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Show A PLEA FOR THE BOYS. Something Ought to Bo Done and Dono Speedily A Parental School Suggested. Editor Trlbuno: Your editorial remarko about our Juvenile criminals and tho need of something being done, ond that right speedily, to saw them, touches a tender spot In tho public conscience. I hope. On of theso boys turning out a downrlsht criminal is likely to cost our State $10,003 to $50,000. whllo It might not cost 51000 to save tho wholo lot. After a great deal of study upon such cases, I bcllevo that we have tho remedy provided by law If tho nicuns to carry out tho provisions of tho law arc forthcoming In somo way. I rofer to tho parental .school law, Utah School Law, IDOL Page S3, Socs. 62-70. In nearly every Inslanco It l lack of parental authority properly exercised which lies at the root of tho dlffculty, us you say. Nor is It but seldom, In our city, that tho parents uro criminally inclined in-clined themselves; too often they arc well-meaning, hard-working people, who lack force of character or Judgment In dealing wi.h children. Tho law provides a very salutary object ob-ject lesson to such parents, In that it cm-powers cm-powers tho Board of Education maintaining maintain-ing ouch a school to charge the oxpenHe of onch Individual pupil committed to the school against tho parents, and making It a bill collectible by suit. If necosmu-y. Somotlmcs a thing which touches tho pockctbook of a parent sorves as a wonderful won-derful stlniulu3 In devising means to control con-trol his family This parental school law should have nono of tho odium attaching to It which Inevitably belongs to a reform school. It Is a school of provcntlon rather than of reform; only Incipient criminals, not actual criminal?, are to be committed to It. Given a Juvenllo court, private commitment commit-ment and a strong, magnetic Individual In chargo of such an Institution, a boy stands a good chance to boeomo a law-abiding law-abiding man. TI1I3 Bstom has been tried In other cities and has proven vcrj helpful. Why not try It here? Thero arc many reasons why thoao boys will not succeed well If put In tho UHiial graded kcIiooL In tho Ilrst place, tho system of government nccosHorily found In tho schools Is not suited to their special needs- In the second sec-ond place, the courao of Btudy, admirably adapted to an Intellectual child. Is not tho thlny for them. They have too much of the animal in them yet, and need moro avenues for tho outlet of their physical activities than the graded school affords; and, best reason of all, tho common school would rccelvo them but flo or six hours a day. live days a week, thlrty-slx weeks a year, and turn them loose In tho old environments and subject to the former for-mer tomptatlons for the rest of the lime. M. |