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HISTORY OF STONEWALL
TRAINING SCHOOL
(Continued From Page Thirty-Nine)
such the student body of the Jackson
Training School‘.coines.
Their New Environment —A Government.
It is very rare that reference in made
to the institution as n “Reform” school;
that term is intolerable and' is resented
by all, who understand the very essen
tial principles governing successful wiork
along the lines in which we are engaged.
Studious effort has been made in develop:
ing the plans of the grounds and in the
interior construction of the buildings' to
avoid every appearance or suggestion of
prison life. The name of the institution
comes nearer telling the exact truth and
describes the character of life here better
than could any words we might employ.
It is worthwhile however, to make refer
ence to the policy of control the gov
ernment that prevail here.
No guards with ugly pistols, clubs or
guns parade the grounds, and none are
employed. There are no fences, other
than those in making pastures. We have
just a slight idea of the appearance of
ankle bracelets; and wrist chains arc
unknown. Physical restrainers have nev
er been on this spot, except on two oc
casions when two great big boobies each
escorted a boy to the hand-cuffed
and securely tied with ropes.
At the very opening on January 12th,
liKK), the policy was established and Ims
since been adhered to rigidly and with
great success, that when a boy comes
the first business is to find out as early
as possible whether there remains, along
with the divine spark that we know ev
ler.v boy possesses, a lingering shadow of
the sense of honor. It is very rare, even
in cases tlwt come with the most horrible
reputations back home, that soon some
thing is not offered as a handhold of
hope—a thing to appeal to. Most boys,
practically normal in mind, have the
happy faculty of sizinz up a proposition
very quickly and generally in an unusual
ly accurate manner. When he enters
the school, he feels at once the atmos
phere of order, system, regularity, clean
liness ; humaneness, and a purpose that
prevail throughout every department. He
is impressed; he is awed; he is confound
ed ; lie is amazed; lie is oftentimes be
fnddler, but never humiliated—he must
not be. He catches the step, lie divines
the purpose, and he begins to reason about
the thing to himself—-I have often 'en
joyed hearing boys, who have gone out
from the institution, taken their posi
tions in society, and archiving uprightly
and arc assets to the/tmate, tell of the
peculiar sensations that'eame over them
for the firßt while in their life with us—
and he concludes that the easiest and best
way to make his stay pleasant and agree
able is to fall in with the habits of life
prevailing around him.
Now and then, connection between
that boy and that spark of honor is so
fragile and the call back to the allure
rnenta of the wallow brings on a home
sickness, these forming a combination
that he cannot resist, and again takes
his own fortune into his own hands for
awhile, but soon he returns wiser and
with a cleaner understanding of just
what all this thing means. After all, a
man's real character is nothing but a
combination of habits—whether for good
or bad, either is hard to break. The so
called bad bo.v appears as the sum-total
of the habits t make up his life. Our
purpose is to protect him against himself
for a period, hold up to him good and
tried ideals, teach him the beauty of or
der. system and frnnknness, give him a
taste of that which strikes at the soul,
meet him always as a younger brother
and, responding, he sheds those little
habits, the love for them and the taste,
and comes gradually and surely 02 times
out of every 100 into his own. I have
seen it. It works. It is beautiful.
No. This is not a j-eforniatory—it is
not a prison. It is a CHANCE, the uo
ly ehauee in many instances, coming in
to the life of these ‘dropped stitches” of
a vanished control, and they show a
gratitude, sincere and unstinted, look up
on the school with a'tender love: visit
it. encourage the boys, and make substan
tial gifts. This then, is civic service,
justice, civilization, home missions. It
bids us go forward.
WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THE BOYS
At a certain hour in the mornings, va
rying with the seasons, the uight watch
man arouses the house boys, who assist
the matrons in the kitchens and the din
ing rooms. The thirty boys of the cot
tage arise, attend to their own beds,
march to the first floor, attend to their
dressing; and by the time this is ac
complished breakfast is ready. They as
semble in the dining room where one of
them "returns thanks" and they break
fast in an orderly manner. The same
thing is going on in all other cottages at
the very same time. Right here the
reader may be wondering why not a cen
tral kitchen and a central dining room.
That would smack of prison habits, and
destroy the features of a home life. The
nearer the number eau be kept to a size
suggestive of home, surer are results.
