The evening world. Newspaper, September 18, 1919, Page 25

—_— Teas anor aeteenranes |, b Perl —_—— The State and the Crirsinal By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory } Copyright. 1919, by Tho Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Bvenine World). VERY now and then astounding rumors go floating aroond-—rumors concerning the way in whioh prisoners are treated in certain penal institutions here and there about the couniry. Some ot these reports come from such respectable sources, and are de- Hvered with such difectness and emphasis, that it is impossible to ignore them or to question their accuracy, Some of them may be colored some- what, but after all ailowance is made for exaggeration ihe residue of fact is quite enotigh to stagger one, What the conditions are that are revealed by these reports I will not attempt to dwell upon—they are too outrageous, too horrible, reminding‘us of the prison methods of the darkeet of the dark ages. Thee is nothing like fairness, and to be fair 1 must say that the mum- der of prisons from which these ugly reports come, as compared with the number of those from which they do not come, is small. But even ONE prison in which the principles of humanity are ignored by the warden aud keepers is a disgrace tf our country and age. And now let us ask ourselves the question, “What are the rational objects of the penalties of the law First of all, they are intended to be DETERRENT. Beyond a doupt | the fear of pena'ty keeps many from@oing wrong. It is a very poor sort of | decency that ix born of fear, but it is better than nothing, and oeyond question this same fear serves to prevent more or less crime. In the second place, penalty is intended to be PROTECTIVE. Having | oommitted his crime, the criminal ts put where he will be unable to repeat) the offense, The wrongdoer who is executed or placed in confinement is | thereby pravented from doing society any further hurt. In the third place, penalty is—in its final and noblest sense—REFORM- | (ATORY, desgned to lead the wrongdoer heartily to repent of his crime and | to want to atone for it by leading the right sort of life in future. i AN cruelty and brutality, and, let me add, all PHARISAISM, should be | absent from the treatment of criminals; not because we would condone or | approve of crime, but simply and solely because we would lift the criminal ABOVE his criminality and help him to be a better, happier and more useful | member of society. | Tam sure that this is the only rational and just theory, and I am equally | @ure that there is but ore way of making it effective. ‘That way I will briefty state: First, State-wide and Nation-wide PUBLICITY. Banish all secrecy from the prison system. Put the system under the X-ray. Let every prison | be constantly WATCHED by inspectors of brain and heart. Surely such men can be found—men ‘who would not for the world connive at any form | of wrong, or injustice, or inhumanity. And while-we are about it let it be seen to that prison officials are taken from the very FINEST HUMAN MATERIAL IN REACH—men with as little of the irrational and brutal in them as it shall be possible to find in a com- munity. Glimpses Into New York Shops you are going to wear your last|are among them and a mahogany | year’s coat this winter remove the | with a pink floral pattern is especial- belt. The majority of the new|ly pretty. They are $9 cents a yard. coats seen in the shops have no belts. ‘Where beits are used at all they ap-| 4 charming crocheted carriage robe pear only in tho front of the coat. |‘8Played in one “baby shop” is a Lg in full loose lines, /£00d suggestion for a Christmas gift, | peck hangs same and can easily be made by the woman | ‘Tho shop windows are now showing | who crochets. This robe is of pink- handsome gowns and wraps in beau-;and-white wool in four connected tiful shades of brown and yellow. The |strips. Two strips are in white and rich nasturtium colors are prominent /have a cluster of pink roses and and the mahogany tone is much in |green leaves in cross-stitch, embroid- evidence. ered at intervals along the length. A pink-and-white lace of the wool fin- ishes the edge. If you want to buy ohe you can get it in either blue- and-white or pink-and-white at $7. An evening dress displayed in one shop Is of black net. The full pointed tumic has the edge finished off with ostrich plumes, ‘The girdle is com- COLO Can You Beat It! HERE IS THE KITCHEN . WE WILL HAVE IT ~ bane RATED IT % TASTE a EASE nice. | Ger The als DINNER, WHY DOESN'T THE Cook Do iT 2 t., 1910. Tabhiah, ‘York Brening T'S OUR AUTO AT THE =IT'S Au A Sense AF a, ‘ oh, By Maurice Ketten HOORAY WE HAVE A Gor they made their way to the royal chamber, courtiers. The regal stature of Queen Emmet, otherwise known aa Ant, towered half- that Romp and Rufit were now being introduced. How often, in their had the children trod them underfoot. And here they were in the sree of their queen. For a moment the kiddies trembled to think of the geance that might be