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Show far easier, and lees costly, as a gen-oral gen-oral thing, to provide a Juvenile court I than a detention homo. That Juvenile court could be given Jurisdiction to end the unruly children to tne Indu-trlal Indu-trlal school, and the county could bear the cost of establishing tho detention de-tention home, with the proper instructors instruc-tors and officers for that homo. In most of the counties, yncteed. It would be considered not worth while tQ bother both-er about a detention home at all: tho unruly children being so row and tho cost of keeping them lw sucn homes being so great Wo consider that Superintendent Thomas in offering this suggestion and criticism of the county detention j homes, has rendered tho public a very j great and valuable Bervlce, one that j tiie legislature should fittingly recog- j rilzc. The Ideas which he puts forth seem entirely feasible. They seem, j in fact, to be a practical solution of a Question that a great many of the ' counties would have found it praetlcal- ( lv impossible to afford. We commend i the suggestion distinctly and favcr- ably to the legislature, hoping that In j tho dlBCirsslon which it will evolve the right thing will be developed, even If the suggestion of Mr. Thomas has to be modified here and thero or changed by way of amendment. Certainly Cer-tainly it la worthy of the closest and nioet candid consideration, and such we trust it may hare. Tho Weber county legislators muat be prepared to resist nay effort to establish es-tablish these detention homes. Children Chil-dren requiring tho care and discipline of an institution such aB the Industrial Indus-trial school, should be sent to the State Institution in Ogdm, or tno school should bo closed as serving no good purpose. But the Industrial Echool Is doing good and can be made to accomplish a great deal more good, If properly supported so that its Held of labor may be broadened. It never should be allowed to gravitate, for want of support, to the level of a purely penal Institution, but tho constant con-stant aim should be to raiso tho echool to a higher piano. - - i NO DETENTION HOMES. It is not often that we agTeo with the Salt Lake Tribune on public policies, poli-cies, but here Is an exception: Some time ago the Standard gave emphatic disapproval to tho scheme of prominent Salt Lakers, including the Juvenile court Judges, to establish detention de-tention homcB over the Btate. Supt Thomas of the Industrial school, in his report mado public Tueseay, gavo emphasis to the objections we had recorded, and now his protests are treated by the Tribune as. follows: ' This whole juvenile court and detention de-tention homo proposition is in its formative for-mative period hero. It s wc:i to consider con-sider all propositions made In good faith, with the candor and judgment that the public Interests require. It Is plain that there would rot bo too many of the unruly puprid taken In hand by the Juvenile courts throughout through-out the state and held In detention homes to be collected together under tho Jurisdiction of the managers or the Industrial school. Anc in race that school tppcars to bo tne rlgiit place for those juveniles, ana the Jurisdiction Jur-isdiction for them. It Is plain that a county which has but two or three of such youths In It will not oe at tho trouble of providing a detention homo for them: It will rather ignore tho law, and do nothing about tho matter mat-ter of a detention home, or try to get rid of the obnoxious youths in soruo underhand way. Perhaps it will not even have a Juvenilo court. But it la |