Huddling together is ruinous.
At a certain hour the bell rings, and
the boys and officers of every building as
semble on the campus, to give au account
of the past night, and-divide up to take
their several places in the various depart
ments. They are divided into two sec
tions. One section enters the school
rooms: the other section goes at hauling,
construction work, barn work, laundry
work, farm work, printing office, wood
working shop, or whatever in season is
necessary, all being divided up into
squads of sufficient size to accomplish a
giveti piece of work in a given period.
The bell rings at noon. All go to
tlieh- respective cottages, prepare' for din
ner. This over, they gather orderly in
the assembly room, read, chat, sometimes
sing, or simply lounge about like any
normal folks. As a given sound of the
bell all assemble again on the campus.
The school section of the morning takes
the place of the morning work section,
and the hitter attend school. At a
fixed hour in the afternoon, they gather
on the campus, go through a "setting up”
exercise, or through a military drill, or
play football, or baseball. Preparing for
supper, this meal is orderly attended to,
then they assemble iu their sitting room
for u period of reading or singing, or a
debate, or recitations, or small games, or
being entertained by some visitor. Time
does not hang heavy, or there is always
something worthwhile to do, iu. which
they all enthusiastically enter. At a
given hour in every cottage, they- as
semble in the basement floor for prepa
ration for retiring. When this is com
pleted they go up two flights of stairs
to sleeping dormitory, where each has a
clean, single bed to himself. Kneeling
they join iu concert,in the Lord's pray
er, and should any one so desire he may
engage in silent prayer for others and
other matters. It is pleasing to note
how many avail themselves of tlvis priv
ilege of silent prayer. "Good Night”
sounds happily throughout the large dor
mitory that opens on three sides, by
large windows, out into the fresh air.
and all is quiet until the rising call is,
sounded the next day.
Sunday Is an Important Day.
The same system prevails on Sundays
as on week days, except all unnecessary
work is eliminated. At stated periods
during the week, much study is given, to
Sunday School lessons. At/1030 on Sun
day, all assemble together and hold a
regular Sunday School, and the efficiency
and the interest manifested would put to
shame many a Sunday School, which I
have seen.
Every Sunday at 3:00 I*. M. all assem
ble in the Margaret Burgwyn Chapel,
where some visiitiug preacher from Con
cord or Charlotte conducts divine ser
vices. All preachers declare their great
pleasure iu preaching to these boys, who
are fine listeners, tine singers. This over,
the afternoon is spenT on the campus in
groups, while the institutional band gives
a sacred concert, to the pleasure and
profit of all.
The School Work.
While it is not carried higher than the
eighth grade, the drill is thorough, and
no school turns out a higher class of
work. The best spellers iu North Caro
lina are in the school rooms of the Jack
sou Training School; and in other branch
es the results are plea si if;. The con
duct, the application, und the interest
are perfect. Supplementing the school
work, there is maintained iu each cottage
a literary society, in which the boys
themselves are directors. They
select their own subjects for debnte. they
designate their own declaimers. appoint
their own essayists, they elect their own
officers, und they try violations (if there
ever be any( of rules anti investigate all
unbecoming conduct or the breaking of
rules of etiquette and good manners. For
its s(ze. considering age, there is no
school iu North Ciroliua where refer
ence hooks are in greater demand. Each
speiety holds one meeting a .week. j .
' For its special trgjifog,)at^stjtfed,pe
riods, each hoy --.writes*u loiter' (feme
folks of to some one ’who feels Ha deep
interest in him, and has a right to main
tain a correspondence.
The Printing Office
Flays an important part iu the educa
tional endeavor of the institution. In
charge of this is a practical pointer. Mr.
interested, whose salutation to the boy
—“son”—is music to this writer's soul,
and/brings the interesting little fellows
close to the*genial, yet positive character
who directs them. Mr. Fisher, barring a
short period, has been with the institu
tion since its foundation-elh fact, he
grew up with it, and is still growing
with it.
The institutional stationery, and
blanks, which enormous, are issued from
The Uplift office; The Uplift issues now
weekly: other, jobs come along, until the
printing office has become one of the bus
iest aud most interesting departments of,
the institution. Whenever the editor is
in doubt about the spelling of a word,
though a big dictionary is at hand, he
calls on the boys—they know. The en
thusiasm and deep interest manifested
by these splendid little fellows Is an in
spiration.
