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Show GET PAHULES fOH rfllSOf.EhS Missouri Lsgion Auxiliary Wcnien Gaol fteltnae of Mc:i rro.n siaie Penitentiary. Seven men. all of whom served their Country in time of war, have just been l . r ,. J '.l I Olt. ll I 1 O.ll IMC state penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo. paroled each to a member of the American Legion Le-gion auxiliary, who procured clothes, and a Job, and the care and comfort of a home for him. All of the seven were suffering suffer-ing either with 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 rll 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 say, 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. |