The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-27

school iai
More than 1000 visits were made bv !
PROBATION officers to the homes of nm /
y. yatohers during the year covered by |
the last report of the juvenile CONT
Two hundred and fifty cases We're cot
teu without court procedures of -.
Kind. More than sos cases are under
the PROBATION care of the court. Inst
10 per cent of the ,probationers have
appeared IN court for subsequent Of
lenses, surely an inconsiderable pronor
ton of the whole number And the
showing is largely due to Judge
Browns theory that no child is without
honor that none, however dishearten-
ing his environment. is without ambi-
ton TO rise to better things.
Judge Brown has not confined his
work to his court. or even to his visits
to Drobationers' homes With the aid
of some of Salt Lake City's best men
ard women he has made it possible fo,.
children who had started in life seem
mgr with all the world against them.
Ia change their environment, To come
under better influences. TO have a
chance. Of a scrt, to make OF them
selves citizens worthy OF their citizen
ship.
Canyon Crest Ranch.
One night a boy was found sleeping
in n barn. He had no father no
mother. no friends capable OF sur
rounding him with holesome infiu-
ences. In the common acceptance Of
the term he was not a delinquent Or
binary humanity demanded that some
thing be done for him. And so the idea
of Canyon Crest ranch originated. In
an inconceivably short space OF time
1t grew TO maturity. Thanks to the
generosity of public-spirited men and
women to whom application was made.
the farm in Davis county was bought,
ana 1t is being maintained today at
private expense
Here is a comfortable home for bows
who do not need correctional methods
Tor boys 1yho need punishment are
not sent TO Canyon Crest. IT is Il place
Tor those who lack home OF their
own and who want to get out there
IN the pure air and close TO the heart
or nature, the 'ealth. the strength
and the wiling ass to make men of
themselves. real men. Thirty-five boys
have made their home, temporarily. at
canyon Crest Many of them have
found permanent homes elsewhere. and
are giving good accounts of them
selves. OF the ranch Judge Brown
says i'm his latest report:
Il consider this home for dependent
boys who want a chance one of the
and citizen building in the world. and
one of which the whole state should be
proud 1t is conducted on the honor
pan, and the boys are self-governing.
Has Beautiful Srroundinqs.
The Canyon Crest ranch is up a can
yon from Bountiful. the farm house
nestled under the lee of hin and he
SIDE a beautiful stream. and high above
II is the home of the Parks and McMa-
hons. who have watched the enterprise
grow and helped make it realize the
hopes of its founders. Across the
stream and up on another hill is a
broad stretch of alfalfa land on which /
the boys expended their energy in hay |
ing season. only TO see their crop blown /
away i'm the hurricane of the fall
The farm house where the boys live /
is comfortable, though small cottage. /
with living rooms downstairs and one |
big dormitOry upstairs. The young /
farmer and mis- wife who have charge,
direct affairs on the material side but
the boys themselves have a government
OF their own. with a mayor and other
officials whose authority is unques-
TONED except by newcomers, and not
long by them. BOy-fashion. these
youngsters have way of making the
fresh additions to their number feel
the force of public opinion irresistibly
and they do it gently, too.
\ visitor bent only on studying the
workings Of the plan is struck by the
wholesome atmosphere of the whole
establishment. The boys take a pride
in showing their chickens and COWS.
their horses. their orchard and the
equipment of the place. Clear-eved
bright-faced. manly and healthy, they
face the world with the courage of the
Lad who has discovered that every one
IS anxious to help him when he is try
ing TO help himself They talk freely