Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-19
SALVATION ARMY
GIVESITS VIEWS
ON court PROBE

Whether further hearings will be
held in the investigation on condi.
tions at the Salvation Army home,
Manoa, begun yesterday afternoon in
juvenile court, has not been deini-
tely decided by Circuit Judge VIM. H.
Heen, he said today.
The investigation was based on a
letter received by Circuit Judge Ash
ford from a girl in the home com.
planning she was being overworked
and inviting the judge to come up
and see," If he doubted her asser-
tons. The communication was turn.
ed over to Judge Heen, who re-
quested Adj. Annie Sabine to be pres
emit at the hearing yesterday.
In connection with the investiga-
ton Col. Robert Dublin makes the
following statement:
Referring to statements made in
the press regarding conditions in the
Salvation Army girls home in Ma
noa Valley, permit me to say that this
institution is at all times open for in.
vestigation, and always has been. The
statement made by one Of the inmates
as appearing in last evenings edition
Of the Star.Bulletin to the effect that
the girls were oyerworked and under
fed, is entirely false and the girl max.
ing the statement was questioned n
Judge Heen's Office in the presence,
Of the institution admitted that she
did not do all the laundry work alone,
but at all times received some help;
sometimes having as many as eight
other girls assisting her.
THE fact of the matter is that the
girl in question Is mentally deficient,
having been cared for in this home
for four years, entering the home ex.
pecting to become a mother in the
course Of a few months.
m1tted to go out to work etaointaoi
Her statement, Girls are not per.
mitted to go out to work. is false, for
whenever in the estimation of the ma.
tron Of this home it is advisable to
allow girls to go out to positions, these
positions are gotten for them with
responsible families. This girl has
repeatedly been given an opportunity
Of leaving at any time she could Sc
cure suitable employment. She was
originally sent here not by the ju-
venile court but by her father because
he did not consider her capable of
taking care Of herself, and also to
know that she was under good Chris.
ton influence. The father has again
and again begged the officers of this
home not to let her go to an outside
position on account of her mental in.
capacity.
With regard to work; it is quite
true that all girls who are in the home
and capable, are expected to work and
do their share in the work of the in
stitution and they are always glad to
do this. The home was never intend
ed as a place where children should
be brought up in idleness, and each
one Of them are taught some useful
employment; and yet wo do deny the
statement that any girl is overworked.
THE girl who does the cooking is II
years of age, Is very strong physically,
and when questioned by Judge Heen
Tuesday, expressed herself as being
perfectly satisfied in every way.
The children's education is given
as careful attention as 1t is possible,
and we would respectfully refer any
one wanting information on this point
to see the principal of the Kaahumanu
school, where the older girls attend.