Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-02 | Page 11 | 'Lifers' Burn Midnight Oil

LIFERS' BURN MIDNIGHT OIL Though Many Will Never! Go Free, They Excel College Students liy VKTOR M'JWELI Spoclnl IMHKitcli to The !StaudartJ-Kx-ninlner ("Jupyrlght, 1922. by The Standard-Kxamlner Standard-Kxamlner i WAl'l i wis., July 1. 'Stone W&llfj dp hOl a pfiHOn make, nor iron f f. a cafe.'1 Pent up behind ln8 'grat stone walls, whose barred doors hi or .lli 9lng odSri for some of them tti lilthatSs olf the WlsdtohSlh penitentiary hero have illscovered that although the body may be chained by laws which society enforces, the mind ever Is free With no frivolity of campus cam-pus life tn enhance their hours of study; no frats. no class rushes or ''fussing" with even little prospect o! putting into Industry the story of knowledge they have loaned these , 84 men are "burning midnight oil" to complete the very courses that the ' mor fortunate university men and women are skimming uvcr. THitKr; HOUItS DAILV I UhdOf these Tying COnditlOhS, these ' prisoners are proving more capable Mfudonts than regular college men and I ' women at tho state university. Tbclr study pt rlod Is the three hour I Interim betwSeh the day' toll In the prison's twine plnnt and tin- big gone ; --n i i irinvn rivuh ineni 10 minutes td doff their denim uni- I forms before the lights go out. -The prisoners are takln rcijuhir col- t rii courses offered by the I diversity I of Wisconsin extension division. Rec- ' ords of th ' U" rate all of the Si as J very good scholars. Most of them have I attained excellent" in every subjet ( TWeAty-elght have already completed : the course. On the other hand, surrounded with i I every facility of hreedbta, and In many j 3 cases, of ease, few regular Btudents at jj the ftate university at .Madison have I done bettet ot even b well as thee j I prisoners. t isni.M io is BENETTT Most of the SOoo men and women I attending the. "U" are far below the convicts In theh marks. The very iso- i lation, which Is a part of the punish- I meat of the criminal. Is given by heads of the extentlon division as the reason S f"i- the extraordinary pace set by the I prisoners. S',ud'lng is a re-rcatlon as J well us work for them, and above all it I holds the golden promise of leading to I a new life 1 The main requisite for a student is a 11 t. learn, nm f the prisoner hns ' I s iv of . sire In that line, there ' I Mguuy and with few ex- HK ln the interest I BpVj that , i Mg' ' their Z hojyt I nu ' I dm mm ny bssH iWePi MM gel