The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-28
Alabama's Training School for Girls
By MRS. J. B. REID

''The more we know. the better we
 forgive;
 whoe'er feels deeply, feels for all
 who live.
 For tis sweet to stammer one
 letter Of the Eternals language--on earth
 it is called forgivencss!"
 Have you ever stood and looked 1 into the faces. and clasped hands with the s7 young girls, ages rang ing from eight years to 21. who have come from all parts of Alabama to forget the past, and to begin life anew? If you have not, you have missed a great opportunity. Every face in the Alabama Training School for Girls, appeals to you in an ln- | dividual way. and to the world for 1 patience and love; that love, which will aid them to rebuild character | to throw off memories of sad mis- takes, of misspent hours. It should be our privilege to lift them by | friendship, to stimulate their wish to live we'll It is the bounden duty of every woman in Alabama to look f dpOH thCH tWfth JONC anu Pdtcbtc and to stand behind the effort to I lead them over their false steps, tc a useful life.
 And these lessons are being given In Alabama today; the state has put i. a strong, loving arm around her wayward daughters; she has giver 1 them a home, and opportunity, witt a real mother to lead them to right | eous womanhood. Mrs, Amigh Is | -Iz F. f. 1 firmness and kindness; she is lead. l ing them step by step forward-ano l she knows her labors are not in vain We can all recall when a few strug l gling good women answered the cal of the need of the wayward girl
 they started a little home, with the l great balance of voices crying, | whats the user" They combatte5
 hard times in that little cabin a
 West End. stimulated by that ever l lasting virtue of hope. Years four. them still struggling for the ont l great purpose of help for the mos \ needy. The world. had little prom ise for the gifl who was wrong-bul l these same women, few of the-r have gone to rest, aftor leading the
 remaining forces over the roughes way. Today they have an institu-
 tion: they made 1t possible and Ala bama has adopted their child.
 Though the few who are left ar' still at the helm. They, too. know they have not worked in yain--anT l If all of us could see the love of the I girl for those who have given then I opportunity-you would understand I These girls, all of them. have beer sent from the juvenile courts. iron different sections of the state-thes are being educated and trained; and I many of them have completed theii | course and have entered othei schools. and are making splendii lrecorda Some have married ard Mrs. Amigh has letters of apprecia I ton for her share in the making o1 their homes and happiness.
 i If we only knew--if we could peer
 down into their souls, then glance :, back into their often neglected, un- Happy homes, we could better under ] stand and realize that it is wo-tf
 while job to help any girl who start. wrong. and lead her through tho despair she bears alone.
 The beautiful country place of Gen i Louis " Clark. Matazumaya. wal purchased for the school by the stas but being rather inaccessible re 4 gently a tract of. land near Maple hurst, on the South Ensley car line has been purchased and new bu'i.l'
 ings will be erected, and the Ala banla Girls Training school will havs 1 a modern home built for them. The
 present buildings are beautiful--tht 1 location on a high crest of a moun tain, overlooking a gorgeous valley scene--is all to be desired. but it E i out of touch with traffic, and dis tance is great inconvenience whcr