wreaked upon them did the queen but recognize Chem - as one of the millions of carele: strange sort of song which so impressed courtiers, workers, soldiers amd that each stood as if rooted to the spot and with bowed head reverently until the song had ceased. tertaining her guests. It was something unheard of. Romp and Rufit not do leas than lower their eyes after the custom of this ama: house! TAM AFRAID IF 1ASK HER TS WORK. SHE'it STRixe The Evening World’s ™ Kiddie Klub Korner Conducted by Eleanor Schorer Copyright, 1919. by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Bvenine World). Romp and Rufit Meet Queen Emmet. Thimble-nimbi a mite, With a little squeesing they @m- — tered the door at the foot of the hill and found themselves in a mage of and passageways lined with rows black sentinels, who silently new: the astonished children were wu: ward the royal chamber. As they glimpses of large storerooms cereal and other foods were kept nurseries where hordes of little and princesses, children of the all ages and sizes, were being they began slowly to realize that cone-shaped abode was no ordinary but a carefully fashioned home built by the inhabitants according to f needs and uses. 4 With hearts beating bigh over the adventure of meeting a real ques® ded by a ciroletaot And a real queen indeed was Queen Pmmet, surroun y to the arched ceiling of the lofty throne Yes, it was to the wonders of the home of these wee creatures, the children! But all their fears were allayed when Queen Ant raised her “voice” im This was the height of hospitality to think of a queen per Crunch, crunch, crunch! ‘ crm Every head was raised at the sound. Workers and soldiers A gmaing cow had tread upon the hill houge, Panic prevaited, “ie COUSIN BLBANORe oh (To Be Continued.) bry My Dear Kiubmates: was decided on one point. “Mother,” cried Cousin Sam Gelma has sent twen-) by the door, “Tie pita oe aa ty-five centa to help swell the Kid-|and become a school teacher!” ~ die Klub French Orphan Fund, “Why, Thomas,” said his mother, / 1 know it will make you happy,| laughing aloud, “how can you? ay it did me, to know that at least | don't know enough.” one Cousin realizes that the signing| “Don't know enough?” exelat of the armistice did not end our|the would-be teacher, “You duty to the little French Cousins | have to know anything! All you hava Whe have been unfortunate enough |to do is ask questions. tae their daddies through the war| By SOL FELRST, New York Ci and who have suffered from lack of | xuMelent food and clothing, ‘the pID You EVER? A middie classes o " pelt need whatever help we can give Did you ever see @ Tooth brush, \. We must not desert our a 's French Cousins now, It will be such ogee sink, contributions that sent by Cousin | Wows clnes Sam Gelma, together with greater, Pett ceo, and lesser ones from other Cousins, | Ser conn that will keep us from having to do D waltes, so. COUSIN BLEANOR, peas 9g JUST FOR FUN. Ear Dees Little seven-year-old Thomas came Ice box? home from school the first day with TILLIE and B; Joffetermined look on bis face. Hé] eCHNEIDBR, Coney ta posed of pink roses and leavos and the “—~ shoulder straps aro of jet beads. “ Several progressive shops are show- ing pretty boudoir caps, bags, cami- soles, light screens, lamp shades, boudoir slippers and other attractive articles in the ribbon department. They are mate up of fancy ribbons and are intended as suggestions. Women are taking advantage of this opportunity and are doing this mart of their Christmas shopping ear- jy. There is a bewildering array of ribbons to select from in every shop and these bave never heen quite 80 beautiful as they are this season Floral bandings are prominent on there -are many exquisite combina- tions in colors. A narrow floral edge can be had at ure wie Lhe wquaier 0 WB 49e, Thé shops are now displaying ‘Th rold and Old Jake as Uiey are A end later fivets Ooi, Milford, who mony wade upon bin uy Thorvld, i in dark ne browns charming printed voll colorings. The 3 we aid etn tae ta forces from hit the add ANSWERS TO YESTERDAY'S KWiz. CHAPTER XI. 1. Venice in Italy is famous for its eanhe OW far away last night, with 3.4 dirge is a set piece of muste Forrester's murder iy a whuall? “played—performea hf tus sordid denouement in Reddy | nerals, Mulls room, seemed! How 3% Columbus was financed py Queen fr away ev Isabella of Spain throug the pawns |Yery night seemed a ing of her jewels, jauo! ‘Then, with no Liought but one 4 “Romeo and Juliet” ts considered | of dogged perseverance to Keep Up the greatest romance in history {his quest, with neither hint nor sign 6. Ulysses 8. Grant was that his Guest was any nearer the President of the United than it had ever been, he had ente prior to this time he w Bristol Bob's, here, in the role manding General of the Smarlinghue; and now, as a rift that in the Civil War, bad Opened in the clouds, there had 6. An ikon is u shrine at which come sudden and amazing joy. Lt Greek Catholics, notably ltussians, held him now in thrall, It threaten