The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-10
A PREMIUM IS
PUT upon
VICE
Reform School Makes
Life Too Easy for
Bad Boys.

Through the excellence of the Wafa-
lee Industrial School a premium is put
upon vice. Such is an abstract of the
opinion of President Perley l.. Horne,
of the Kamehameha Schools, given in
a discussion OF a paper read by him
before the members of the Mothers
and Teachers Club at their meeting
yesterday afternoon in the Central
Union Church.
There was no desire on the part of
Professor Horne nor of the ladies who
concurred in the opinion to criticise the
workings of that institution nor to
minimize the good work it is doing
for the boys attending it, but the fact
that there the younger transgressors
against the law are afforded opportun-
titles of learning a trade, are assured
of three good meals day, are attend
ed to in sickness and given congenial
work and kind treatment at all times
and that these advantages are not Civ
en- to the boys of the poorer classes
who have not brought themselves into
opposition to the authorities is an in
centive to some TO commit crime and
serve a term at Waialee. This Is
state of affairs vouched for by the
speaker Within the past few days
one of the school officials was asked
by a parent as to what steps should
be taken by him TO have his son sent
down for term by way of securing
some higher training. There is no
feeling of shame at the idea of serving
time in this industrial school, thus
presenting a problem for solution.
Philanthropists in America are seek
ing a solution similar, regarding the
vagrants who commit minor crimes to
secure short jail sentences during the
winter months.
What is wanted are industrial schools
for the boys before they have gone
aastray, shelters for the girls before
they have fallen, institutions to carry
out the truth of the adage that Pre-
vention is better than cure
constructive Philanthropy" was the
subject of the paper read. which dealt
in a thorough way with some of the
phases of the philanthropic work be-
ing carried on on the mainland. par
ticulariy in the New England states.
The maintenance of the public school
was work of constructive phlan-
thropy although we have outgrown the
phiIanthropic feature and see only the
necessity.
Every child in the state is a sa-
cred thing to the state, no matter |
whose that child may be-" said the |
sneaker mo matter whether the |
child Of the richest citizen or the child |
OF the ignorant woman of the slums. |
Her child may be the most capable
in the state. Some of our greatest
men are those whose fathers are un-
known. On the state and on the city
or town rests the responsibility OF the
training CT the children of all.
Education, half heartedly support
ed, dalied with, poorly done, is our-
den to all. How people talk about II,
how appropriations are cut down, how
often the school appropriation is
tithed to death! Many do not believe
in the schools. at least after their
children cease to attend. Many more
wish they did not have to and tolerate
it only because they must. The ever
lasting school question, ever chance
for town meeting wrangle or Quar-
rel in the city council. Some COM |
,nunities support their schools grudg-
in ely as a burden. Others realize that
the schools have made the communi-
tv. The wisest expenditure any town
or citv can make is the money spent | I
upon education. Cutting down appro- |
priations and curtailing the work OF | {
the schools, / believe to be the poor {
est economy any place can practise. {
But it is schools along the line OF
the Kamehameha school that are /
wanted most now. Any boy If suffi- {
GENTLY criminal can secure trade I
training in reformatory and the
,ther kind of a boy Should have the
anne chance to learn; the girls should
,e able to secure sewing and COOK 1
ng lessons outside a school for cor c
.ection The esta blisment of such
schools would save much of the i
money now spent on home missions IN c
,ur cities
In the discussion which followed the r
PAPER all present took part The
Gathering Of a regular crowd OF young 7
Bows on Vineyard street to smoke ana T
gamble was reported. the speaker say r
ng that there was no room for them r
n the schools and "they were not PAD | L
,nough to go to Waialee.
At the opening of the meeting Vio- t
in solo was rendered by Miss Moran {
sturgeon beautifully and sympathet- a
cally played, Miss Hopper accom- Il
anying.