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Show .j " - - " v o"'' w - , t t i ;W. VI CROTON TORES SATURDAY, OCTOBER ,3. 1931. "P anceto X' i 4 ! !l the Utah prison and tvhaly' his exponent nd observations have taught h may be sutdmed , up as foltows: Overcrowdingf much to do with prison disenU It is 1 factor in all piipn outbreaks. , The Utah prison iiled to about & Warden Explains Recent Riot Cause iwice- - its --originally Intended cathe quar-LCfi- hg pacity, often compel! 51 Hi 11., twU l ci n s ks X) -- J t prisoners and more employment Unduly close conlaA between rdem Just above the prison farm is practically the only insurance - human beings is most tAing tin'is a mountain, about three-mileat the against der favorable condition , Enof cement rock. A railroad runs Uah slate prison, in Ihe opinion forced as in a prison, Whips to this mountain and through-th- e of Warden R. E. Davis, who has l ' for a long term of years, t be' prison farm. 'Wire not establish supervised the institution for the the at comes almost, intolerable. &pec cement . prison. a plant put sit ytars or more. cially is this th.e case wiljaih Every man could he given labor The only available apace" for Ever labor. of kind and higher type of criminal. Thrpne confinement the of right prisoners solitary - who has had decent upbrinig be worked at a. profit, -- is on lb fourth lier-cells on and'TscIeanly'TnhirhabilsIto the north side of tile prisonT Acbe bunked with some foul tb for the support cording to' Warden Davis this bestial in every instinct, roak of his family' and atlhe same permits Uie prisoners an. opporWiRDtS DAVIS. the state. for to the make a anything preferable hHife undej time neighborhood annoy tunity profit . such a 4condition. - Warden Davis explained there their Incessant yelling end -and the balance institution the -- would be no need fat worry about ' committed More men are hnwliug - There are 12 cells in being to pasture and. grain.. Such an Her? the this Isolation ward. to prisons, than ever before and -competition with private enter-pri- se acreage of heels would be wel- -. be as the cement would such a hue and cry has been prisoners get the best atmosphere, corned by the farmer, said Warden the most heal and can communi--ea- le furnished only to slate and mu raised against the rapid release, would in assist Davis, fqr.it with each other iji apite of of prisoners that this if Pot beTiicipat corporations. A state use keeping the factories operating ail that the warden and his as- -- plan would require that the ing done as much as previously.' and thus furnish a market for sietante can do. must be produced at as low Under these facts it is easy to the crop of the farmer and a Would Separate Trustiest account for the overcrowding. Of a figure as private enterprise and larger labor market. In the opin- Warden Davis must be sold to the state wnd course new crimes have been creion of the warden, between 400 opinion is that better isolation quarters is one of ated. These new crimes have and 500 men could be kept busy municipal corporations in comtwo things absolutely imperative caused an' increase in the older on the farm dor the greater part petition with the trade. Under - the plan, if this is done, the stale at. the prison.- - The other is the forms of criminality. As crime j of the veaiv. consfrurlion of a dormitory for has increased more severe penal- purchasing agent would he forced Keep Plans Secret j to hoy from .the prison plant, "trusties on theoulside of the ties have been imposed, thus add-- 1 For the rehabilitation of young This man. most once successfulWhen works a, i - men, who did not care for farm- prison.. plan already oveccrnwdpd , ing made a trusty and is given ou- lcondition of the prisons. ly in Massachusetts, said Warden mg, the warden would establish - side work, said the Warden, he Davis, and should he adopted by a number plate factory and dm Jfajrecent years the.prison pop- ' i Utah. should never go inside the prison halation Is composed Of an entire- -! '"chine shops. walls again. Urges Other Factories. While Warden Davis indicated ly different type of criminal,' Of course (lie Warden reiterai- As additional moansof employ- Many of the inmates are adven- that precautions had been laken " his former plea for more torous young men,- - who- - do - not ment Warden Davis suggested against future riot consider themselves in the propcf , to divulge his plans except to the installation of a number plate - factory and a I have harped on this," he- sense criminals and will not ho say that every employe and this--t- y foundry." Products handled as such. On the other declared, until it is stale, but of both these plants could be has been cautioned to be connevertheless that is the seat of sold direct to the state and mu- hand, prison authorities, stick as stantly on his guard. the trouble." . Under .lha present system nicipal corporations and .would of . , closely as they can to .the .off The- - only employment offered methods. not enter in competition with pri. being unable to isolate the re- Prefer, to Die.