The following letter, which is self-explanatory, we have submitted to Mr. T. D. Hurley, and his answers to Mr. Bruck's queries are printed immediately below the letter itself.

Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 7, 1911.

The Juvenile Record, Chicago, Ill.:

Dear Sir:-Enclosed please find copy of a bill to establish a juvenile court in Buffalo.

We are anxious to have a law here embodying the best thought of the country and will be very grateful to you if you will read the enclosure and make such suggestions as you think desirable for its improvement.

We should like your opinion on the following points:

1. Term of office-ten years.

2. Qualification of judge-should there be some qualification, especially along legal lines?

3. Should the compensation of the judge be left to the common council? Would this open the way for the entrance of politics into the juvenile court?

4. Jurisdiction.

5. Detention home: (a) Should any qualification be required of the superintendent? (b) Should there be provision for grading children according to offenses (c) Or according to age? (d) Should there be provision for instruction or employment of children? (e) Should the question of co-education be left to the discretion of the superintendent?.

6. Should the powers of the judge be so extended as to give him practically unlimited control over everything and everybody connected with the court, as for instance: (a) Should the removal of probation officers be wholly in the hands of the judge? (b) Should there be any qualification for these and other officers? (c) Is it advisable that provision be made that the records of any or every case be dispensed with at the discretion of the judge?

In a word, we ask you to give as much of your valuable time as you may find possiblé to an academic discussion of the bill-its merits and demerits.

Your opinion in this matter will carry great weight and is anxiously awaited by the best people of our city, who are interested in the welfare and the saving of children. Very sincerely yours,

J. P. BRUCK.

(Signed) First. The judge's term of office should not exceed three years. If he has properly administered the law, he will have no trouble in being re-elected. If he is not qualified, nor in sympathy with the work of the court, he will never be satisfactory. The judge must

have a particular liking for his work, and not merely act in a perfunctory manner.

Second. The judge should be a lawyer in good standing at the bar for at least five years. The questions involved are principally legal questions, involving the rights of parent and child. Only a lawyer well versed in the law is competent to pass on these questions.

Third. The compensation should be fixed in the law, and amply sufficient to attract the services of the ablest lawyers at the bar.

Fourth. The jurisdiction should be original and unlimited so far as the child is concerned, and should be, as far as practical, on the chancery side of the court. The court should have, at the same time, jurisdiction to deal with persons contributing to the dependency or delinquency of children.

Fifth. The superintendent of the Detention Home should be a broad-minded person, one who is not prejudiced eitther against race or creed; who will listen and concede that other people are entitled to hold views, even though diametricalliy opposite to those of himself; who is not self-opinionated, and who will be guided by the rules and regulations adopted by the court.

Children should be graded. Delinquent children, especially girls, should never be allowed to associate with dependents, or those children who have never been guilty of any offense.

By all means they should be instructed, as this tends to occupy the time of the children, if for no other reason.

There should not be co-education in the Detention Home, as the latter is only intended for temporary purposes, and the child who may never be made a ward of the court or retained under control should not be forced to associate with children such as his or her parents would not wish him or her to associate with outside of the home. Until the parents' rights are finally adjudicated, the court nor no other person should undertake to interfere with the education or present mode of living of the child.

Sixth. The court should have complete jurisdiction over the court and its officers. The probation officers should be civil service

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