The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-24
GIVE LIE REAL RsAsoNs.

GIVE THE REAL REASONS.
So Judge Brown has been asked
by 3he Juvenile court commission to
hand in his resignation.
Why?
Well, ostensibly because the supreme
cou-t i'm an opinion on delinquent
case criticised the judges methods in
that particular case, although the
judge who wrote the opinion had not
heard the arguments. before. the court,
and although, evidently. the court
knows nothing of the facts in the case
outside The record and knows less OF
the value of the Juvenile court to the
community as il has been administered
under Judge Brown.
SO far as the supreme courts decision
on the law Involved is concerned. there
is no justification for suggesting that
Judge Brown resign; so far as the
decision undertakes to pass upon the
judges fitness for the place because
Of his action in one case, it is one mans
opinion based upon an imperfect re-
cord. a generalization founded upon
insufficient data, as the lawyers would
say.
Better judges than these are the
boys who have been saved from
.wreekage and reclaimed to usefulness
i'm DE community. Better judges are
the sgood women WHO haSe Seen the
work of the court at first hand. have
helped save boys and girls. have found
homes for them where they were need
ed. IN the truancy department the
teachers of Salt Lake. are better judges
because they have seen boys
taught the foolishness- of truancy and
brought TO a realization of their folly
by this same judge with a gentleness
and wisdom and firmness that aehiev-
ed his object and still won the affec-
ton of the boys
Better than all these as judges are
the little ones who have. appealed to
this same judge when they were in
want and suffering. and never appeal
ed i'm vain-such boys as the one who
went to him when bis feet were almost
uncovered, when he was cold and for
lorT and comfortIess. and found shell
ter and food and was clad with the
judges own shoes because shoes were
not 10 be had without delay other
wisel such boys as Willie Eckstein.
the Russian Jew, known I'm all the
newspaper Offices. who was headed
straight for all that was evil. who
slept where he could. loafed in pool
rooms, smoked cigarettes and was ac-
curing vice as a habit although he
was not innately bad. Willie came
under the Jurisdiction Of this Judge
who has been asked TO resign, he went
TO the Canyon Crest ranch under the
jurisdiction of the judge. learned self
respect. the Joy Of honest work and
the wisdom of self-restraint. Today he
is studying photography in the winona
school at indianapolis. is liked by his
instructors and is demonstrating his
ability TO make a man. a useful man or
himself. Only yesterday a letter from
this boy came to The Herald telling
Of his surroundings and work, a letter
full of manly pride and hope for the
future. trimming over with thank
fGlness 10 Judge Brown and the others
who had been his friends. Here is a
sentence from the letter that seems
pathetically prophetic, expressed, as it
is in the quaint language of a lad
who has only been i'm this country
short time: why, he writes, "the
people In Salt Lake don't know how to
appreciate Judge Brown and what he
is doing for them. wished I had
saved some of the eastern papers and
sent them TO you so you could read
what other papers are saying about
him"
This boys case is only one, type
Of the saved. but II the court had done
no more thar guide him and Joe" and
''Tony"and the others of that Canyon
Crest group into manhood and good
citizenship. il would have justified the
law, the expense and the appointment
Of the man who had administered the
law.
Il may be true as the supreme court
thinks. that the red-tape forms of law