ristensen of SIou:?1 Pleasant. 11. H. Thomas of Ogden 'a Judge Noon of Provo. An interesting paper on 'Probatip?'! Work5' was read by Mrs. A. D. You! and an animated discussion followiw"? after which the meeting adjourned nn 2 o'clock; .11 The afternoon session was hirgi y composed of a discussion of the esti liBhincnt of detention homes throui out tho State, and of the differen! 2 tweeu tho detention home and the . U11 form school. Governor Cutler was.'" have read a. paper on "The Detenti Homo." but; owing lo business maMii Jn interfering, he was compelled to be a sent, and Sunt. Andrew C. Nelson re Wtc the paper. Mrs. Hugh Park, preside t fcopt of the Canyon Crest Banch associate !"aid: read a paper on "The Canyon Cf A di Ranch." in which she made an eami -Oplc plea for Ihe formation of detenti Jth: homes, particularly in the larger citi 'the The. convention unanimously adopted i I motion that a committee off four be '3f pointed to commuuicate with the BoarrH of County Commissioners of the fol counties in which there is a cityMiii the first or second class; namely, Lo'ga ,Jt,e Salt Lake. Utah and Weber countii , asking them to establish and maina ""r','1 a deteution home in each of these cou uwc ties. After The reports of the vario ieactc committees had been made the officja ir, 1 for thq ensuing year were elected. .'-j TI. Chnsfcnsen w'ns re-elected presidei wh G. M. Mumford of Murraj was elec ri, in j first vice-president, nnd Mrs. Hugh Pa fcTm 1 second vice-president. Preston D. Rij nrds was elected to succeed himself1: ,gJ!j secretary and treasurer. $ run " |