The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-06

Carr and Col c. II. Maloney were for
the school without investigation.
Following Browns explanation of
the school and the authority to estab- |
lish it, Welsheimer made a motion for
investigation. Croiius talked the
motion. sailing into the school bad
thing FOR the city.
Then Col. c. II. Maloney rounded out
his FOUNDER and in stirring
speech that shook the windows he
managed to fire several broadsides into
Crolius' and Welsheimers arguments.
Ingwald Moe came to the colonel's as
sistance with some more statements.
What Judge Brown Told.
Judge Brown read the statutes of
1901 authorizing school boards to
tablish parental schools The terms of
the statute permit the collection of 10
cents on the hundred dollars. and
the school city has been collecting this
fund for four years it now amounts to
| $4,000.
The speaker stated that his serving
as Judge did not bind parents to accept
his decision and if they did not take it
| the delinquent child would be trans
! ferred to the juvenile branch of the
| circuit court. Brown said that only
such children as would come before the
|
| 1t is the idea of Brown that delin-
quent children should be segregated and
given separate schooling so as not to
contaminate the others He believes
| that a parental school where no legal
| record is kept will keep a child from
| having the circuit court stigma put on
him.
Attorney Welsheimer's notion was
| to appoint a committee to investigate
| the school. not to criticise it, but to
look into it from the standpoint of ad-
visibility at this time.
Outside of the Emerson school,
| said he. 1.-The school children of Gary
tare housed in frame buildings because
| the city is growing too fast, and al
! though the school system is doing the
| best that 1t can so far it has been I'M
able to erect enough buildings. and at
the Glen Park school there are over
| crowded conditions.
Now. the point is whether it is ad-
visable to spend money on a parental
| school and farm for the bad ones when
there many good children to be
taken care of. Can we afford 1T now!
Therefore. I think that this Question
ought to be gone into very thorough
~"
| W. c. CroIius assisted Welsheimer
| He pointed out that the erection of q
building and the establishing therein
a parental school of this character
would give Gary a bad reputation or
the ground that strangers would paint
the city as the one that turned out 8
large number of bad boys. He de.
nominated the school as the bugabof
of many children who feared that the,
would be ciapped into it, and cited ar
N Sfa xrb
drawn his son from the Emerson schoo
because the boy feared that, he woult
be transferred to the parental school
Crolius stated that he wanted thu
fathers and mothers of the schoo
children of Gary consulted before an.
parental school was built.
i Ingwald Moe talked for the school
but said that the only danger tina
might possibly exist would be tina
Judge Brown might have to fill up TIL
institution with good boys in case h
could not find bad ones
When it came to voting on the Wei
| sheimer motion 1t was laid on the ia
BILE. One of the speakers told Judg
Brown that if the parental schoo
| proposition was a good thing it woul
i stand investigation, and if it no
then the public should know about il
When asked point blank whether h
would not welcome an investigatio
Brown said that he wouldn't, as
would be criticism on the schoo
| | management.
The feature of the whole proceeding
was the unanimous praise given b
| |! both sides to the excellent managemen
/ of School superintendent Writ, who's
administration was upheld by all pres
ent.
| i,
1t is expected that Attorney Wei
sheimer and those who support hi1
will renew their efforts to demand a
oofaI cchooI pIau