Bisbee daily review., 1914-04-05

------------------------- on bread and water diet, and while in A weakened condition. these boys are
 assigned to manual labor. The rule in the United States army Is to alter nate bread and water with full meals every other day.
 In the case of one girl, in addition | 10 that punishment. her hair was clipped close to the head and she was lhandcuned. night and day. during the entire period Of punishment The handcuffs were applied at the express command of the Superintendent. 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.
 venture the assertion that in no similar institution in the United States or any other Christian country Of the civilized world can examples be found of such barbarous punish. ment and deprivations, calculated to cause stunted growth, being inflicted upon helpless and growing children. Here indeed. are concrete illustrations of the invocation of relies of barbar- ism" regarding which much has re. gently been heard. condemned as to adult and hardened criminals. it is
 true. butt apparently sanctioned or condoned in the cases of delinquent juveniles.
 In the last two and one-half months of former Superintendent Harpers ad- ministration there were eight escapes or attempts at escape. In the first two and one-half months of Supepin- tendent Whipple's administration there were forty-five escapes or attempts at escape. am obliged to limit the com parison to that length of period for the reason that there Is not incorpor- ated in Superintendent Whprle's monthly reports. except during the first two and one-half months of his administration, any ineligible record showing this data
 Among the employees, harmonious cooperation is lacking. but an are of one mind as to the lack of system and competent management under the present Superintendent.
 1. MORALS.
 During the administration of the present Superintendent there were several matrons and assistant matrons in charge of the girls dormitory My investigation had to do with only TWO Of these, and in this report neither shall be mentioned by name.
 The first to whom l shall refer. had formerly been employed by Super.n- teLdent Harper az office clerk ard by him dismissed. However. she accom. ra;ied Superintendent Whippie 10 ,he .lrdItrial School when he cook cre'ee oi C'c Institution on Ausu3t r. 1918. ana reid the position O. head matron dn',. c . Ter 10. 19.2.
 TH .v'derce is conclusive only Co the e. tDf that she was indiscreet. a.d g 'Lld be loa,is to believe that heI C. sgIessions were z: a moro SGT. io"s c sssCter. The testimony shows that she permitted male employees to mingle with the girls and that she herself was several times observed ;o kiss one of the male employees in the presence of the inmates; that on ere occasion she, with some of the girls, set out upon a visit to neighbcrlng cowboys that a number of the glTls visited with her consent and approval. bathing pool, unattended, a great distance from .the dormitory. thct whiskey and cigarettes were q source of dissipation among the girls, and that discipline was very lax
 | pass now to the subject Of the other matron, who. during tho admin. istration of the former matron, was assistant. Upon the departure of the former, the latter became head mat. ron. The evidence shows that he de- meanor throughout was characteristic of the demi-monde: that she was lacking in education and refinement: that she engaged frequently, either by herself, or with the girls, in a great variety of immodest and vulgar dances one of which, the "Hooche.Kooche" and that she taught those dances to the girls; that she was inordinately