Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 10, 1916, Page 10

Crime Increasing; War One OCause Within Two Years Nearly Every Prison in the Country Has Become Crowded—Lack of Home Training, Absence of Vocational Education and General Unpreparedness of Youth Among the Indirect Causes, According to Repoit Made at Congress of the American Prison Association. Buffalo, N. ¥, Oct, 8,—Cxtme is in- creasing, as Is shown by over-crowd- ed prisons throughout the wmu'y. and the fact may be traced in largo part to the influence of the Huropean wan sorering & The gt o " oo mittee on arge , _pre- sented by F. Emory flwon. to the American Prison association at its congrese here waa.y e offorts ¢! being made to mvlda wrtendly cuud fanship of"dlscharged prisoners, as well as those on probation or parole, and pe(nu'x‘xg 0, mls;k.le need o:u a:ln turther co- operation, Lyons 3 “Meanwhile, and doubtless in part becamse we have not approached the question from a sufficiently thorough- going standpoint, crime is thoreasing. This i3 no idle assertlon, such as has -ean made ral times, but rarely the wa.a little, if any evidemce that crime was increasing faster tnan the natural increase in popuiation. The ‘court’ or our penal institutions has remained at about the same for nearly a generation. “But within these two yea.m, nearly every prison of the country has be- come crowded. One state in the mid- dle west has a thousand mors-convict-: ed felons today.than it had two years ago. The prison -population of othsr states and of the federal institutions have similarly increased. If it were not for the fact that soms 10,000 men in the different states are at work up- on honor farms and ar road-making, the overcrowding would be more ap- parent than it Is. “One may cite numercus indirect causes for this increase. There is the continued lack of home-training and control; th* absence of vocational ed-. ucation; the” insufolent facilities for rec! on, and the generalunprepared. gfm of youth for the responsibilitios R ting factor is found mhflr’hmflmfl employment and lnnl wages available to the aver- age workmaen. Woree still is the ohronic condition of un loyment ‘which hes prevaeiled until within a fow months, - 4 "A .mi‘nmm -fl!xlnl = vfmn!ot the ncrease crimes, in e view of mal is to be found in the great war, wri?fl ons at each others' throats, ite and m- at@n un- « dozen ce import- -.noo of material values? If the aver- there | age citizen becomes more callous over the accaunts of human slaughter, what of the slightly less than normal, more easily influenced, and less alive to the higher. sensibilities and untrained in ethical standards? “The war, therefore, with all its oth- er burdens, is doubtless bringing its harvest of crime in all countries, and this harvest will continue beyond the present generation. “With this growing problem before us, therefors, and becommg more im- mediate and menacing every day, there is need for all the wisdom and consecration of individual citizens, the efforts of all agencies applied at every stage, and for the active application of all principles of prevention, and the utmost efficiency of systems of cor- rection.” PLAINFIELD SCHOCL REPORT. ed wonderfully to the productive ca- S S pacity of Europe and America.” Changes In System and Equipment iImperative, Supt. J. L. Chapman Declares, if Proper, Practical Ad- vancement Would Be Made. of Supt. John town schools other special ried has This the on. roval of work mect parents a1 tiie other work of the % Cost Per Pupil $78.60. The only > hich 1 wish to call attent pupil in the n sive cost per ill_school he cost per pupil is be- yond question t would ver cost be hetter pupil comes, Important Subjects Omitted. In one respect tr intendent feels that the s town are up to the ~that the 1 absence ¢ ich subject and domesti not is hould teach spelling ding, writ- and let meti natural sclen: drawing, music, do- stic and manual ining &t his doctrine is dangero for it e ng generation to give them no with the sclences which within a hundred years utionized all the industries ite rece, modifled profoundly ical and ethical conceptions 0t the treedom-loving peoples and add- CASCARETS SELL TWENTY MILLION BOXES PER YEAR BEST, SAFEST CATHARTIC™ FOR LIVER AND BOWELS, AND PEOPLE KNOW IT. THEY'RE FINEI DON'T STAY BILIOUS, 8ICK, HEADACHY OR CONSTIPATED. | Amer: Practical Training Necessary. No student of history, no manufac- turer, no progressive business man, who reads the results achieved within the last 25 years alone can long doubt the efliciency and the imperative ne- cessity for the practical training of our youth in our public schools along soientific lines, The studies which served for our forefathers, howeyer ad- mirably adapted to their needs they might have been, are totally inade- quate to fit the youth of today for the bread and butter struggle he 1s bound to wage the woment he leaves school. It is high time that we should awaken from our lethargic and tronce-lke apathy in this regard and see to it our vols line up with the best ools throughout the country in this respect, that our youth may have at least an equal chance in the struggle for existence. High Scheol Expansion Also. And what is true of our grades ap- plics with double force to our high school. We have established and maintained a high school that has been more than ordinarily successful In_ teaching thoroughly