Bisbee daily review., 1914-04-30
WAlppLE'S REPLY 10 UALLAunAlt UnAnUtS
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pIvtests asainst .nc nianaVi Ia ~niVa otaIe Auui,Vf Caiiaenan ,Vnuoc,cu tne iecent m,estisadVn Oi tne Sta,e i,nuniss, W. Al. wn.ppic, seYvii iai- tenu.nt d. t.e rot Uiaa. iaa,itu- '1lOIi, has ineu oItu tne DVaiu vi control Ills Iepiy. It taKes up iUrty- one ty e-~ritten pages. Among OtneG ,nlngs, ne says.
 Il mus, venture the hope that those ne ~ spapeIs. wiIcn naso siV~n themselves ever Tea0y tO Ienu tne use of their columns to the uissemi- nation Of sensational tales calcuiated to tear uown this lnsutuuon-witn. out the taKing oi steps to deternine whether their information was correct or talse--wili prove equally reauy to give space 10 this statement of facts. II they fail or refuse. 1t will be merely another evidence that they are part and parcel of an organized movement to conceal the truth and establish falsehood"
 Superintendent Whlpple begins with a recital ot the actions ot tue state auditor with reference to the hearings conducted at the school and his con duct in not allowing the superin. tendent or his counsel 10 take part that the auditor took much of the testimony on which his final report 6as based without Mhipple or any one in his stead being present and that the report does not truthfully state the results of the final near lngs on March 10 ct. seq. on which occasion the evidence was taken down by stenographer
 The answer of the superintendent, takes up the report of the auditor paragraph by paragraph Whipple shows that much of this increase. if not, indeed. all was occasioned by the removal from Benson to Fort Grant and the entirely different con ditions found at the two places. He points out that many items have been added to the maintenance account by the auditor which do not properly be- long there and that the real test, the subsistence account. shows a marked decrease from the former year.
 With reference to the cost of im- rroyements and the statement made | by one of the contractors that the efficiency of he workmen was low. Whipple states that no small part of tue labor was furnished by the pu- pills of the school and much material rsed from old buildings with view 70 saving expense and that, to such extent. the labor may be said to have heen inefficien. although the net re suit was a saving.
 The question of sanitation is gone into in detail and attention called to | the fact that the plumbing at the old fort was entirely ruined when the school was moved there and that progress is being made in the direc' ton of betterment that will shortly result in proper sanitary conditions at the smallest possible expense 70 the State.
 Discipline formed the chief point oi attack in the auditors report and on this subject the reply is full. The superintendent recites that some thing more than "parlor speculation is necessary to solve the problems that arise in controlling the discl pline of an assemblage such as is found at a semipenal institution. He says: There are twenty-five oi thirty boys who are men in stature several being six feet or more ir
 height, and there is suspicion tha
 quite number of them are men II age also. There have been and stil are inmates who committed offences ranging all the way up 10 murder itself"
 lie denies in toto all charges O
 cruel punishment and states tha the man against whom most of tho auditors charges were filed was dis charged immediately the facts cam,
 to the superintendent's notice. Witt
 reference to the handcuffing of smal
 boys to posts for shorter or longe
 periods the reply suggests that som' such punishment is hardly to b.
 classed as "cruel and states that i
 frequently served its purpose with
 out resort to harsher methods. The solitary confinement on breat and water made so much of by MI
 Callaghan" is categorically denie, and claim made that such imprison 2 ment was mild and only possible
 punishment for boys who would no
 behave. Attention Is also called t
 the distortion of the rules of th 7 army as stated by the auditor an the claim made that the boy citei
 in the auditors report as a horribl example of cruelty was member O l the baseball team which won a foul teen inning game with Willcox Higl
 School four days after his releas from the cells.
 The punishment of girls by oliI
 ping their hair is taken Up in muc
 detail and it appears that this puT
 ishment which had been much use 1 in the old days had been inflicted O but four girls after reepated attempt at escape and other miraculous C the rules and discipline
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