Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-12
Gained is Pounds.

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Fine. I've gained Is pounds since
I arrived and never slept better in my
life. j in the summer we had a good
baseball team and played teams
arDund the country. as well as having
teams ome here to play, and we.
went swimming a good nan nights
after the days work was done. In
the fall we had a football team that
some OF the neighbors discovered was
er work and school hours we get u
tobogEans and skis and have lots of
fun right on that hill,"--pointing to
a hill just south of the new barn-
"and right beyond is the pond We go
skating.
Then this state training school
isn't a reform schol al all but q
mighty decent placer was asked.
"You said it. But believe me the
way you are treated makes you realize
what a nut o may have been on
the outside. It isn't a reform school.
but the treatment and the trust and
everything would reform anyone that
wasn't crazy or a born crook. You
see there is plenty of fun and work.
and study. Take in the evenings we
study, play games and some Of the
boys go to band practice. Some nights
we have our our sessions, because
you know we have disagreement
; now:,' and he added with a great deal
! of enthusiasm, do you know we
have some pretty good lawyers among
the boys ..t
The lad looked around and then
pointed to q chap busily plying the
hammer. THAT fellow over there
acts as states attorney and the one
way up there on top Of the barn is
the judge. 1t is one sure thing, IL you
are guilty you are found guilty. 1t
Ia harder to. beat this court than 1t is
| the outside courts. Wednesday night
is chapel night and the night when
we have community singing and on
Saturday nights we have regular
movies. Thanksgiving night the girls
gave a play that was a corker and in
return the boys are going to give a
minstrel show on Christmas and after
that we are going to give a show to-
gether." -. r !.
Came without Guard.
Inquiry was directed to another
husky young chap who seemed to be
~tdirecting some Of. the other boys in
the c~arpentering work. He had been
in the school but a short time, and
!! further questioning developed: that
the Judge had sent him there without
an escort and he had come bringing
his commitment papers in his own
pocket. He seemed to have the idea
offered. and expected to get out in
about q year.
The Judge in question was H. l.
Berry Of the Sixth judicial district
who resides in Mandan n who had
received the Young mans plea, OF
guilty in district court at Dickinson.
For some years past Judge w. 5
Nuessle Of the district court at Bis
marck. not through any d~istrust of
the care of former supt. Jos. M. De.
vine Of his predecessor J.. NJ. Brown.
but because, the school a been
forced upon a penurious operative
basis, had refusedf:to commit any
j~boyss or Girls in his district - udgs
Nuessle today holds that The state
training school is one of the best in
stitutions OF learning in the state
Under the present system Of opera
ton and with the increased funds
made available by the last session so1
the legislature, n more which are
decidedly needed to care for the future
Of the institution, Judge Nuessle, ha'
sent Ave boys from his district to the
school.
supt. Mcclelland expressed the
! hone that some day it will be possible
to secure a complete records Of eacf
individual his habits, life history
and physical record. He deplored tn
fact that records at the institution
have been very incomplete SO that the
individual NAV he given the physica
and social ailments Of children hi
declared.
Like q Hospital. ,s,
1T is our desire that every boy o.
girl sent to the state training schoo
shout: dbe given an !ndeterminat'
commitment whose extreme ectensiol
i would OF course be up to the age o
~ when they attain their majority
A definite sentence for youthful del
inquents. who one stops to consider It
is not even. reasonable, let alon
feasible. No doctor would think o
sending a patient to a medical hos
pitaf for a definite length of time
Patients are sent to a hospital for a,
indefinite period with the understand