The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1921-04-21

the contact they get will make these
girls more self-respecting and cause
them to lift their eyes and chins with
confidence as they face the future. 1t
is glorious piece of social work."
People of Sank Centre think ever
these things before you vote
]. A. DUBOIS.
Atty. L. l.. Kells' Statement
The following is statement from
Attorney L. L. Kells:
To the Editor of The Herald:
Request has been made FOL
statement relative to the question as
to whether inmates of the Minnesota
Home School for Girls should be al
lowed to attend the Public School at
Sank Centre. The Minnesota Home
School for Girls is an Institution Tor
delinquent children maintained by
the State of Minnesota, having an
average population during the year
ending June Sd, 1920 of s20 inmates
and which number, it is stated, mas
increased slightly since that tire.
According to Public School auth
critics, Fl of these inmates are at
tending the Sank Centre Public
School at the present time and others
have been withdrawn, many recently,
there having been AZ Of such inmates
! in the Public School during the pre-
sent school year.
"When the system of sending in
mates to the Public School was IN
augurated, three of them were enter
ed in the Public School and since
such time the number has been in
creased to the figures above set
forth. How far will this increase
go? Will every inmate eventually be
sent to the Public School?
"There is misunderstanding as to
the class of girls who are, inmates OF
the Home School. Minnesota divides
children into three classes, which are
briefly as follows: First, Dependent
children who are those having no
parents or homes OF means of sup
port; Second, Neglected children
whose parents neglect or abuse them
and who do not furnish proper homes,
and, Third, Delinquent children who
have violated laws, or who are in
corrigible.
"The State maintains fine school
at Owatonna for dependent and ne
elected children and provides the
Home School for delinquent children.
Many people think that there are
girls at the Home School who have
committed no offense, but the re-
ports of the Boards of Control show
no such cases, and there is law
which provides that only those who
have been adjudged delinquents can
be placed in institution maintained
for delinquent children.
GAS stated in a recent article by
Geo. D. Wing in the Sank Centre
Herald, and which has been repub-
lished in a booklet issued by the Home
School authorities, the Home School
Is a Corrective Institution, a School
for girls who have been found in
corrigible OF immoral -.-
'"The Home School was opened at
Sank Centre in 1911, and at that
time it was the understanding of the
citizens that the State would operate
a school and would itself fully edu-
cate and better the girls committed
there, but such is not the practice,
and after several years the commun-
ity has an opportunity to express It's
desires and its opinion of the system
which is being pursued in relation to
the Public Schools Of Sank Centre.
"There are two phases of the or
| iginal question, first, it's effect upon
the inmates of the Home School, and
next, it's effect upon the children and
the community of Sank Centre.
GAS to the first part of the ques-
ton, there is no doubt in the mind OF
any person but that certain benefit
lis derived by the inmates of the
Home School from the system en-
ployed, and every citizen of Sank
Centre is anxious and DESTROYS of OBJ
tanning the reformation and making
the most of every girl who comes to
the state institution, if this can be
done without injury to the boys and
girls of Sank Centre.
"This side of the question has had
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