The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 5, 1916, Page 8

1 i 1 } { 8 4| i i LAt s a'fNearly all pnsons used to be | laees?wher grossest brutahty Was 1 practlced ‘and men‘turned into animals. Publicity brought demands for reform and popular sentiment has compelled a great change m“praetlce. - It 1s good pohcy to know the truth about condltlons ~m x»your state s '!A guard was working there with three men. One of them asked him to to help : lw.ng up a hog carcass in: the cooling room. As soon as he got inside the door the others swung it to and threw the bar across and then made their ‘escape. - “When a prisoner asks me for a favor I usually grant it; that“is, unless it's something that other prisoners ‘would be denied. But I always stop and think'a minute before I say yes to anything. T always ask myself what may be the mo- tive of the request and. what may be the consequence. If this guard had stopped to do that he ‘would never have" helped hang up the hog and the prisoners would not have gotten away.” TALCOTT HIRES:NEW KEEPER O ENFORCE DISCIPLINE ". The discussion of guards and salaries @lso-has appeared in the columns of the Reflector, the prison paper, edited by D. M. Noah, a “lifer” and, though a young man, one of the few prisoners. who has geen three administrations. The Reflec- for reprints an item from a Bismarck paper which says: “With wages at their present high scale it is almost impossible to get competent men, at $40.to $50 a gmonth,” and adds, “It.is an open'secret that the board of control have recognized that more guards were needed, but there Wwas no money. to get them.” ‘vw.\ The fact 1s, however, that since the™ summer’s sensational series. of prison breaks Warden Talcott-has been making - efforts to reorganize his guard force so as to get greater efficiency out of it. He - 'has 1mported for the pos:txon of chlefk : Steamer Benton and coal batges at the'r 3 mstltutlons. =iy . o in the person of Stillwater, Minn." Barnes has had’ long experience “speetal pohce” and. similar work." ormerly k ei‘*twtemn guard and peace ofiieer ; rmlroadsmthegmatA.R.U.smke 1894 and since ‘that time has had fre ént employment as ‘a ards: mploryed by ‘the o Crafty’s New Lme of Blg Boss Calls a Meetmg Without the Knowledge of Big Biz By DIC T. GRAPH o Gangthe heart of Will B. Crafty had pulled downward like an anvil i hung to the end of a. fish line. He had . felt the earth slipping from lunder his feet and had seen .a mee, fat job . slipping “from his grasp. The roasting that Big Biz gave lnm at the last meeting caused him to Bee and feel all this. It .had worred him more than his failure to find a means to 'head off the Nonpartisan League. Big Blz had taken the last meetmg into his SINCE the last meeting’ of the Old: ] “and Lines up the Boys for a Drive * of ceremonies. He wanted to feel his' old-time power and authonty again. The idea of Big Biz callmg him “ down and bawling him out in the presence of his subordmates ‘was: killing the big boss.- CRAFTY TREATS “THE BOYS” IN: PATRONIZING'WAY * To this special meeting he had mv1ted Ivory. Bean and Wood N. Block,’ also Slipry and Dodger. .He tried hard to feel his old self again. He affected ‘op- timism: and - cheerfulness, ;. He distrib- uted cigars with a-lavish hand and ;oked" . freely with the “boys.”: : After a half hour of Jolhficatlon, wluch was merely the wlusthng ‘of a. fnghtened boy passing through ‘the: _graveyard, Crafty came’to the business:end of: the ‘meeting. During ‘2 lull~in-the conyersa- tion he laid his cigar stump on'the end of the table and surveyed the faces be- fore him, i alled 'youhere tonight that we heart to heart talk over this They puffed snlent- o he began in commandmg tones. : arrangements ~ with ‘Mr.. S. IC. Abber (scabber) to work among the labor org- anizations @n’ we’ll ¢ook up a deal that will put the kibosh on that bunch of carpetbaggers.” “How are you going to -do this?” asked Wood N. Block, taking a fresh ci-. gar from the open box. “This man S.- C.-Abber will fix that."“ . He'is an expert in fixin' labor organiza- tions. -He will spread the report -among. them that this Nonpartisan Orgamzatxon 2 is nothin’ but a bunch of Socialists, anar- . “The leaders of- < -+ . ‘the labor organizations are opposed to - ' - such doctrines and wkatever they say for - -~ the rank and file to do they’ll do, no mat- “ter-how rank it is;” and Cratty. smded at ;- chists and free lovers.:- his own humor. “But. T<don't see’—— . “Shut up,” roared cmffi and Dodger lapsed into- allence, whxle Sllp!'Y &mck-‘ 5 marck dock, the old rail and water ternin: ttac;.; 1 Wwant you to plan 8 series of pubhe meetings. in the smaller towns out in the ° “farming districts and ‘go out an’ expose ' “the whole layout. ces. He mentloned ‘his : bo dy s of the 'Northern 'Paeifie" e Just to see how 1t :