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Show bh i ', State Co in in iss ! oik as Revised. K) Makes First Report to m' Governor. H;: EVADES -DEPIOIT BY H;j PRACTICING ECONOMY Report Shows Alarming Preva- &j lenee of Cigarette Smoking -'1 Among Roys. I, Tho Juvenile court commission hnudci lis report for tho years lUOt'-l'.HO to the governor Monday afternoon. Tho com-r;; com-r;; mission consists of (liu felons'lpg: Gov-i Gov-i ornor Spry. Attorney Gcnorif? A. IX , iiarno. Superintendent of Public In-j In-j struellon A. C. Nelson, :iml John Iv '.V Por llio first Lwo years o,f Us existence i 1 1 commission, according to tho report, V has done much good work throughout i tho Bt.it'.?, covering, as li does, every cou.'.iy. with a head officer at each couu-4; couu-4; ty seal, who 'has clmrgo of all minors In siif violations of laws and in gen-y gen-y era I deportment. Under the act oroat- it tho liivenll.j court la divided into ;. fcfcvcn Judicial districts, corresponding to district court divMons. 1 1 Taken ns -i whole, tin- local officers ' of tin coin I have received but an aver-t'K-- of 5ii; a month, while tho judges of ? l'-"' four nrinclpal districts have lecelved ' 'n .jc:-.igv' of a month. In order i'. tJ lrep within tin; appropriation it has : Ucn iieci-ssary to dvuy all hills for travel trav-el t.li.B expense, and in such economical management iho commission conies out '?. rr the blcnhial period without a deficit. f the report says. L 1" Salt l.ake county, as in two or three i otlur counties, the county commissioners S"J w given excellent assistance, as well M " police and other officers, and hcartv tf support has generally been given bv con-gj con-gj stables and Justices of the peace through-out through-out the state. &1 Increase iu Cases. 13 While then has been a decided Increase S'jJ cf eases handled in and out of court in sHf the year closing over 1U03. there Is more a or less uncertainty as to the proviso ntini-3 ntini-3 her because of th. lack of proper dcslg-1, dcslg-1, tialioii of offenses. This Is mainly bu-;.Jj bu-;.Jj eausu of the wide discretionary powers gn of elitef probation officers, but tho work 1,1 wI1Mj- better systematized soon, the re-llj re-llj Error .has crept into the procedure In S iv urong designating of offenses, the Id iouthftil offender ofton bolus charged fa with a more serious crime or violation SB than lie committed. Nevertheless, the itf Juvenile courts havo proved tn bo great g factors in correcting the young and thus i assist Incr the criminal courts of the state, gffl Of offenses charged, violating the. eur-B eur-B feu ordinances comes first with ITi.SS net-Si net-Si cent of all eases handled: malicious mists mis-ts chief second, with 13 ner cent: petit, lar-a lar-a tony third, with nearly KI per cant, and if truanev fourth., with 1-.34 per vent. IB Thirty-seven youths in each one. thnu- rand h.uidled were committed to tlu In-n In-n Cases of Record, n -V total or OQfti cases of record was S liiiiidl.-d in the two years. ICccli offender fa tost SS.-O. "a mere fraction of tho cx-1 cx-1 pense which would Jiuvo accrued Jiad the B more serious eases been handled by tho B courl3," the reports sets out. Of the ffi iascs handled, about ".'.S per cent orlgl-E orlgl-E imtctl In Salt Lake county: I'lnh county SI ..dded 21 ier cent. Cache county JU per m cent and Weber county t'i per cent. PS 'c'iit -nine j)or cent of 1 h. cases were I In the first four Judicial districts. m The compiisslon t'mis that there Ik an m alartnln.g prevalence, of cigarette smoking K among the Ihj.vs. and thus far little suc-u suc-u cess has attended the 'fforts to stop the m habit. Attention is culh'd to the general a practice In Sail Lake and in other of tho n larger towns of the selling of tobacco to 12 minors, contrary to law. A number of ffl saloons and drug stores have been found N guilty of selling liquor to minors. Much JS good has been done in getting homeless SB child) on adopted Into good homes, and st tho need In Salt I-uke of some permanent ffl organlxatlon for this puriwse is empha- aiz-d in the report. |
