Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1919 — WANTS TO END COUNTY JAILS [ARTICLE]

WANTS TO END COUNTY JAILS

Philanthropist Receives $30,000 for National Campaign With That Object. New* York.—Adolph Lewisohn. was 70 years old. so he gave a garden party at his country home at Ardsley. The party was combined with a meeting of the national committee on prison reform, and $30,000 was presented to Mr Lewisohn by friends for a national campaign winch the committee will soon begin for the abolishment of the county jail. Hundreds of friends of Mr. Lewisohn motored up from the city to pay their compliments to the philanthropist. Mr. Lewisohn said that fully 65 per cent of the men in county,jails today are innocent.