Show DETENTION HOME IS NOW PROPOSED Plan t to Take Care O of Youthful Delin l City cit MONEY MAY THUS BE SAVED SCHOOL BOARD POSSIBLY P I AID PROJECT i iThe c ri The Tue h first frt steps t establish establishment 1 h ment and maintenance ff a detection det l on home In connection with the Hy ty ju juen n nHe He lie court Court were taken yesterday in the theoffice theoffice office of or Mayor Morris MorrIs ind nd although no definite action acton was taken on the matter the juvenile court curt commission commissioners ers are ar waiting only till ti the legal steps are taken which shall enable them to establish such a home Following the regular session of the juvenile court Judge Willis Brown had hada a conference with wih the members of the commission slon Mayor Morris Morrs Superintendent Superintendent D H Christensen and Chief of Police Lynch L The gist of Judge Jud e Browns talk to the commissioners was to the the taxpayers of Salt Sal Lake City are made to pay ay at the time rate of 71 1 cents a day for each child sent ent from here herc to time the te state industrial school at Ogden The juvenile court law al 01 lows Jows an expenditure of or only GO 30 0 cents a day for or each child chUd kept under thou tion ton of the court in a 8 detention home If I a n home were once established the city eit could well wel afford to pay 50 or 60 cents a day and yet save money this because the time cost of keeping a boy for even a period of years at a higher rate would not be so great as that of keep ing him until he is 21 years of age at 71 cents cent a day Chief Lynch stated that the tho assistant superintendent ent of the Og Ogen den d en institution told him that instead of the t he 71 estimated as the cost for forea ea e l a individual i day the actual a Cost WItS was Wf Plan Is Proposed Although the directors of the infants home h ome on 1 I street have signified their willingness w to lo undertake the manage management management ment m ent of a detention home th they y cannot take ake t the responsibility at the low rate rte allowed a ac by by bv law for the care of each child hild c It I is i to overcome this difficulty that hat t the commission is striving The law l aw gives it power to establish such a home but the the funds allowed by it are Insufficient There may mo however be another means mens of getting the matter into proper shape The law allows Te the school schol board to establish and maintain out of the regular school fund a parental school which is another name for a detention home If I the city attorney decides that the former foner plan Is impracticable the I matter mater may be placed in the te hands of or the te school board when sufficient funds may be appropriated to cover coyer the te ex expense pense pen Besides Beide providing providing a place for tOI the de of delinquents who are arc candi andl dates at present for the reform school the home will wi be for the receiving of those thoe children whose home influences I are not good god and who have hae already come coe under the jurisdiction of the court v I |