Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-02-01 | Page 47 | Warden Plans Co-Operative Farm System

ARDEN PLANS I I 1 OPERA CO-OPERA JIVE j. j f. f F SYSTEM i ie iI I I e COll Convicts Will Vill Get Chance to Bo Dr Taught How HO HOto to Till Soil I 1 News I Ga Ca a Jan Jan Uncle Uncle n-Uncle Sam Sain is Q 1 to give 1 0 ills his prisoners a chance chunco I The GO has hs pc I a i plan juan the i of an nn honor in fU at ll c tott Mr I t- t ii I or VC nJ cumins an I I h ll l ro U It UM III M i J III hi to H with Ith the I K er r I c here und and is 18 iti to s u Uc lie sU SUl I I b t. t el m ur of arden l' l Fred re JU hd l or more mole ell lI whose I in 11 the has hris II them on- on ie J b to 10 more alore liberty will IJ 10 ryn yet bj ot the Hie i w 1 to yolk work I en-I thi tho only S will Vl tile tic he bet het t ler r nl anil n allowed allowe no hn but bt ore ex extensive c the will viii actual hrc i ill hi thi i ie I thE e mom derived Jr from Irom Sc fl tarm's II per r cent o of s will 1 be t.- given Riven to to J tt cr cat VIII he and tho the other I 2 i kept for tor the turned workers d 4 U Cl u tu them Item when e t u their vl ei r a to I ri e another unless s thc they have lai ed to Ix I w I I Im i i changed chang p ho o old oltI maxim Water Waler will 8 seek cli Its own level el to fit it his own needs In the manner In which he be Is cn endeavoring ea t to help offenders como come bud bad Aid 1 Men come como here from irom all kinds and con conditions of itc Hie and antI it I is necessary to tl make the thc right Impression at thop tho thio p psychological Phonological moment to chango change thom them into the of people the country ind aud community the they go goo to tu need lie he sal said Take Talc the counterfeiters and jogs O 8 a as the safe aCc cracker Is Js called caned in iii crIminal criminal crimi crImi- nal lingo lIng thc thic they usually come from the large cities where their associates arc are men of oC their own stamp The rho moon moon- shiner comes from the countr country either cither from Irom a community where moonshine Ismore Is Ismore more Ilmore or less prevalent or 01 from one ono where ho lie has been tempted to lo go u In hn In for foi- Illicit distilling because of ot tho the ni High h price ho lie can get cl for liquorI liquor I 1 take taUe the these o two t classes as exam exam- plea b because the they represent two e cx- cx Of Ot course cOUre thero there arc nn u lL lot of or I oth r an and their cas cases s have to 10 bo ho handled mure or ur lees For Kor the purpose of or making m mySelf mySelf my- my Self clear cleat Ill I'll use mc the tho first two In iii I explaining m my point I What K H. man luau ne needs ds mo to k hoop cp him straight ht when he lie gets out of heroit hero here IM I'M a deep interest in somo useful oc- oc or trade he ho didn't know lenow when he lie cume came GeLt Getting Ing him inte interested In hn U UH these se sort of or is 18 the ps psychology cholo of 0 the whole business of ot hii prison reform I If Jr r he has hiis been a u egg t ird kr- kr comes collies here an and nothing the chances chanec are he hc will ihl go o back hack to hl his 1111 trade once he IH 18 on the thc outside antI and hIs lil old uld friends flu and associates but If IC he learns farming or stuck stock raising 01 or something else while her here I he goes goe ues awa away with a new nOw interest an arid and sucks tie new friends among people who do the thing thIng- ho he haM ban learned how todo to todo do Hence safe cracking not on only becomes be- be comes a distasteful occupation to him but Iut he Is too loo bus busy with Ith his new trade trado to 0 u let his Iris mind i revert exert to it If If a cornea comes here I r cr he lie Is a professional or Dr an amateur I the chances chanceR are h he is a small farmer from a mountainous section where modern agricultural methods arc not known Ve We give him a chance to learn I something about intensive truck farmIng farm- farm Ing dairying or stock raising He lie immediately not only develops a new Interest but sees a Ic legitimate lawful wa way to make a good living When Warden arden Zerbst assumed chal charge o of oC tho the penitentiary In 1916 hi Hi h ho hoset set out to accomplish l two wo points In I his program On One was as to eliminate I the time old one-man one c cell ll and the other to have a a. real farm at thi th prison I Within the last Jast seven months hl his j i dream has lias begun to come corne true truo The I Ix 7 feet cells have ha taken secondary place to tho ho now new feet teet cages to accommodate four men and the tho farm farmIs Is 18 being sur oc surveyed A great many now new prisoners have hac hero since tho the prohibition law went vent Into Inlo effect They consist largely c of or young youn fellows about about I K 4 to 30 from North orth Eastern Tennessee and North orth Georgia Ia the warden added They know something something- about farming farmIng farm farm- In ing already and we are arc going to teach them t scientific metho methods s. s When tho they aro are treed freed they will have learned that th the they can make good mone money in an nn honest hon hon- est Clil Clila a WiLy way even on If It liquor does docs bringa bring brine u a quart