The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-13

rlOuS during the evenings All pOyb
get industrial work and there is a
regular time for play. The industrial
work, as you perhaps already know, in
cludes the cleaning Of the grounds and
buildings, care of the machinery and
most every line of agricultural work,
including dairying, poultry raising,
gardening, taro growing, cane and ba-
mana culture, tree planting, cultiva-
ton of farms and crops in general.
had the satisfaction of looking into
the workings of reformatories last
summer and saw many features that
believe will be helpful to us here. We
should urge by all means that the
court do not send boys to Waialee for
short terms, for in short time they
are not reformed and their short
terms prove one of the greatest
sources of dissatisfaction to long term
boys. There should be some system
of parole arranged for boys committed
for minor offences. Boys committed
to the Industrial School should under
90 a physical examination and when
found unhealthy, they should be as.
signed to some regular hospital. Dur
ing the past few months, there have
been a number of boys sent to Waia-
lee who need medical treatment badly,
such treatment as the school is not
prepared to give.
There have been no escapes since
midsummer, that is, all attempts have
been discovered and prevented until,
Just last week, two boys ran away and
as yet have not been located.
Professor Berger, master of the
Royal Hawaiian band was furnished
thousand-mile ticket by this depart
ment that he might visit the school
occasionally and assist the school in
the instruction of music. He is CIV
| ing the lessons free of cost. the
school has a fairly good band and an
orchestra.
The shortage of finances in the past
few years has made it impossible to
keen the school up in good shape and
now We must bear in mind that 1t
requires time to make complete
change. The Commissioners of Edu'
cation should visit the school at Wal
alec if possible.
Agricultural and Industrial SCHOOLS
This department can better meet
the educational needs of the great
mass of the children in this Territory
by supplementing the present educa
tional system by the establishment oil
industrial and agricultural schools. In
order to do this with the greatest ben
eft to the children and the industrial
interests of the Territory, an amend
ment to the law relating to compul
sorry attendance at school was pre-
nared. which was passed at the las
session of the Legislature, with some
: notifications.
Two types of such industrial
schools have been proposed,-one
general industrial school where boys
will be taught gardening, dairying
Z poultry raising, blacksmithing, car
pentry plumbing, etc, and the girl'
will learn housekeeping, cooking, sew
} ing, mending, dressmaking, hatmak
} ing, laundrying, etc, in Honolulu an'
} HiIo and, perhaps, other large cen
} tiers of population; the other an agri
D cultural school established in proXim
D ity to and by the cooperation of wei
D developed agricultural interests.
D Plantation School Proposed.
0 OF all our agricultural interests, tn
U cultivation of sugar cane is by ia
U the best developed and of the mos
0 inheritance. A boy who learns tn
hest methods of cane cultivation wi
become a useful man in any agricu
n tural pursuit. One who learns pra'
L tically the best methods of soil cult
L walton, irrigation and fertilization a
g practiced on a sugar plantation wi
i have little difficulty in applying thes
same principles III llhe Op0l "IiOhS
d any country and in different lines
u agriculture SO it would seem desi
: able, therefore, that the initial a
I tempt in establishing this type
: school should be made on suga
plantation. Another reason for thi
is that this department has not at il
Il disposal sufficient funds for the estaI
Il lishment and operation of such
= school and it is only with the co-ope
j alton of some sugar plantation th'
: such plan is feasible at the preseI
: time.
The plan proposed is as follows:
The plantation to set aside a fiel
: of about 20 acres of good cane Ian
: to be cultivated by the boys of tn
agricultural school under similar col
. ditions and on like terms as is Gu
:, tomary in making contracts wit
other cane cultivators. The plant
ton to furnish the buildings and a
4, Ipurtenances necessary. Such bull