Show t Repair Shops Sho and Garbage Garbage'S S Plants By Br HERBERT KAUFMAN Ip BECAUSE EGA USE y you u probably b belong lon it in j jail iI and m may y yet e s serve y your u stretch prison n r. r reform deserves deserves' deserves your close ose attention Nine out of ten men m men en cant can't face Judge Conscience and escape lenience tence n Most of us have in degree broken some of the laws and committed a few few of the crimes for far or which the average zebra ears his stripes Do you mean to say that you never took part in a stone battle battIe I raided Folded an orchard archard or discovered a quarter on circus day T Are you willing to submit every transaction of your our business I Greer reer to the district attorneys attorney's office And how about the what what and where would you tie be today if lucky circumstance and self control had not served you vou Half the inmates of our penitentiaries were lio no lio worse at at the time Rime of af their commitment than the ru run of the outside community They were cau caught ht- ht Luck stood against them They couldn't old hold old their tempers They overplayed weak hands Some vere were merely mischievous boys who didn't run fast enough after 11 the 1 a lamp vas as broken Some threw a stone too straight Of course there I are congenital criminals criminals' But that's just another name for defectives They had bad parents or r weak weaR ones The They Y lived in in terrible They chose the wrong grandfathers They're paying for the debaucheries and diseases of dead men i A lot of them belong in the hospital hospital hospital-a a percentage in then the n isane son e asylums asylum I But there are thousands of poor devils devils' dam damned nod to the cells culls b ba by a single flaw of judgment and thousands more mare of hotheads whom God didn't equip with quick enough brakes We can use se tenths nine-tenths of them over over again f P The state can ill afford to lose the utility of a single mash man man Society is poorly served b by Y a system of revenue revenge Its It's unintelligent gent to eliminate any citizen from bur calculations until we have demonstrated his congenital or confirmed unfitness for further ther Communal service Year after year we redu reduce e multitudes of possibly splendid fee fel- dl l ws to garbage Hosts of them lows are not a bit worse than we wc rein are are- Jin in fact eager and nd anxious to to be b better They've had their lesson experience has alloyed their temper I We need a dozen repair shops to one penitentiary Salvage is good food business re reclamation a profitable as well as humane process y Its It's asinine to junk a machine un until tie weve we've tried to tinker it into hape and a human being is entitled to an equal chance for readjustment readjustment re- re adjustment before he is condemned to the scrap heap Copyright 1916 by Herbert Kaufman Great Britain and all 11 at other rights u reserved |