The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-10-16
HIGH TRIBUTE TO
FATHER CROWLEY
Bishop Nichols Praises Work
Done by the Head of the
Youths Directory
Addresses at Convention of
Juvenile Court Judges and
Probation Officers

gathering of prominent people
from the northern boundaries of the
state to the most. southern met yester-
day al the convention of the judges of
the Juvenile court the probation COM
mittees and the probation officers of
California. which is being held at Cali
fornia Club hail in Clay street. the
avowed object OF which is conference
on the physical moral legal social and
economic welfare of the children of the
state.
The meeting was remarkable for the
nonsectarian character of those inter-
ested, representatives being present
from many creeds. from the various
settlements of the city. from charitable
organizations. women's clubs, as well
as many prominent lawyers and physi-
clans
The morning session, opened with a
selection by the Columbia park boys
band. Bishop Nichols pronounced the
invocat ton and then Judge Murasky
gave brief address. introducing Oscar
K. Cushing. who acted as chairman of
the convention.
KEYNOTE OF SITUATION
Gushing, in his opening speech,
touched the keynote of the situation
by the declaration that the juvenile
court and probation law stand for two
things that are among the most impor-
tant-the juvenile court giving the
child the square deal which he may
have been denied through his health.
his environment or other causes. while
the proba ton law represents another
chance.
William II. Donahue, district attorney
of Alameda county, spoke on the rela
ton of the district attorney to the jul
venile court and expressed his belief
that the official should be of great serv-
ice to the judges of the juvenile court,
particularly in investigating and re-
porting the cases to be placed on pro-
baton. He was grateful, he said, that
he lived in an age when conferences
were held for the welfare of future
citizens. rather than as to the conduct
of penal institutions.
ADDRESS By BISHOP NICHOLS
Dr. Jessica Peixotto of the Univer-
sity of California was to have spoken
on The Prime Efficiency in Juvenile
Court Work" but was una BILE to be
present, so Bishop Nichols spoke in
stead. He began by saying that the
only thing perhaps that he could say
that Doctor Peixotto could not have
said was an expression of his apprecia
ton of her work and her value as a
factor of the community, a feeling in
which he felt the public shared.
He said that he became more con-
WINGED each year that the boy is the
genuine member of the commu-
nifty, and this very genuineness is the
source of our problem as it is of our
hope. He told of his own work in the
establishment of the bishops aid for
boys under j. c. Astredo, and made a
plea that this movement might become
general in all creeds. He declared that
much of the wrong doing came from
lack of proper religious training and
that the need is for more Father Grow
leys, with their noble work of caring
for boys and giving this religious
basis
The afternoon session opened with
music by St. Vincents orphanage band.
DR.. David Starr Jordan spoke on the
attitude of a great university toward
humanitarian problems. He said that
the best we can do for any one is the
normal and in doing this for our young
people we are giving them the best
With children. he continued, it is the
old problem known in the scientific
world IS nature and nurture. The
business of the Juvenile court, he said
seemed TO be to take the boy who is
h AIDED wrong and set him right A
university might only give the basic
training necessary to make workers.
instruction in the facts of heredity. the
advantages of education. economies
and law. The probation officer was.
however, born, not made; that is. he
was perhaps first born and then made.
The success would depend on the in
terest of the worker.
AGENT OF CONSERy4TION
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster national in
spector of prisons, was found to be
present and was asked to speak She
said in substance that the two great
words of today are. reclamation and
conservation. She was rejoiced to see
the age of conservation of the young
that there might be no necessity for
the reclamation of the criminal later
and she considered the Juvenile court
the greatest agent of conservation.
DR.. j. A. Black of the Juvenile court