Show penitentiary LIBRARY miss C 8 BURNETT president W C T U sends the following with a request to publish for a year the womans comans christian temperance union has been making efforts to place a library in the pent tertiary tent iary today there are but about abou two hundred books this is a begin ning may but it does not meet the requirements ot of the place the prisoners have done nobly in the way of contribution and in many ways testify to the good being done there are special reasons why this penitentiary should be supplied with reading matter since the prisoners are not kept at work and have so much leisure every other state and territory has a good library with one exception cep tion we do not believe our people are not interested in the work put no direct appeal has been made to them for books or mosey money to procure books cannot each school district in the territory give at least a half dozen books bitoy send sen them to ake tk united states mar office or to 41 E third south some may prefer contributing money if so it will be judiciously spent it is our duty to do all we can to improve the morals of those who will return to us as citizens in a short period of time think of this and tet let us help it need scarcely be said that we are in hearty sympathy with the object of the tomaas womans christian temperance union as relating to the accumulation of a library for the use and benefit of the inmates of the penitentiary we believe that there are many people in utah who only require their attention to be called to the subject to cause them to contribute to it it will serve an excellent purpose in instructing and amusing an unfortunate class and so aid in passing more easily the time of their incarceration the school which has been in existence in the prison since the fall of 1885 has done a great deal toward mitigating the condition of the prisoners and enabling them to spend a portion of their time in a way that results in future profit A library of suitable dimensions as regards the quality and number of books ww will be a salable valuable auxiliary to the school we hope bope the needed contributions will be forthcoming |