Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-06-08 | Page 8 | Alcoholics Farm in Utah worth Trying

had to sentence many men to jail when she felt that was pot he proper answer to the problem, has been an active supporter sup-porter of the "drunk farm" Idea. , s Efforts have been made in the past to get such a farm established by Salt, Lake City individually. There was considerable con-siderable difficulty, however,, in locating the farm at a sufficient distance from the city while still maintaining effective city jurisdiction: Judge Bosone pointed out that city judges under present statutes stat-utes could not sentence habitual drunkards drunk-ards to institutions ' outside j the . city limits. , .... The proposal to have the farm established es-tablished as a state institution has real merit The habitual drunkard problem is not a problem which is confined to Salt Lake City, or even to our larger cities.' Such a farm might well be self-sustaining, self-sustaining, or almost self-sustaining, because be-cause of the productive work men sent there would perform. , c - The Telegram has said before' this that the idea of a work farm for habitual drunkards is worth trying. We still think it is, and we hope this latest proposal pro-posal for a 'state farm of that type will receive legislative support at least on an experimental basis. Alcoholics Farm in Utah Worth Trying The Utah State Board on Alcoholism Is interesting itself in the question of establishment of a work farm for alcoholics alco-holics in Utah. The executive director of , the board, Reva Beck Bosone, Salt Lake City judge, says a law to establish such farm at a site near the new state prison at the Point of the Mountain will be presented to the 1949 session of the state legislature, . . , , : For a number of years Salt Lake City and Utah have been toying with the idea of a work farm for alcoholics as a better method of treating habitual drunkards than giving them jail sentences. Judge fioaona, who as police cotpt judge has ' i '