St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-06-04
PUBLIC SERVICE
BUREAU

BUREAU
Institutions Visited: Glen Lake
Sanitarium, Glen Lake Farm Home,
University Hospital, and General
Hospital.
We made three home visits this
week. /
Services For Patients: Phone |
calls for patients. Combed hair of |
woman patient. Wrote letter to
boy at Glen Lake Farm. Made
contact with Boys Worker and in
terested others in helping boy. Dis
tributed reading matter to patients. |
How You Can Help: Send in
any suggestions you think may be
helpful to this department. Get |
your clubs to give more thought |
to our shut-ins. More magazines |
published by our group are needed.
A short distance before reach
ing Glen Lake Sanitarium, is the |
Glen Lake Farm for boys. It is
long walk from the highway
where the bus stops to the build
ings for the boys. AS beautiful as
the road is leading to the farm, the
thoughts of parents can not be
tranquil or beautiful as they fol-
low the road to see their son.
Boys are sent to this farm when
their conduct has failed, making
them undesirable as citizens in a
law-abiding community. How sad
and shameful for the parents of
these children. These corrective
schools are a reflection on the par
ents first of all. Boys over eighteen
are not sent to the farm. A PSYCHE
artist could explain the reason of
the failure of children under
eighteen to adjust themselves.
Some parents would be indig-
nant after an explanation from one
of these specialists and would be
reluctant to follow the advice
given. Court, probation, and final
ly a sentence to the farm. Thirty
five of our boys have had a stay
out on the farm in the last three
years.
All have made good records dur
ing their stay, according to Mr..
M. E. Howley, superintendent. The
break in this good report has been
made since last spring. One of
our boys, the only one there at
present, is not making good rec
ord. His time is almost up but
will be heightened unless his report
is made satisfactory. The little
fourteen year old chap was
brought into Mr.. Howley's office to
talk with me. 1t seemed so ridicu-
lous that a chap of his good ap-
pearance should be in any kind of
trouble.
His mother thanked me for my
visit to her home. She told me
that the Public Service Bureaus
interest was the first effort shown
to help her with her problem son.
Mr.. Howley told me that the boy
had had visits from his parents
only. Mr.. John Thomas, boys
worker at Phyllis Wheatley House,
thanked US for notifying him of the
boys whereabouts. He promised
to visit the farm. I wrote to the
youngster, reminding him of the
promise he made to me and en-
closed some clippings from the
Spokesman and Recorder 1 hoped
would interest him. We also ex-
pect to hear from the Boy Scout
Leader. In fact we expect to in
terest so many helpful people in
this chap that he will realize it is
more fun to obey laws and con-
ventions than to try to disobey
them.
Made a trip to University Hos
pital to visit a patient I was mott
fled was there. The clerk directed
me to the floor. Floor nurse got
into a huddle with another nurse
and after bit of whispering came
back to me with the news that she
believed the patient had been re-
leased. This, coming up on top of
my praise of the place in another
issue. I used my coolest profess
sional tone when I advised the
clerk of the nurses report.
Almost sorry to visit a ward at
General and find patients not
where I saw them last. After my
first visit they look for me and 1
like their smiles of welcome.
Mr.. Carroll Denison seemed re-
lieved when assured the phone calls
he wanted made could be taken
care of for him by this Bureau. Mr..
John Morris was not resting so
well last Friday. Mrs: Onie Bryant,
Alice Brewer, Sarah Pratt and Ann
Horris were admitted last week.
A ninety year old woman whose
name is Mrs. Jane Pepper is rest