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Show MEN IN PRISON ARE -EAGER TO MAKE WORLDfREE By Selma Miller Oui m ira l tan klAle prlxm thr are 15- men who ere 'awaiting inx loualy the rrforta nf leading enclalo-glata enclalo-glata and prtaon reform learire nf the country to ronvlnc th- execu. Uvea of the American government that they are willing and ready to die i for the freedom of the world. Quea-jtlore Quea-jtlore aa an awhether anythtng concern-ling concern-ling the movement haa-been heard ara nut to Warder. Rjnrra dally. PATRIOTISM KILLS CRIME. j "Patriotism which hss b..n brought iout by' the war is proving the great- , ' est regenerative Influence that evef entered the penitentiary, says War- den Ftorrs. It Is slso his opinion that It Is todsy the most powerful of all checks agnlnst crime and crime Impulse. As proof of this trie warden " points out the fact that before the war about fourteen nw Inmates n-1 tered the prison monthly, wh'ie now j only about three are sen? In. In May of this year "not one prisoner was I entered, breaking all records. ! j PRISONERS LOYAL. The1 love of country has lifted each I prisoner to a higher plane fr dia-tdplln dia-tdplln at the I'tsh prison has been better than ever before. There la no J ned for InauRtiratipg drives nt the' penitentiary for Liberty bonds. Red I j C'roaa or other movements to help win th war , with, for the men come .forward and give generouelv of their j mal! at ore of money. More than f itl'ift ln Liberty bonds has hewn i (boiinht bv the men there and all hsvej Invested In War stamps and given to: 4be Ited Cross. j FIFTEEN AT FRONT. Fifteen former Inmate e rh priaon are at the front fightinc ind one haa becom s aerjreant ma lor of battalion. Prison waPa cannot keep ,ut the inspiring in-spiring viaion of fro men fighting and dyipg to keep the world tin-1 sha'kj-d, for when the city rejoices over sn American victory with beiia j isrd whittles, the prisoners go wild; jwlth excitement and celebrate on -their own accord. IHERE 18 EXAMPLE. One of th beat ejramplea the 'prison affords ln what the priaon era i want to do to carry the sword te the ! lair of the Huh Is seen In James j McPherson Fhockley, a man now about 4. who has become a short i ,sfory writer. 8b'ckley a serving a long term fr murder. He ws a noncommiaslnned officer In the fjan- ' leh-Americsn war snd effort on ihei part of outalde frit nana prevail'' j upon the proper authorltlea to release ' ;him so tht he may give his services; l to I 'pel Sam sre ijow being made It Is Fhockley's wih o become vinj ITfei in -the arroy ""d to take out a' i $1 (k0 insurance, to he. c.juHlly "dt- ; -ided. in ca of hia death, between j jth two wmtn whom he caused to I 'bo widowedl j |
