The Saint Paul globe., 1905-03-03
WOMEN CUT OUT OF
ANDEREGG MEASURE
House Committee Changes
Most of Girls Training
-5aa School Plan

Its author will never recognize the
Anderesg bill, establishing a separate
training school for girls. The idea of a
separate school for incorrigible girls
alone remained of the original bill when
the house committee on state training
schools yesterday completed its con-
sideration. The committee decided to
take from the bill the section creating
a commission to locate the new school,
and will give this work to the state
board of control. 1t abolished the lin
'ftations as to proximity to any other
state institution and cut from the bill
everything that savored of women's
management. A subcommittee, con-
sisting of Neils jacobson, II. w. Put
nam and George w. Armstrong, was
then named to draft a substitute along
the lines agreed to by the committee.
The action of the committee was
taken at two-hour session held yes
terday afternoon. F. II. Whittier, su-
perintendent of the Red Wing training
school, gave his views of the situation
TO relieve which there has been so
much agitation, and Mrs. c. G. Higbee
of st. Paul, who has been a pioneer in
the movement, reiterated her belief in
the necessity for a separate school.
Favored lie Sueur
The provision of the Anderegg bill,
naming a commission, had been the
subject of much criticism, for il was
declared that as originally drawn the
bill was in the interest of lie Sueur's
candidacy for the school. A half dozen
applicants have since appeared in the
field, and yesterday friends Of Hinck-
ley, Pine county, insisted that that
point would be a formidable applicant
for the school. The committee was
practically a unit that the board of
control should be given the duty of Sc
lecting the site and then it was de-
cided TO put no limitations about the
board in making its selection.
Originally the Anderegg bill provided
that the new school should not be near
er than thirty miles 10 any existing
state institution. Shorn of its provi-
sions for woman's Management and
woman visitors, the bill 1t is expected
will have less interest for the club
women of the state, who have been
most active in the agitation for the
separation of the girls from the Red
Wing industrial school Sentiment in
the committee was practically unani-
nous that the management of the
school should be in the board of con-
troll and free from outside influence.
The major number of the employees of
the school, when located, will be wom-
en-, but the committee declared emphat-
ically against women management.
| The Dorsey bill, establishing the
school, provided for the selection of a
site by the board of control 1t was
said yesterday that its author would
not press his bill for passage, in view
of the changes decided upon in the
Anderegg bill
Supt. Whittier, in his remarks before
the committee, intimated that there
had been a good deal of sentimentalism
in the agitation for the separation of
the sexes in the Red Wing school,
though he did not oppose the action
proposed.
Girls Hard to Reform
Most of the girls we receive are
much more incorrigible than people
tant TO send girls to our institution un-
til they have become SO degraded that
their reclamation is most difficult The
school for these girls is a preventative
instead of a reformative institution. We
have girls, from certain localities in the
state, who are susceptible to reforma-
tive influences and there should be op-
portunity for the separation of these
classes of girls. From some localities
we do not receive a girl who can be re-
formed. Girls housed up near boys do
not yield readily to reformative in
fiuences. The evils of their becoming
acquainted have been overdrawn, but
each sex knows that the other is there
and 1t serves to keep alive that part of
their nature that can only be elflninat-
ed by perfect separation"
Mrs. Higbee declared that no crit
icism of the administration at Red
Wing had been intended, but the sys-
tenn by which delinquents of different
sexes are kept side by side was being
arraigned. The state by this plan fos-
tered deception and intrigue. and 1t
was a responsibility that the state
could not afford to undertake. Mrs.
Hfgbee urged that the law be made
to permit of the detention of girl in
mates until they are 81, and to pro-
hibit their delivery to the institution by
the sheriff or his deputy.
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