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ices, the Social Service Division of the (:hildren’s Bureau is now able to an- nounce that the vacancy i n the position of consultant on juvenile delinquency has heen filled by the appointment of Mr. William H. Sheridan. Mr. Sheridan is a graduate of the Western Reserve Uni- versity School of Applied Social Sciences where he specialized in child welfare. H e .dso has an LL.B. degree from the Cleve- land Marshall School of Law and i s a member of the Ohio State Bar. He came to the Bureau from long experience i n the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court, Cleveland, Ohio, where he was boys’ re- feree and more recently chief probation officer.

Jnformational service through corres- pondence and consultation service in the field to individual courts, public welfare departments as well as other groups inter- ested in delinquency will be offered to the extent that available time and travel funds make possible.

Efforts will be made to study some of the problems with which courts are con- fronted, and to collect and distribute information which would be helpful.

Inquiries for Mr. Sheridan should b e addressed to Mr. William H. Sheridan, consultant on Juvenile Delinquency, So- cial Service Division, Children’s Bureau, Federal Security Agency, Washington, D. c.

ABOUT JUVENILE COURT JUDGES

From Columbia, S. C. comes word that Hon. John T. Sloan has been appointed judge of the Juvenile-Domestic Relations Court of the County of RichIand for an- other term of five years. The appoint- ment was made by Governor J. Strom ‘rhurmond.

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Annual report of the Boys’ Home Association of Jacksonville, Fla., car- ries a tribute to the memory of James C. Lanier by Judge Walter S. Criss- well. Mr. Lanier died January 20, 1949 and was one of :he benefactors of the Boys’ Home Association as

well as a very special friend of chil. dren.

Judge Philip B. Gilliam, Denver, who was re-elerted last year with the highest vote given to any office holder i n Denver, has been honored by several groups dur- ing the last 12 months.

The Colorado Consistory conferred the Knight Commander Court of Honor for 1948 upon him; in 1949 he was awarded the Legion of Honor by the Denver De- Molay; the Silver Beaver Award, highest award in Boy Scouting, was bestowed u p on him and he was given an honorary life membership in the Junior Chamber of Commerce.

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JUDGE PHILIP B. GILLIAM

A bill, sponsored by Judge Robert Jerome Dunne of Chicago, know as the Family Court Act in Illinois, has been signed by the governor and now is law. The bill gives to the Juvenile Court jurisdiction over parents and third parties who contribute to the delinquency of minors.

Judge Paul W. Alexander of Toledo Boon will appear again in a national magazine as author of an important paper on family and child problems. His next

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literary contrilintion will b e published in the Ladies Home Journal. At the recent Cleveland convention of the National Probation :ind E’:irole Association, Judge Alexander d i s 4 ’ u s s c d “Mishandling Mangled Marriages,“ a paper wliirh also has appeared in national magazines.

Here Judgc .4lexnnder points out the fallacy 111:it prrvails at the time of divorre that a d ivorw me:inb :I broken home. Be- fore therca is ;I clivt1rc.e. tlicre is a broken home, lie ; i r g i i v ~ .

Declarinj: ~ l i ; r t hr i h ;I f:iintly glorified poblir nit>rtivi;in : incI hiis presided over the final oljwquie* o f more thnn 20,000 dead ni:irri;igw. Jnclgv 4lexnndcr urged that the procc.dtirr of diagnosis and therapy r e p l x w thr 1irt-v.m divorce sys- tem with thp rrcntiori o f :I new Family Court, st:iffwl with highly tr:iined special- isth, to givc profe.\ion:ll r; iw work as- si5tam.c to 1 1 1 1 1 i : i p ~ ) ~ S ~ I O I I ~ I ~ S .

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J u t l ~ ~ ~ (;. I l ( r ~ d e n Hnnt, of U:irtow, Fla., yoiIiig<’h? Florida Juvenile Court judge i n t l w y o i i n g ~ ~ t Juvenile C o r m in F’lori&i. l’olh (lounty. I t a t coni- pletrtl : i n inttv-wting survey i n which 5200 ’ teen aper., iiii~luding boys ; i n d

girls i t i tlir st;ite indu.itri:il s r l tool~, cliurrli proups ; i t i d publ ic schools were ;i+ki:d their views on rontrihut- ing f:wturs :lad c:iusos of delinquency. T h e results offered no panareas but “interesting food for thought,” he re- ports. A t tlie prcwnt tinie, SO t h t more first hand knowledge may be obtained regarding youth problems, he is in the. process of contorting leaders in 80 different countriez, from Chi 1 x 1 t o Scot 1 a ncl, r ega r din g in for rna- tion as t o the prohlern of youthful court rases, how they are handled, wllat is the primary cause and what Course of treatment seems to obtain the best results.

In an effort to obtain more help for the problems of young people, Judge Hunt is now serving (without com- pensation) as executive dirertor of Polk County’s newly organized Child Guidance Centrr.

Judgr. Hunt w a s :ippointed in 10.13 to f i l l tlir une\pired pnrt o r thr Court’z fir-t f o u r yr*;tr term wher,

W. F. Bevis resigned. Since that time he has been reappointed.

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Judge Paul A. Martineau of Corpus Christi was chairman of a romrnittee of judges, attorneys and probation officers named at a meeting ralled by the League of Women Vot- ers of Texas to draft a bill “for the purpose of furthering the welfare of the children of Texas . . . to h e pre- sented to the next Legislature.”

