| Show juvenile court commission issues timely A circular Z S ill iii view of recent develop ments sli showing owing a deplorable con coi dilion didon among some of the young people of salt lake city which condition exists perhaps in sin smaller aller proportions among the young people in other aties in ill the state tile the juvenile 1 ca court urt chini commission cission comprised 8 ed of 1 governor cutler atty general brieden and state school bupt supt nelson lias has considered it muneto issue a timely circular to ti the io public froni from which we ave purplish pu li a few ex excerpts ehlts its as follows 1 for a little ii more lore than two T years cars Ju juvenile venie courts have operated in ill stilt salt lake city and some soine other cities of utah the of these courts is ia to take lake young people just starting in ill wron wrongdoing wrong doing and turn tai them e in back by loving and gentle means to the path of rectitude in this work the courts thus thua far established have been eminent ly successful many young peo pie who would woul 1 1 otherwise have gone to increase the already too large number of our criminals have been bavei saved to lives of usefulness by these courts reco recognizing M the vital and in far reaching 0 importance or of th this 19 work the recent legislature enacted a comprehensive law lav covering it and inal making cing ta the juven ile courts state instead of municipal courts A juven juvenile eifle court commission was vas create created this act took effect on oil march 23 1907 under its provision it a ju venile court is established estable esta bli Z 1 ed in ii 1 eacle of tile seven judicial dis anan T i tracts in ill tile the stale in ill tile the li fi i four of these districts eich f which cont contains aills it a city of the first or second class a special judge of 1110 he juvenile court i iq ip q appointed by the cammi sion ill n the ot otiler other iler three the work vork of the juvenile court is performed ool by the regularly elect elected d district JU judge I 1 9 re aside from his ordinary judicial duties an ali act was passed by the lie same legislature supplemental to alje one just named authorize auth oriz ing the county commissioners rs 0 of f any coull county ty con containing Laining a city of the rh first t or second class to es esteb to b li lili lih li a detention for juvenile delinquents taxing against the eity city its actual proportion of the cost of maintaining the said aid school tile the purpose of this IS is to provide for young whose home ionic surroundings tire are unsatisfactory a place where they fliey ni may ily be taught ordinary branch branches ss s of e education d u e 1 l t I 1 ati and useful liandi handiwork under moral tind and helpful condi conditions tilis during Ill illg tile the cl critical period when under less hilti satisfactory 14 ICU circumstances i they hey would v 0 be developing crini criminal inal cies another provision of the law IM winch is of immediate public dubuc in terest is the clause which makes parents who are ne negligent liam m tile care and alid tra training illing of their eli children ildren responsible fo for r their delinquency and subjects them to punishment for contributor contributor y negligence it also pr provides ovial s that any oilier adult who contributes tri lutes io iii any way to the delinquency lin quency of it a juvenile shall be suitably bly punished lied immediately upon the act 9 go ing ilg 11 into ito effect the commission organ organized izod and proceeded to the work before it juvenile court juI judges tres 15 were tip appointed pointed in ill flie four districts Thoro thoroughly coni coin detent and exem exemplary exemplar plat y men were vele vel e selected for these positions upon recommends recommend a eions being received from froin the ole judges probation officers were appointed one for each county in ill the state the nie juvenile court law and tile tion made by the gio legis legislature laLure do 10 not allow the commission to ap point more inore than one probation officer for each county I liebe oil gentlemen tle irien have gone into the work vork with a zeal and energy far beyond the alie remuneration made possible possible by legislative ap aaion and as a result of their la a bors many unsatisfactory conditions have been corrected and others leave been unearth ed and await correction 9 tile words vi ds of judge gowans of stilt salt uke city in regard to tile the curfew burfe v law are worthy of quoting tho conditions in althis lilis city which are contributing to the delinquency of cli children ildren tire are really alarming not a da day passes but cases caes ca es aro reported to us of shocking cr iani immorality in aviden adults are a re largely redpoll cespon sible men and women sexual perverts and moral degenerates generates le tire are permitted bert bitted to corrupt 01 the 0 minds of boys and gif g nl 1 3 and there seems to be no way to bring such people to justice I 1 estimate that th there e r e tir are a in ali the 0 neighborhood or of 1000 boys and girls in ill this city walo are 1110 not getting it a fair cliance chance in the world b because it ise of the filet fact that there tire are adults ajo who do not scruple to break alio laws of alio state viii ond the lie ordinances ordinal c S of th the ij city which leave been enacted for tile the prot protection chiou of iiii minors ors eveia week we learn of boys who are able to buy tobacco and beer grocery men indik ests and druggists do not hesitate to sell these bilings to boys of tender years ing incy tile the fact that it is unlawful hlll irful 1 |
