The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-24

ton. "The Johnston Home" This was a surprise to the noble woman who was thus honored, after her struggles for the establishment of the school The plan IS not to erect any one building of any great proportion in the schools growth. but to have a number of homes, accommodating not over fifty boys each. This plan per mits more individual home life with its several household economies and utilities The bare and washed hillside seen at the time of it's beginning is now fragrant with blossoms of peach and green with the new budding fruit trees of many Narl- cities The revines are spanned by rustic. grape clad bridges the bald hill back or the house crowned by grapevine sum mer house. The big spring has been sur rounded on three sides by limerock wall. the boys. with tedious toil gathering the rock from their own school farm. and as little masons doing the entire job NO skilled workmen could have done 1t bet ter
 Since the opening of tho school over hundred boys have heen enrolled and as
 many more applicatioue turned down for lack of room. No boy is receiyed under S
 nor over 16. and cannot be kept after he
 becomes c1
 The old method of exercising the evil spirit out of a juvenile culprit with cal O mine tails and d det of bread and wa ter possibly conjoined to isolation and to- tai darkness in a dungeon. has been very much modified by scientific investigation as to crime cause as well as by practical Christianity The relation of heredity. physical construction and environment to crime is tho basic argument that has made possible tho rcfornatoiies for the crimfnaliy inclined youth. The ethics of suggestion is utilized or involved in tne
 mere naming uf this class of SCHOOLS They must not be given any designation that carries with it a stigma. No brand of shame must accompany it's alumni u,hen ttiev zo forth Into the worlds s arena, | To the uninitiated In CriminOloGy and treatment of crime as a disease. an ah- uormality. this seems a small duibhle. and far-fetched, still every institution is adopt ing the theory.
 While it is matter of common knowl- edge that only the criminally-inclined the incorrigible and wayward are eligible to it's hospitaiity-and this fact cannot De gotten away from by whatever name thu institution may he designated-it is nev
 ertheless insisted upon that tho term re
 fornlatory must not be used.
 Mir C. D. Griffin. the superintendent.
 met me at the station in two-mule wag-
 on. mile over a road gently inclining
 up to the school brought us to the gate at the foot of the avenue" The boyS had graded the entire quarter of mile ave nue and planted on each side hveoaks and
 eIns.
 Inmates are Made Generally Useful and Self Sustaining. On arriving at the school. l announced to the superintendent that I had como to write 1t LID for The Sunny South. The reeuest was Graciously compiled with. it's acronplishment beinS facilitated by the officials and inmates. The kitchen was the first place visited. A squad of hoyH called the kitchen force were busy pre- pairing dinner for seventy people, growing boys at that
 On the big rang vas not or soup a | kettle of beets (which the tH'ss raised last | summer and kept through the winter. buried in deep pine needle lined fur-"ws. ! and tomato stew. Inside tfte range V, a 0uantay of beef roast and hig pans o; egg bread. What does it cost t0 feed boys l that we'll? Three dollars month. and g diversified crop. hushanded with discre- l tion and foresight.
 From the kitchen to the shoe shop IS i only through hall The spirit of all the
 work done on the place seems to be doing common things in an unc9mmnn way. John Emhry. who came to Alabama 1 from Nebraska with MT. Griffin, was in charge of the shoe shop as well as the l printing office adjoining it,
 l Seated upon cohhlers' benches were
 dozen or so boys. each deeply absorbed in ! his task. One was seated at the ma
 chine one was putting on a heel one sew | ing a vamp. one cutting a tongue. and so | on through the entire shoemaking process, But each boy makes all of his shoe. lt l would pail on them to he given monot
 cnous task of doing the same thing al
 ways. Besides. the trade must not be | learned peacemeal, but entire. All the ccbblers were barefoot. by pref erence and in response to spring, but the
 dual lessons of providence and a craft i were being taught them for they were
 working on next winter supply. 1 They had been told of Nspcleon's reply
 to one who asked him what two things were most essential to victorious soldier | ing. viz: "A full stomach and we'll shod | feet They therefore. needed no elabo- ration upon the value of their trade to | the world. They felt it's dignity and prid-
 cd in 1t.
 | Tn the printing office the little foreman showed his sample book. and the forms | of Vheir institution organ. The Boys Ban ner A printing squad was busy. One lit- 1 tie fellow was too low to reach the case and stood on stool distributing type. Others were setting up the forthcomins issue of their paper. Another was getting out some letter heads and each as import ant and interested as any ycungster who
 feels that he is doing something useful