Arizona republican., 1914-04-05

express command of the Superin- | tendent. Three other girls have had
 their hair clipped close to the head.
 It was a common practice to utilize girls as helpers in the blacksmith
 shop.
 l venture the assertion that in no
 similar institution the United States
 or any other Christian country of the civilized world, can examples be
 found of such barbarous punishments and deprivations, calculated to cause stunted growth, being inflicted upon helpless and growing children Here. indeed, are concrete illustrations of
 the invocation of relics of barbar-
 ism regarding which much has re-
 gently been heard, condemned as to
 adult and hardened criminals, it is
 true, but apparently sanctioned or condoned in the cases of delinquent 1 juveniles.
 In the last two and one-half months l of former Superintend Harpers ad- ministratiOn there were eight escapes
 or attempts at escape. In the first
 two and one-half months Superln-
 tendent Whipple's administration
 there were forty five escapes or at | tempts at escape. l am obliged to
 limit the comparison to that length of period for the reason that there
 is not incorporated in Superintend-
 ent Whipple's monthly reports, ex-
 cept during the first two and one ! half months of his administration, any 1 ineligible record showing this data. | | Among the employees, harmonious
 cooperation is lacking, but all are
 of one mind as to the lack of system 1
 and competent management under the i
 present Superintendent 1 4.-Morals
 During the administration of the i
 present Superintendent there were i several matrons and assistant matrons l
 in charge of the girls dormitory. |
 My investigation had to do only with |
 two of these, and in this report |
 neither shall be mentioned by name | The first to whom 1 shall refer had l 1 formerly been employed by Superin- | | tendent Harper as office clerk and | 1 by him dismissed. However she ac- ] companied Superintendent Whpple to 1 the Industrial School when he took | charge of the Institution on August | i 15, 1913, and held the position of head |
 matron until October 10. 1913, The evidence is conclusive only to | the extent that she was indiscreet, i and I should be loath to believe that | i her transgressions were of more | serious character The testimony | shows that she permitted male en ployes to mingle with the girls and | that she herself was several times 1 observed to kiss one of the male em ployes in the presence of the inmates; | 1 that on one occasion she. with some 1 of the girls set out upon a visit to |
 neighboring cowboys; that number !
 of the girls visited with her consent | and approval, a bathing pool, unat- | {, tended, a great distance from the | 1 dormitory; that whiskey and cigar l cites were a source of dissipation
 among the girls, and that discipline was very lax. | I pass now to the subject of the other matron. who. during the ad- | ministration of the former matron, was assistant Upon the departure of
 the former, the latter became head | matron The evidence shows that her demeanor throughout was char
 acteristic of the demi monde: that
 she was lacking in education and re-
 finement; that she engaged frequently, either by herself, or with the girls, in a great variety of immodest and vulgar dances. one of which was the II "Hooche- Kooche" and that she taught II those dances to the girls; that she
 was inordinately proud of her physi-
 que. and on every available occasion,
 both in the presence of male employees, |I and of the inmates, she displayed charms of person, usually concealed; that she frequently engaged in sug- H gestiye and obscene conversations with the male employees, and that one of these was her nightly companion II in her boudoir, which act was cog nizant to the girls; that she allowed | smoking in the dormitory and distrl- | buted whiskey to the inmates; that | she allowed male inmates to visit the girls dormitory and connlved with them to prevent detection by the H puards that she publicly kissed and hugged male employees in the presence of the girl inmates; that she advised the girls to escape, as the only available course of freedom; that she freouently advocated a life of shame for the girls as the only path open to them alter their incarceration in the Industrial school; and that she exacted promises from them that thev would enter upon life of prostitution as a reward for her in- | fluence in their behalf, for parole The evidence shows that the Super intendent was frequently, though not always. advised by the employees of
 her actions, unfitness, and bad in fmence on the girls; that instead of needing this advice he resented it; that on occasion he was wont to lecture the girls, and while weeping tears in their presence would exhort them to the effect that "The matron | was wearing her life out for them" and that Tn all the State there was not another woman like her." that upon the occasion of a visit of the | secretary of the Board of Control to the institution, complaint of her ac- tions was made to him by several of the employees; that thereafter or ders were sent the Superintendent to discharge her paramour; that instead