The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-25
HOW BOYS ARE SPO|LT
And How the State is Making
Men of Them

wen VI t1eW
The Great Work of the StonewaH
Jackson Training Schooi--Could
Take 200 More Youths Were There
Adequate ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Philanthropists Lik MIR. and Mrs.
Roth Needed.
How are you getting along at the
Jackson Training SCHOOL," a repor,e4
asked Mr.. j.. 2. Cook, the earnest and
enthusiastic chairman Of the Board Of
Trustees of that institution near Con-
cord, n. 9.
Fine" said he, and continuing, we
no longer have the. slightest doubt of
the wisdom of the State in takin5
Steps Tor the care and help Of its I'M
fortunate youth. I'm the happiest
man in the State, for within two years,
after the institution was chartered by
the Genera Assembly of 1907, our
board has so managed the affairs and
interests of the Training School, that
we have now a most excellent prop
erty, ideally located, the practical.
work going on and all who have visit
ed US or made any investigation Of the
work have become enthusiastic and
loyal supporters"
How many boys have we?," Mr..
Cook repeated the reporters question.
why when | left home last Monday
we had 81. Since reaching Raleigh,
Police Justice StTOnach brought a
respectable Woodworking carpenter of
the city to me seeking admission OF
his twelve-year-old son, who had been
dismissed from the public schools and
later got into the tolls of the law.
That boy will make fifty-five. And the
Recorder of Charlotte and officials OF
other places are seeking admission for
boys.
I'VE are doing all In our power pos
sible to hurry along additional build
ings, SO as to increase our capacity.
1t is cheaper, better, more Christ-like,
for the State to take care of these
unfortunates when young than await
q short time and then take charge ii
them as full-fledged criminals"
How do you account Tor this con-
dition among the youth Of the State?'
] asked Mr.. Cook. Don't you know
that ninety-nine cases out Of every one
hundred is due to vanished parental
control, or Indifference or hySteria.
Some boys are spoiIt by parents want
ing to whip the teacher but most so
called bad boys are those that are per
mitted to run the streets by day and
bv ME hit. You quit your work late
at night and, going home, YOU see
yourself boys and youths on the streets.
I have never yet understood what
business any boy has on the streets at
night.
uary 18th, our first anniversary. 1t
was q glorious day for Us. The board
was in session, visitors came to Go
honor to MI. and Mrs. q. T. Roth, OF
E1kin, who gave us the funds Tor our
industrial building, and to hear Major
b. +. Dixon deliver one of the great
oct cI.nacbaC az his life The hOES
mingled with the audience, served q
substantial lunch. sang America and
the Old North State, and then gave an
exhibition drill. which reflected great
credit upon Mr.. W. G. Campbell, our
commandment. II anybody in that
crowd approached any happiness, il
was superintendent Thompson, and
the members OF the board present.
we start soon the administrator
building. and the campaign the coun-
ty superintendent OF schools, uAue1
State superintendent Joyner, are
making renders it possible for the
educational building to be started
This is being done by securing sub
scriptions to The Uplift, the magazine
we issue from the training school
The boys set the type and do the press
work light at the institution. Al
but O few of the county s~uperlntend-
ents have become enthusiastic Owe
the proposition and before long tn
educational building or cottage, t
accommodate fifty. boys. VIII be {
thing of reality. We must have 1t
The appeals that come to us ar
heart rending. / must not cal
names. but a splendid lady of Raleigh
is now begging US 10 tax her Il
year-old lazy, street loafing son che
yond her controD and put him t
school and to work. We could take
him and nearly two hundred more
but we are young and lack the room
and the c~anacitN at this time.