The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-06-26
Editor
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.


necessary to the useful establishment OF the Terri
o the Girls Industrial School For years there complaint
by the minor judiciary that there place which girls might
sent made to save them Originally the law conen
plated sending girls well establishment
kind but though the law provided for provided place
girls could be sent The fault lay in the law however but
Legislature which until 1901 did provide sufficient funds
lii perhaps generally known that
Retoatory School was designed for girls well for boys and that
Tor few years both sexes occupied the buildings King street 1t
crude attempt had given up The
became Reonaor for boys, attempt
girls abandoned That between thirty and forty years ago
The boys reform school, which has recently been Wal
alec on this island has had checkered career but undoubtedly has
done deal of good saving the waits and ays humanity
which might otherwise have usefulness From
among the number OF the boys committed to that establishment there
have been several who have considerable
Territory and who now occupy good positions
The thing that crippled the boys reform school the sale OF its
lands AS long those lands available the boys able
training Hawaiian agricultural methods But the sale of the lands
in the early eighties left the establishment seriously crippled The idea
the time make naval school, something the lines of the
celebrated Conway and the school practically emped into the
Kaimoa the first and only Hawaiian manowar Had the idea of
training ship properly carried might have been bad
but like MANY ideas of the time all hus and kernel The
Hawaiian navy grief sailor boys
grief with it. ,.,- ..
Since made get Legislature
appropriate money to put the reform school proper
ing impossible agricultural land which had been
sold during the naval episode and the only feasible plan to obtain
suitable site possible Some H. E. Cooper then
President OF the Board Education proposed buy site on Kauai
place Maumau Lhue The money voted but
during conference committee portion the item disappeared VIZ
that for purchase of building and site and that scheme had to be given
Two years under the administration OF the present SuPe
tenden OF Schools the land OF Waaee was obtained and
transferred the Department of Public Instruction Upon this land
which hundred Industrial School
established There good opportunity agricultural
farming and the needed buildings
put up will also be thorough instruction in handicrats
Of the boys Waiaee LETT the old Reform School
premises unoccuped the opportunity the Department OF
establish Industrial School for girls The old
buildings thoroughly renovated and adapted to the changed
conditions and quite ready for occupancy.
those whose phanthopc work carries
them the lower parts the town know what terrible
environment many the 1t the manifest duty
these girls The only which this
can removing them from their surroundings and giving
them opportunity such things will enable them to earn
honest living
true that the girls great deal OF this work. places
like Kamehameha Girls School, St Andrews Poy the girls board
np school Sisters of the Sacred Heart kawalaao
Seminary and there girls who enter such n-
ons girls would and do injury to those who are
being brought up And have right to sit down with
folded hands these unounates The Cs
meet this SITUATION lime and time
again have the police Judges up against this problem Girls are
brought I'D before they do not know what to-
do with them They like send them to JAIL that brands them
irretrievabv reprmand will have Slight effect
and in MANY cases An industrial school, however,
may have good influence" ,...,
1t must not supposed that all the girls who enter the industrial
or rather who to be saved But large
Dercenage properly conducted VIII be- Whether
the institution prove truly beneficial will depend much upon
those who are charge At all effort and very necessary
effort going Up the effort has been made
and g having might continue on her evil paths until
Che reached the a School arrest the downward
and save the rng mayap the wronged from her greatest
herself