Show t COURT T WORKER I I Dr Albert Albel Buxton Delivers Address Ad Ad- dress at Barratt Hall Meeting IDEAS ARE RESENTED PRESENTED Proper Care for Young Offenders Offend Offend- ers ors Ranked With Greatest I Inventions I Juvenile court court workers of oC Salt Lake rind and many others rs who ate are interested in the movement here herc met last night at Barratt hall haJJ to lI Ils t n to an address S on Juvenile COl court lt work worl b by Rev AlS Albert Al- Al bert Ph D D. The meeting was pl presided over ovel ver b by Dr E E. G G. Gowans Judge of the pf Juvenile court In giving 1 his Oti on Juvenile court work Worl under what h he regarded as ns Ideal Dr Buxton Buton said In part Our themA ri tonight Is 15 the latest In In In- venthon Iii In the worlds world's wonderful pro- pro gress The rho i new P of ot social triumph In n VenUe Hr- Hr the Perfection of ot the Ju Ju- Ju t court v aro are as genuine a discovery as the rh- fl n S linding as an nit unknown continent continent conti- conti nent b by by- Columbus or the capture of heaven hea s lightning through thC the silken Cord conI by L Franklin It Its organization and op operation ra lion are ue an invention as aa re nan as ash h the tha wireless telegraph or the i r Bible aUs airship Like iko all inventions It Is mans man's discovery i ii or 01 one of oC Gods God's Sinner hitherto unused laws and the this elaboration elaboration of oC appropriate devices de to lo harness it to man s 8 use This organization for Cor effective bet let nh o ot the tI-te social welfare has followed fol tol- fol- fol lowed ii the same law of ot evolution that hits hils mai made t and Is ls now w making the tho arid desert ia esert Into a garden of fruits and flow flow- ers 15 Man Mans an laws were vere ere first v on oni on otton en unjust Injurious or Inefficient Tb Through rough h frequent failure legislation has risen to b he- he not the oppression slon of ot captious lawmakers hut hul the Mome om and I normal rule that follows Natures Nature's resistless laws More and more mort man 1 a statutes tu tes become the expression of heavens heaven's laws Jaws The Juvenile Ju court Is a highly spec spec- application of f social t experience with a peculiar class of ot offenders the offenders th els tho children To understand and ato ate Its Us scope and value wo we must find Its ItH Place In general jurl jurisprudence dealIng dealIng deal deal- In Ing with offenders In general What t is a court What In is an on offender What was earl early society's rude tr treatment of ot S delinquent When hn we wc understand ih lh these Ee we YC may mar then value the modern legislation Jes that gives to the weakest a special care Wo We e ma may then ask ask- What hat hat Is a Juvenile court courtr D dent on Society for tor Its own welfare as well as RR for the best good of ot Its Us wards Is guard guarding Ins Ins- of oC three classes of o Individuals often oUen called the tue three e dp ds I. I The dependents who through Infirmity in infirmity In- In or misfortune cannot live hive without with with- out social aid ald The Tho poor says pars tho tito Master aster ye yet p have always alwa's with you O l. The defectives whose sad find estate lI may n be cared eared for tor and 1 sometimes r rem rem- m- m more successfully In public In Institutions In than In their homes Those Thirst are ro the blind the deaf deat the feebleminded mind feeble ed eil ed the epileptic the Inebriates the in lii- lii sane ane 3 3 The delinquents who pI prey upon the prop property or the thc happiness or the lIves Hvos of society Our theme them chiefly concerns the last of oC th these so classes and le leaving tho dep dep de- de dependents p and defectives es deals neals with the delinquent tho offenders r fI against whoso iose threatening orl no society values raises It Its le legal al defense through h the tho machinery ot of police and nd courts and Jails jans I I have o already said that the tho methods and devices de of oC society have o constantly Improved cd until today their elaboration S IA Is tIe chief chIc triumph of ot our refined civilization society c met UH to n ta onO tui tt mood o t crude cr d' d though l a nUn 13 c ot or some Olna I h Tn h 1 hallucination nI the tho d witch was The h epileptic Tf rt l T 5 trl that took o n a small loaf to Keep keen from tron rom starvation W was 8 banned on the do roadside gallows gallowa I Core fur for Offenders Offender Society o of toda today feeds both bolh with bread and with love the tho body and hunger heart 1 of or that starving girl and andl l leads h her r weak though maybe mabo wayward way way- ward Id feet teet Into safe paths It t softens the the- pain of ot th the Irresponsible epileptic and quiets his quivering fit it In hospitals built hullt only for Cor him and lila his unfortunate brothers It cares for tor the irresponsible Insane and often otten heals their disordered brains brain It no longer lonser fe fears rs witchcraft witchcraft- for It no longer charms charm a churn or casts an n evil eye cc on tho the frightened I child Th The Tho worst witchery of toda today Is that which works Its wiles through mischievous eyes half halt hidden beneath the ambush of ot a 0 Merry Widow hat haL This transformation Is IB the tho evolution of oC the ages wrought through the this la labor labors la- la bors bor of those like John Howard who ho distinguished the tho grades and who taught that underneath the tue offense we punish a titan man 1113 n of o kindred flesh to ours our It W st-as st H the lov novelist Charles bade neade that In hie his great Ireat book Put Pul Yourself II In His Ills Place brought us UK back to the tho common humanity o of ot that Master who linked all ihl mankind whatever their fault in His Ills final test Let feet him that thal Is I without sin in cast east the tho first stone atone I W Wa f have o learned that the social anti-social orr offender Is still a R member of oC society and should h be he saved eri and that society finds Us Its highest salvation and its Hs best prot protection protection pro pro- t In saving and protecting the tho