Evening star., 1922-06-11
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
ROW NEARS CLIMAX:
Three Vital Questions to Be
Settled at 0nce-Hints at
Injunction Request.

Three new moves in the Industrial ,
Home School farming out situa-
ton which is claimed to threaten
imminent dissolution OF the school,
through the action charged against
the board OF childrens guardians
in removing children from the in
Stitution. will be awaited with in
tereSt during the next three days.
They are:
The action of the committee of
the Congress of Mothers and Parent
Teachers Association assigned to an
investigation of conditions and their
report thereon tomorrow night.
The action of the District Com
miSSionerS. on the request OF the
board of trustees of the Industrial !
Home School to seek from Congress
definite establishment through a
survey or inquiry of the relations
existing and the limits of power
between the Commissioners them
selves. as represented by the board
ot charities; the trustees OF the In
dustrial Home SCHOOL and this board
Of children's guardians.
The action OF The board of charities
on the report of its own investigating
committees activities i'll the inquiry
into the homes to which children have
been removed from the home school by
the board OF children's guardians.
These three moves are expected to
place the situation on a tirmer and
clear footing. At present there is no
official status in. the case. Charges
have been made, with denials lacking,
that the board of: f:childrens guardians
are trying to disrupt the Industrial
Home School before July /, by remov-
ing all the children from that place.
Ihe Congress OF Mothers and farent
Teachers Association is seeking some
authority with d directive voice in the
actions of the board of children's
guardians.
The board of ohildren's guardians
has issued no statement on the case.
The members are keeping out of the
controversy 50 far as possible.
Ask Facts on Authority.
The Representatives of the Parent
Teachers group, Mrs. Edmund
Brennan, Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, Mrs.
l.. u. Smott and Mrs. T.. K. kalmbach,
are also aW aiting the answer of Judge
John = McMahon of the Police Court
to their request to ascertain whether
the appointing poWers-the judges of
the Police Court and the judge In the
Criminal Court-have any supervisory,
directive or removing powers over
the board of children's guardians.
According to the committee. Judge
Mcmahon has promised to Investigate
and to report on what he learns in
the matter.
Possibilities are that the Congress
of Mothers and Parent-Teachers As
sociations will go into court and seek
an injunction before allowing the
Industrial Home School to close. The
injunction sought is to be an order
demanding the board of children's
guardians to show cause why chill
uren should be removed from the
Industrial Home School
The investigating committee of the
Congress of Mothers claims. already
to have discovered numerous cases
where the board Of childrens guar
dians has transferred children from
the home school into places less
suitable for. them. Their principal
charge, however, is against the prin-
ciple of the removals of children
from the school to private homes,
where the keepers of the children are
paid for providing necessities for
them.