The Juvenile Court

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 5, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 39.

“The Juvenile Court.”

The National Conference of Charities and Corrections at its annual convention at Portland, Maine, in June, 1904, appointed a national committee on “Juvenile Courts and Probation” (being a special sub-committee of the general committee on “Children”). The chairman of the committee is Hon. Ben. B. Lindsay, Judge of the Juvenile court of Denver. Among the important purposes of the committee is to urge the adoption of juvenile court laws in all the states, uniform in principle and application, as far as practicable; to bring about a practical, sensible, and sane method of administrative work, through the agencies of such courts, in the correction of children offenders, avoiding the dangers of leniency, on the one hand, and brutality on the other. Laws are urged, holding parents legally accountable for the moral delinquencies of children, similar to what Colorado has had on her statute books for two years, and which has worked to the satisfaction, it seems, of its friends. The chairman and secretary have prepared a pamphlet on the subject, setting forth the needs, the dangers, and the practical working thus far of the reform among the children. Its price is 25 cents. The title is, “The Problem of the Children, and How the State of Colorado Cares for Them.” As long as copies remain they may be had for above price. Address, “Juvenile Court,” Denver, Colo. All dealing with children difficult to manage would be helped by reading the pamphlet.