Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1940 — Page 36

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By HARRY MORRISON Just west of Plainfield on the National Highway a road leads south past plowed fields and a greenhouse. Anytime during the late summer and fall, wagons loaded with tomatoes climb the hill from the field, a single boy urging on a couple of big draft horses. | It’s a reformatory, But it's called the Boys’ School. The boy won’t be wearing a uniform, because there aren't any. His head won't be shaved, either. They don’t do that anymore, |

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“At noon and at dinner time a whistle blows. The boys straggle out of classrooms, where they alternate day-by-day with vocational work. They come from their vocational classes, bound for the cottages.’ They used to march in lock step. And they used to line up for detail in front of the flagpole. When the superintendent, Dr. E. M. Dill, suggested they could do away with the line-up and check in at the cottages, the boys thought it couldn’t be done.

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idea. The boys’ own committee met with him and then reported to the others and convinced them, The Boys’ School was founded in 1866. It was called the House of Refuge and wasn’t unlike Oliver Twist’s school. Later ‘it was called a Reform School. For many years it has been the Boys’ School. “Make the boys think of it as a school,” says Dr. Dill. “Put them on their own. Make conditions here as much. like they are outside. as possibile.” In addition to the executive staff, there is the boys’ advisory group

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that has a lot to do with the way the school is" run. This group includes a committee of 14 boys, one from each cottage on the grounds. They meet weekly and report on the government of their cottage. Then they discuss the affairs of the entire school. Their suggestions receive fair consideration. tl ; The boss of each cottage is a family—usually & man and-his wife —-—who lives there. All the work of living is done by the boys. They plant flowers around the cottage and plan decorations for their living room and bedrooms

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and dining room. They make their beds and keep themselves clean. The boys have a lot to do with the success of the school. One day

a lad 13 years old came to Dr. Dill’s office from a town upstate. “I'm plenty tough,” he said. “If you don't believe me, ask the cops in my home town. I busted one o’ them guys heads wide open with a rock.” He was treated, like the other new boys, as a boy with a problem. Without his knowledge he was studied by a psychologist, his teachers, the cottage supervisors— and the rest of the boys.

_ They helped him accommodate himself to the place. When he decided to run away, the superintendent found out about it. They let him do it. When the city boy decided to take it on the lam, he couldn’t even get the bridle on the horse. The other boys interested him in the band. He became a good musician and captain of the high school football ‘team. He finally went home—curgd. Sometimes the vocational and class: work at the school doesn’t work, All the training in barper-

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