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Show GET rARuLtS FOR PKI30NERS Missouri L;gion Auxiliary Women Cin Release of Men From state Penitentiary. Feven men, .'ill of whom served their country in time of war. have just been paroled from the . "-: stale penitentiary J t . at Jefferson City. ' " J!o- paroled each ILf ' '' to a member fK 7 t! A3 tile American Le- I gion auxiliary, fc.. jS who procured Y j clothes, and a job, ... and the care and m comfort of a hoimi f"r "in'- A" ' Jar 7- v seven were suffer- mental disease or that dread malady, tuberculosis. Mrs. A. O. DeWitte, president of the Missouri auxiliary, led In the movement move-ment which resulted In the paroles. And she and her aides also obtained the promise of Gov. Arthur M. Hyde that several more former service men who seem to be mentally afflicted, or fll of tuberculosis, will be sent to government gov-ernment hospitals for treatment. "The men we have observed entered into the crime, not because It is clear of criminal instincts or desires, but because they were mentally irresponsible, irrespon-sible, or in some cases despondent and sick, with no hope seemingly, because the dread white plague handicapped them in their efforts to compete successfully suc-cessfully with normal men in honest employment," Mrs. DeWitte told the governor. On the success of Mrs. DeWitte's and the auxiliary's efforts to reclaim their proteges for society depends a national policy, It is said, for the auxiliary aux-iliary to adopt. The seven paroled men will report weekly as to their progress toward rehabilitation, and will be watched closely by the women who have saved them from prison. It Is expected, the women sny, that a year will show whether the plan of interesting interest-ing themselves in the unfortunates to the extent of seeking to return them to normality by individual and personal person-al effort Is a feasible one. |