The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-12-31
New Control
System Hos
Much Promise
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SlDle mas Deen rewarded In most
cases by the boys honoring of the
trust placed in them.
There are exceptions TO every
rule. and now and then a case arises
whd@ a boy fails to see that the
new policy is for his own benefit.
Few as these are, it is rarely that
a boy fails to respond after he has
been given special attention by his
cottage parent Considering the type
of boy the school is called upon to
deal with, results obtained to date
have been very gratifying. In many
cases recalcltrants are convinced of
the folly of betraying the added lib
critics given them through the eff
forts of various members of their
own group.
Boys with grievances, real or
imagined, are at liberty to have an
interview with either their cottage
parent, President McCleery or any
other supervisor about the School.
Usually a heart talk about
these things results in the boy real
izing that he is being given every
consideration possible and square
deal at all times
The knowledge that he may have
an audience with whom he wishes
at any time when personal matters
are to be discussed or adjusted has
caused the boys here to have an en-
tirely different outlook upon their
time spent at the School. and the
result is that vast majority are
now making a real effort TO benefit
by their being placed here, where
formerly many of them merely
did their time, waiting to gain
enough credit to entitle them to a
parole.
Recently a new system was in
augurated whereby weekly check
on almost every characteristic of
the boy is made by the cottage par
emit This enables the parole depart
ment as we'll as the head of the
School to obtain an accurate COM
posite of the boy at all times. Prog
ress from the time he enters the
School may be readily checked at
all times. Such characteristics as
personal cleanliness, craftsmanship,
obedience to orders, application to
studies, honesty ability and many
more traits are recorded each week.
This enables supervisors as we'll
as the boy himself to readily note
good points, or traits that need i'm
provement or elimination, and to
take steps necessary to remedy fail
ings; also to improve upon points
already good.
Instead of being required to wear
the dull and monotonously uniform
dress as of former days they are
now permitted to wear their own
clothing, thus erasing to great ex-
tent that institution" feeling that
was once present and apparent
among the student population of the
School. If parents do not wish to
furnish clothing for the boys,
clothes are furnished by the state,
as of the past. The liberty of being
permitted to wear conventional ci-
william clothing does much more to
improve the morale and to erase
any inferiority or marked" COM
pick than the average person would
realize
Much more could be written, and
additional information will be furn-
ished regarding the policies in eff
feet at the School now, but space
and time prevents it in this, issue.
However, it is planned TO publish
at an early date more concerning
! the up-to-date methods being put
into effect at the School in regard
to the boys, employees and the en-
/ tire institution.