Other meniher.; of tlie conitnitter included Judge W. R. Hlulork, Edin- burg, Tex.. W. Jay Johnson, San An- tonio. L. H;iniilton Lowe, Austin, and W. E. Robertson. H e i~ the chief pr(i1t:ition officer of Houston.

Thr hill, now law, having been signed by Governor Jester o n June 1.3, 1019, requires that. in counties h:iving two or more district courts civic and/or criminal that the Juve- nile boards ( o r district and rounty judges if there b e no juvenile boards in those counties) shall designate one of such district courts the juvenile court for that county; that such district rourts 50 designated, shall give “preference to case5 of annul- ment, divorce, dependency, neglert, support, custody, adoption a n d con- tempt proceedings growing o u t of o r ancillary to such cases”; that “all such designations may bt- changed from time to time” so that the busi- ness of the Juvenile Court may go on in the absence of the designated juvenile judge “fur the convenience of the people and the welfare of minors” and that thr “jurisdiction, powers and duties thus conferred u p on the established courts hereunder a re superadded jurisdictions, powers and duties.”

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When Judge Chris Barnette was ap- pointed judge for Caddo Parish, Shreve- port, La. he was named to fill t h e unex- pired term of hi5 father, who preceded him on the bench. Since then h e has been elected twice, the last t ime without 3pposition. I n November 1946 h e was ippointed chairman of the Juvenile Court rommission for the state of Louisiana b y

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the Governor and is still serving i n that a.:ipacity, having been reappointed by Governor Long.

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of the State of Rhode Island a n d Provi- dence Plantations Juvenile Court, ex- plains the Rhode Island Juvenile Court program, which has operated since July 1, 1944 on a state wide basis, i n the Rhode Island Welfare Magazine. Detailed de- scription of this court will appear in a subsequent issue of t h e Juvenile Court Judges Journal with Judge McCabe writ- ing the article. Rhode Island’s Juvenile Court follows closely t h e uniform Juve- nile Court Act.

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pointed an Ohio Commission o n Chil- dren and Youth i n accordance with the suggestion of T h e National Com- mission looking towards t h e 1950 White House Conference. O n the 125 member commission h e has ap- pointed Judge Raymond P. Smith of Lima as chairman, Judge Joseph E. Lady of Kenton, Judge Paul W. Alexander of Toledo a n d Judge Frank C. Bowers of Urbana. J. Gor- don Crowe, formerly edurational di. rector of t h e New York Youth Com- mission was chosen a h exerutive sec- retary.

CHUTE TALKS OF JUVENILE COURT

Comniemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment in Chirago of the first juvenile r o u t i n 1899, a luncheon was held in the grand ballroom of t h e Hotel Statler, Cleveland, on J u n e 10, 1949. This was part of the forty-second annual ronference of the National Probat ion a n d Parole Association and was attended b y many juvenile court judges, probation and parole officers from al l parts of the Uni- ted States and Canada.

Judge Charles W. Hoffman, who has served continuously i n the Juvenile a n d Domestic Relations Court of Cincinnati since 1914, and who i s the oldest juvenile court judge in point of service in t h e country, presided. H e introduced t h e

leading judges and others seated at the speakers’ table.

Messages were read from a number of pioneers, expressing regret at their in- ability to be present and sending their felicitations for the occasion. Among them were the Hon. James Hoge Ricks of Richmond, Virginia, second oldest juve- venile court judge i n point of service in the larger courts, Ihe Hon. Edward S. Waite who was for many years judge of the Juvenile Court of Minneapolis, the Hon. Mary M. Hartelme, former first woman referee and afterwards judge of the Juvenile Court of Chicago, Mrs. Louise Koven Bowen of Chicago, who wrote interestingly of her early struggles i n securing the l i n t salaries of the pro- bation offirers and establishing the first detention Iiome in (;liicago, Mrs. William F. Dunitner, who slwnsored the first juve- nile court clinic in Chicago, and tlie Hon. Robert J. Dunne, present judge of the Chicago Juvenile Court.

JUDGE HOFFMAN SPEAKER

Judge Hoffman 5I)oke of the early his- tory of the Juvenile iwurt movement. He mentioned t h e conflirting conceptions : I>

to the court’s purposes and the difficulties encountered in ,ep;irating the work of the court from c ~ r i n i i d procedures. The juvenile court i.; .till niisunderhtootl by many persnns. It in therefore incunihent upon us all to continue to work for its developnient, especi;illy improvement i n staff and facilities.

Judge Hoffrn;iii then presented Clinrles L. Chute, vice president of the National Probation and Parole Association, as tlie speaker. H e mentioned his long and in- timate association with Mr. Chute i n work for the improvement of juvenile courts and in the development of t h e work of the National Probation and Parole Asso- ciation.

Mr. Chute, who last year completed thirty-three years as executive director of the National Prob;ition and Parole Asso- ciation, apoke on “The Development of Juvenile Courts in Anierica.” He said, “Among all the social and humanitarian advances of the past century-the century of the common man.-perhaps none h a s contributed more to the welfare of chit.