Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1919 — JULIA WORK HOME AS BAD AS PAINTED. [ARTICLE]

JULIA WORK HOME AS BAD AS PAINTED.

Brook Reporter— Jaeeb White, representative of the court ot Newton county, W,ent to the Julia Work home last week and in company with his wife brought back Violet Benjamin, of Goodland, who had been in that institution for two years. She wap taken there when fourteen years of age and never gained a pound during her residence. ' Mr. White says the home is as black as it has been painted. That as to being a school, it is not, nor ever has been. The only school there is, is supported by the tartnbe ih jail. The play yard is a very small affair and no conveniences in it. The children look underfed and undernourished, and without any life. Mr. White says that he saw the larder and there wasn’t as much in it for these 200 children as he has in his home for himself and wife. The little fellows are compelled to work from morning till night, at this plaice, in spite of the fact that the laws of Indiana prohibit children of that age working ■continuously. While the town is only a mile away, this little girt had never been in the town in the .two years, nor away from the grounds. There is a 200 acre farm at this place but very little of the produce goes to the tables of the children. They are fed’ on oat meal and porridge and that is of a very inferior quality. A reputable attorney of .the town told him that not half the (things concerning the inefficiency of this school have (been told the public. Little girls have run away and come to the chief of police and ibegged to be put in jail, preferring that to the life at the school. The only thing about the school that bears any truth is the name. It is Julia Work’s (home, and the little ones do the work. The visiting committee, who see the school, is headed by Amos Butler. When “ Amos comes the school is informed of the visit and Julia has the school on dress parade, and Amos sits down to a fine meal, and is content. These children should be taken from her and she should be made to feel the effects of the law. Anyone 'heartless enough to Stajrve little children’ Ito get money should be given the limit We have howled our heads off at the treatment off little children in Belgium by the Germans and yet have fostered an institution in our midst that is almost fits equal.