Another class is handled by the Recreation Department of the Board of Welfare, as evidenced by the dance hall inspection. For every public dance a license must be secured from this recreation department. This department then sends an inspector to each dance to learn if all its rules are being observed. These inspectors also keep a sharp lookout for young girls and learn their names and addresses. These names are turned over the next morning to the supervisor of police matrons who sends one of her assistants to call on the parents of the girl to inform them where their daughter was the evening previous. Many times the parents had not known of the facts, or had been deceived by the girls. Such supervision can but bring about good results. The Free Legal Aid Bureau averages about 400 cases per month, prosecutes wife deserters and has brought them in many instances home from other states. The Welfare Loan Agency during its few months of existence has eliminated several of those detestable misdemeanants, loan sharks. Perhaps I’ve spoken of many more varieties of law-breakers than Dr. Lewis had in mind when he asked me to speak a few moments on this subject, but it was hard not to go a little further and mention these different agencies which are making some degree of progress along this line in Kansas City. ORGANIZATION OF SYSTEMS OF PROBATION AND PAROLE CHARLES A. DE COWRCY Judge of the Superior Court, Massachusetts The two essentials of success in probation work are:--judges who have an intelligent and sympathetic interest in the problem, and probation officers fitted by temperament and training to secure the best possible results. To further define these essentials, we need judges who will not discredit the system by extending probation to persons not likely to profit by it, and who will apply it wherever it can be done with due regard to the protection of the community, and where the past history and present disposition of the person investigated indicate that he may reasonably be expected to reform without punishment. And we need probation officers who possess not only sympathy and zeal, but knowledge of human nature, tact, firmness and patience. How shall we secure such judges and officers? The active friends of probation can influence public opinion in the election or appointment of persons able and willing to consider probation on its merits. It is such a human problem that it is difficult to conceive of a man otherwise fitted for judicial position who will not apply probation with intelligent sympathy when its possibilities are called to his attention.