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Show CONTRACT SYSTEM IS CONDEMNED Baltimore. Nov. 14 The contract system of prison labor was condemned condemn-ed In the report of tho committee on prison labor presonted todav at the congress of the American Prison association as-sociation In annual session here. The committee, however, recommended tho system when no other means of em-pioyent em-pioyent could be provided, believing It preferable to Idleness. James H. Leonard, superintendent oj the Ohio state reformatory at Mansfield, Mans-field, was elected president of the association, as-sociation, and Dr. D. C Peyton, .Teff-ersonvllle, .Teff-ersonvllle, Ind , vice president. The secretary. Joseph B Bayers of Trenton, Tren-ton, N. J Financial Secretary N II Shirer of Columbus. O, and Trensur er Frederick H. Mills of New York, were re-elected. The congress will end Its sessions this evening |