Proceedings of the Conference on Juvenile-Court Standards - Held Under the Auspices of the U. S. Children's Bureau and the National Probation Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 21-22, 1921 #260873

So long as the juvenile-court laws of practically all the States are ignored, conditions such as I have described will persist. It can not be urged in defense of the failure of those who preside over the juvenile courts that the necessary facilities for caring for delinquent children have not been provided. It is the duty and business of the courts to enforce the law and to administer relief to every delinquent child. We can not too strongly emphasize the doctrine that it is the duty Of the judge — the legal duty, if you please — to save the child.