What Has Been Accomplished.
The campaign that was waged for the
establishment of the Jackson Training
School, the persistent preaching of the :
cause of the child and the constant de
manding of a living chance for those so
fortunate as to get into clutches of the
law, often times because of the sins of
others, has led to a larger consideration
of tlie welfare of childhood in the state.
Since receiving recognition by the law
makers. the Jackson Training School, by
its great service to the state, growing
from within until it has won tjie friend
ship and appreciation of the leaders
among us, led to the demand for ail or
thopaedic hospital, school for the feeble
minded, a refuge for unfortunate women;
and the work and accomplishment? of
the Jackson Training School suggested
the inauguration of the State Welfare
Work, out of which the Juvenile~"Bystem
has grown. It has brought the state
right iqi to the conclusion that the child
proposition is the biggest and the most
important proposition needing algl de
serving the state's fullest aud best
thought. The child today is the man of
tomorrow. It is up to the state aud so
ciety to foster those measures and that
preparation to make of him a representa
tive citizen' in a forward-looking civili
zation rather than a menace to society.
It does not cost near as much to snatch
a subject from criminality as it does to
remedy the damage he does to the state
and mankind if permitted to drift into
the life of a criminal.
It is here declared that the dreamer,
who dreamed along with fine men and
women into existence in North Carolina
a living chance for unfortupate youths,
turned loose unattended into the whirl
pool of badness, disorder and crime that
rages where God is forgotten, has, him
self, heeli astonished at what could be
accomplished by the agencies invoked at
the Jackson Training School. It, was
first a theory: then a problem; now an
accomplishment. Had this dreamer been
asked thirteen years ago "how many do
you hope to steady and put on their feet,”
he would have answered twenty-five per
cent, believing that optimistic and satis
factory. But tlie record for the past
five years—the period since enough of tlie
agencies have been installed to conduct
the work as originally intended—shows
that ninety-two out of every hundred
have been returned to society as useful
und worthy citizens.
Important railroad positions, vleifcs
in banks, officers iu manufacturing
plants, brick masons, skilled workmen,
printing business and other responsible
employment, tell the story of the accomp
lishments with those who in the respect
ive communities bore tlie reputation of
"worthless,'' ' "hopeless." “not worth
killing." Turn these boys loose—that
would have been construed a license: put
them on chain gangs—that would have
been a crime.
It is pot denied to heredity its power
iu shaping the course of a boy—some of
the finest blood of the state has been rep
resented in the enrollment here. Blood
sometimes makes mistakes—blood some
times neglects— blood sometimes aban
dons. But to environment we must as
sign the greatest agency and power for
the sbapiug of a boy's course. The bars
have been let dowu: lutrental and home
training are on the wane; temptations
have multiplied: social deceptions are
winked at—aud the Mills keep on grind
ing. and the so-called bad boy. uine times
out of teu the fault of another, is the vic
tim. A great slate does not want to pun
ish him. destroy him. damn him—but
stroug aud uiigthy iu a righteous eourage
she wants to save him. Nothing shifrt of
this is her duty.
What Shall the Future Be?
The answer of this question is with
the state. Those charged with the re
sponsibility of the establishment of the
institution, the direction of it through its
problematic stages, staying by it until
it had demonstrated its worthiness and
its usefulness to tlie state, pleading all
the while for proper and adequate main
tenance. now look forward to a willing
ness on the part of the Legislature to
make it possible to develop the plant to a
point where it can serve the fullest needs
of the state, und to give it a support that
makes necessary the crying out for the
mercies of charity.
If it is huuiaue justice that the state
desires to hand out as its expression pf
the duty of a civilization —it eun afford to
deal liberally with the Jacksou Training
School. If tlie state is kioking for u
burguiu in dollars and cents, she will be
safe iu dealing liberally with the Jack
son Training School—it is cheaper to pre
vent a criminal than to punish one and
overcome the evil influences he leaves iu
his pathway.
The Stonewall Jackson Manual Train
ing and Industrial School —
It is a proposition dealing with hu
man lives=*-uot hogs. It is a cause that
concerns eternity—not dividends of tem
porary pleasure. It is u call to a Chris
tian civilization—not a game of shrewd
trading and profiteering.
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