The Augusta Courier

People Riled Over Girls' Training School Scandal

Prominent Doctor Hits Incompetence In State's Handling Of Rotten Situation.

Numerous letters and telephone calls have come to The Courier approving our position on the training school for girls. The people of Georgia are stirred up about the intolerable conditions which exist at the girls' training school at Adamsville near Atlanta. The Augusta Courier has received more response to its articles on the girls' training school than anything we have carried in some time. The people feel that the conditions there are outrageous and as evidence of the letters which we are receiving, we print below what a prominent doctor in Georgia has to say about this situation. This prominent physician says:

"I have been in the medical profession slightly more than half century, so after reading your report on the condition of the Girls' Training School, out from Atlanta, I am convinced that it is somebody's duty to correct the infamous evil that you found in this institution. If the woman who is at the head of this school for girls does not possess any more of the human and spiritual characteristics in her training it seems that such a bunch of girls had about as well be turned loose like a flock of goats or pigs to root for themselves and do their own butting.

"I don't know who is responsible for not checking up with the weakness in the running of this school, mostly for some type of delinquency, but I am confident that somebody is laying down on the job. If there ever was a place which required not only a woman who wanted a job, but one imbibed with the Christian spirit and the love of humanity it is such a position as you named. I cannot believe that Governor Talmadge knows about the matter as you have so carefully explained or he would have done something about it.

"It is to be hoped by every right thinking man and woman in this state that you may keep behind the designated school for delinquent girls 'til something tangible is done to turn the school from a madhouse to a place to train girls who sorely need love, right influence, patience and kindness as well as being hardboiled. In other words she should teach those girls to want to be better instead of calling them such names as you mentioned in your issue of the 11th.

"I am sure our present governor must have turned the inspection of this school over to some person or persons whom he thought would do a good job, but from the contents of your report, there is no one doing a good job for the school you named. Somebody is to blame for the mad conduct of this school. If the right person or persons had been on the job it is quite obvious that long ago something would have been done to correct the infamous evil.

"Keep after it, Roy. Your friends all over this state are with you in letting the folks know the situation and then pointing out things which should be done to save the inmates of this school."