New-York tribune., 1921-03-23

Their mothers were very cenerons a,.
to me and often called me their hovs,
foster mother. During the frst wear
one OF them said to me: I wish YOU
would teach my boy the things he
ought to know about life; know Other
boys are telling him all wrong. but 7
don't know how to 20 about il and
my husband won't try After that
many other mothers asked the same
thing, OF me, and finding that in every
case boys were already full of vicious
Knowledge (and many of them those
lt. tried to give all of them the
basis of clean-minded understanding
OF life. ! am sorry to say that I
could not reach every one-the mo-
ment OF special confidence and init
macy did not always arrive, busy as
We all were, but in every case where
1t did the effort | made has brought
me enormous returns; boys have come
back to me over and over again with
perplexities and condolences. and have
been good enough to tell me that nv
teaching of these simple and vital
things has been the greatest benefit
they have had in Lawrenceville.
Trouble Started in October
SINCE we have been in large house,
with thirtyfour hoys, and have found
two little children to be our own. we
have not had the time or opportunity
or been of the same amount of use,
though I have felt just as much of a
mother to the big boys as to the small
Last October my husband was
called into Dr. Abbott's Office and in
formed that evil things were going on
in our house.
Your wife talks sex to the boys
he said, and they get together and
concoct leading questions to put to
her; It's the talk of the SCHOOL, My
husband found on inquiry that our
last years assistant. wishing to have a
boy whom he characterized as foul
and lewd expelled from the school,
had brought to DR.. Abbott. as evidence
of the boys wmindedness, the fact
that he had heard him tell another boy
that he was going to pretend ignor-
ance of sex matters and see if he could
get me to talk to him, and Dr.. Abbott
instead of seeing that a boy of that
sort ought to have a horsewhipping
apparently assumed that the low-mind-
edness was mine.
my husband, very angry at the i'm
putation, brought the matter to me;
told him that the boy in question had
never carried out his intention or
treated me with anything but the un-
varying respect have always had from
the boys; also that I had never spoken
on this serious and sacred matter to
any group of boys, only singly. and at
rare intervals, aAd that since we have
been in the large house l have only
had such converse tions with five bows
in all, always individually.
Ceased Conversations With Boys
II also asked him to show Dr.. Abbott
letter | had received not long before
from young officer in our army say
ing that the teaching I had given him
had been his salvation DR.. Abbott, nv
husband tells me, looked at this letter
and said: 'That'a all very we'll; but
hereafter tiers will be left to
the phys or Naturally I have
never helo conversation with any
Roy on this 'ct since then. though
boys have co.. to me who wanted and
needed it; | have felt false to nv trust.
but sickened by the Interpretation
which apparently had been put on nv
motives. 1t is unfortunate and surpris-
ing that. in this age of the worlds en-
lightenment, there still are in existence
specimens of those pure ones to whom
all things, even the simplest and most
fundamental of Gods laws. are impure.
""(Signed) GERTRUDE PAHLOW.r
Mr.. Pahlow, in his statement, said
in part:
"The attitude of the headmaster of
lawrenceville School and of the mem
bers of the board of trustees in the
matter of my departure from Law
renceville is unbelievable. They have
allowed my wifes name to be dragged
into an affair in which they had de-
clared to me, of their own volition.
she had nothing whatever. to do; so
that what was begun as an eudeavor
to save Lawrenceville while il has still
worth saving, was, by the attitude of