Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 293, 17 October 1913 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, OCT. 17, 1913

The Richmond Palladium

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"A natural law is as sacred as a moral principle." Louis Agassiz.

Our Antique Prison System. It is to be hoped that the big prison conference, held this week at Indianapolis, will succeed in getting the attention of the public to the urgent need of revolutionizing our whole system for dealing with so-called criminals. If there is an antique, outgrown, mildewed relic of the Dark

Ages in our midst it is surely the method we use in treating law-breakers. Our entire penal system is a gigantic failure and a monstrous fraud. And the real failure of penitentiaries is not that they are cruel to their inmates. Cruelty is, in itself, neither good nor bad. A dentist will make his best friend suffer, and so will a surgeon, but neither shocks humanitarian sentiments. Merely to give prisoners an easj: berth would work no marvels in reform. Penitentiaries fail for two reasons, one of which is that they are grossly maladministered. The average prison guard is himself usually next door to a crook, and as little fitted for his work as he would be for teaching school. When we have a shoe to repair, or want a suit of clothes made, we employ specialists; when we have a cow ill or a horse to break we hunt for a man train and qualified. But when we have a thousand moral cripples to care for, human beings sick in mind or unbroken in character, we pick up the first "man who comes along, don't demand that he have any particular training, fitness, or ability, put him in charge, lock him up with them and leave them all together." ' But the chief reason, the one all sufficient reason, for condemning our present penal system as hopelessly wrong, is that penitentiaries fail to accomplish their purpose. Surely society can have no interest in merely exacting its pound of flesh, in giving a black eye for one received, in alministering the lex talionis, an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, it can have only one end in view in placing criminals in jails, and that is to cure them of their criminality. To take the crime lust out of men's souls is the reason for any penal system. That is its great purpose. For that citizens pay taxes, erect great buildings, employ hundreds of wardens, guards, etc., etc. They engage an army of employes to cure crimnials of their appetite for crime. And with what results? In almost every case, failure. Penitentiaries do not cure men of crime; they make criminals. They do not lift the law-breaking lust from a man's heart ; they increase it. They do nothing to make him respect laws more or love his land more, or control himself better, or in any way fit him to return to society able to take his place among others. When he leaves the barred cells it is with hatred in his soul, a weakened body, a dulled mind, and a dumb, blind resentment against humanity, the futility and 'the stupidity of his treatment. The young man who goes to jail discovers it a school for crime. Seasoned villains give him a long course in the arts of the business, and he leaves the institution more of a criminal than when he entered. All of which is to say that after the public has engaged a set of men to cure criminals these men turn the crimnials back to the public more criminal than before. That is the nub of the whole matter and the reason for the widespread popular demand for prison reform. A prison should be an institution in which a man should be trained, educated, and disciplined for citizenship. It should make him respect himself and his race. Ift it will demonstrate to him the beneficence of his country's laws, he will leave respecting them. If it will make a man of him, society will be proud of what it has done for him, and he will be proud of what he has been able to do for himself, and the pride of the man who has conquered himself will replace the shame and disgrace of the jail-bird foredoomed to failure.

Politician or Idiot. The Standard Dictionary defines the word '"politician" as, "One engaged in politics, one who seeks to serve the interests of a political party merely; especially one who uses politics for private advantage; a spoilsman, a schemer, a statesman." The lexicographer who presumed to make "statesman" synonomous with "politician" and schemer" has aroused the ire of a correspondent of the Washington Times and elicited from him the offer of a prize of twentyfive dollars in gold for the best definition of the frazzled old word. A high-browed local luminary defined the .term "a lawyer after a little pin money; a

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doctor devoting his spare time to public business; any citizen who accepts a municipal job without knowing anything about it." This definition is a little too cruel to receive the prize, we are afraid, and too local, but has points. Both of these authorities, it can be shown, are wide of the mark, and have missed the real meaning of the word. The word "politician" was cradled by the Greeks and signified for them any citizen who took an intelligent and reasonable part in shouldering the responsibilities of city administration. A man who wasn't selfish, and indifferent, and ready to hold up the town in the interests of his own business, was called by the Athenians a "POLITES."

But any unfortunate cave-dweller who stuck j to his own cellar and let the city take care of itself and winked at boodling and municipal j

stealing and other similar matters was branded by those keen-witted folks as "IDIOTES." The real trouble with public matters in these days is, then, not that we have too many politicians, but that we haven't enough; we're overburdened with private citizens who stick to their cellars. The one remedy for all our present-day municipal disorders is to inject a little earlyrising serum into the veins of each citizen, transforming him from "IDIOTES" into "FOLITES." t TYPHOID FROM DRINKING WATER. f Drinking water is usually placed by authorities as first in importance among various sources of infection from typhoid. The typhosus bacillus, which is the cause of the disease, is an invisible plant which thrives in the intestines of human beings. Passing into the bowels and bladder it is evacuated with other excrement while living. In some soils these plants will remain alive for indefinite periods. Vegetables grown in such may become contaminated and infect the consumer. Dust blown about from the ground may be swallowed with saliva and thus introduced into the digestive tract. Water which seeps down through such soil becomes infected and, if drained into a well or spring, carries the infection with it. In this way surface wells, flowing streams and springs, whether open or boxed, may become the vehicle of typhoid. Even if a well is carefully walled and ceiled infected water may work through its gravel floor and so pollute all its contents. Or a well may be polluted even if situated at a higher point than some level of filth through which rain water may filter and seep, because it is sunk to the same layer of gravel into which the seepage goes. The vital point with any well is: does it