thon wayward n ard of tile the Criminal The most Important f discovery r In criminology Is 18 that a n criminal J la is a peculiar an unique I unique I might almost al say a grotesque being being and and and should I have havo that tha-t I special attention due to this I I fact Every Ever one that offends Is Js not an oCt offender An unusual environment an alt unwonted temptation may lead the I moat most virtuous to a a. single act acl of ot de do- ho- ho nc It would not havo occurred It would not again occur in tho or ordinary ordinary or- or dinar surroundings of ot life Ute This on ono one offense does docs not make the criminal criminal- though It may make It Il easier for tor transformation transformation trans trans- formation Into one A criminal Is ho no ne who in some sonic one line of oC offense will offend because it Is his nature Ho lie will break a bolt bott or 01 swipe n n. watch atch or 01 orcut orcut cut a a. throat whenever er It Is 18 safe aCc and to his hilS selfish advantage Just as us a swimmer wimmer swims when he strikes Water water Wa- Wa wa wa- ter tr or the fire firo horse leaps to the pole poleat poleat at nt the thc sound of ot the bell He lie who woo has hils once fallen through a 11 cruel circumstance circumstance circum circum- stance Is no more moro a n. criminal than you or I who iio would have yielded be before before be- be fore tore the same cyclone We 6 must distinguish die dis three classes entirelY classes entirely different dif dIf dIf- ferent In nature anti and requiring entirely different tre treatment Classes Claf of or Offenders Offender 1 I. There Thero Is the accidental first of offender offender of- of fend fender r who would not repeat the or of- fens In the tho usual course cours of his life lire lie Jle Is not nol yet a a. criminal probably n never will be unless a R. savage Sl J lawshall law lawshall w shall confine him tim with real t-eal criminals to be bo schooled under their tuition and graduate on release Into society as at asa asa a n full lI full fledged dl d t felon lon whose hand and aim Rim are against mankind L' L 2 There Is tho the professional criminal criminal crimi crimi- nal who turns turn to crime as a blacksmith black blacic- smith to his forge torge and amI yet cl who lio leads this life lite not from a L primary nature different from his fellows but from froman an nn apprenticeship in an as sure in Its operation as 38 that training that made the other boy a a. blacksmith This developed criminal may be ho restored even while he l Is If restrained and anI and the ther r reformation Is 15 as Important to so society ISO so- clet as IS restraint A new citizen citizen citi citi- zen Is added to Its and old danger nc needs ds no further 1 vigilance f II an co 3 There Is the born criminal who ho horom from rom Infancy takes taken to crime as the swims For flies or 01 tile the gosling him hlin there Is no real r restoration t a ceaseless vigilance and anti restraint It may flay b be Inheritance it lOa may be disease I but hul his life liCe Is determined by his birth I Safety for tor the Young i What is th the citadel of oC safety for the tho I young youn for tor those who whose pure natures shrink from crime and C n after aCter n n. nut first still shrink from rom crime and detent detest their one misstep The home th the horn homo the home here should the first offender be lJ sent nt for tor flat safety t ty To Tn his home If It that be he Indeed Indeed indeed In- In i deed a horn home iao l i is 18 the tho school l of ot crime Tho The i c Jail with ft pot post graduates graduate and 1 with the false read ready to thrill tIme heroism and to skill his or of will hand to the that Jill an adept Offenses In this world must needs come Accident or of ch chianco anti and sudden some now environment en toe ne IJ best Rt bred ma mislead child great how manifest If his dan danger cr Is the peril ot of child that whoso home has mud mun walls bulwarks for Cor the lie and lil doors for Ol cas- cas gates hiow great th the the sure Hire ruin ot of the him homeless Wait Waif For no safety Hl and until the Juvenile COUrt Caine no public provision it If caught In first s other titan to be sent Rent to him In a sure criminal career to the public Jail The rho of oC the Juvenile at once is manifest It Is Court to see seo that cery er child shaH be k from that ma becom chronic h by a home or the similitude or of a home I ma may define defino this negatively The function of f the tho juvenile court cour I is to keep the from even n n a single le night In M jail Jall from the tho thought of oC jail to fo kee kp the first very cry br- br fender from the dawning Mea Idea ho he might or could bo be a criminal 1 unction of oC Court various various'S This This- unction Is S W performed In three arious W ways 1 1 By B sending the thc Juvenile delinquent delia dolln- back quent hack to his safe home home- how made more safe in Lion on to rite tho parents and and- bv lii re ghi o of kind truant officers 2 B By sending him hini to some sonic safe saCe home under the same sanie watchful cat care J. J If H no such luch home honie be he that thal artificial available ii h th tho det n lion Ion home ASS A sterner function does not concern conS u HR here to commit the tho case o of juvenile offenders to the restraint a of a reform school The docto- docto then gave Ia some e a advice vice in in detail n. n about the tho of oC childIsh child child- ish ishi waywardness waY The child after an offence should not he be brought to self Once the high bight Ideal of of self Is 1 lost he Is forever satisfied with a baser Ideal No Xo child chill must f even fen after a real ral lapse b be called or a wf lo to think of oC himself as ns a thief hl or oi a q a liar He lie must be he sorry for his hiI sad mistake hut but not discouraged this dis Into believing hell It Is his lila real r 11 nature else h hl he may ma soon be content with this ju FIC self Dr Buxton clo closed d with an appeal to 0 parents Rn and citizens to support this his latest safety appliance the ho tho Juvenile f cOurt COUlt rt It tf I |