Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-10-23
STATE CRIME SCHOOLS.


10 do receiving young boys those ovcrtakcn error and
petty crime and Transforming them through lis so-calcd
school into finished crmnals-thosc who live TO get backl Il
No one less than l. could desire bring this against
beloved Texas would attempt say that the Lone Star
State has monopoly this character OF institutions On
uar would be far better for the United Texas
other did stand alone in this II
fact that the people OF Texas do ufc alone but other
whose officials have taken the time and the pains make nvcst
cations have found that these institutions turning finished
criminals instead OF pencn, reformed determined aud puposeu
members OF society.
May hook for few minutes into the machinery through
which juvenile offenders committed institutions
called politely and hopefully Training Schools Juvenile Offend
crs or Reform Schools young boy budding American citizen
whose veins flows hot, red blood and with soul fired by spirit
oil adventure wrongly cnvoned and confronted by regime wholly
with the promp,ng OF his nature oveaken in fault
hauled into and finally sometimes with the acquisccnce OF
his parents and often without taken the State Training school
with the hope OF correcting the wrongful attitudes OF his mind
training him in things helpful him when be shall return society
sobced tcadcd inspired and hopeful take up mans
way. the tasks incident 20 human existence
But what really results from incarceration socaled State
Training school?
The body OF fourteen year-od Dell Thames arrived at the
home OF his parents in Beaumont this morning for burial Marks
and bruises the body indicate that he violent deahl"
This the text oi Associated Press Dispatch printed in lead
newspapers throughout the country This OF the boys
the State Training scol be reformed
formed from live. hopeful American boy eligible and entitled
proper training for useful manhood corpse bs
ed, dsiuergrang and demanding burial
Does this story loo, the clean OF all desire rid the
community OF eng boys the risk OF their morals their lives
and ultimately OF their souls eternity; But this isolated
all other boys adequately reformed and restored there
would be different attitude NJ this very time other
being considered which nhuan treatment
Ito the extent OF murder is charged
Note the following excerpt from Associated Press dispatch
Under date OF October from Austin:
Anothcr development ofhc inquiry into the alleged mstreat
OF the juvenile school Inmates the testimony given by
three boys. NOW INCARCERATED IN THE COUNTY JAIL
HERE, who FORMER INMATES OF THE SCHOOL. The
testimony heard the Jail by Mr. Johnson
Forest laucker ~ and Clarence Brown S testified that they
while Twyman drmas,er and that they had
whipped unnecessarily by Twyman other guards and that
they and other had been kicked and HIT and otherwise mis-
treated without acker was in the school three months and
Brown years. Both testified they had rather the pen
entiary for the OFFENSES FOR WHICH THEY ARE NOW
iHELD than be returned to the Gainesville institution
Taller Meredith of the Travis county jail said that his
observation tina, the MAJORITY of the DISCHARGED boys OF
1.-THE school got trouble and brought
When NINE eOnvcs brought from Huntsville recently
appear before committee he said SIX OF formerly
mates OF the GATESVlILE SCHOOL,
Friends OF the young do you the haunting spectre
tal physical and spiritual blight and death this socaed reform
system? Note these facts Six of nine convct brought from
THE Huntsville pcntenay. formerly inmates OF the State
Training school The boys in jail in AuSn former inmates
Ioi the STATE Training school The aer OF Travis
V says the majority" OF the inmates OF the State Training school
lind their the and as again Testimony being
taken from boys in the ss who formerly OF the
State Training school.
In the oil God friends OF the young is il time that
real system the hands OF real and should be
launched endorse Senator Harry erzbcg OF San An
I,eno Whose b ipr tic abolition OF the strap adopted by
both houses Of the Legislature Harry Her,zbeg proving
lbsc 80 c wit. soul lie suffers Tor the juvenile offend
Of the and has dared put himself record their de-
licnse
Attention is calle to the fact that OF the boys mentioned
the foregoing taken from Associated dispatch
tated that they preferred to to the enentary rather than to
the State Training school They uniformed and do realize
that they would be Jumping from the frying into the rew In
s connection direct the mind OF readers made by
Senator Dan McAln OF Whtewrigt who recently visited in
Amarillo McAln conversation with declared that
the disclosures made during the Legislative investigation OF penal
institutions the pentenres revolving that self respect
ing could recall them without blush OF shame and feeling OF
disgrace He further stated that he doubted the efficacy any and
all redemptve agencies youth young in
generated in a state pententiary in Texas
The laws OF common deccncy the laws OF the prevent
reeonng OF the dbauchee the degeneray the humility the
especially young this