The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02
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Il sometimes slap them"
Wallace is son-in-law Of Superintend-
ent =. NJ. Allison.
do YOU find corporal punishment
necessary TO control the boysI" was
asked superintendent Allison.
yes, we have 10 do IT," he replied
els it ever administered without your
sanction and authority"
Not as a rule except in emergency
cases. OF course, If I'm down town
and tt becomes necessary to punish a
boy or girl they can't wait to reach me
before they do it,"
The girls are not under the direct
supervision Of Wallace, but they told
of episodes similar TO that Of Florence
/ Whitecotton.
Wallace has sole charge Of the intel
lectual training Of the ffty-three boys
who are inmates of the school"
Manual Training a Farce.
This by no means completes the story
/ of the exposures. The members agreed
/ that the alleged manual training in the
school is merely an excuse and that the
$50, 900 appropriated two years ago for
/ the education and reformation of the
! bereft and Maynard youth Of Utah had
[ brought scant results.
] From this institution with its cruelty.
Z hardness bitterness. and cold lack Of
sympathy, the members and their
+ families went TO the school for the deaf,
dumb and blind Here was a different
/ atmosphere. The first school was for
morally deficient youth. The second
/ was for those physically deficient. In
/ the latter was an atmosphere of sym
I pathy, of enthusiasm and of love for
/ work, superintendent f. NJ. Driggs
and his assistants showed the mem
( bers through. and the visitors saw at
/ hicted children learning to speak. to
read, 10 love the world, to lead good
lives, 20 employ their hands in useful
ways so that they might earn their
/ own living and be valued citizens.
Legislation Is Proposed.
After the institution had been in
I spected. short speeches were made by
/ the representative. Several of them
remarked on the contrast and the need
/ of reform in the other institution. Rep
! reseutatlve c.. W Watts made one re-
mark which contained a thought ex-
pressed by many members before and
/ afterward.
II think that the principles we have
| seen exhibited In this institution should
/ be applied to the one we visited this
morning" said he.
| The members who took the trip were
practically unanimous as to their ideas
/ for a remedy They proposed first 10
/ pass the pending bill recognizing the
| board Of trustees of the Industrial
| school. This measure places the con-
\ troll in a board consisting of the gov
! ernOr attorney general superintendent
/ of public instruction and two other
I members TO be appointed by the gov
! ernOr. An amendment has been sug-
/ gested TO insure -partisanship. Then
] il is proposed TO make a clean sweep
| of the management and to have the in
: stltuiOn run with more attention to
/ real education of the mind, the heart
/ and the hands. Appropriations are
/ favored FOX a new dormitory making
J isolation of the girls from the boys
| possible. for a genuine manual train
/ ing school and for other minor inn
/ provements which the members believe
/ are needed.
Men Who Made Trip.
/ Some fifteen Of the members of the
/ house, several of them accompanied BY
wives and children, made the trip to
/ Ogden yesterday Salt Lake was left
! over the oregon Short Line at 9.45 a.
| m, a special car being attached to the
regular train. AT Ogden a special
| street ear was in waiting. President E.
/ Nj. Allison of the senate took the mo-
tormans position for a while. and
/ Speaker Thomas Hull of the house at
/ tempted 20 collect the fares. Mr.. Ali
son was far more successful in his ef-
/ forts than Mr.. Hull
/ The industrial school was first Wis
/ tied, dinner being served there. In the
] afternoon the party went 10 the school
! for the deaf, dumb and blind. Here
/ they saw the blind learning to see with
[ their fingers. the deaf to hear with their
/ eyes and the dumb to speak. The
| heartiest kind of welcome was extend
/ ed. Representative Z. p. Evans Of Park
/ city discovered there his wife's nephew.
/ little RulOn Thompson. who has been
\ IN the institution a year The child is
1 totally deaf When he entered the in
/ stitutiOn he could not speak at all. In
/ a year he has learned TO articulate dis
| tinctly, and he charmed the visitors
/ with his proud exhibition Of his accom-
/ plishment
There were numerous other cases in
/ which members were personally inter-
/ ested and which attracted attention
/ FOR other reasons. In the chapel some
/ of the blind children furnished music.
/ while some of the deaf spoke. Several
/ Of the members Of the legislature made
/ short addresses.
+ Luncheon was served there. and the
\ members took a belated train back to
/ salt Lake. arriving at 1890 p. m.