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is seeping? In some waters the bacillus will live longer than in others. In some it will not survive at all. But in others it may live for several months. It has been found to remain alive in still wells and springs three months, and in running streams several weeks. And experiments show that In sediment drawn from infected wells the bacillus will remain alive three weeks or more. The only safe precaution against typhoid infection from drinking water is to use only from driven wells or city hydrants. But even with deep wells it is important to see that no surface seepage is permitted to find its way down the pipe. A few dollars spent in such precaution will often mean money saved as well as lives.

WASTES.

"We shall see larger fortunes made," said Philip D. Armour, "out of the things that we now throw away." Free land is taken up. All the basic industries are under exploitation. Forests no longer exist to furnish mushroom fortunes. Everything grabable has been grabbed. American industry has about expanded to cover its area of new resources in the natural state. The next step is to begin making fortunes by improving the processes of manufacturing and management. Harrington Emerson believes the railways of the nation are wasting a million dollars a day through sheer mismanagement. Senator Aldrich thinks the federal government lets three hundred millions leak away. Tractor experts calculate the annual loss through use of horses as millions. And fire insurance companies estimate the fire loss of the past fifteen years at two billions of dollars. Efficiency experts believe that labor in America is but seventy-three per cent efficient and capital but thirty per cent, and that a scientific management of our industries all told, would mean an increase in total capital of twenty-two billions. Here's a chance for the high school graduate! A golden opportunity for those seeking a foothold!

IF WE KNEW

Could we but draw back the curtains That surround each other's lives. See their naked heart and spirit. Know what spur the action gives; Often we should find it better, Purer than we judge we should We should love each other better, If we only understood. Could we judge all deeds by motives. See the good and bad within, Often we should love the sinner, All the while weloathe the sin. Could we know the powers working To overthrow integrity We should judge each other's errors With more patient charity. If we knew the care and trials. Knew the effort all in vain. And the bitter disappointment. Understood the loss and gain: Would the grim external roughness Seem, I wonder, just the same? Would we help where now we hinder? Would we pity where we blame? Ah! we judge each other harshly. Knowing not life's hidden force: Knowing not the fount of action Is les sturbid at its source; Seeing not amid the evil All the golden grains of good, Oh! we'd love each other better.

SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD PLACE TO BE. ' New York American. j Lady who gets $1,000 a month alimony says she is in ' "dire need." Seems better to be in dire need than hard up.

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At the Murray. Week of October 13 "The Confession." At the Gennett Oct. 18. "The Divorce Question Oct. 20 Minstrel show. Nov. 7. "Damaged Goods." Geo. Evans Minstrels. George Evans and his Honey Boy Minstrels will be the attraction at the Gennett theatre Monday. Oct. 2o. with an absolutely all new proprani of minstrel evolutions and a production of new scenery, costumes, musical features and song numbers. There will be many new faces in the company, though, of course, past favorites like John King. Vaughn Comfort, Sam I.ee Will Cawley, James Meehan. Tommy Hyde, Joseph Gillespie. Joe Wesley, and others will be in evidence. "The Confession. j "The Confession." which the Francis Sayles players are presenting at ! the Murray this week, is a strong and deeply instructive religious drama, I and 1s plasing large audiences at each performance. There will be another matinee tomorrow. "The Divorce Question." In the midst of all the theatrical frivolity comes a play now and then ' with a moral, a play with and for a purpose and written with the inten- ; tion of enlightening a class on a subject that hitherto had received but little thought. "The Divorce Question" a powerfully written play, taking the stand of All Clogged Here's A Simple Remedy to Correct Constipation Before It Becomes Chronic. Very few people go through life without some time or other being troubled with constipation. Thousands injure themselves by the use of strong cathartics, salts, mineral waters, pills and similar things. They have temporary value in some cases, it is true, but the good effect is soon lost, and the more one takes of them the less effective they become. A physic or purgative is seldom necessary, and much better and more permanent results can be obtained by using a scientific remedy like Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. It does not hide behind a high sounding name, but is what it is represented to be, a mild laxative medicine. It is so mild that thousands of mothers give it to tiny infants, and yet it is so compounded, and contains such definite ingredients that it will have equally good effect when used by a person suffering from the worst chronic constipation. In fact, among the greatest endorsers of Syrup Pepsin are elderly people who have suffered for years and found nothing to benefit them until they took Syrup Pepsin.

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