The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-27
SCHOOLS AND
HOME FAILING
YOUTH, CHARGE
Head of Institution for Ohio
Girl DeIinquents Makes
Assertion.
PROGRAM CHANGE URGED
Woman Advises More Social
Plan of Training
Young People.
PROGRAM CHANGE URGE
BY SAM TYNDALL

Schools, churches, the home and
correctional institutions share the
blame for juvenile delinquency in
America today, Rose c. Beatty, Ohio
penologist, attending the Central
States Probation and Parole Con-
terence in the Claypool, told The
Times today.
Mrs. Beatty, superintendent of
the Ohio Girls Industrial School.
second largest such institution in
the nation, charged that parents
and public school teachers and cur
rlcula have failed to teach self
control in the new freedom to which
youth now is heir.
I'VE have arrived in a new era
Tor dealing with the youth of our
country and the training in our de-
llnquency schools has not kept pace
with the change" she, said.
I'VE are living in a different age
youth is seeking freedom; bows
and girls are thinking today: they
must make mistakes to arrive. and
the first thing we must do before
we can help them is to realize and
understand this"
The second day of the four-day
Central States Probation and Pa
role Conference opened with an
open forum breakfast. Mrs. Beatty
spoke at 10. Frank T. Flynn Jr..
University of Notre Dame case work
director, also spoke.
An inspection of the Indiana Re-
formatory at Pendleton was sched-
uled for 1890.
Urges Change in Viewpoint
1--WE should not change our stand
ard of morals" Mrs. Beatty said.
but we should look upon morals
with different point of view.
Our delinquency institutions
should adopt more social program
OF training. We should have psy-
ohiatrists, young teachers and in in
telligent trained personnel"
Youth hasn't been taught self
control, she said. Training is up to
parents, churches and the. schools,
she added.
Mrs. Beatty, who said that she
was a school teacher at one time,
blamed much of the delinquency on
the schools. She said that not only
were the teachers old-fashioned, but
that the school curriculum was too
regimented.
Our institutions for youthful
waywards should no longer be places
for punishment but places where the
child is oriented and made to realize
that it is more fun playing the game
of life according to the rules of the
game" she said.
Neither enthusiasts for indetermi-
nate sentences and supervised pa
role systems nor advocates of longer
sentences and greater prison dis
cipline have any facts to prove that
either method will lessen crime,
Stanley P. Ashe, Western State
Penitentiary warden at Pittsburgh,
Pa, told the conference.
Imprisonment Safer for Public
Imprisonment certainly makes it
safer for the public" he said, but
only for those cases in which we
permanently incarcerate or execute.
Personally, I do not expect the
indeterminate sentence, probation
and parole to be panacea for re-
cidivism. / do believe that care
fully supervised parole, with proper
personnel and with vastly increased
facilities in our school system for
adult education, along with a ma
tionally organized system for job
analysis and placement will lessen
the number of repeaters in our in
situations"