Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-17


habits combined Juvenile court workers, and faith
and mothers of Utah. let US stamp out this habit
among our boys, and that those who contribute
TO it get the punishment they deserve
THE CURSE Or ALCOHOL.
Many of the evils following the use of tobacco
also accompany the of beer and liquor. and al
though legislators have passed stringent laws on
this subject for the protection of boys and girls
there many saloons restaurants ana drug stores
selling the poigons to youths There are men who
seem to think of the or 10 cents they receive
for the drink than they do of the soul Of the boy
or girl whom they debauch One of the bad features
connected with this terrible traffic of liquor to chill
dren is that many more girls who come before the
court drink beer and liquor than boys. The inhurnan
hcnds who make a practise of Turing young girls 10
ruin almost Invariably resort to beer or liquor as the
agency through which to gain their end. And what
has been said of boys and cigarettes. can be SAID
of girls and liquor, that has been sent to the
industrial school for immortality that did not point
to liouor as the cause of the beginning of her
downfall Prohibition prohibition let US so to
work without fear favor and put out of commission
every scoundrel or institution that sells our boys ana
girls liquor If we do this by next year, Christmas
time. many a boy and girl will be home in the family
circle whose place will be vacant If present conditions
are permitted to continue.
THE BRIGHTER SIDE.
The above points to the gloomy side, but thanks 10
the intelligent and unring devotion of Chlef Fro
baton officer Guardelo Brown and his assistants,
Charles Spcrry and Francis Hardie and Mesdames
Anna l., Young, and Hattie James, and our young
clerk Miss Ethel Hansen and the volunteers above
referred to- there is another and brighter side 10 'o
picture This year 1900 boys and girls nave
been through their hands every of whom mas re-
ceived earnest. kindly treatment. and the vast MA
iority of them been benefited and blessed
have been turned from evil to good ways ana many
of them saved becoming real criminals. In near
" all cases the court had the cooperation of the
parents of the children. which has made our duties
lighter and the permanent correction of the children
easier and surer. Unfortunate indeed is that boy
whose parents seeing his faults, insist on justifyns
him and covering up his delinquency.
APPEAL FOR HELP.
Fortunately the legislature convcncs this winter
and we appeal it to give US the help we need 1t
&c NOT necessary to appeal Gov Spry, for he is
already converted to the necessity of liberal APP
preparation for the juvenile court system of the
state, and is of the truest and best friends tho
boys have in the country are also Supt of Public
instruction Nelson and Atty-Gen. Barnes. the other
members of the Juvenile court commission These
gentlemen have done the best they could With the
means ut their disposal to make our Juvenile courts
the great boon to the delinquent boy they are in
tended to be- The trouble has been that the boy, that
wonderful creation which has truly been called the
masterpiece Gods handiwori, has been consigned
to a secondary place. and other things of Infinitely
less Importance have been elevated above him. No
one in the state of Utah is more DESTROYS of seeing
magnificent state building erected on Capitol Hi,
the beautiful site apart for that purpose than the
writer would like to see a building there whose
,rch,tcct,rc construction, furnishings and appoints
,ncnts would be the admiration of the world would
love TO see n system of highways and roads in our
state that would surpass In grandeur In usefulness
and every other way even the Famous roads OF
Rome which beginning Mt the golden post in the
Eternal CITY radiated the shafts of the sun In
all directions reaching into every important city of
tho known world: roads, the very sight of which
would make the heart of the most fastdious automo-
bile fcnd leap joy would like to see bounties on
wild animals SO ample, that the skin of every coyote.
n,nt,or wolf wildcat and other animal that in any
way nterferes with the ocks, herds or crops Of our
ronchcrs and farmers. would be nailed to the barn
door or more correctly speaking. filed with va
rIo,,s county clerks OF the state would like to see
all these, and every other improvement made that
tends to develop the of our state and con-
t,h,tc 70 the comfort enlightenment and prosperity
- - THE BOY FIRST
ant in nv Judgment the greatest, the best and
richest asset that or any other people ever had
I. the bow Therefore, would urge the members of
the coming legislature before dollar is devoted to
NV other p,rposc however important it may be- to
500 that the chllrcn's courts of the state be fully
couipned with everything necessary to safeguard the
hoy to turn him from tho paths of Delinquency to
WAYS of virtue and right; to prevent his becoming
criminal and help him to become good citizen; in
stead of being burden to the state and n menace
to society a glory to the commonwealth, and bless
Ing to family and friends Our juvenile court COM
nIssion should have sufficient money under their
control to pay as good salaries to officers
pad to those of other states, that they may be
s,red "while they are spending their best energies
for the welfare of others that the wolf will not
their own thresholds to pinch and worry them" Let
us have the best and most complete detention homes,
the finest and most thoroughly equipped Industrial
school that It is possible for money and the wisdom