Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-18
Rows at Detention Home Should
Learn Trades and Be-
come Useful.
coMMENDS COMMISSIONERS
Means Afforded at scihoo' e "
correct EVIL Tendencies coming
From Unfortunate Environment.

uo.ia, Visit by GOV. John c.
cutler TO the detention nome recently
,i,shod nv the county commission
es'ao''' 49,, i,venile court sys
ers ~ par' VI Wv ti,o .ovornor
tenn for salt Lake couh'S' Wv
80 written a letter to the Deseret
,,rossinv his approval of the
News 'Nf IN, 49, ,,o,,,o Ca. wards
work poss'pie WIN w
of the court ana hishly c"i'i''ie''''''e
,,, county commissioners for THEN ac-
Wv ,ottor GOV cutters let
ton III '"'
ter Is as lolloMs' 49,. ,o+a,,ion
I'm the estaoiishiuehl oi W. ~ ~ t'n,,'os
school for boys Witiou' Su,'" ~, 80,
who are subject TO t.e ,eihp. ''.'i %
sailing children deprNeu VI p IUpIi
rironment. the county Jill. stsn
Of salt Lake county h"Nc t"Nsl -, a.,
IN the right difecllon' aiu VS.
commend theW Iiius' heai wy ~. -
SO. | consluer inns ACTON VI wv
most importance III the Worh vi so N'ns
our boys to useful cl'Nehship anu pr,
tcctng the state from the eNpeIise -.
! trouble. when hl'sht poSsIply pe
sary OF deallls Win .neni i%'e'
criminals. Your paper Is 10 We -
4 graduated On the excellent hot'ee gwen
The school In last saturdays ISSUE
THE GOVERNOR VISIT
l visited the school on the evening
OF July 49, and | believe 1t Is due tne
public that they be further informed
as to the plan and purpose ana pres
ent condition Of the institution. ana
its future prospects and the field OF
usefulness ii will occupy one puF-
pose in doing this is to assist In Great
Ing public sentiment for the idea the
school represents, and thereby hasten
the time when 1t will realize the full
purpose for which it was established.
There are at present 10 boys in the
detention school. In nearly every case
these boys are victims of wrong home
environment. Some have neither faith
Ell nor mother: others are without one
on the other parent; and some have
been living with step parents. They
have all drifted into the wandering, ir
responsible. half-criminal life that such
conditions frequently engender: and the
final step to the commission of an Of
Tense for which confinement Is the
penalty was probably near in the case
of each of them. the only way to
rescue them from this impending dan
ger was to give them a better home
and better environment. With this
View they We're placed in the detention
school.
MIN povs. r,o,
IiONiH'
The building used is the old Iyintab
schoolhouse, between Eighth and Ninth
South and Twelfth and thirteenth
,ng annrox at IPO, 1o,, 81 atso'nnoaat-
now occupying it. The boys are sub
Iect To strict regulation as to hours
ana conduct, an element that has been
W"efuIiy lacking in their own home
ives They retire, arise. eat work
ana play at certain set times, and are
mace amenable to rules such as chill
dren are required to observe in we'll
regulated homes The main idea IN
tnelr training Is to make them useful
ana Sehtlemanly. A teacher is provid-
cd' VINO gives them instruction in the
common branches Of education accord
ing to their individual advancement, up
10 the eighth grade.
one principal object is to keen Tie
boys fully occupied in useful or at
least harmless pursuits during their
waking hours, for the purpose of pre-
venting their superhunus activity from,
lnanifesting itself in acts OF mischief
and desructlveness. They are sci to
work improving the building and
grounds, planting trees and lawns law
Ing walks, and in other similar direc-