The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-07-02

S"0S0 WAiSA nav hAtuCit W UCCA oCh
to St. Anthony as soon as they have
larger quarters, and let them go ou
into the world from the Home Find
ing Society without the stigma of {
reform school hanging over then
through life.
Judge Lindsay Of Denver found
that iH over 95 per cent of cases or
| probation, after nearly four years
| trial, he met with success. The Other
5 per cent was not necessarily fail
ure but were sent to the Reform
school.
Careless parents are the greatest
cause of delinquency In children and
only by holding them responsible can
we hope for success.
It is an impressive fact that one
cannot fail to observe in study Of
the work Of the Children's Home
Finding society that for young chill.
dren home training in well selected
homes is able to conquer and set at
naught the most vicious influence Of
heredity and early associations. These
workers with their faith In children
and their faith in homes. possess a
hey Of perennial hope for the redemp-
ton of society.
The laws Of the state of Idaho now
are all sufficient for children. We
are infinitely more In need Of men
and women to do the work than to
make more laws. When we read Of
10000 boys being arrested in one
city in one year it ought to arouse us
to the necessity Of the Juvenile court
work.
/ wish that in some of our Wom-
ems organizations we had commit
tee to look after the execution Of the
laws we work so hard to have passed.
There is no organization from which
such a committee could come more
appropriately or effectively than the
Boise Congress of Mothers. sg
Our Juvenile court law is all that
is desirable and yet the execution is
often so lax. We have two proba-
ton officers, both men. One should
be a woman. They tried to pass a
law whereby a woman should take
the girls to the Reform school. 1t
failed to pass. 1t was superf1ous
law. If one of our probation officers
was woman it would cover all these
contingencies.
So often in my rides through the
Barracks see girls between the ages
of twelve and sixteen-this wonder
full formative period of their lives
sauntering about stopping to talk
with the men and think how much
there is to do and how few there are
to do it. Truly the harvest is ripe
but the workers are few.
The most shy and diffident woman
could do so much to help the cause
of children by showing an interest in
the execution of the laws and by visit
ing Judge Leonard's court to inspire
him by showing sympathy or mere
interest in his efforts along this new
line.
1t Is not case requiring boldness
or aggressiveness but rather a per-
sistent inoffensive inquiry in the
methods OF carrying out the laws of
the Juvenile court.
A mere inquiry into the methods
and operation of the law would soon
inspire the court to see that the meth
DDS were the best.
There are few of us who cannot do
better work when sustained by those !
who should care most about our
work.
The Judge would willingly set GER
tain days of the week for this work
and some members could go each
week to see the progress of the cases.
The women got these laws passed
and 1t seems to me that they must
look to their proper enforcement.
Two years ago the Club Women
presented Property Rights Bill.
Some part of this bill was so objected
to in the Judiciary committee of the
house that to simplify its passage it
was cut in two, that part referring
TO separate property forming one bill
and that referring to community
property another.
The bill concerning the descent of
separate property amends the old
aw SO that. On the death of either
husband or wife leaving no children,
me half the separate property goes
o the surviving husband or wife, and
he other half to the parents of the
deceased, or; If the parents be dead
he whole goes to the surviving hus-
,and or wife, thus shutting out the
'rothers and sisters who come after
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