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Show Peace Officers Convention Vell Attended Speakers Tell of New Developments In Law Enforcement AYork In State-Xation Approximately 200 state, county and city officers were in attendance attend-ance at the Peace Officers convention conven-tion held in this city last Friday and Saturday. A complete program was presented with outstanding speakers discussing problems confronting con-fronting the officers in their work. The convention opened Friday morning with the registration of officers and their wives at the Wadsworth Theatre and closed Saturday night with a banquet in the Ai-rowhead hotel banquet room. E. J. Pickett, district attorney, at-torney, was toastmaster for the banquet, which presented a program pro-gram featured by local talent. Subjects discussed during the convention included "New Methods of Counterfeiting", by Henry C. Taggart, agent in charge of U. S. Secret Service; "What the F.I.B. Training Does", by J. E. Scheib, deputy sheriff Salt Lake county; "The Federal Bureau of Investigation", Investi-gation", by J. C. Newman, agent in charge of the Salt Lake office; "Responsibility of Parents to the Child", by Hon. David W. Moffat, justice of the supreme court of Utah and "Legislative Needs", by Wm. Stanley Dunford, district attorney, at-torney, Provo. ristol Contest Considerable interest was manifested mani-fested in the pistol contest which saw the Provo team take first place in the team contest. The winning Provo team scored 471 out of a possible 500 points, while Salt Lake City police scored 470; the highway patrol 461 and Salt Lake county sheriff's officers 445. The individual shoot was captured cap-tured by Pederwen of Provo with 97, out of 100. K. Keeter followed with 86. Talk Well Received Justice Moffat's talk was well received by the group who voted to have it printed and copies sent to all officers of the association. Justice Moffat was also voted an Honorary member of the association. associa-tion. In speaking of the training of children Justice Moffat declared that "intelligence was not enough". He went on to say that delinquency delinquen-cy was a symptom and not the disease merely a danger flag. "We must teach children to be just to human beings and kind to animals. The parents, the schools and the church all have their part in the training of the child and each must bear his part and not slough it onto the other", he said. He gave it is his opinion that the home was the most important of the three. |