Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1913 — HON. JAMES K. CODDING. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HON. JAMES K. CODDING.

JUFT at present the study of immorality and crime, with their attendant causes and possible prevention and cure, is attracting unusual attention. No man in America is better prepared to speak on these related subjects than Hon. James K. Codding, warden of the state penitentiary at Lansing, Kan., who has 2,000 prisoners un der his charge and through whose efficient management the dally prison life has been iwoluttadMd and many a man taught the lesson of deosoey end self respect Among his reforms has been the giving of three squaw meals a day to the prisoners and the conducting of a dally baseball game In season within the prison walla Mr. Clodding Is well known to students of sociology throtfeh Ms articles on "Crime and Its Cure” In W«Wi Wort, American Magaslne, Saturday Evening Post and the Survey. We aw unusually fortunate in securing Mm for the opening day of our Chautauqua