| Show I DETENTION DE TENT ION HOME N IS URGED BY GOVERNOR AND JUVENILE 5 At a meeting of the Juvenile court commission yesterday afternoon a petition pe petition pe pc- was drawn up and signed by the members asking the county commissioners commissioners commis commis- Monet s to establish a detention home Inthis in inthis inthis this city at once Tho be petition points out the needs for such a home and is supplemented with a personal request from Governor Cutler for tho the commission commis sion to take some action in the matter It has ha been beon the opinion of not only om officers of the tho juvenile court but bitt those who have watched tho workings of the tho court that such a n home was an nn ab absolute necessity Durin During the first year car of tho the existence exist exist- once ence of tho the iu court buch a R homo home was established and und was of great good to many wayward boys bos anti and to others who had hail no proper r attention New Laws Law's Wording When the thc new juvenile court law was I passed by hy tho the last legislature tho the detention do de home homo was abolish abolished cd Time The new law made the following provision pro for fora forn a n detention homo 9 In counties tI s containing cities of or the tho first or of or tho second class clas there In may Inbe be bo established d and find m maintained a a. detention school not connected with an any Jail which shalL he be In charge chance of a 1 superintendent S Tho The count county establishing and maintaining m such detention s chool cho shall bo be entitled to recover from the cities clUes of or ortho I tho the first and of or the R second con cond cl class closi S situated In said county such sum for or the care and maintenance of or such child as IJ mo may oc tiC reasonable and in no case shall such sum bo he le iem's 8 than th the per capita capUt monthly or yearly earh amount of or uch such ox- ox x- x pi-no pi e In iii the detention school In which the tho child Is committed or of or the tIme actual C ex expense CX- CX pense Incurred h by tho the count county for the caro care and maintenance of or such child Said amounts paid bv hv cities of or the first and of or orthe the time fI second class for or th time the care caro and maintenance main main- of or children from these theM cities sent mt to the detention school shall hall be paid me monthly mm Some time timo 3 ago O. O O Ogden lilIes then I city attorney SId advised Mayor Bransford Bransford Brans- Brans ford orel that ho believed the time law was unconstitutional un imn constitutional in jim that it gave O I time the county commissioners control over time the school while whilo the thc cit city was required to pay the thc bills Test the tho Law In view of tho thu petition which was presented yesterday ny to tho the county commissioners com corn mi missioners missioner it i is understood that that bod body will take some means either cither le legal al 01 or otherwise to force the matter with witha a view of testing tho the constitutionality of the law mw Following is tho the petition sent to the count county commissioners by the juvenile court commission Tho The undersigned the thc Juvenile Court commission feel reel called upon to direct your our attention again to a matter of or su supreme supreme su- su preme Importance name namely the time necessity for tor a detention school chool In salt Sail Lake county county coun coon ty under tho terms of or the tho det detention school act passed by the recent Legisla Legisla- ture turo The reasons for the urgent n necessity of or ortho tho establishment of a detention school are so obvious as to need no repetition herO her here Illustrations of or this need are of or dally daily laU Occurrence in tho the operations of or tho Juvenile court A As your honorable bod body has tho the responsibility of or establishing this school the need of Its being done dODe at once will Ill doubtless appeal to you Expense of School In InIe Ie view of or this unquestioned pro pressing need nied we most respectfully urge you to act acl upon tho time authority given Iven you OU b by tho tIme det detention J school law In and nd proceed at once to establish a detention school under Its provisions And we suggest that this be bedone bedone bedone done without Jt delay ela as the demands for It are pressing ItO mind and should Rhoul 1 not he tic denied We e feel safe arc In saying that tho time Juvenile JU court In this count county will core como short hort of our expectations an and wishes as long a athis as as this Is ls not done As to tho the t o of or the school It has been ascertained on Inquiry that tho the total total total to- to tal cost of or establishing nn and maintaining It during tho year Jear lOS 1908 will probably not exceed which according to lo the law would ho bo divided pro rata rota between the tIme elt city of or Salt Lako and the tho county and If Ir the law should prove provo In an any respect the question of or amending can be placed pinned before tho time next Legislature In all nil earnestness and In behalf of or the tho thom m many bo boys s 's and amI girls In need of or this Institution Institution no wo ask you jou to establish It Jt without without with with- Ith out dela delay JOHN C C. CUTLER M. M I. I A. A BREEDER BREEDEN A. A C. C NELSON EI HO Juvenile Ju Court Commission To this Go Gov Cutler personally a added ed tho following My Iy y attention hAS just b bien en called to a atypical atypical t typical case CASP Illustrating the time need of or this school and I am told 1011 it Is one olle of or many A mother was found in iii h her r home help- help drunk surrounded with filth and squalor Her IWo 0 children ranging raJ In Inage Inase inage age ase from front l 1 12 to 2 years were vere dirt dirty rn ragged ed and stunted with neglect and Insufficient ent roo food The They were In iii imminent danger of or burning the house hOUM and the entire family a rn II Sorno Some of the children n were brought hl Into the Juvenile court this afternoon hut but all that can cami bo be done one Is II to return them to time the home hom with Its ml surroundings There Is no other place for or them Such Incidents are happening ill ll the time Time The father in iii this case cas was out of or the time State |
