The copper era and Morenci leader., 1914-03-13
INVESTIGATION FOR REFORM SCHOOL
 ORDERED

URDERED
 Board of Control Consents to Public
 Inquiry by State Auditor caIIaghan,
 Who Immediately Assumes Import
 ant Task.
 Phoenix, March 7-The investiga- ton of the condition of the State Industrial School and the Pioneers Home, will be made by J. c. Callagh- an. state auditor and member of the board of control. This was the unanimous action of the board yester- day after a session which lasted the greater part of the afternoon. Auditor Callaghan was given permission to en- ploy all necessary clerical assistance to probe conditions at the two institu- tions to the bottom.
 The board did not agree to be bound by the report of the auditor when the investigation shall have been complet- ed. The superintendent of the Indus trial School will be permitted to have an attorney present at the sessions of the inquiry, which are to be public. Auditor Callaghan left upon his mis- sion to Fort Grant last night.
 The session of the board of control was quite warm affair. Superinten- dent Whipple was present, and while stating that he courted the fullest in- vestigation, asked that specific charges be made agains him, itemizing the same and giving full dates and particu lars. In answer to this, the auditor said that such a thing would be i'm possible His request to the board of do in order that the ugly rumors con- corning the school shall be proven in- correct, or the cause for them wiped out.
 When MT. Whipple insisted upon some sort of charges, it was arranged that copy of the following letter from MT. Callaghan to the board of control be given to him to serve in that ca pacity.
 The letter was written yesterday.
 March 6, 1914. MT. Charles R. Osborn, Sec, Board of Control,
 The Capitol Building.
 Dear Sir:
 1hasmuch as ulterior motives have been unjustly attributed to me in the matter now before this body both by the chairman of the board of control at the last meeting, and ythe super intendent of the Industrial School in communication under date of March End, shall avail myself at the outset of the opportunity to state my posi- tion.
 My attitude in bringing this matter before the board is based wholly upon a desire to see a state institution where the character of young girls and boys is to be Safeguarded and molded, so managed that the morals of the inmates will be diligently con- served.
 I may be denied the privilege to par ticipate in directing the policy of the management of the State Industrial School; events occurring there may be hidden from me, and reports smoth- cred, but when in due course through indirect and circuitous routes I fin ally come into possession of informa- tion disclosing gross immortality and a condition of incompetency existing at the institution, I would feel that were lax in duty both to myself and to the people of the state if I did not insist upon an investigation and remedial action by this board An individual who can justify in his own mind his procedure in holding a secret conference with my associates on this board in Phoenix, Sunday, Feb ruary 18th, while studiously ignoring and avoiding me as the third member of the board; who could further, on the occasion of my visit to the In dustrial School on February 23, fail to discuss or to disclose the disgrace full orgies so recently enacted at that institution; whose conception of plain duty is so dismally vague, may well be excused in the further effort to de- wise a hypothesis for criticism of my action in calling for this Investigation
 I mantain that the Industrial School is no place to try out experiments based upon unreasonable theories; that immortality, gross and far reach ing, which is not and cannot be denied and is absolutely ineXcusable has ex- isted there during a considerable per iod of time; and that such a condi- tion demands no less than a change of management.
 Yours very truly,
 J. c. CALLAGHAN. State Auditor and Member Board of
 Control.
 During the course of the proceedings MT. Callaghan stated htat he would prefer that all the members took part in the investigation, but both the gov ernor and MT. Osborn stated that busi- ness was so pressing that all of them could not give their entire time dur ing the course of such a proceeding. As far as the governor was concerned, he was perfectly willing that MT. Os- born should go, but that one could dn well fWO tho