the old line subjects, English, Latin, history, math- ematics and the common sciences, but. we have reached the limit of our ex- pvansion in other subjects. To show that such expansion is more necessary now than ever before, I quote again from President Eliot: What Is Needed. In a paper published by the general education board of New York, entie tled Changes Needed in American Secondary Education, President Eliot saye: “The changes which ought to be made immediately in the programs an secondary schools to correct the glaring. def the present programs, are ch introduction of more hand, ea work—such as drawing, carpen turning, music, sewing and cooki a e sclences of observation—chemis- try, physics, biology and geography— not political, but geological and ethno- sciences Tete , that is, the labora- tories, with ample experimenting done y the individual pupil with hi in i guided by expert leaders. School Gardens. In secondary sch situated in the country the clement: agriculture should have an important place in the program, and the pupils ~should work in the and experi- mental plots, ally and in co-operation with others Manual Training Needed. “A manual training should also he glven, which would prepare a boy for any one of many diffcrent trades, not by familiarizing him with the details of aotual work in any trade, but by glving him an all-round bodxlv vigor, a nervous system, capable of multiform co-ordinated P"OT(S a liking for doing his best in competition with mates, and @ widely applicable skill of eye and hand. Music and Drawing. “Again, music should be given a substantial place in the program of every gecondary grade, in order that all pupils may learn musical notation and may get practice in reading music and singing, Drawing, both freehand and mechanieal, should be given ample time in every gecondary school pro- gram, because it is an admirable mode of expression which supplements lan- guage and is often to be preferred to it, lies at the foundation of excellence in many arts and trades, affords simul. taneously good training for both eye and hand apd éi\'es much enjoyment throughout life to the Dpossessor or even & moderate amount of s Lot Power of l’onceniratlon. “The observational, manual and sclentific subjects oftén awaken in a boy or rnung man for the first time im. ectunl interest and zeal in rk which memory studies have never fitlfl'at!. Hand and eye work often de- velops a power of copeemtrated at- tention which book wi had failed to proanc'. but which can be transferred to bock work when onge created, R'gm Materials and Methods, “If the ld\-cl,tlon&l material a) of Instruction were flxgg ?g‘: metho u-a.lnsns '!m ln the grad as good for the c{‘! lann mw ag for il hlv:ybeen de- Losal flwmmluh mv u w ~6UP) actiye bad seen Camaist | gavss "5‘4 % ”" o stomonts % m "' numbers ¢ throughout the country deem alto~ gether necessary for anything like a rationa] educatfon, have these elements In ol ur ROM the homes of Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Vanderbilt and Mr.Carnegie to the humblest cottage, Magee Ranges a}m’i Heaters offer unlimited service. Magee Heaters have earned an enviable reputatlon in steam, hot water or hot air furnaces. They are sturdy in construction and economi- cal in operation. Magee Ranges combine all the modern facilities and conveniences, together with the standard Magee construction which has placed " them in the lead for so many years. Sold by SHEA & BURKE 41 Main Street, Norwich, sehooi gave the vup 5 and theip par=|iheir vaeatien, Mn 'rmu we do not high school ¢ due largely to the faet that our pchool has utterly outgrown our present accommodations, Larger Building Nesessary. T carr; tm the y fflvo oIl 'youth Bm dgy MM o o work it is our duty the edy- oi"v’v‘é’r’k’w eondi- fl-!!v Burial of John Creoks—Secial Methodist Sunday Sehseof Mistuxet Lodge to Visit Trumbull ‘g] Ledgs, The hedy ef joha Creoks, Tohn and ths late Nellie Mallory | wi Crooks, was WFQEEM te Mystie Ms- ¥ for burial in Bi 6 9 the past yeas é.zcsxmsp o Feniy o, 1 e RMAT ! K. of P, s09R 8 oY i 5 901, .8 91 enfs a samal in t urch parlors on | af For| 2O £, here was an in the o 3‘5&'8 HE{FIE”PI p)@ne solg Haven, after whlgt\ sames e e;enm thd cookles oF 83 wm be Bunda: v E frarts M’Qhelng fi 5 é]q‘se sien in i 5 Trumhull Ledg 6, 48, ei:ed & KE %he i ote ee?sé : r‘a‘h w !% sen of|D mssnigt 1 m W!" Witriees Werld's Beries. fl H. Bliven is clerk Kretzer stere and Mrs, Deneke 8 ef the J, W, Lathrop Co, o o 4n ent Personale, Pugils- nfl»srammjejg f&%fls)f:l Q;;‘;o = L mi,‘f" M m # m’“‘éfl,‘," 2\5:” ;: Taizgn vooud roe) thu ngl&s aad his” rh family in New Iya #. Neves spent Wuaday in Dan- g?- ias l%?argfaa has returned fram Bd to New m A Pessible Explaration, ibiy these M‘.etmm avenduies hecause !g %‘m tha vetreating “they 8, -mn ‘men and women who want ta put fte: Drugs Are High, Pvidently {t'a going to be a terrible winter for rheumatism. As the price stands not more than one citizen in 10 ean afford to earry a petato in his poecket.—Grand Rapids Press New Haven=—A feature of the blz funday fchool parade Sunday after- noen Was the presence =n the automo- bile of Louis Cowled of Asher Sheldon, new 102 years of age and an ardent worker in the church, ‘*‘LESH BUILDER cosafully for elght years by asd increase weight, Xat meals. _Pleasant, harmiess 2 “g‘h e Sola tn Norwich by Qruaglsts 5 i\m \I. apd leading