PROTEST AGAINST WASHING
FATHER SENT TO GAOL.
Lcvritt Brown, of Newark. New Jersey, was ?ent to eaol for five days by Judge D'Aloia. of the Newark Police Court, and also will be examined by alienists, hecause he went to the Burnet Street School and complained vigorously and boisterously against the action of the school nurse in washing the faces of his two sons, Franklin, 13, and Levritt, jun., 9. " They don't do things that way in Brooklyn, where we come from/' said Brown. He endeavoured to explain to Judge D'Aloia certain points about the United States Constitution, but the Court interrupted : " The Court is satisfied that a man who would complain about his children's faces being cleaned must be abnormal." The Newark police say the Browns have been in trouble with the Children's Aid Society on account of their treatment of their children. The whole matter will be taken before the Essex County grand jury. Xlvs. Brown said later that her children always went to school with their faces clean, but that the school was so j'dirty that their faces became soiled a bit [after they got there*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18089, 13 May 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)
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188PROTEST AGAINST WASHING New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18089, 13 May 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)
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