Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1918 — SLACKER SHUNNED IN PRISON [ARTICLE]

SLACKER SHUNNED IN PRISON

Fellow Inmates Are Rude to Man Gent Up for Failure to • Register. - .X. Chicago—William Lawrence Sauer, bootmaker to Chicago’s society before he became a mere shoemaker at the Bridewell, because he failed to explain to Judge Landis why he did not register for the draft, is not satisfied with his lot. He has petitioned the superintendent of the Bridewell to take him out of the shoe shop and give him work where his fellow prisoners win not be so rude. “Sauer complains that his fellowworkers in the shoe, shop pass remarks and won’t have anything to do with him because he is a slacker,” Superintendent Smith declared. “He doesn’t seem to like the atmosphere of the shoe shop. “I believe be will never get good treatment from the other inmates because, while they will chat with a gunman or strike up a friendship with a thief, they have no use for a slacker.”