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Show CHANGING THE STATE SCHOOL Meeting in Salt Lake on Monday, the state welfare commission adopted a report favoring the placing of the industrial school under the control of the state board of education This would displace the present board of trustees. The commission also r nnioiended a change In the law which would I permit the transfer of delinquents to the industrial school without the for-, mality of commitment by the Juvenile! court. This recommendation would reserve to the parents the right tOj transfer the case to the juvenile court 1 if they desired It is the thought of the committee in this regard that th industrial school should be an educa fional, rather than a penal, institu-,' tlon, and that the Inmate! should be I relieved from the stigma of court action now necessary before they un ! dergo training there. If the idea of i the committee is carried out. the transfer of a school boy or girl to thel incuibirial icuooi wouiu oe an administrative admin-istrative act, rather than a part of ( court procedure It would come in much the same manner as a child Ib now transferred from one school to another within the city. The purpose is to lift from the; school much of tho stigma which now j attaches and at the same time make easy the process of commitment or' release for ihe purpose of temporar-! Uy placing children classed as subnor-1 I ma I under special training and care ! , Tl is is broadening the work of the! ! school and, if properly outlined in all lit! details, should be favorably re- J ceived |