The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-01
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
TRUSTEES HEARD
Declare That Order Barring At
tOrneys From Pleading for
Parole Was Necessary.
SAY THAT PLEAS WERE
SOLELY TO OBTAIN FEE
President Joseph of the Board
Presents That Side of
the Case.

The trustees of the state industrial
school are somewhat wrought up over
the interview printed in The Tribune
Wednesday regarding the order made
by the board. and which was trans
njtted to parents and guardians of
children who arc confined in this state
institution.
President Harry S. Joseph of the
board declares that the issuing of the
order was necessary owing to the fact,
as he saws, that ''several attorneys
made it their business to call upon par
ents, where boy or girl was in the in
dustrial school, and say that for fee
they could get their child out, and
that they would exact fee and then
made their appeal TO the board. " Mr.
Joseph declares that the cases which
caused the issuance of the order were
not appeals made on account of charity,
nor for any desire upon their part to
secure a parole, but purely that they
might exact a fee,
Be that as it may. the order is con
sidered too broad and too sweeping,
To every one is accorded the right to
be heard, either through themselves or
someone whom they or their relatives
OF friends may designate to make an
appeal. This is not country where
czarlikc methods can be applied.
School Not a Prison.
The industrial school is not to all in
tents and purposes q prison There
necessarily must be rules and discipline.
but the board of trustees has no right
10 DENY anv child confined therein the
privilege to be heard. Those children
are sent there for the purpose of re-
forming them, but disclosures in the
recent inquiry into methods in use IN
the institution show that it is not re-
formation, but that criminals arc made.
Mr.. Joseph. in talk with The
Tribune, said the industrial school has
local parole officer IN Salt Lake, and
also Il state parole agent, both of
whom have an Office with Mr. Joseph
in the city. The state parole agent, he
states, travels over the state and makes
personal investigation into the homes
and the conditions which surrounded
children who are sent TO the school,
He declares that his Office and his
home are always open to those who
have children in the industrial school,
who desire to plead for those children.
Children Are Looked After.
When child is paroled he SAYS the
state parole agent looks after him in
conjunction with the local parole Off
Ger. He also says that himself, the
local parole officer and an official from
meetings in the Juvenile courtroom in
Salt Lake, the meetings being held |
upon the 18th unless that date be Sun
day to hear reports regarding children |
on parole and also to hear what parents |
have to say and appeals for parole,
When an application is made by n |
parent or guardian In Salt Lake for the |
parole of child IN the Industrial !
school. Mr.. Joseph saws that it must |
parole officer is sent to investigate. |
lie reports upon the matter after in
vestigation and his report, as also the |
record of the child in the institution. |
comes before tho board and the board |
approves the report, A bond of 500
is eXacted that the boy or girl will be
returned safely to the school should
the condition of the parole be violated.
This much is said in behalf of the
board of trustees.
Should Be Public.
In this connection, however. it
should be said that the board of
should make the proceedings of their
meetings public. There are too many
star chamber meetings. Too many
things entered on record that are not
made public. like the ukase barring
hearings for the parole OF child. Mat.
ters should be in the open. But as
tho parent, who was quoted in The
Tribune Wednesday, SAID, "this czar-
like order which was made public
through Tho Tribune, should be re-
scinded.
Mr.. Joseph says that he viii gladly
and willingly furnish the public with
the names Of attorneys whom. he de-
clares made appeals to the board for
parole purely for the purpose of earn
ing fee.