The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-16
WORKER IN HUMANE
FIELD TO LECTURE
Secretary of Colorado Bu-
reau Will Deliver Address
This Evening.
OBTAIN GOOD RESULTS
Says Efforts in Behalf of
Helpless Children and Ami
mails Are Successful.
OBTAIN GOOD RESULTS

f. e. Whitehead, secretary OF the
imal Protection, is a visitor in Salt
Lake. Mr.. Whitehead will deliver an
address this evening at 8 O'Clock at
the Fourteenth ward melting house, on
First South between West Temple and
First West streets, under the auspices
Of the Utah Humane society.
Mr.. Whitehead says that the Colo
RADIO bureau has been in existence ten
years and that remarkable results have
been obtained. cit is the first in
stance said Mr.. Whitehead, "of gov
ernmeut recognition, through depart
ment, of the necessity of providing pro-
lection OF children who have no one
10 care for them and for animals that
are neglected or abused. We have oh
tained remarkable results in our work
since the establishment Of the bureau.
We have five paid officers and volun-
teer corps of about 1900. The state
gives us about $4,000 year. and while
this is little enough, we manage to get
along with it.
"The bureau takes charge of FIVE
classes Of helpless children. the abused,
neglected, dependent. delinquent and de
fective The question is often asked,
Does not the juvenile court have jur~
isdictiou7' The Juvenile court has iur-
isdiction over only the delinquent chill
dren, the number Of which is next to
the lowest in the FIVE classes.
I'm Colorado there is no child labor
That problem was solved nine years
ago, and while there may be few vlo-
lations of the law, child labor, as 1T is
generally understood. is unknown IN our
fz. 4k.ta hot rEn
enforce the laws. The laws all along
have been ample, but they were not al
ways effective because they were not en-
forced Our bureau sees TO their en-
"Thc state has recently taken up the
humane question in an educational way,
and there is now an official whose title
is the superintendent of humane and
moral education This officer gives lee.
lures before the normal schools and
thus reaches the school children through
the teachers. The foundation Of all hu-
name work, of course, lies in the eau
cation Of the children, and by teaching
it in the schools We find that much more
can be done than is accomplished by
bands Of mercy or other similar asso-
ciatiOns.'
Mr.. Whitehead says that the Colorado
bureau is the outgTowth of the state hu-
the society in Utah, He says that any
society of the kind has a limited field
for its endeavor. for its activities are
largely confined TO. its membership, the
public, as a usual thing. rescuting in
reference by persons whose authority
is not firmly established or generally
recognized. When the Colorado bureau
became a state bureau by legislative en-
actmeDt, Mr.. Whitehead says, il ac-
quired the dignity that is essential TO
its successful operation, and immedi-
stely good results began 10 be realized.
Mr.. Whitehead says that the humane
societies in Wyoming and Montana
have already followed Colorado exam
pie and that Texas and Montana have
already followed Colorado's example
and that Texas is likely to adopt the
same plan. Also, Mr., Whitehead be.
leves that Utah would reap much of
benefit by following IN the same line.