Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-02-26 | Page 12 | Prents Are Asleep to Responsibility for Children

PARENTS ARE ASLEEP TO RESPONSIBILITY fOR CHILDREN Probation Officer Says Sentiment Sentiment Senti Senti- ment Should Be Aroused for Protection of Juveniles i There must be an awakening in Salt Lake City particularly among tho the parents of the city regarding enforcement enforce merit ment of the curfew law This was the main point brought out by Guardello Brown probation officer of the juvenile court in an address on onI I Causes of Juvenile Jin Delinquency before before be be- fore tho Mothers Mothers' club dub of the Neighborhood Neigh I House delivered in tho the Neighborhood Neighborhood Neigh Neigh- I House this afternoon Wo We have havo a large district to cover coyer and an exceedingly small force and consequently tho the enforcement of the curfew law rests largely largel with the parents pf the tho children said eaid Mr Brown today Tho liTho law can only be enforced as public sentiment is aroused And as a n. matter of fact whore we have acted vigorously and in certain cases cases taken children home to their parents after finding finding- the thc little ones one pla playing ng out in the tho streets bot between 10 o'clock and aud 11 o'clock the parents have ha heaped abuse upon our officers and th the public has criticised us severely I II I I remember specially a case caso not so 50 long ao ago aJo whore where a little girl found play play- in lug ing with other children in tho streets long after 10 o'clock at ni night ht was taken home homo b by ono one of our officers wherein the mother nother acted in a part particularly vicious manner toward the tho probation officer A complaint was sworn sworn out against her and tho the probation officers were all called brutal for the attitude th they y took to enforce the thc law and aud protect pro pro- prot t tho Ji little tUe gi girl r Tho The responsibility for tho the welfare of the children an and unfortunately for forthe forthe forthe the delinquency of so 80 many ninny children of the city at present rests on the parenthood parenthood parent parent- hood of Salt J Lake ake City Ninety five per ler cent of oC the delinquency among juveniles is due to tho ignorance or qt ot parents in the early training of their children and in la lack k of proper discipline pline as well as in not knowing wh where re their children are and what they are re redoing doing during the tho adolescent period of their lives I There is too slack an enforcement i of tho the curfew law In fact it is s pretty I safe to sa say that this ordinance is JS not I enforced at all Under existing c con con n however it is almost impossible to enforce the law We Wo have a lar large e field of operation to cover with an inadequate in inadequate In in- adequate force torce of probation officers The absolute lack Jack of support for officers of attempts to enforce tho the Jaw law on tho the part of the childrens children's parents adds to the tho difficulties 1 Salt Salt Lake Lako City's parenthood should hould b be aroused as never before retarding i tho the absolute necessity of enforcing this curfew law to protect their children 71