Show NO SAVING IN THAT Out of the discreditable little squabble squab squab- ble between city and count county authorities author author- on the subject of or help belp for the Juvenile court and the tho y youth saving uth saving effort comes this There is no detention detention detention tion home i The city refuses to help in any way because the law lav- puts the a of the court the hands of the I count county or the state because a little piece of political patronage Is d denied ni d the cit city The Tho county count declines to g go forward to to the extent necess necessary ry for anything anything I adequate work vork because such a ahome ahome home would cost more than the county county coun coun- t ty can afford to pay Both city and county are arc making a mistake mistake mistake-a a er very gri grievous ous mistake I Neither can afford to permit ma maUers ej's to continue as they are arc now Boys and girls inclined to wa waywardness wa un uncurbed un n- n curbed by the restraint of home and enticed b by bad exa example are being lost cYer da day day and and and night every every They are getting farther and farther away from rom safety because the restraint tHat society society so- so should throw t a about out those unguarded unguarded unguarded un un- guarded Is withheld The city and the count county certainly can well afford afford to spend the tho money required in establishing lishing and maintaining guard over over the young I If not they go to the bad baa And there is far too much of this loss 1059 to excuse any ariy one making light of ot it IL They go to the bad and pretty soon the tho boy in tho the case Is s arrested for tor what would be a crime if ho were vere older He Is tock locked d up for ft a time brought to trial and arid sent to a n state institution of or restraint and restraint and punishment punish punish- ment mont Usually he m makes kes thai his first visit lIe He is out a while w ile and then he does something much worse and nd the I I r r 1 I life of a criminal and a convict is 15 I ahead of him till him till he dies In marl many of the stet tea the law lays lars laysa larsa a limit of five thousand nd dollars on n a human life If I a r railroad company kills a man in I Illinois ls ino-ls his widow can can reco recover er but five fiyo thousand dollars damages damages dam dam- ages for him In a way that Is the Illinois estimate of of the value alue of a man On that basis society is losing the I use of five thousand dollars for eyer every I convict now out at the penitentiary And society has absolutely and forever lost the money spent pent in catching catching- the culprit in lt keeping him for trial for trying and tind nd c convicting him and f for r i his k keep ep while In prison That Thal is money that never by any possibility can be bo recovered b by the tho community All there can be on the other side able of the ledger Is ts the value of a little need need- less and unproductive work And nd it doesn't pay for tho the brick In tn the tho walls w that detain the wasted existences In the tho case of the girl the ruin Is IB much more complete She misses the care parents and relatives should give her misses the care society is equally obligated to give gl her is subjected to the temptation which never neglects her ber and commits acts which hurt her worse than burglary can possibly hurt hurta a boy And presently she is a mother and the condemnation of the communIty community ity is written for tor all eternity For an everlasting soul has como come into th the 4 world as as' as asa a r result sult of the tho neglect of th that t v. v wayward unfortunate girl And nd if tho the man is worth five fi thousand thou I sand dollars the girl at the threshold threshold thresh thresh- old of life is worth ten times that sun stint It may not be be so written in th the I bool books s. s The courts ma may not agree But she is potentially the mother of men the source o of strength and of thought and of service No Xo money can measure mea men sure the value of a 3 girls girl's life It is the duty of society to take tale rore care of ot her to remove remo her ber from those temptations which her er eld elders rs know know spell ruin if she yields There is no economy y in either cit city or county refusing refusing re re- I fusing tho the detention home which would make safe refuge for fit A place for such a number umber would c cost st stI I fi five fie e thousand dollars a year ear Every ery court here costs more than that Not counting the value of the tho lives that are being heln lost it is certain the community com corn is going to pay more mor money for c correction n and punishment than Isnow is isnow isnow now asked for prevention What a blessing it would bo ho if the city and the county could work together together together to to- gether for the protection of the youth the the youth ou h that so sadly needs protection pro in Salt Lake now |