The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-04
REFoRMAToRY FOR BOYS.
The Kings Daughters Wish to Establish the
North Carolina Training School,

To the Editor: The Kings Daughters,
soliciting the cooperation of other or
ganizations and individuals, have deter
mined to establish a reformatory, called
the North Carolina Training School, for
white boys between the ages of 6 to 13
years, with the privilege of keeping them
in its care, if necessary, until they be-
come tWenty-one years of age. Migrants.
such boys as have been abandoned by their
parents and have no home and no visible
means of support, orphans with no one
to care for their welfare any whose par
ents are not fit to care for them anG
those convicted of crimes punishable by
Imprisonment The charter for this
Training School provides that any Su-
perior Court judge, and any Justice of the
Supreme Court or City Courts of the
State may cause these boys to be brought
before them, and shall have power to
commit them to the said Training School
Any criminal boys who have been com
mitted to the school and who prove II
corrigible shall be returned by the same
to the Civil Authorities, and it is desired
that the sum of $1,000 out of any money
in the State Treasury not otherwise ap-
propriated shall be appropriated and used
in this work.
Provision is also made for a board OF
directors. consisting of seven women, be-
sides hesGoverncr of the State, the Com
missioner of Agriculture, and the Attorney
General. who shall be directors ex-officio
A committee has been appointed to Sc
lect site for the school. most desira-
bic location has been offered, with
sufficient land for the purpose, by Mr..
Holleman, of Lake View, of Moore county.
This Training School is designed to
rescue youthful criminals who have prob
ably been guilty of one offense. from the
contaminating influence of association
with old, hardened offenders, steeped in
sin. to care for those who have none to
care for them, to direct their energies, to
teach each one some useful art. to train
their minds and hands to work. and at
the same time TO provide sort of home
for the boys, many of whom have never
known the meaning of the word ,home
where cleanliness, order, discipline self
control and kindness prevail In other
words, to save these boys from the MAIN
ing and branding of degradation, to rescue
those biighted at birth by poverty, CRIME
and environment, and to benefit and en-
oble ALL
At recent term of the Superior court,
lives, small boy, constant offender,
twelve or fourteen years old, was brought
before the court for attempt to cut anoth-
er boy The judge in passing sentence
upon him, expressed regret that there
was nothing else he could do he could
only administer the law as it is. He said
that reformatory was badly needed but
the Legislature had failed to see the neces-
sity of making an appropriation for one,
why, he did not know for there was GER
tainly an imperative need for such an in
stitution, in the state.
The little fellow was saved from jail,
however, by kind man living in tncI
country, who agreed to take him to
work. At a subsequent term of the court
it was learned that the boy ran away
and was placed in jail, so he was brought
before the judge again, who, out of good
ness of heart, told him if he would agree
to go to some relatives in South Carolina
he would pay his railroad fare
The responsibility of these boys is upon
the State. Many other States have real !
lied this opportunity for reclaiming their
boys, and have assumed the responsibility
by providing generously for such institu-
tions. While North Carolina is so far be-
hind that she has no institution of the
kind, her people must have advanced far
enough Intellectually to know that saving
these helpless, friendless children not only
adds to the safety and welfare of the
State. and to the well being of society,
but it is the most exalted type of charity. |
MISS EASDALE SHAW
Rockingham, N. c., October s.
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