The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-15
SKATING Kinks
ROUhDLY SCORED
Influence Upon Young Girls
DemoraIizing, Says
Judge Brown.
MOTHERS ARE WARNED
GIRLS UNACCOMPANIED BY PRO-
PER ESCORTS TO BE ARRESTED.

Willis Brown, judge of the juvenile
court, has issued an open letter to moth
ers. in which he attacks the local skat-
ing Kinks, and in which he says that the
environment of the Kinks is not of such
a character as will tend to promote the
lmorality Of the young girls who attend
these places Of amusement.
/ Judge Brown states in the letter that
he has issued an order to probation Of
Ulcers of the court instructing them to
take into custody all girls found in these
lrinks who are under the age of Is years
and who are not accompanied by their
parents or some responsible adult COM
ipanion. The letter in full is as follows:
In the past few weeks a number of
mothers have appealed to the juvenile
court for assistance in finding their
daughters. y few days ago six of these
daughters were brought before the court.
PIhey had aDSented themselves from their
Prospective homes without the knowledge
of parents, and had stopped i'm various
l1ooming houses. The police Officers re-
port an unusual number of young girls
ON the street I'm the evening. many stay
ing out until late hours of the night.
+ AmenabIe to the Law.
{ Because Of lack of facilities in caring
for girls who are brought to the atten-
stion of the Juvenile court, the seeming
negligence of the officers in interesting
themselves i'm the cases has been misun-
But RlflS VINO Ndn0GF ABOUT
1he streets in the night time are as
amenable to the law as are the boys.
In hunting for the girls who are re-
ported TO the court as missing or out
lin defiance of the parents wishes, the
lquest usually begins and ends III some
rOller skating rink. I want to warn
mothers Of girls OF The danger in letting
daughters become almost nightly visitors
TO some of these Kinks. The fad is Dor
ldering on a craze From the tales re-
Icited in court and to the probation Of
Ulcers by girls and boys, and the heart
lTending episodes which have resulted
from association with comTanionships
formed at these Kinks, and the character
of some of the people seen on the floors
! of some of the Kinks. l do not wonder
4 that so many girls are causing mothers
the greatest anxiety. II is hardly pos
I sible for the proprietors of these Kinks
TO know the personal character of every
visitor. and it is not the well known dis
reputable person that entices young girls
into danger. but the supposedly respec-
table young fellow or girl companion.
Officers to Report.
''Our officers have been instructed to
bring into court any girl apparently UNI
; der is years of age. who is seen on the
streets without proper escort. or in places
of amusement where they are subjected
TO uncertain surroundings. | have also
permission from the chief of police to
state that he has advised the police Of
Ulcers to report all cases which come TO
their attention on the streets, Of young
girls wandering about or in these places
without proper adult company. and conf
plants will be made out and these girls
brought into the juvenile court, and
where occasion warrants arrests will be
made
Il fully appreciate the fact that girls
must have some recreationS and pleasures,
and many of the girls who are on down
town streets are there with no thought
Of doing a wrong, but I hold the moth
Crs responsible. for their carelessness in
npTTOyTt'nC girls to about
business streets and in skating Kinks and
cheap places of amusement unattended
by a responsible adult.
Mothers Are Warned.
THE purpose of this letter is not 10
scare young girls, or check their innO-
cent amusemeuts. but to warn mothers
of their responsibility, and that the dis
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