Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1915 — Should Plan to Give Tramps Something to Do. [ARTICLE]

Should Plan to Give Tramps Something to Do.

Last year there were a great many tramps given lodging in the county jail and then after a breakfast were turned out. Some found the accommodations so good that they made several trips here during the winter months. This year something should be planned to make these fellows work a few hours for their lodging. They should be turned over in the morning bo Marshal Robinson or Traffic Superintendent Zea and be made to shovel snow, sweep streets, rake leaves or something of that kind or better still a rock pile should be established and by spring we would have a number of yards of rock for use on the streets. Then drunks and other misdemeanor prisoners could be made' to work on the rock pile while serving sentences. It would probably be a great deal more reformative than a quiet jail sentence. Rtafficetarfiea ETA SH CRMFSHH Chicago is planning to keep tramps and other unreliables on the move this year and Indianapolis is planning the same thing. This will mean that the towns will have more tramps than ever before and that many of them will be of the criminal class. A rock pile or work of any sort will not look good to these Weary Willies and they will soon give the information to others and Rensselaer will be left off their schedule of stops.