OBJECTS OF THE JUVENILE COURT RECORD The object of The Juvenile Court Record is to disseminate the principles of the Juvenile Court throughout the United States, and, in fact, the entire world. When the Juvenile Court was first established the sociologists of the entire country stood by watching anxiously the outcome of this new departure in childsaving methods. It was realized that a medium was needed whereby the results accomplished by the Juvenile Court might be set forth in an intelligent manner. The Juvenile Court Record stepped into the breach and has devoted its pages exclusively to news of the various juvenile courts. As a result of the publicity thus given to the foundation principle and routine work of the Cook County Juvenile Court other States have passed juvenile court laws, and bills are being prepared in nearly every State in the Union to be presented at the next sessions of the Legislatures of the various States providing for similar legislation. PLEASE NOTE! ALL agents for the Juvenile Court Record carry credentials. The agent presenting this paper to you is authorized to sell single copies at 10c, and to take annual subscriptions at $1.00 per year. This paper is published only as an exponent of Juvenile Courts. New York Office, 53 W. 24th St. 79 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. Boston Office, 71 Kilby St. Boston, Mass. At the recent meeting of the American Humane Association, held in this city, Secretary Carstens, general agent for the Massachusetts P. C. C., presented various phases of his work, and especially recommended co-operation with other charitable organizations. "We must recognize," he concluded, "that in the sense of providing better home life and encouraging thrift on the part of the parents, we are also preventing cruelty in the broad acceptance of the term." Chicago, Ill. The Juvenile Court of Chicago won the silver medal at the Jamestown exposition for its exhibition of photographs and statistics. Des Moines, Iowa. Juvenile cases for one month, 71; probationers held over from last month, 24; new probationers, 20; reopened cases, 2; cases adjusted out of court, 18; cases in court, 17; children placed in institutions-industrial school at Eldora, 5; industrial school at Mitchellville, 2; Orphans' home at Davenport, 3; institution for society, 1; cases to be closed, needing no further attenfeeble minded at Glenwood, I; Iowa Children's Home tion, 34; calls made by probation officers, 312. Louisville, Kentucky. The action of the Board of Children's Guardians in providing a clinic in conjunction with the work of the Juvenile Court is an advance along right lines. It is not to be argued that all crime is disease in one form or another, while the need remains of dealing with adult criminals with a severity required for the protection of society, but the part played by disease in the commission of crime has never been given its full value by courts and juries. The basic idea of the Juvenile Court however, presupposes, except in the most flagrant instances, absence of criminal intent. Where lack of knowledge or the influence of environment fails to supply the motive, the presence of disease is frequently to be found. And in the relief of it, the Juvenile Court will serve not only the child itself, but the city and the State whose citizenship is made up of children of a larger growth. Duluth, Minn. The county officials of St. Louis County together with Judge Ensign of the Juvenile Court are working hard to provide a place of detention to the wards of the Court. Kansas City, Mo. Judge Henry L. McCune of the Kansas City Juvenile Court is President of the Juvenile Improvement Club recently organized. They intend to have a Boys' Home in the shape of a hotel for boys who are working and going to night school but lack the right kind. of homes. |