The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-01-27

inadequate. but we do as mucl as we
can To- meet the difficulty thai is before
as. What we need very badly is an i'm
dustrial school for boys and another for
girls. This is no new idea, dozens of
administrators have seen the necessity
in years gone by. But the years have
gone by and the plan has not been car
ried out.
AT the present time it seems as If &c
were possible to carry out this scheme
in embryo. The land at Naidlcc, Nao-
lauloa, Oahu has been transferred 70
the Board of Education. The land t.
government land and is some 800 acres
i'm extent but when possession was
taken, it was found that there were
considerably over forty lyuleauls, or
email freeholds on the place. Until 'he
boundaries of these Gould be settled,
and their titles adjusted, it has been
impossible to make any healwav Win
buildings or any other plans upon the
estate Work has been carried on in
surveying for the past three or four
months, and in few weeks so the Star
is informed, the Commissioners Of Edu-
cation will be in posi- ion to move.
There is nothing more needed IN this
community than a place to which Wis
ruly or absolutely destitute girls can be
sent. The present Ref)mac0ry school
for boys is overlooking, and until the
Boys Reformatory school is moved to
Waialee, there can be no building set
aside for girls, the Legislature having
decided that the present premises occu-
pied by the boys shoull become the
Girls Industrial School.
Any one who attends the police court
or knows anything of the seamy side
of Honolulu, and of Island life must De
struck by the absolute nee esAtv Of in
dusuial institutions such as nav been
suggested. Every large city has them,
every aggregation of counties has then.
They are as necessary to the well being
of state, a county or city as its pub
lie school system, its police organiza-
tion, its mayors and its other public Of
ficers. 1t can easily be said that to curb
the evil tendencies of those who
through heredity and environment ma.
turaily take the downward path, is no
easy and i'm some cases is a hopeless
task. True, but because it is a hard
task il must be met, and the best done
for it that can be done For the rest
the will of an allpowerfu providence
must provide.
With the girls industrial school. as
with many other improvements, it is
impossible to carry them out with a
fairy's wand. You cannot say be- and
it is 1t is not a question of money, or
lack of money, it is question of adapt
ing means to an end. Fortunately The
Star is informed, some progress for the
conversion of the present Boys Refor-
matory School into one for girls, has
been made, and when the general move
can be put in force, these will not re-
quire any great length of time to bring
about the change.
The estate acquired by the Commits
siOners of Education for the purposes
of the first industrial school is really an
ideal spot for the work. There is a fine
strip of gently sloping land ,ver three
quarters of a mile in width between the
bluffs and the sea. This is well water
means Of wells and can be raised by
windmills. The soil is rich, and in one
part has raised cane for the Kahuku
plantation. The climate is cool, the as
pect being open to the full trade wind.
All kinds of vegetables and many fruits
even those OF the temperate zone can
be raised if proper care is exercised. On
ample space for small herd of cattle,
and good pastmage. Here the boys can
be taught the elements of dairy farm
ing.
But it is not only the boys that should
be taken from the influence Of the city
atmosphere, it is also the girls. Any
one who pauses to think will acknoWl- 1
edge that such course is necessary. /
Girl after girl, of good physique, posi-
bly, of fairly good moral tendencies is .
swept away into the vortex Of contain
ination and eventual death. The cases
are continually coming up before the
thoughtful. Before the minimizing they
pass as every thing else passes, a mat
ter seen and that instant forgotten, un-
til some peculiar horror rises up and
arouses peculiar attention, and then
there is a general hustling round and
wondering why things are so.
Industrial Schools will, of course, not
prove an absolute penacea for all the
minor ills of boys and girls, but they
do an immense amount of good, if they
are conducted on proper lines. Many a
life is saved by them, many a life is
put in the right groove and comes to
fruition Of doing good to others and
leading them away from what is not the
path to be followed, After all, there is
only a small amount of good which can
be directly done, it is the indirect good
which is most effective, or to use the
lomely ph~aseology Of the Bible, a little
eayen leaveneth the whole lump. 1t is
20 be hoped that the Commissioners Of ,
Education NAV soon have 60 IA tb,fr