The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1916-06-10

Der OF Ilo SudUe DOdru VI COuIIOi.
The legislature of 1913 created
State School for Girls and ordered
that as soon as the new site was Sc
lected and new buildings constructed
at the institution, the girls then In
the State Training School at Che
halls should be transferred to it.
When this session of the legisla-
ture created this institution, 1t did
very wise thing, as it brought segre-
CATION between the boys and girls
and made it possible for much to be
accomplished with the latter.
The governor was empowered to
appoint four electors of the state,
two of whom were to be women, who
together with the members of the
State Board of Control, should select
a site for the school, to consist OF not
more than 100 acres, and it was stip-
ulated that the site should be with
in radius of not less than one mile
and not more than ten miles
from the State Training School at
Chehalis.
The legislature ordered that the
cottage plan should be followed in
the construction and arrangement of
the buildings, as far as practicable,
each cottage to provide a group OF
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1t was provided that the superin-
tendent and all subordinate officers
of the school should be women, un-
less married woman should be ap-
pointed superintendent or to any
subordinate position, when the hus-
band of such appointee may, with
the consent of the board, be allowed
to reside at the institution.
Any girl more than ten and under
eighteen years of age, who has been
found delinquent under the juvenile
delinquency law of the state, may be
committed by the court to the State
School for Girls, there to remain un-
til twenty-one years of age, unless
sooner paroled or discharged.
The Board of Control, acting with
the superintendent shall, under a
system of marks, or otherwise, fix
upon a uniform plan by which girls
may be paroled or discharged from
the school, which system can be re-
vised at any time. Each girl shall
be credited for personal demeanor,
diligence in labor or study and for
the results accomplished, and charg-
ed for dereliction, negligence or Of
fense. The standing of each girl
shall be made known to her as often
as once a month.
Every girl shall be entitled to a
trial on parole before reaching the
age of twenty years, such parole to
continue for at least one year unless
violated. The superintendent and
resident physician, with the approval
of the Broad of Control, shall deter
mine whether such parole has been
violated. Any girl committed to the
school who shall escape therefrom,
or who shall violate parole, may
be apprehended and returned to the
school by any officer or citizen on
written order or request of the su-
perintendent. Any person who shall
go upon the school grounds except
on lawful business, or by consent of
the superintendent, or who shall en-
tice any girl away from the school,
or who shall in any way interfere
with it's management or discipline,
shall be guilty of misdemeanor.
No girl is permitted to be received
in the State School for Girls who is
not of sound mind, or who Is subject
to epileptic or other fits, or is not
possessed of that degree of bodily
health which should render her a fit
subject for the discipline of the
school. 1t is made the duty of the
court committing her to cause such
girl to be examined by reputable
physician to be appointed by the
court, who will certify to the above
facts, which certificate must be for
warded to the school with the COM
mitment.
Teachers are employed. as far as
practicable, to instruct the girls in
list is signed by both employer and
all of the branches usually taught in
the grades of the common schools of
the state, also in such trades and vo-
cational occupations as may be found
desirable. The educational work of
the school was made a part of the
educational system of the state, and
as such Is under the supervision of
the State Board of Education. Only
those certified by the State Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction can be
employed as teachers.
The superintendent has power to
place any girl under the age of eigh-
teen years at any employment for ac-
count of the institution or the girl
employed and receive and hold the
whole or any part of her wages for