Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-23

'sHe has framed his Lectures ana
4 ,ircnlars TO create false impressions
Nth half truths, advertising himself
IN n manner deliberately designed 10
nrislcad the public. all 10 his sclf-ag-
crandiscment rather than as an earn
est worker, anxious 10 tell the ruth
4 and advance great cause. rather
\ than himself"
When the people OF Utah first be-
came acquainted with Willis Brown,
late fudge OF the Salt Lake juvenile
court he made many admirers who
saw In him an opportunity to do
something for the homeless boy and
ihe street urchin who Is on his way
TO the bad, Just for lack of friendly
word and warning in time TO pre-
vent him from entering wholly into
the criminal class.
salt Lake soon had trouble with
Brown. His place here was found NOT
10 fiji him His work turned one by
one against him the forces that back
ed him when he first came, and AZ
the end the supreme court in well
remembered decision, read him the
rules of the law which his court was
supposed to follow After this the
new Juvenile court law was framed
TO eliminate him, after all other means
TO dispossess him OF the once nau
/ failed Then he went away on rec
ture tour.
Now comes a most severe arraigu-
ment of his methods since he left salt
Lake. and It is written by a worker
Of great reputation in the juvenile
court field Judge Ben B. Lindsey OF
Denver. Brown had always counted
Judge Lindsey his friend, while ne
was In Salt Lake but how Brown
snparently has used that friendship is
A evident from charges Of plagiarism In
the letter, which is addressed to the
4 juvenile court commission
The commission has replied 10 Juuse
Lindsey that Brown is not judge OF
/ the Juvenile court of Salt Lake City,
4 and that he was considered, but not
believed TO be the proper person Tor
the position.
n The letter reads as follows;
N TEXT OF LETTER.
To the Juvenile Court Commission OF
u the State OF Utah.
"a Geutlemen,
"a on the eleventh OF the present month
n at Chautauuua, n ". Willis Brown
delivered a lecture on the subject Oh
the Juvenile Court" He represented
Il that he was the judge of the )uVehlle
court of Salt Lake. and stated 10 Mrs,
Sarah Plntt Decker the preslnehe "
4 the National Federation OF Women
clubs who was conducting meetings
at chautauoua, n, Y, that he had been
/ given a leave OF absence for TOUT
| months by you to lecture In TINS coun
i try and in England OH the 1uVenlle
court / am writing this letter 10 YOU
because he Is making this statement
4 which | presume 10 be true, ana az.
4 though / found him guilty OF the most
palpable instrumentation and fraud
in his dealing with the juvenile court
subject. can hardly believe he Would
ut a public Chautauqua make state
ment of this kind and so represent
i himself as judge of your court unless
II was "A fact. although some other
n statements OF his brought 10 my at
tention were so wilifully and deliber-
ately false that ] can only assume FOR
the reasons mentioned, that there
4 should NJ least be n limit to his mis-
Representations.
BROWN IN DENVER.
I ] have been actively engaged in juv-
Fenile court work for nearly seven years.
LBrown came to Denver about FIVE years
kVAhp W DplN VII ihN Sfa-'
of cigarettes. He was refused ad-
mission 10 our schools through my
Influence, which he appealed TO, sue
Needed In having the ban against him
Praised. He attended a great many OF
Xny lectures on the Juvenile court, aud
spent n great deal of time In luy
court, and IN seeking my company,
lie came Ia me IN the winter of 1905
with juvenile court law that was pro-
posed In the state OF Utah. which
understood had been agitated by the
Women's club OF Salt Lake. He was
XNery anxious 10 have Il In such shape
nat ne could be appointed judge, Ill
hough he was not lawyer and had
']l ever resided In Salt Lake. He told
Wne that he believed that the system
the Denver juvenile court IN deal
NItnH WIN boys on honor and sending
nen 10 the state Industrial school
:;tatone without an officer and that the
;KssleNl under the law which ] had
49,, years Of experience and
|yihId work got through the
.I'klslature of our state, making admit,
F,saily responsble for the faults OF
E.hiuren, was his ideal OF such d court
.'nu ne wished 10 establish IN Salt Lake
In court based on the methods which he
l"u learned IN Denver and 30 FREQUENT
hehfd me describe In my lectures
Deneyed mat the fellow was all right
Shu ! certainly wish to help anyone 81
ulspohed, and he readily enlisted my
sympaihy and confidence, so that a
ms request | wrote letters To those II
nrthoilty az Salt Lake requesting his
appointment as ludgo OF their cDlift