Show I HOW now GUILTY TY IS S YOUR YOUIl OO COMMUNITY I FROM the rat-haunted rat watery dripping holes in which our Revolutionary Revolutionary Revolutionary ancestors chained men to rot because they could not pay small debts to that murderous Florida lumber swamp in which Martin Ta- Ta bert paid with his life lite for the crime of a stolen railroad ride our American American Ameri Ameri- can Jails have been a brutal and shameful failure We are too rIghteous righteous righteous right rIght- to admit that a convict has lIas any rights and too prosperous prosperous' and and careless to give hIm a square deal Save for the few honorable exceptions j our prisoners are condemned by political office e holders to the tend tender er mercies of cheap and cowardly j jailers The jail is law to th thousands of men and their Jailers are lawI law law- less Girls are held overnight in I cells ceUs because a dance hall had boon been raided Boys Doys of school high-school age are flogged to mutilation in convict camps Charles Dickens condemned solitary confinement t in a Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- phia prison and a Philadelphia grand jury condemned the same practices In the same place over j I eighty eight r u. u art Water later 1 John hn condemned Sing Slug Sing Slog before the II War and m men ate still CIT up there In the civilized Neth- Neth Netherlands rl Dds no criminal record is ts entered until the guilty person la ts over twenty We print finger kIds of twelve and aAd thirteen and put the felons felon's brand brandon on them for life lite The greatest single source of crime grime in the United States to-day to Is our local jails How guilty is your communIty good Schools Might Close Cloo Up 11 Some SOllie Jails A man In States State's prison Is now serving the first of four sentences to life Imprisonment lie He was convicted convict convict- ed of four murders and got the limit for each crime Tests proved him to be very dull and slow to learn The The teachers had to tell him everything everything everythIng every every- thing five times limes over But Dut he had mechanical ability far above the average A wise warden stopped 1 treating him as a dangerous b bust beast and trained him for certain machine machine ma ma- ma- ma chine work The man now operates tw two machines where tho the average outside outside outside out out- side workman operates one ono Instead of costing coating the State over per year he earns his own keep From eight years old this convict convIct convict con con- vict has spent nearly all his life in institutions and jails It has cost the State a great grent deal deat of mon money y to arrest and jail him One per cent of that money spent on the right sort of schooling might have s steered this four times murderer safely into a decent useful life Ufe in the work that hat he loves and can do It Isn't the the Children Children That Are Stupid Sixteen children satin sat In tn an Isolated schoolroom mere lumps of flesh All ll subnormal explained the principal prin prin- cipal We can only keep them off oft the streets A doctor of the Public Health Service got In Interested A year later the sixteen so-called so halfwits halfwits halfwits half half- wits were abreast of other children of the same age Three led led their classes Their teeth and eyes and adenoids had been all wrong Twenty Twenty Twenty ty million dollars a year according to the Public Health Service would keep all ail our American school children children child child- ren no normal mal and would save an annual annual annual an an- an- an nual waste for sick-bed sick and other charges of Last winter winter winter win win- ter Congress appropriated for he Rural Public Health Service as against over for rivers rivers rivers riv riv- riv- riv ers and harbors That's how the pork barrel is valued as against our children In children In politics Colliers Collier's Colliers Collier's May 1 |