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Show The Juvenile Courts. Social workers of Weber county coun-ty favor the perpetuation of the juvenile courts as now organized, but removed from politics by the enlargement of the juvenile court commission to seven members, four of whom shall be representative, representa-tive, public spirited citizens. The above calls to mind a portion por-tion of an address given before the Utah White House confer ence on Child health and protection protec-tion on April 6, 1931, by Ex-Governor Dern: "The last legislature enacted an improved Juvenile Court code, but sinister influences defeated the attempt to take the Juvenile Courts out of politics." The juvenile court code is a very good one as it now stands. The unfortunate thing is that it is not put into action. It may be that lack of funds has something to do with the deficiencies of the juvenile juven-ile courts in many parts of the state. But, it is a matter of question ques-tion if the state of these courts will be Improved or that any money mon-ey will be saved by putting them under the politically elected district dis-trict judges. The juvenile courts require the services of persons who are experts ex-perts in child life. It is no field I for the amateur. And in this field he who is without special training train-ing is an amateur. . Hear Ex-Governor Dern again in his address quoted above: "The ; fact that recruits for crime are chiefly children is constantly brought before us in our juvenile; courts. The primary object of juvenile courts always is the re-' formation rather than the punish- j ment of vouthf ul offenders. This : requires a specially trained per-1 sonnel consisting of men and women wo-men peculiarly adapted to the del-1 icate task of salvaging young human hu-man material." Contributed. j |