--; at the prison Is the overall facI ' vate individual; , fractory prisoners, the penitentory and the small farm of 163 As an alternative plan of cm-Convicts of today simply wL: tiary officials are almost power-- , acres. When the factory ie opless to prevent constant uprisings. not endure the treatment that ployment Warden Davis reiterat-"c- d his plea for aTargef farmT erating about ftftfo 7ft mcn can 'Trusties stand in fear'of their' "lough characters of 20 years' be employed and probably 20 on Recommendations oM.he warden lives Jf they should divulge any submitted to. They prefer, to the farm. This" is Test than a are for the state to acquire a of the plans of the prisoners. If killed in a fight for liberty third of the prison population. farm of 800 to 1,000 acres of -they were not hilled, life would , - freedom.. The prisoners respd(. - As a means of -varied land. Five hundred acres be made- - Unbearable for them, creating -- more Tsible for most of the recent prit1 could be planted to sugar beets, employment Warden Davis today . said Warden Davis. on outbreaks are the best type suggested the construclion and a large enough acreage to vegeOther thoughts of the warden human material. operation of a cement planL tables to care for the needs of as to what the future bolds for This, of course, means the hi future-outbrea- A VlU-..- ' i sr.Tiiv one-eou- M of r. -- t u -- -- r e 1 - I'pper picture shows- the white line which is the dead line outside of which no prisoner may venture at the Utah state prison, without befog challenged by the armed , ler educated, clean cut young fel- -lows. There irlitttcTrnestimrtref that the prevailing element of prisoners would pass for tolerably decent young men if they were at large. . These spirited youngsters are not used to being held down and flare up on the least provocation. 'This accounts for the prison insurrections of today on a large "scale." " j - . By TED CANNON, HE shriek of brakes-cna- h and clatter of impact and shattering (las and then the moment of dread alienee before the conscious survivors if any there he. start to extricats themselves from took to" their dead and dying companions. Or. ' perhaps, a mother pauses for a second at the curb, heart paralyzed by fear, and than rushea into the s Ueet nd gather lO her boeOm the lifeless form of her little one. Tragic an it sounds, this is the t- - drama enacted, many timea-a day-isome section of the nation. Soon- -, er or later we ourselves, or our or. dear ones, arc called0 up- -. on to play a part in this endless cycle of death and Injury. being enacted, the death loll steadily mounts and establishes Itself aa Ouws Duw6 OCATHS High. n tr - er. for, corresponding period . year previous mas 8,841. The death . rate from .auto Occidents pet.lOO,- 000 population for these respective - periods wax 25, S and 28.3. Salt lakes rate, computed on the same , basis ws 31 J for .the year ending "'tevt'Septrs atra TS 5 for the previous year. ' For deaths due to accidents lgj)a.id t y i, in Cm CounmrSmt PAsr Ygt I jjj 12 13 1 Tjrl v 1930, , Considering the total population of the state at a half million, the 0 death rate for this period per of population reaches the as" tounding total Of 38.3. Industry Made bafer. The enactment of safety 100,-00- ' a . constandy-impro- v ing. year round program of safety ' materially reduced the rate of acUtltnia and fatalities in indue--trChild deaths from accidents have materially decreased since 1922, when, school safety work on a national scale was started. .But during this tlmo adult deaths have increased 38 per cent, according to statistics of the National Safety' y. .. The trail of death left by traffic arrfclents In fills community during tha past year is clearly traced in the accompanying grnpli showing how the deaths were divided up between Sait Lake City, halt lake county outside the city limits, and the state of Utah ontstde o( tlie comity, duly leads the death parade with 2S fatalities while September, with two days' to go at the time the graph was made, had recorded 21, 1 - W ent "convicts - and" the - people or Hie' board composed of the five justices of the supreme court, the attorney genera! and the gover--n- or of the elate.