Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-12
COURT TEACHES
CHILD OBEDIENCE
JUDGE TELLS OF JUVENILE
STATE TRIBUNALS
INSTRUCTIVE ADDRESSES MADE
AT CONFERENCE
Speaker Declares Truly EducatVe
Function Renders Present sys-
tenn Complement of Public
Schools of Country

BUFFALO, N. Y, June Ii OuNy .
session of the conference of Charltles
and Corrections was opened by an adj
dress by Judge William De Lacey OF
the Juvenile court of Washington, ID. -,
his subject being Juvenile Courts as an
Aid to Good CITIZENSHIP"
This children's judge at the natlohal
capital insisted that courts such as tne
one over which he presides must pc
come aids to good citizenship.
THE juvenile court. said ne, Is
born of the realization that duIihs
childhood the young are in a formative
period in which they may develop good
habits, and for infractions of law they
should receive correction, rather thah
punishment.
Now. correction involves the idea of
adjustment of conduct to approved
standards; involves the idea of educa-
ton and culture and herein lies the
opportunity of such courts to aid good
citizenship.
This court exercising the chancery
powers of the state as parenS patriae
places needy little ones, bereft of their
parents, under proper care and guard
ianship, and rescues children from vi
cious or immoral surroundings.
Care for the Children
These courts punish adults who de-
bauch the young or influence them to
illegal acts; they enforce the child LABOR
legislation intended for the conservation
of childhood; they enforce the laws re-
curing the husband and father to sup
port the wife and children. They ann
to so intelligently handle the children
who have violated the laws of the state
as to correct their evil doings and save
these children to themselves and to the
community.
I'm a painstaking manner they in
he in fhpir Duties and
in their rights, and strive to awaken
their self-respect. From the juvenile
court it is hoped that our citizens of
tomorrow will derive knowledge and
imbibe a spirit of obedience to the laws
of their country. This truly educatiye
function makes the Juvenile court the
complement of the public school and
demands in the judge the qualities of
the jurist, teacher. sociologist and phi
lanthropist.
Announcement was made this morn
ing by John Koren, statistical expert of
the United States bureau of the census,
in the report of the committee on sta
tistics" of the national conference of
Charities and Correction that the fed
eral census to be taken next year will
include a study of the dependent de-
fective and delinquent classes.
History of the Court
Inc last enumeration Oh the SO-Cdlleu
special classes" took place in 1904 or
three years after the general census of
the decade.
The act of congress regulating the
census of 1910 provides that these
classes shall be included in the next
enumeration, so that only six years will
elapse between such enumerations in
stead of the customary ten.
The bill for the thirteenth census
makes provision for special enumera-
ton of the paupers, prisoners, juvenile
delinquents, insane, feeble-mnded,
blind deaf and dumb in institutions
and inmates of benevolent institutions.
Upward of 100 600 institutions will en-
ter into the enumeration of 1910, con-
sequently official relations must be en-
tered into with that number of special
agents appointed to do the field work
in each of them, for the census of the
special classes is not left to the ordi-
nary population enumerator
Designation of Detectives
In view of the fact that many states
represented in the national conference
do not make provision for separate and
distinct custodial treatment for the
criminal insane, DR.. Thomas c. FitZ-
simmons, superintendent of the State
Hospital for the Criminal Insane at
FairVteW, Pa, made special plea in
an address before the conference to-
night that other states would follow the
example of Pennsylvania, New York
and the few others in segregating this
class of detectives and providing spe-
cial treatment for them"
He especially recommended the build
ing of institutions particularly designe1
for the safe keeping of those insane
who have criminal tendencies. Such
an institution" he said, should be a
Jail, place of safe incarceration for a
dangerous and offensive class, class
highly inimical to society, from which
no escape could be remotely possible
ut should have an the modern safe
guards thrown about it, and yet in do
ing this it ought to be shprn of that
somber. penitentiary like appearance,
so depressing and offensive to the mem
tally strong as well as to the mentally
weak.
1T must also be a hospital, possessing
every degree of sanitarium aspect and
equipped, designed and constructed
with a view to affording the greatest
opportunities and facilities for buoying
up and making cheerful and pleasant a
mind sick and haggard through mental
depression and irritability."
Franklin B. Kirkbride, one of the
commissioners appointed to select a
site for new institution for detectives
i'm New York state, quoted Governor
Hughes as saying that there is no
better test of a states administration
than is afforded by its care of the sick,
the feeble minded and the insane"
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