Show 4 MAJ HUMANE METHODS maj R W NN mcclaughry wao vv ho taa bas been warden of the federal prison at leavenworth for fourteen years resigned his position a tew few days ago lie he Is seventy four years old 4 discussing his treatment of prisoners the major said bald the question of proper I 1 imprisonment in ment Tes resolve olvea itself simply to this la tt it better to beat a man through his bis prison term and turn him out a criminal or make him do rood good honest liones work and keep blo mind dk of mischief and endeavor to reform him the philosophy of at that theory acting on the convict himself la io helpful its up to him biro if he got along all right 1 I have sought always to eliminate aristocracy inside the bars I 1 hao long contended that one man should not have more than another sim simply ply because his friends are better fixed 0 financially than the poor prisoner it ii one man mail was to have turkey christmas day every man should have tur The these semen imen we call criminals have souls they havethe have the same passions likes and datre hatreds do inside the walls they had outside some people seem not to realize that always when a prisoner was brought before me I 1 thought of als family and the probable future of ho he man mail himself when hla lits term was up if a man was waa morose 1 I 1 pu put thira alta in a cell with a cheerful fellow it if he be was inclined to be suicidal I 1 euthim put him in a cell with one whose talk was full of hope I 1 have installed saturday afternoon baseball games the men look forward for vard to them like kids and behave themselves for if they do not their baseball tickets are taken away from them |