The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-21


tied recently the state institutions at
Mlledgeylle, except the g. NJ. T.,
which lack of time prevented. First,
the G. n l. G.. claimed my time, haY-
ing some girls there in whom | was
interested. This school impressed me
in several ways; first its curriculum
is up to date; second, it's discipline
is good. An illustration of its supe-
rIority over other girls schools OF
its grade and lower Institutions con-
| Quoted by denominations and indlVld-
uals for profit is the fact that all girls
are under the same discipline-the
senior possesses no rights of leaving
the campus over her freshman sis
| ter. The same system OF rules holds
good. One of my girls was a senior
and one a sophmore. Two friends
girls whom l was permitted to see
were freshman, yet the same rule
! held for all. The consent OF the
parents was an absolute prerequisite,
endorsed by President Park, to their
leaving the campus under my guard
| ianship For the privilege of seeing
the other state institutions with me
| | recei.ed en- Mr.. Park for my
girls Uermission, and having expe-
rience only with the colleges in
county towns thought l could
get from the matron the next
morning permission for my friends
girls, but the rule held good,
and they were not permitted to leave.
Two girls discovered after reaching
the school that they had relatives in
the town, and wrote and received
permission to visit them. But until
the president could ascertain whether
the visits would conduce to their
good or tend to violation of the rule
recurring isolation from male com
panions the permission was not al
lowed. This insures, so far as can
be, ideal Of study until when they
have completed their education they
will be able under their parents to
choose wisely their life mates. The
legislature could do no wiser act
than to double the capacity of this
school and establish three more like
it in different portions of the state.
The state sanitarium for the insane
was next visited. In so far as a nov
ice can Judge, everything that can
be done is being done by those in
charge here to alleviate and cure
these unfortunates. No niggardliness
should be allowed in appropriations
for this living tomb" for from 1t
there are some restrictions to bless
the world. and for those who know
nothing of returning reason comfort
should be provided that the normal
citizenship may be protected.
The need of the state for a Grim
inally insane prison-not asylum
but prison, where liberty should be
restricted and remedial agencies ap-
piled to effect a cure-is very evil
dent. This is stressed by the fact of
a recent murder by an epileptic sent
up for life at the last term of Terrell
superior court of another life-termer
at the prison farm. This farm was
visited. Unless the farm can be made
self sustaining it should be abolish
ed and the money for its ma1nte-
nance given to the state reformatory
school, which of all the institutions
visited is doing the noblest work, for
il is making out of the derelict white
BOYS of Georgia men. Here niggard-
illness in appropriations for proper
equipment and maintenance is crime
against humanity, and the legislature
should give all that the modesty OF
Prof. Lovvorn has asked in his last
report to the prison commission.
Everything asked is absolutely re-
uuired for the boys, and by abolish
ing the prison farm for adult con-
victs and using the money wasted
there a girls reformatory could be
fitted up that would do for the dere
lict females of the state what the re-
formatory is doing for the white
boys.
In my opinion the negro cannot
be reformed. He should be sent dl-
rect to the roads of the country,
where he is needed. The only thing in
which I differed with the report OF
Mr.. Lovvorn is that he would make
of the white boys only mechanics,
while think agriculture, mechanics,
engineering and all avocations OF CIV
ilized man should have a show, so
that when turned loose they can IN
the ayocation best suited to them
become q blessing to the state. 10
illustrate how they are making good
one of the inmates applied himself
so diligently during his study hours
that some citizens of MilledgeVille
became interested, and with the per-
mission of the prison commission
they provided him a place in the u
NJ. c., and this boy stands well with
all the faculty and is treated as an
equal by the students-thus winning
his way back into the society from
which his environments in his child
hood caused him to be misled.
An amendment to the school laws
of the state suggests itself here
When a public school teacher in any
grade has an incorrigible boy the boy
should be reported to the county
board of education, and upon proof
of his incorrigibleness committed to
the reform school, as the Ordlnarles
of the different counties of the state
are compelled to commit the insane
to the state sanitarium. When ne
is cured, say after one to five years
detention or longer, if necessary, for
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