The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-07


tone pictures and it's more than $50
pages OF matter handsomely set. print
ed and bound is highly creiitable to the
young printers as II would be TO any
job Office in town.
II am always interested I'm anything
that comes from the state institutions
at Cranston anyway.
And the annual report Of the Board
OF State Charities and Corrections al
ways sets me TO thinking.
think. for instance that IL In a great
pity that other boys cannot have the
advantages OF the training which Mr..
Barnes boys get in his printing Office.
That"a boy has TO break a law and
become social outcast to secure the
advantages OF the training and educa-
ton afforded at Sockanosset, for in
stance.
1t is a fine institution and the Board
of State Charities naturally take
great deal OF pride in the work of
education, training and reform accom-
plished out there.
But Il seems to me rather hard that
only the boy ruffians. thieves and out
casts are eligible to admission.
That the requirements are that there
| must be something morally and legally
wrong about boy to enable him to
enter the school.
That the candidate must pass an ex-
animation in crime TO be admitted.
Did you ever go out there to the
scnool for boys at Sockanosset?
Did you ever see the cottages the
dormitories. the work shops. the fine
play ground and the parade?
An OUTFIT. indeed. that any education
al Institution might be proud of.
A fine schooling in the common
branches, manual training I'm the shops.
blacksmithing. machinery. engineering,
carpentering, masonry, shoe making.
| tailoring. besides printing and agricul-
| ture--mllitary training. Incompatible
| discipline. religious and moral super
| vision-why there isn't a school. acad-
emy or educational institution in the
ed by the United States government.
that can surpass our reform school.
And 1t is all free. supported by the
state. no tuition fees. no board bills
not even clothing to be paid for by
the boy, his parent OF guardian.
Everything free. the boy supported.
disciplined, educated. trained, nursed
IL he Is sick.
But available only to the boy who is
a vagrant. a thief or who commits
some breach of the law.
Truly, the state Is kind to its evil
doers. 4
1t is rather pity, seems to me. that
many boy whose parents are too
poor to give him decent schooling.
who is iii fed, poorly clothed. doesn't
have anything like the attention paid
TO him by the state that is given the
rag-tag and bob-tail among the youth
full population.
That the well-brought- decent. but
: poor boy In unable to secure any part
VI the advantages so generously Law
ished on the boy who breaks laws--and
IL then taken I'm, cared for clothed, fed.
nursed. educated and trained by the
state.
No wonder the population at Socka-
nosset steadily increases.
No wonder the quarters are always
crowded.
The enthusiastic reports or the boasd
of state Charities and Corrections are
enough 10 make every parent or guar
dian who IA ambitious for the welfare
of the boy under his. or her. charge.
but unable TO give to him rhe advan-
tages thar others can AFFORD. eager for
the boys own sake 10 have him commit
some crime and 80 be eligible to Sock
anosset.
Happy boys at Sockanosset!
Fortunate boys mt Sockanosset.
There Ia no need for any boy TO grow
,Ip wIthout trade, however poor his
parent. however hopeless his surround
ings, or to suffer for the want Of good
housing. good clothes. warmth I'm win
ter and an excursion or two in sum
mer. decent education and frst-class
training. physical and moral--if only
he will make criminal OF himself.
The Sunday schools and our moral
teachers are all right, but they evil
IDENTIFY place serious obstacle in The
way OF ~ boys advancement and we'll
being as an object OF solicitous irater-
a.
teach righteousness. "
Only the well-to-do are justified In
bringing up their children In the pro-
verbal way they should go.
lie honest--and get along the best
way you can--or the worst way you
must
re the other thing and the sover-
eisn state will promptly step In. take
ON Interest In you and proceed TO give
vou every advantage that an ambitious