Show AND THIS IS AMERICA AatE ElCA wi we are ashamed to publish the following but how are evil things that exist to be abolished unless decent people learn of their ex distance istance the political and civil league ol of detroit Is our authority for what we write of the punishment inflicted on a youth of 21 by the warden ot of jackson michigan prison the warden so the leagues statement runs explained just how with the assistance of the prison physician the punishment was given on no 4 5 6 9 and 13 the youth received in all lashes this young man had b been een an inmate ot the state industrial school at lansing michigan of this school a competent student of prison conditions says go er the records and you will be amazed to any prison in the state and look ov to see the number ot of inmates who served time in the lansing on october 16 1921 the new york ed to be reformatory in its character tion and this institution Is herald described the death ot of a 15 year old boy at the texas training school at Ga lesville for or whose death the commandant holding a commission in the united states reserve corps was being held without bond on charge ot of murder A searching investigation the report states was being made to determine to what extent other boys in fa the institution had been mistreated as alleged by witnesses the boy had been at the school only two days it is charged when the ordeal began which resulted in his bis death and which consisted ot of repeated whippings with a three inch strap dental denial ot of meals standing at rigid attention tor for a halt half hour blows with the fist and lastly choking the examining physicians informed the father that his son was beaten and choked to death the body showed bruises over the face finger prints on both sides of the neck and black and blue marks on the back and hips there are boys at the institution boys are not sent there as a punishment but for training to become citizens it was said of old that the dark places of 0 the earth are full ot of cruelty there are many dark places still left in our own land into which the rays of the sun ot of even dece decency llCY to say nothing ot of humanity have not yet penetrated our dumb animals |