THE AIM 01 SCHOOLS the feea of a school under state control has been too often depre anted and Is of itself too to require any argument at this late dasy the last legislature was fortunate enough to succeed in securing Bg tavo approval of an act designed to meet this crying want with the lead features enactment the pub lie are familiar just at present the theme to prominently before our citizens who hope before very long to me work commenced on the construe uon of the institution and the school as soon as in opera lion the committee who recently re from a to similar eions in the east made an report to the board of trustees it will be found in another cola m n and bears evidence of a scrutiny and careful study of the subject in all its bearings the ree F are sound and will doubtless be adopted upon mat uro thought from the board as the plan to be in establishing and managing the school to the end the institution is designed the utmost care should be taken to kp lite inmates under proper control and amin ing until a thorough reformation have been effected the bill 96 it passed the legislature makes ample provision for this the acts under which ilke reformatories have been created in obiter places are probably equally explicit it this Is abe se the provisions in many th stances are not complied with two or three days since an exchange in alluding to the capture of six boy burglars all under fourteen years of age discovered that five of the six had been recently released from the reform school and that the least guilty one of the pug who bad been persuaded into the crime had had no other moral train fig than the streets of a great city afforded it may be said that some boys fiill forever realist improvement pro abat statistics can be shown to prove that there are incurables cu but a boy on who milie discipline of the institution has had no efrece should not be too hastily liberated few youngsters are so deceive ordinary judges of character as to whether so far improved that they can again be trusted with liberty without restraint to express a self evident fact briefly reform schools aro created as a means and with the object of reforming their inmates A temporary incarceration is not the leading idea neither is the teaching of a trade abe one may have a certain terror inthe juvenile mind and the other may make the offender better able to get an honest but terror wears off after a while and an honest living is not always the kind of an existence ahe youthful transgressors gres sors are looking for only in rare ones should it be to core mit a boy the second time ile should be kept the first time until there can be no reasonable doubt of his complete reformation