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REFORM IS SOUGHT
IN IUVENILE LAWS
Justice Agency Will Seek
Legislation to Improve
Court Procedure.
Legislation to modernize procedure
in connection with juvenile cases pre
sented to Federal courts will be sought
from Congress by the Department of
•Justice, it was learned yesterday.
Need for a thorough overhauling of
criminal statutes affecting children
was stressed in an article by James V.
Bennett, director of the Federal Bu
reau of Prisons, in the current issue of
Federal Probation, official quarterly
magaz.inc of the Federal probation
system.
According to Mr. Bennett the Fed
eral Government uses antiquated
common-law procedure in handling
juvenile cases, although many of the
States have adopted more humane
methods.
•'Nothing could be more out of tune
with the modern concept of juvenile
! delinquency," Mr. Bennett stated,
"than our present system of bringing
tile juvenile befoi'b a committing mag
istrate, remanding him to jail, pre
senting him to the grand jury, trying
him in open court and then incar
cerating him in some remote insti
; tution."
Federal authorities have endeavored
to refer cases of Juvenile delinquency
to local juvenile courts whenever
it was feasible, he said, but the pres
ent system is not working satisfac
j torily.
"A wav must be found,” he declared,
“to detain juveniles in places other
than the unsatisfactory county jail.
Isn't it absurd for the Federal Gov
ernment to place a boy or girl who is
awaiting hearing on a Federal charge
in a lock-up or jail when State
statutes forbid the use of such crime
breeders for the cases over which they
| have jurisdiction? Is the central
Government maintaining its alleged
leadership when one may still witness
the public trial of a Federal juvenile
offender in accordance with crim
inal procedure and methods which
have been prohibited for violators of
parallel State statutes?"
Mr. Bennett suggested that the an
swer to some of these questions can
be found only in new legislation. De
tails of the proposed legal reform
have not been disclosed by the De
partment of Justice.
RAILWAYS PURCHASED
$760,561 HERE IN 1937
For Nation as Whole. Roads Paid
Out $1,333,361,468 for 70,000
Items They Use.
The Association of American Rail
roads Bureau of Railway Economics
reported yesterday that railway pur
chases in the District last year totaled
$760,561 and wages paid to railroad
employes amounted to $4,974,052.
A special study by the bureau shows
that for the Nation as a whole rail
roads paid $1,133,361,468 in 1937 for
the more than 70.000 items they use.
Materials, supplies and fuel cost $966.
383.000 and expenditures for all new
equipment (except that constructed in
railway shops) totaled $166,978,468.
More than 12.000 towns and cities lo
cated in 2.638 of the 3.072 counties of
the United States derived direct bene
fits from railroad buying.
In 1937 the country's rail carriers
also distributed $1,983,990,485 in wages
to their employes .the report said.
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4Moving Sidewalk’ Planned
From House Offices to Capitol
By WILL P. KENNEDY.
Congress is planning to install a
“moving sidewalk" to whisk House
members through a tunnel from their
office building to the Capitol.
When the Senate subway system was
installed 25 years ago, it was intended
to provide a similar service for House
members, but because there are only
96 Senators to be accommodated and
435 House members, besides delegates,
resident commissioners, secretaries
and clerks—it was decided that a
subway station and two shuttle cars
would be entirely inadequate.
During hearings on the legislative
appropriation bill, to be reported to
the House tomorrow, this subject was
given consideration, as a result of a
resolution introduced by Representa
tive Shannon of Missouri after the
death of a House member who was
hit in traffic while walking across the
street from the House Office Building.
The bill, when reported tomorrow,
will carry no appropriation for the
proposal. Chairman Dorkwrilrr of
California explained last night, but
the Appropriations Committee is in
terested in the subject and is expected
to provide sufficient funds as soon as
the best method of transportation is
determined.
Conferences have been held by Hor
ace D. Rouzer, assistant architect of
tne Capitol, with the engineers for
the New York World’s Pair, who are
considering a similar transportation
system, and plans have been drafted
for installation of a horizontal sys
tem, fashioned after the escalator,
between the House Office Building and
the Capitol. The estimated cost is
$175,000.
The length of the walkway would
be 628 feet and the length of the
tunnel 684 feet. A separate walkway
would be provided in the tunnel for
those who prefer it. The “treadmill’’
sidewalk would travel from 150 to
180 feet per minute, requiring from
3 5 to 4 2 minutes to make the trip.
Representative Louis Rabault of
Michigan, who will succeed Repre
sentative DdHcweiler as chairman. Is
enthusiastic about the proposed
“magic carpet” and is certain it will
be approved in the next session.
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Dr. J. B. Rhine, professor of psy
chology at Duke University, will dis
cuss "On the Frontiers of Mind: Re
cent Research in Extra-Sensory Per
ception” at 5 p.m. Wednesday in one
of a series of lectures on "Discover
ing Ourselves: Psychology Today,”
sponsored by the graduate school of
the Agriculture Department.
Dr. Rhine will speak in the audi
torium of the department’s South
Building.
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