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Show PRISON REFORM PLANS OUTLINED Charles B. Booth Tells of Movement to Help Convicts' Con-victs' Families PV, n rl f l 'RAr.fV, nf i Vi a 'nl,.nlro of America, who Is conducting a prison pri-son reform movement In I'tah, covering cover-ing three weeks, was the principal speaker before the Lions club of Ojj-den Ojj-den at the wecklv meeting at the Rood hotel. Ways and means of providing for the wife and children of convicts were outlined in the address by Mr. Booth. Prison reform, he said, has as its purpose pur-pose the teaching Of the convict that he must work for all that he gets. In this connection Mr Booth urged 1 that Judges should be given the power to sentence convicts to penitentiaries in which all have to work for all that they oat. for the repaying of ihe crime which they committed nnd for the keeping of those dependent upon the criminal. Mr. Booth said that $500,000,000 above the cost for all the schools and churches in America was being spent annually upon criminals and crime conditions In the United States. Union labor In the United States has been instrumental in-strumental In eliminating the old prison pri-son contract system, he sul l In the United States t..Iay we have more than 1 00,000 men behind the prison bars, he said. The system oi today not only sentences the culprit I but affects the wiv es and children of I men placed in prison. There are more than 1 00, 000 children chil-dren In the United States whose I mother has an earning power of lens (than ?S per week. I The unoW-prlvllogod chlfd must be given a chance, he said. Mr. Rooth will speak before a great number of ihe schools of the city during dur-ing the week and beforP other clubs W. Karl Hopkins, superintendent ot the city schools, Ous Wright and ten members of the Progressive Business jclub were the guests at the meeting , 1 |