Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-02

spoke he shook Masake's shoulder.
swhy did you run away the Star
Bulletin man asked, as Tucker had
suggested. 49,. -
Masake started to say something
about Il get hundred dement's nc
clean locker-all time black marks
for nothing" and then
.You're Liae!' Co.,. .. -.
Tucker broke In, before the lad had
half finished the answer that the prin'
cipal himself had proposed to get
"You lie! you're liar, that's what
you are!p
1t was fairly yelled into. Masake's
face. ~
Il no lie-I GET
you lie, ] tell youths boys liar.
Now get along In therei"
The principal handed the japanese
lad over to q guard and he was led
away.
What win his punishment be-"
asked the Star-Bulletin man.
Il don't know yet-hayen't made
up my mind" said the superintend-
dent. He ought to be strapped until
be couldn't run away, any more. That's
what ought to. happen to him. He'll
be put on bread and water anyway.
Can't Explain Conditions. a
And still you ask me, why do the
boys escape. don't know-they don't
know--and It's been this way for FIVE
years=-and getting worse. Day after
day and night. after might never
get a peaceful meal or nights sleep!
/ work with them and try to keep
them going right--and this is the kind
of thing / get. It's enough to drive a
man Wild" E4
Perhaps 1t is. Evidently the school
staff has no grip on the present sit
uation.
Mr.. Tucker was quite plainly badly
upset by the occurrence.
81 can't explain why the escapes
should have doubled In the last pc
riod, !" he said, except that we have q
worse bunch Of older boys than we
had BEFORE ~. 81 @
1t then came out that the boys he
refers to as the worse bunch" have
mostly been under his care during
previous detention periods at the
school.
From Shackies TO Jail.
One more fact is significant In this
connection-in speaking of the es-
capes.
A half-dozen or more OF the boys
were wearing leg-shackles last Satur-
day. The shackles are light chains
around the middle lower leg, which
allow the boys to take only about half
a step and reduce their gait to an
awkward hobble
How long do the boys wear these?"
he was asked.
I've been criticized whole lot for
having these. but ] don't know any
other way of making the boys. stay
here" he said 'oThey stay in the
chains until they promise to be good
How long has any boy, ever been
in the chains z"
@They stay there until they come
out of ii,
What Is the longest any boy has
been in chains 2"
T had one boy kept there for four
months Z" ias.,,s
Did he come ogt Of it7's
+ EE NQ--1AS ulNu lsF 81 8
What became of hirh?"
Had to send him to Jail"
superintendent or Instruction Kin.
ney, discussing this matter of leg.
shaekles. says that the light chains are
probably necessary, in some cases. at
least until there Is an, opportunity to
separate the older incorrigibles from
the younger lads.
Observation at the school lends to
the belief that whatever the correc.
tive effects on the boys wearing the
chains-and these corrective effects
the principal readily admits are doubt
ful-the effect on the other boys is
hardly eleyating. TO say the least.
In his report for. the biennial period
ending December 81, 1914, Principal
Tucker gives as his reason for using
the shackles that escapes and attempt.
ed escapes had become so regular that
the forcible detention was necessary.
Judging by the results alone, the
use of shackles has, not been effective,
since the escapes go on, and the re-
bellion is certainly not on the de-
crease.
GOther phases OF the Boys Indus.
trial school situation will be dealt
with in later issues.
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