Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 83, 16 February 1914 — Page 4
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Crime Against Criminals. Jesus of Nazareth lived two thousand years ago. Of all the words which he plowed into the human mind, none has been driven deeper than His withering condemnation of the "lex talionis." Ye have heard that it has been said by them of old times, "an eye for an eye and a toothe for a tooth," He said, but I say unto, you that ye shall love your neighbor as yourself. But the civilization which calls itself by His name still hangs on to that old savage doctrine. When a man strikes at civilization, it strikes back at him. When he knocks out its eye, it turns about and knocks out his eye. When he hurts it, it turns around and claps him into prison and says, "There, I'll make you smart for that." Last year we had behind prison bars a population of 150,000 souls. This is sufficient to build a city larger than Dayton, Ohio. The brain energy and the physical energy there bottled up could build a railroad across the continent, and the one sole reason these people were sealed up in their living tomb was that our civilization was giving them "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." What is a criminal? He is a warped wheel which won't fit into the machine. He is a moral cripple who can't walk the chalk line. His sense of right and wrong, his instinct of loyalty to the law have had their bones broken and he is no longer fit to stand alone. Sometimes the criminal is simply an unsuccessful lawbreaker. The successful law breaker may sit on the judge's bench. We welcome his f;ne home in our community and marry off our
daughters to his sons. He is a cripple who has concealed his infirmity. His brother cripple who lets us see the limp in his gait, we sent off to the penitentiary. And after we get him into the penitentiary, we make him more of a criminal than ever. The more crippled up he was morally to begin with, the more do we ourselves cripple him. Our prisons are absolute failures. They cause more crime than they cure. Men who come from them are worse than they were when they went in. They are the schools of crime. The man who broke the law but did not pay the penalty may rise to honor and respect, but he who pays the price for his offense and is supposed to have wiped out the score is branded with the most odiuos name that a living man can bear. When he comes down the street one policeman says to another, "There's a fellow we want to watch! He is an ex-convict. We must watch him ! If Khufu, the Egyptian Pharoah who built the pyramid six thousand years ago, were suddenly to return to this world, he would stare rpen eyed and astonished at our school house and our factories. He probably would faint with bewilderment when a street car whizzed by or someone called him over the telephone. But we haven't a doubt that when Khufu should walk into a damp, ill-smelling prison and look upon the striped convicts bottled up in its living tombs, he would rub his hands and grin. "This is something like it. This makes me feel like home. I see you treat these fellows in the good old way." Our prisons fail, not because the men are made to suffer that is not the point at all but
because nothing is done during their incarceration to develop them into normal, useful men. This runs counter to the whole Christian notion of punishment. If Jesus taught anything, it was that the punishment to be visited on an unbrotherly man must be for his sake and not for the punishment's sake. It must be remedial unci designed to help him rather than hurt him. Perhaps a reason for this state of affairs which exists in our penitentiary system as a whole (there are some shining exceptions) is that the prisoners have had no voice. Men in graves cannot be heard very far. And the political henchmen who, as a rule, have been placed in charge of the prisones as a matter of political favor have not been disposed to speak for them. There is but one remedy for the present condition and that is to use the recognized scientific methods in dealing with the prisoner that we use in dealing with other cripples. He is a warped wheel. He must be straightened out in order to fit in his place. We. use more science in cobbling an old shoe than we do in mending these broken souls. We demand that an undertaker be a licensed scientist before he can prepare a corpse for the grave. But the men who take charge of these living persons, who are given control of them after they are no longer able to control themselves, are just such persons, as a rule, as one might meet anywhere. They have no fitness for their position and do not even dream that such work deserves professional training. There are, however, some streaks of down above the horizon which lead us to hope that daylight is arriving. Not only are a number of men, such as Mr. Osborne, of New York, lifting their
voices against this social crime, but organizations are entering the field in the" interest not of making life easy for criminals, but of curing them of their crime. The Central Howard Association of Chicago, of which W. R. French is president, is doing this kind of work. Its method is to deal with crimnials as with men and to use the same reasonable means of helping them as of helping an injured
person. .Last year tney iouna positions iur aim helped in other ways 1,635 ex-convicts. Since
their organization they have enabled 10,797 men
to readjust themselves to a modern civilized community. They are not sentimentalists; they are scientists, and they and other workers like them are giving us some faint intimation of how we are going to treat the criminal class in the future. A Home Hospital We are all agreed that tuberculosis must go. We are all agreed that it is a community problem for which the community is largely responsible. We are also agreed that tuberculosis is a scotched snake that may be dispatched any mo
ment we choose. But the difficulty has been in deciding on the best method of dealing with this venomous serpent. New York city has made a new discovery in t-ssisting its victims of the white plague. Instead of sending the tuberculous person to a hospital, they have found it more successful to send the hospital to him. If the wage earner of a family is stricken down and is sent away, the wife and babes are dependent and left in a miserable condition. His parental restraint is removed, the family is broken up and the progress of the cure is retarded through his home-sickness for his loved ones. The hospital cures one case, but it does not remove the cause. In a majority of instances, tuberculosis may be traced to bad conditions in the home and since the hospital leaves the home as it was, the mill keeps on grinding out more victims. Instead of taking the individual sufferer away from his home, the new method is to take the means of treatment back to him in his own home. The visiting physician examines him every two cr three days and prescribes for his treatment. A visiting nurse sees that this prescription is carried out, and also instructs the housekeeper in
the proper methods of preparing food and caring for the family in a sanitary manner. This leaves the home circle unbroken, it removes the cause of disease by changing the condition in the home, it prepares all the members of the family to cope with the malady and to guard against it, and it establishes in every community a center from which this knowledge may radiate. The anti-tuberculosis organization can rent tents to the sufferers for the period of his confinement at a very reasonable rate, and the other remedies used, mostly fresh air, sunshine, pure food and water, rest and freedom from worry, are not as a rule costly. Therefore it has been found a cheaper method of dealing with the disease than building and maintaining a hospital. Now that so much interest is shown in a hospital for Wayne county, will it not be well for those interested to look into this new method of handling the disease before investing in a building? Many who have given the matter some thought believe it would be a more successful method of dealing with the problem in Richmond even than building a hospital, as badly needed as that is. It would be impossible to say offhand whether the plan could be worked out here, but surely it is deserving of investigation.
