The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-09
JUVENILE COURT
JUDGE REPORTS
Says Year Just Ended Has Been
Marked by Unusual
Activity.
EFFICIENT SERVICE Is
RENDERED BY AIDES
Too Much Smoking Among Boys,
and Parents Are Too
Indulgent.

The annual report Of Judge Alex
ander McMaster. OF the Juvenile court
OF the Third judicial district, reached
the Juvenile court commission Thursday
Judge McMaster says. as preface to
his report, that the year has been one
OF activity and that his aides have
rendered most efficient service. He then
refers TO his attendance at the conven-
tion OF charities and corrections, held
at st. Louis last May, and says that the
convention resulted In great good. Judge
McMaster addressed the convention sew
eral times. and the consensus OF opinion
was that Utah had one Of the best Ju-
venle court systems in the country
Judge McMaster strongly indorses the
curfew law and recites that Its enforce
ment has been OF much benefit In Keep
Ing children off the streets at unseemly
hours
Too Much Smoking.
There is an, alarming prevalence OF
cigarette smoking among boys. the. re-
port says and earnest efforts have been
the pernicious habit Many places how
ever. have promised the court that they
would desist from selling tobacco 10
boys The sale OF liouor TO minors has
also received the attention OF the court
and q number of prosecutions have re-
suited, to the end that the practice has
greatly decreased.
Many neglected and dependent chill
dren have been placed in homes in the
year, and an eudeavor is 10 be made
to secure the organization OF home
finding and labor-finding organizations
that Will help alons this department Of
the work
Tho report next takes up the matter
OF funds and it is urged that the COM
mission Its Influence TO secure
more liberal appropriation with which to
carry on the work in the state.
Reference Is made TO the good results
aesruIng from the ai,, Uintah tra!Hing G,Iigs
Probation Officer Guardello Brown Is
praised for his services,
II appears that approximately 1900
boys and girls have been handled in
the year. about 500 OF them appearing
before the court Attached to the report
Of Judge MoMaster Is report made to
Brown, in which Mr Brown SAYS that
the past year has been the most sue
cessful since the court was established
Mr.. Brown also calls attention 10 the
to equip sufficiently the court for its
splendid work,
Parents Too Indulgent.
Mr.. Brown finds that parents. as
rule. are too indugent of their children
and urges that children should be taught
not been so taught Mr. Brown says. are
the first TO be apprehended as delin-
qUents.
Attention also is called to the need OF
81 COUlDSlent pHS SSiCIon NlloSe uUtS II
will be TO examine delinquent children
and determine whether their delinquency
Is due to physical or mental ailment
The statistical table accompanying
the reports Of Judge McMaster and Pro-
baton Officer Brown shows that 1888
boys and 206 girls were handled by the
court in the year or this number, 345
boys and % girls were handled in court
and 935 boys and Ill girls were handled
out Of court. These cases arose as fol-
lows; Incorrigibility. 101 boys and Go
girls: malicious mischief, 223 boys and 4
| girls; petit larceny. 29s boys and Is girls: !:
| violating curfew ordinance. 300 boys and
i3 girls; immoral conduct Sc boys and Il
! girls, smoking "A boys. fighting, 81 boys
| and 1 girl: truancy, 10 boys and girls;
dependent and neglected. Is boys and 81
| girls.
were settled out Of court by probation
| officers.