-Und- er this sys-- Congress. J r . invcsfigalioh" of the record's of the prisoners that come up dor parole from time t lime. A hoard oT this kind would into the history of the convict, his envlroment during childhood . and since coming to manhood. . If this was done a great re-habilitalion work could be care reed out and many of the eon- ' vict who go out now only to re-turn to the same or another prlson. would be placed in gainful employment and made to understand that society was not or- -' ganixecTagainst them; but on the other hand, was billing to give "each and everyone of them another chance. gtstmi Targe to have a "pardons-. ' - lem six lawyers are silting as the members of the board. One day "a month they bit at the prison to kuow all about the, various cases that "come beforetheni. 'Tris Utterly Th& ideal board impossible. would be composed of. three members, possibly a lawyer, business man with humanitarian instincts and a social worker. . This board should spend con-- " siderable time at the pnsoa in . Flays Parole System. "Warden Davis "also had something to say regarding the present indeterminate sentence and parole laws. Recording his thoughts It is unfair to the prison officials, the ' at-ih- i ' t i the other fellow Iq a traffic problem. Better to. slow up and give him his choice of action. No one will deny that accidents sometimes occur in- - which neither driver is to blame- - Tet to say that an accident was unavoidable is to confess-belief In fster- Liable to Repeat.' Research by the National Safety Council his proved that there is such a thing as accident there are traffic "acci-derepeaters that a small pet centage of drivers are involved in a larger percentage of accidental Many of the beet minds in tho traffic world have engaged lir a out-gue- ss consider- - : ably above the average. r Startling Increase. But whats'er scant encouragement may be gained from this apparent improvement asreTlected In' the laborsoma and complicated statistics of tbs bureau of statistics is nulrkly obttterejed by a giaaoe 'at the stark facts as we know them from the daily press and as we , them in the earefutty ehecked records of f ha local polios department. Fifty-fiv- e lives have been strutted out by auto accidents In Salt Lake county since th first of this year 25 of them mithlnr7Sa.lt Lake CHys lim rtKTThia rtffat of Si already greater than the 4 recorded In the entire county during 1930. And a substantia! number " of (hose bae been chalked up, within the past 'few weeks- - Ttrt total recorded in the entira state during the present year la 124. The saw nine -onths deaths within the city, nine more fit the county and 22 in the stete exclusive 'of Ssit Lake county. In other words 5 for the entire state in the lest four months of , last year which, added to this years total, makes 184 since Sept. 1, . automobile fatalities and show Git y and county" fee up with the communities leading the death parade. .... Computed from totals of S3 lead ing cities, 9,038 were killed In automobile accidents during the year - Satt-i-ak mare soundly,-bette- r equippjdwith brake and" other safety devices, and despite the fact that highways and street are ronstanttybelnir " . improved and that more stringent rules and regulations for traffic are TnjfFic lake Rate of vital statistics of the United , (Hates department of commerce show the steady climb upward of biles, year by year, are constructed ; T bait cuards on the walls. This picture That at the left Is where the riot at the prison occurret. afl taken rront one of the walls, Prisoners pourrd out of thr from and looks Into Uie prison yard from In their effort to scale tha the southeast corner. The lower wall, seen extreme, left of . e , picture Is a view of two cell bouses. the pteture, within city limits during the Iaat year, tho average death rate per 100.000 for the 82 cities was 20.8 and for the previous year. 20.S. while Salt- - Lakes corresponding fgures for the city proper were 21.T and 2$.4 in other words a the greatest menace to human welfare and bappmeea truly It has become the great American tragedy. W- .r he-ref- cp - 'w; --e- -- i- j i -- 5 af nt tntereeotlofT When two cars race foe an the result Is often a tie - a dead hemt dn more ware than one. Thedemoiaooompanv Ing picture U a flesh at the finish line" Just after the race was ran. Both cans were practically Ulta particniar hietanre the occupants mlracnlmMSy escaped drwfh ahhoogh the tnjurtes were-serton- ;' l,lrt 'Tills accident took place ceomtly at Third Accident- fatalities in - ipiustry have decreased at least 30 Br cent in the last 20 years, jth punctl -- reports, and In the last twfijreare accidents have been redura4 12 per cent fey'T, 600 Iesdlng In austral establishments of the natlonj Accidents Involving drivers ofjkucks, .have Men. re- duced .I3per'centi during, f'4 past,... four years, but during th same period passenger car nr idents have lr.creased OI per Cent EffeoUveness Proved These figures show eonfSjsfvely that organised safety promts Injuries and death whereve g4 get a good foothold, In ahaalsed groups