Gets Job as Cemetery Sexton and Then Digs His Own Grave
Charles Crabb Seeks Position at Hands of Cemetery Board for Eleven Years in Order to Fulfill Strange Desire.
HAGERSTOWN. Ind., Feb. 16. All things come to him who waits. So says Charles 'Crabb, night watchman for the Teetor-Hartley Motor car company here, who for thirteen years has carried the desire to have the privilege of digging his own grave in the Riverside cemetery. Fifteen years ago Crabb's wife died
and two years later his daughter died. Both were buried in Riverside cemetery, near Cambridge City. The father reserved a space between the two graves for his own resting plce. Soon after the daughter's death Crabb was found working with a shov-
. el and spade in the cemetery. The
sexton reported the incident to the cemetery board of trustees and the board forced Crabb to abandon his work. Crabb then applied for the position of sexton, so that he might dig his own grave between those of his two near relatives at times when no one was around, and when his work would be undisturbed. His application was turned down. He applied again and again for the position and after eleven years of perseverance he was given the sextonship. Immediately after his appointment
he began digging his grave and soon it was completed. He worked secretly early and late, and used every precaution to avoid detection. In order to prove to himself that the grave was of proper proportions he would lie down in the excavation. Having finished digging the grave without detection he cemented the walls. Next he dug around the graves of his wife and daughter, burying a cement wall a foot below the surface of the earth. The graves were then covered with a cement slab, -which rests on the cement wall. This slab will be hermetically sealed to the wall after the burial of Crabb. Four cement urns were placed at the corners of the slab.
Two years after the completion of the work persona attending services of the Red Men at the cemetery noticed the unique burying place and a photographer approached Crabb, who was standing on the slab. " What's here," he asked Crabb. "Turn your camera on me, for there's not many who will dig their own graves and then stand on it to have their picture taken," Crabb answered.
"The Gamblers." When the Francis Sayles players open tonight at the Gennett theatre in Charles Klein's big success, "The Gamblers," they will open their fortieth week in Richmond, which is a record for stock in this city. Each member of the company has made many friends in this city, besides giving the best plays that can be obtained for stock. When you stop to consider that Richmond ia the smallest city in the United States that has supported a stock company playing first class
plays for a fall season. It la something that Mr. Sayles should We proud of. "The Gamblers" Is a play in three acts and one that all should sea. The Country Store Tonight Following the performance of "The Gamblers" at the Gennett tonight, the Francis Sayles players will offer
the largest country store of the sea--son. The present will not only be( handsome but useful, the capital prize being a piano from the Starr Piano
company. There will also do several booby prizes, which will afford much amusement. David Hirum. "David Harum," a play made famous by William Cran. will be the offering of the Sayles players at the Gennett theatre all next week, with the usual matinees. Mr. Hayl will appear In the title role, and eacb member of the company will be seen to advantage.
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COLLECTOR IN GREAT PERIL. St. LonisPost-DIspatch. That Cleveland tax collector, who is trymg to make John D. pay on $300,000,000 of personal property had better watch his own wad when he meets the oil king. John D. Is a grand old collector himself.
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TOO HOT FOR MR. TERRAPIN. Baltimore News. N'o one can blame our distinguished citizen, Mr. Ter
rapin, if he complains that the annual banquet season I
sets a killing pace for him.
HE'S A REGULAR GOOSEBONE. Washington Star. The man who, years ago, predicted that Roosevelt would drop out of sight is about as reliable as the ground l og prophet.
JOHN D. BEATS HOMER TO IT. Milwaukee Journal. John D., unlike the late poet Homer, seems likely to be claimed while still living by as many states as have aggresive assessors.
NEW YORK'S ORIGINAL HUMOR. New York Telegram. An America nnaturalist has discovered a new species
of lemon in western China. Several American managers are wondering why he went so farm from Broadway to ! do so. I
FACTS AND FANCIES
A Sacramento man has proposed a plan to irrigate 9,000,000 acres of California land at a cost of $450,000,000. ONE MUST HAVE ONE'S REVERSES. Commbia State. James Bryce has been reduced to the peerage.
Patience Do you call it a bill of fare or menu? Well, when I can read it I call it bill of fare; when I can't I call it menu. Yonkers Statesman.
The value of first-quality Prince Edward Island silverblack foxes for breeding purposes rose from $10,000 per pair in October, 1912, to about $12,000 or $13,000 per pair in January t 1913. In the early winter of 1912-13 it was possible to secure options on unborn spring progeny at $10,000 to $12,000 a pair.
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The Seggesttive QeestHoes On The Mtteriuatliioiniall Lesson By REV. DR. LINSCOTT
The International Lessons are used in most Sunday Schools the world over, and the "Suggestive Questions" are based upon them. If you use these Questions in your class you will find in the opinion and words of Robert E. Speer, that they will make it, "A very lively and profitable class." These Questions will appear in the Palladium every Wednesday.
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