Show Where Prisoners Improve I K ns has just given diplomas to thirty-one thirty a s who had taken a college course in agriculture Commencement e exercises ei were were held in the prison This is probably the first event 01 of ti the kind in the history of the world j The Thc work done by the prisoners was the same as that which winch tl the e Kansas Kurae agricultural college offers I to its home correspondence st students dents One hundred prisoners availed themselves of the chance to The thirty one graduates v were ere students in steam and elec- elec U caL c engineering carpentry blacksmithing agriculture and motor CI we me me of f the graduates will not b be bl released from prison for s cyal f l years yeal'S but the state has alread already fOl d employment for those i W os' os terms have nearly expired lh existe existence of this un unique quo body of college graduates tes iI indicates a pronounced pr improvement in modern reform work wIth criminals Tot even the most enthusiastic reformer can prove that education p produces ces good character 5 r j But education doe does create new ambitions ambitious in any man I t r proves It-proves the futility of crime It t makes a man self supporting self I aid d thus removes the temptation to forms of law lawbreaking breaking f. f Governments now spend more money on n their prisons than on l Schools cli cl The success of the the Ka Kansas sas experiment e t is an instructive exhibition of the eagerness with which even criminals will seize seIze an au opportunity to fit themselves for dignified and responsible places in tle community unit i Perhaps some day society will know enough to pay for preventing prevent prevent- prevent prevent-I ing ig g crime rather than for punishing criminals |