Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-10
Cherries Regime at Institution
Condemned BY Grand Jury:
" Personal Touch Needed

7 I'VE very strongly condemn the
principle, which seems TO perVade the
| whole atmosphere-that the boys are
put there for the purpose of working
rather than of making better citizens
Of them."-From territorial grand
! jury's report on Boys Industrial
/ School, WaiaIee
| A feeling which appears to prevail
| at Waialee that the inmates of the
| school are placed in the institution TO
| turn out the greatest possible amount
of industrial products is strongly de-
nounced by the members of the terri
torial grand jury in their final report
presented TO Circuit Judge Ashford
today.
Several pages of the report are Civ.
| en- over to an exhaustive account OF
the jury's visit to and investigations
of conditions at the school, as we'll as
many concise and apparently we'll
founded recommendations. A few
weeks ago the grand jury indicted 10
OF the inmates on a charge OF unlaw-
full assembly or alleged ''mutiny.' The
boys were acquitted after trial, and
it was largely on account of their tes-
timony regarding conditions at the
school that the grand jurys personal
investigation was made.
The first thing to which the jury
calls attention is the lack of care of
the schools grounds, and recommends
that some effort be made 10 clean
them up; also that attention be given
to keeping the woodwork and tables
in the dining-room clean. -. -.
Find Feeling of Ennity.
Emphasis is laid on the proposition
that, in the minds of the jury, the So:
called characterization at the school
has come largely through lack of.
proper administration. While this
fault is not laid at the door of any
particular individual, it is borne out
by testimony, the report says, that
there is feeling of enmity between
the administration and inmates of the
| institution.
I'VE are of the opinion that only a
certain degree of reliance should be
placed on the statements of the boys
of the institution the jurymen say,
"but nevertheless some credence
should be given their story and their
appeal should be listened to-
The jurymen believe that the recent
escape, taken part in by "a inmates,
vas brought about largely by the cur
failing of their rations The power
OF strapping the boys, the report con-
tinues, hardly appeals to the boys as
much as the power of reasoning. More
| play for the boys and more guards are
recommended 1t is further pointed
out that there should be raised>at the
school only those things necessary for
| its maintenance and that absolutely
nothing should be sold.
Going further into the matter of
| discipline, The report says that the
employees of the school are not suffl-
ciently imbued with the policy of kind
ness towards the inmates. The ma
ron, the report adds, has caused con-
| siderable of the trouble, if the jury
men may accept the statements OF the
boys. Her services, however, are not
condemned by the tribunal 1t is re
commended that man be employed
| who is an expert in farming.
A strong stand for more amuse-
ments is taken by the grand jury. IL
| comments as follows:
More Play Necessary.
| "Amusements in the school. in so far
as we were able to Judge, are ex-
tremely limited. and We want TO very
strongly condemn the principle which
seems to peryade the whole atmos-
phere-that the boys are put there for
the purpose of working rather than of
making better citizens of them. A GER
| tain amount of work never hurts any
person. bat a certain amount of work
and a greater amount OF play is Ger
tainly conducive of the best in any
| youth.
There is an absolute lack of asso-
citation between the officials of the
school end the inmates. Ball games,
| tennis, football, basketball, marbles
tops and all play which boys are ac-
customed to, would, in our opinion,
| help to maintain a greater degree OF
discipline than any other means which
could be adopted What would be
| more conducive to a spirit of cOngen-
iality in boy than to have the teach
ers become a part of them in their
| sports; help to make up baseball
nine or a football eleven TO contest
between other teams of the school
made up partly Of teachers and partly
of boys. We firmly believe in the
theory that the boys there should be
made to work, but if the hours of work
are shortened and the hours OF play
increased, We believe that the same
amount OF work would be accomplish
ed and in better spirit.
Try Military Training.
The jurymen suggest moving pic