safety work has ma& great Strides, but accidents on tjk hxh-wa- y and In the home tmong those who do not make a fbrough and and careful study of saf properly consider tfe right f others this progress is mg', than offset Despite the berculgn efforts of public officers anlyrgan-ize- d groups motor vehiclf fatslj- Uea rise to new heights ear, year. Thus She problems, that fee the 01 ganlxed safety movement luring the next two .decades are great' as those that faced the picXers of the movement 20 years agq, t . Splendid progress has bei made locally gnd In the cpuntyl y the establishment of Junior poRv1 who safeguard the lives. of thhous-and- s of children who lesvebeme dally la attend echooL-- Infla. vi- - t avenue and B - sum at avary achoot building boys and girls armed with warning patrol the Intersections and sidewalk crossings frequented by 7 little ones and aoeampllsh - great - . good in slowing down approaching vehicles and directing children, . across streets, a- - Public Cooperates. Through the schools and the e tablishment of Junior police systems no doubt thousands of deaths and injuries have been avoided, and the cooperation of the public generally with this movement hs been ratifying to public lema of safety have been taken up locally with industries concerns which operate fleets of automobiles and here again a willing and gratifying cooperation haa been noticed. Cars and equipment have' been kept In better condition, brakes and lights arb frequently tested and adjusted and drivers ara generally becoming more safety conscious." ' . ' . . The great problem is the individual car owner and driver. Each police and sheriffs drive reveals hundreds of with"" faulty brakes and improper lights. The public, generally appears indif-- . ferent to the crying need for great- er ears and caution la the operation of the car else why does the death toll so consistently forge upward? The appeal through the public press Is really the only medium of - einlty thousands drivers among whom the large ma- jority of auto'acddentg are noted. .Any Individual' would no doubt feel deeply grieved and insulted-- it tnid that ha or she was careless drtvei a jpfnac 4o tho public safety. Tet In view of the accident rec- -' ord the general driving ptiblfe-- evcry one of os la a meneeer"----""How often after an accident oe- --drivers cunu will say. It certainly Was not my fault. I had the right of way. Ive been driving for years and never an ad-accident before. . I was' clesriy within my rights and I alcways observe all the laws. No doubt such words are spoken in niUe cases ont.of ten in all sincerity and good faith. Tet how often just a little precaution, a little more care, could have avoided an accident. . T . cudgroent Vital. , ' Strict observance or traffic laws and regulations will never eliminate accidents, although it Will mv doubt nummaterially reduce the ber. What is needed ia i6rs Judg- ment, constdefat loir of the rights of other! more concentre- - ' lion on the operation of the car. Probably' ts many accidents have resulted from a driver iny Vhen sisting on his another his already taken It as from any other single cause. Noth-- " ing Is more futile than to try te .touchlng-th- e sig-na- la -- " -- ' onot etc-et- ' g" right-of-wa- b TdttaforThikpartieuiar'Jirebteni -- and science ia lending its aid in tha study of diagnosis and treat- .ment of the accident-repeateTha drivers' license i law; iq - force in many states, buf defeat- ed In the last session of the Utah ef- legislature, will op doubt-be- .. this typ of ' driver from tha traffic plcture.- NOpd Uniform Law. Tha adoption of a uniform traf . fic 1st throughout tha .nation.-wil- l - no doqlft go a long way toward accident reduction. Utahe lawa at theTnodel ' present plan In most' respects. The laaV Session of the legisla. -- ture enact 'aome trafflc rules which will become effective at tha beginning of, 1332- - Outstanding among those ara the raising of tho speed limit to 48 iqllee an hour on highways outslde-o- f city limits add the regulation of track loading. Modern highway .construction with Its elimination of. curves and grade crossings, caretnr posting of roads, widening of ""bridges and general .improvement of goad sure faces has no doubt resulted In the wring of thousands of UHexa, i No set of TUles of xonduot' will ever solve the traffic problem, hut doubt the accident rate would " bo materially cut down if w would all consider, when approaching a group of children playing ,lm the street, that, our own child was among them, that our own' child might at any moment dart trem behind a parked car. that tba driver in that approaching vehicle expected u io give him right of way ln other words that we Apply .' tho Oolden Rule to our driving,- . r. -- ng ' 0w cIoaely-T6TI- ,, , ju . - . |
