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Show JUVENILE OFFICERS ADDRESS MEETING The. meeting held last Friday night for the purpose of explaining the work of the juvenile court though not as well attended as might have uetn the case, served the purpose very welljand much good was ' done, inasmuch as those who we're present seemed to absorb ab-sorb everything that was sai 1. Oliver T. Harmon, chief probation officer for the Seventh district in introducing in-troducing state secretary E. J. Meline, said he believed that the message of lige was to help others to live uprightly and not alone to help ourselves. Mr. Meline, who for three years was assistant superintendent of the state industrial school at Ogden, describedthe several stages of the- life of tbe boy and girl. During the first stage he accepts everything told him and heroizes his lather, but from the age of 12 or 14 for the next four or five years, when the boy or girl should be closest to the parent, he or she is furthest away, as he or she has reached the independent stage and needs close attention for if they are to stray it will be during this period. He does not believe in the naturally bad boy or girl, but attributes th se apparent qualities to many and varied causes. Nicotine has the same effect on boys as morphine has on the older person. If you expect the boy to j be good, be good yourself don't let ! the boy say, as one lad said to his father "What you are, dad, speaks so loud I j can't hear what you say." Look with I the boy from his standpoint and make his surroundings comfortable and harmonious. har-monious. The juvenile court should rather be designated as an aid society as its purpose pur-pose is not to punish the lad but to show him what is best, and to use every means to assist him. The object ob-ject is not to take the boy into court but to keep him out and thereby save the humilitation sure to come from prosecution. Judge E. D. Sorenson said the aim , of the court is to assist the parents, and every help will be offered hy the ; different officers and all such matters be treated confidential. The boy that is shunned soon becomes discouraged j and needs sympathy and proper advice, j Our only real satisfaction in life is the children we rear, and it is up to us to use every power we have to bring them up properly, sparing no pains. |