Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13

he will supply them with corn meal
and flour.
Ollie TayIor's Experience.
To take the case of Ollie Taylor for
example. Everybody knows Ollie
now, but he is just one OF 104.
ollie was just 10 years old when
he got into trouble. He got to the
school one night just in time to go
ollis's First Night.
Ollie's record was filled out on a
card and ne was then taken to the
dressing room. He was allotted a
he'd on one side of the huge dormi-
tory. He was given a nightshirt and
a suit of clothes-his FIRST long pants,
by the way-the suit was OF cadet
blue. Then he got a blue cadet cap
, and a pair Of stout shoes. He was
also supplied with underwear, three
handkerchief O wash tie and two
shirts. These ollie was told TO fold
up and place in tho box near the head
of his bed. Then a bell rang.
Ollie saw the other half q hundred
boys in his room line up at the foot
Of their beds He did likewise. No
one told him TO. He Just performed
his action mechanically.
Seemed list like bein' soldier"
he said later.
That's lust It. That's the point
that Superintendent Means likes 20
emphasize.
After the boys lined up, a second
bell rang. and every lad in the place
Owed for his cot. Ollie didn't know
much for the rest OF that first night.
However as day broke over the
hills and the sun peeped into the
dormitory windows, ollie was awake.
He heard the approach of some one
who seemed TO DO treading with a
military air. Then he heard Just
outside the door that same bell that
ne had followed 10 bed the night be-
fore. Every lad in the room seemed
TO hear Il. too. and all at once. The
lads piled out. Fifty OF email clad
in white nighties-they looked like a
flick Of little angels turned loose in
a big bedroom.
Ollie watched the others. They
stood erect at the sides of their beds.
Suddenly q man appeared in the
doorway. He shouted: Turn blank
cts"
Watched the Other Boys.
Ollie watched keenly how Il was
done. The other lads rolled their
bedding to the foot Of the bed and
left 1t lying In a neat pile. Then
came the command, Fall In"
| Two and two the lads marched to
the dressing room, where the night
before ollie had left his town
clothes" Here ollie was given
working suit and was told 10 hurry
up and not let the other lads beat
him dressing.
II was then about 6:15 O'clock.
ollie had TO hurry to be ready at
6 30 o'clock. Just when he thought
he was all done. the man who had
ordered him to fall In" told him 20
button up his jacket-one button
was undone. He Obeyed willingly
enough. This man acted like a cap
tain. Ollie had always wanted to be
a soldier.
in" shouted the captain. Two by
two the lads marched 20 the mess
hail. Here they took numbered
seats. Ollie was assigned 10 a seat
near the captain
Walters hurried from the kitchen
with huge platteTs of grits, light
bread, syrup, butter and coffee. ollie
ate hungrily. The food was excel
lent
Again that bell Again the order
TO march. This time ollie was taken
to n study room Half OF the boys
In this room he had never seen
They were the older boys who slept
In the other dOrmitory. Half OF the
boys were detailed for various tasks
such as chopping wood, mending
shoes. work IN the laundry, helping
I'm the kitchen. etc.
ollie was assigned TO School" He
was marched with over a score OF
, little lads his own age into the
, school room, where he was given
seat. books and later called upon 70
reclte.
Here Is ollie's Dinner.
ollie was IN school for three hours.
nv until Than IA Il
10 the mess hall again.
Listen to OIle's dinner:
Soup.
Corn and tomatoes.
Boiled meat.
Rice.
MIX or coffee.
He ate until he could hold no
more. Then az a signal he was
marched TO the door with his new
found friends and turned loose 10
PLAY.
From somewhere a huge bell
changed. All the boys ceased their
captain Fall In he cried Justify
AT the boys formed a long line, o.
lie bringing up the tail He was g
little fellow. YOU know.
Ii was 1.SO o'clock. Ollie was tod
90 SO TO the kitchen and help peel
potatoes. lie found his way there.
and from that time on until o'clock
he and four other tadS raced TO see
who could peel the most At (
o'clock the director Of the kitchen.
a dear old lady. told Oils TO report
, 10 the sChool-room.
ollie found al Of his comrades al
ready present and the boys marched
TO the dressing room.
The boys were then marched
downstairs TO the mess hall ana sup
per was served This consisted cf
grits. coffee light bread ana syrup
, I the same as breakfast By this time
/ ollie was tired-healthily worn out.
/ Ollie was again taken into the school
room and his books. with his lessons
! marked for the next Gav. placed be-
+ fore him. Long before o'clock Ollie
1 was holding over his primer At
! ( o'clock he was marched 10 the dor
mitory. UnGressed. and again that
r I goodnight signal bell ollie had
/, been through one days routine sd
4 the reform school" Not much OF
+ O. reform" idea Won say. No. z
= ISN'T
< Learned Much First Year.