The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-13

I him-he had properly punished me. I peg ged his pardon"
 The motto of the Industrial school is; Work, love, play" Plenty of all three. | While the boys labor hard, making their | own shoes, clothing, shirts, pants, do- ing their own laundry, farming. going to the school room at regular hours. tool, ing all their own food making their own beds, yet with all this they love thci, hours of recreation. This is a wise dis pensation. The little freckled-faco, isd- headed boy, frazzled out at the elbows of his little coat, and the knees of his; trousers, and frequently some other places thereabouts, who has lived in grime and dirt all of his short little life, playing in alleys. and all sorts of byways and hedges-is loathe to give up play for work He must be understood and catered to- managed and eoaxed Judge Benjamin 3. Lindsey in an excellent article recently published entitled Play Grounds and Juvenile Delinquency" told of 1n inci- dent which is well worth quoting He said:
 T know a city of less than 0COO in- habitants in which there were over 9,00J arrests among the boys in one year. walked into one of the courts of that city and found the time of the jury, the judge, and the counsel taken up in try ing a boy of 12 for throwing a brick at a citizen. The next day I met tie boy in the bullpen amid hardened rifainals. He had chains about his waist and knees 1 asked the boy why he threw the brick He said, I never meant no harm. Mis- ter; I was just playing
 Poor little fellowl Could he be blamed considering his environment, the unde- sirable shack and crowded district in which he probably lived?
 One can scarcely keep back the tears when these poor wayward little creatures are brought right close home to ones heart
 The new building, known as the Ala bama building, is now in full running order at the school It is a handsome structure of brick and stone and is equipped with dormitory space, recita- ton rooms, library, offices, teachers apartments and the dining hall and kitchen. It Is spotlessly clean, kept so by the boys and is an ornament to the grounds and an everlasting monument to the great state of Alabama 1 am told that since the school opened in June, 1900, only two deaths have occurred, the health of the boys being excellent. At the inauguration of Governor Conner the
 
 a conspicuous feature. The noble women who have devoted their time and money to this institution have had the hearty CO., operation of the Governor, Attorney Gen eral Garber and the commissioner of agriculture, Mir J. A. Wilkerson, who are on the board of control. To MT. T. H. Motion, whose invaluable assistance with the new building, and to MT. Julian Ken drick, whose kindness and generosity in his personal services for the plans and specifications of the purification plans as sured it's perfection, the deepest gratitude of those interested in the school is un- questioned.
 Time and space preclude detailed ac- count of the many interesting things re- garding the school. It Is such a large subject; so much to be said. But this much consider It is a grand and glorious work, just the rescuing of one little way ward soul. Think of 1t, only $S. s 1-3 cents a month required to pay the expenses of one of these tiny little bits of flesh and bloodl Doesn't it appeal to you?
 Humanity after all is the theme not books and creeds and dogmas. These perish or disintergrate and are forgotten ened conscience of the state realizes that in caring for the child it is caring for itself. The struggle is long one and a hard one but the glorious title of woman- hood and manhood cannot be better earned than from duty done in child hoods sacred cause!