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Show USE OF SCHOOL HOUSES. In furtherance of The 'fnbune 's jVlea" that schoolhouses in the city be made social centers, as they are made elsu where, we are lad to print the. following follow-ing communication-. Salt Lake City, a up. 22 Kdltor 'J'rihune'.--To whom tlo our public pub-lic school buildings belong the people or the school board? It seems to me li wfould be a ver. good plan if some of our prominent promi-nent cltlzeiin would take rhe matter In hand-and establish "social centers" tn such buildings, thereby keeping the young off the streets ai. night and giving good respoetable places for association, amusements, learning, and physical improvement, im-provement, such as has been done in New York, Wisconsin. Texas, and other Slates. A ( ase In point where such as above would prove beneficial. Last evening at about 9:46, upon returning return-ing to m home with my wife, there were six or eight children on the lawns in front of the terrace where I live- T told them to go home as it was alter "curfew": "cur-few": they 1 ei t and went off.. When I had retired four of the larger ones, two boys and two girls, returned and got upon the lawns of the two housep immediately co the west of my reahSencSi and hud they kept Quiet I would not have known of heir belna there As il was 1 ahoneri the thief of police's office and reported children out after curfew. "All right.'' was the reply. I Waited tweniy-five niln-.ites niln-.ites for an officer to appear. In the meantime mean-time positions were getting mote familiar; ffnall . front my window, I told the youngsters I had phoned for the police; thereupon they left. I presume the police wore too busyf?) to attend to the matter My point Is thl6. If the school houses were open to the public every day and evening where the young and the old could go and eng.ige In various sorts of recreation, as mlghl be established, parent par-ent and friends could keep a better count of their progeny, and see that the youngsters young-sters went home and .to bed In proper horns. start tbt ball a-rolling: Mr Kditor. and let siicii citizens as George T Wallace. Wal-lace. M II. Walker, lohn Dein. -tc . assisted as-sisted by the ladles, and not onlv qua1 but g(i ahead of the other stales In thesu mailers Yours ti-uly, Replying to the invocation for us to "start ;he ball a rolling," we would say that we have repeatedly urged the vfrv proposition how brought forward bv Mr, Minor. We have. called upon the board of education to take the lead in this matter and have urged it on the public repeatedly. Mr. Lawrence, now one of the commissioners of this city, has taken a good deal of interest in this effort, and on the right side. Of course, as" commmissiouer, be can Ifey-e 00 power to deal with the matter, but as a citizen he may lend etrong aid in furtherance of this movement. The gentlemen mentioned by Mr, Minor could also do good work in the same direction, and we should be glad to see them come to the front and take charge of a movement so directed - |