ip. ed even to make him forget that he 1. Valley Forge is in Pennsylvania; |was for the moment Smarlinghue t is conspicuous in history because forget what, as Smarlinghue, Smarl- it was there that Gen, George Wash- jingiue dare not forget—the role he ingtow wintered in 1 played, 8. The name Isabel He jeaned forward suddenly and spleuous because the caugh his whisky glass—whoso name prevailed in Sp 492 contents had previously and surrepti 9 ‘The completed sentence is “As tiously been spilled into the cuspidor neat as a pin on the floor beside his chair, 10, Sir Walter Scott wrote “The! A man at Lady of the Lake,” which is cons'd- ‘known as the red the most artistic romance writ- dressed, his next table, w 1, young, flash effeminate fea- ten in Enettsh tures giving an added touch of vici- NEW QUESTIONS. yusnese, thro: incongruity, to his 1, What is a hybrid? general appearance, twisted his head 2, Who wa 4%. What is an ace? (in war par- derision, lance.) Jimmie Dale's fifigers searched 4. What is ap! hungrily now through first one and 5. What Is a p'ker? then another of his ragged pockets, 6. Who was (uy de Maupassant? and finally extricated a dime and a 7. Why do they call tt mercerized nickel. With these he tapped in- sik? sivtently on the table, until an at- 8 Who was Porfirio Diag? tendant answered the summons and 9. What is the meaning of the ex- supplied him with another drink Pression, “cross'ng the equator’? “It you hang around jong enough, 10, For whnt trait or ast Jndae Smarty,” gibed the Pippin, as he Yeeariot notorious in history? |passed by on his way toward the without bridging the way Love for a Woman Prompts Jimmie Dale, a | Rich New York Clubman, to Masquerade in the Underworld as Larry the Bat, as the Gray Seal, and as Smarlinghue, the Poor Artist ployed fm their t sion that would avail him reaching her. It had been thrust into his hand by as he had entered the | (Copyriadt, v19, Oy George M. Doran Company.) elinoff, th the dress trimmings Counters ant GYNUPHIS UF PURGRUING cides’ sbi 4 ssuiglile, ie awk eel iat ine 1 FUI Binariungliue of it ran through his mind . there curious muffled thud—as the old man weakly lifted his head a few inches from the floor, only to have it fall imply back again, “The—Pippin, Here'-—the old man’s hand struggled toward his side where crimson blotch had he stabbed mo-— It is the beginning of the . . + Tam very happy to-night, and I wanted (o tell you so ‘Ten minutes afier he had left Bri Ale miaaee tt" wit in the heart thet deunauds (oF ‘here—hi hecaus nd died away and the man's ick on Jitamie Dale's arm. He closed the door; Hight awiftly through into the shop and | returning to the upper end of the shop close to the » connecting door, which he closed until it was just ajar, Jimmie Dale slipped a black silk mask over his face, seated himself on a box of some sort that he found at hand, and save that his fingers mechanically tested the auto- tic In his hand, remained motion- , his eyes fixed on the rear dyor across the lighted room in which old Melinoff lay. * of the sidewalk, nd shabby tenements, ve the moment there destrians in the immediate 1 Then, ng dead cn the floor, Heth, Aa i aoous * Thora ¥ Dar ay Hic ire i thar iiss ahd Melahea, been ‘hiding A r u vauibless Burda seysnee “wien "David Ate Attorney, an y aro! playing bie wou, i “frame up" @ roltery ch the boy if be 1 Joeeetion bat Dale saves the youth, Y | Fleming P. Forrester him to come to bic aid in a Low o bank. Reaching there oiabt, 4 finds Piet 2 fee mien arrive & Mate ‘kurheytpt kiulish Dich, alias Dryden, the bank tell-r, is guilty of dhe robbery, ‘onfessiin that ited, Mull uiirdered Worrvstat, From his pocket Jimmie Dale pro- duced a flashlight. ‘The ray played as though with queer, diMfdent r rbout him, sWept once more necks off the gape-wagon will tak pity on you down artists!” 1 im An almost sta darkness again. And, Hoan hour ago this « Just half an hour ! J h then Jimmie Dale's eyes reverted to the piece of paper under the ad likely that It now and he was moving quickly and forward toward that thread of light and the closed door leading Around him everything was in dis- stretched out his foot, drew tt , Slooping over, picked and found It to contain several typewritten lines toward him, eviden not be he smi as he started briskly He turned the corner of the a on which the Sanctuary was situated and halted abruptly. neous accumulation of guilt should expected to he was a sound at Inst; he could not thirty. to-night,” mediately define. circuit the seed was it that the Pippin was to procure @tawn Rasp unmistakably, the Pippin was to go himself wa In a finsh now, automatic thrust forward, was o Jimmie Dale, without reproach usan is, Anthony? around and grinned with malicious x w and then, caught red- » had changed his oc- rupation for a more useful one during somewhat prolonged sojourn in sing in their cabs, as he thrust the Pippin's side pocket of his coi torn fragmenta of ver and over notc~the note that seemed suddenly ¢ gor JiINmOe BY FRANK kL PACKARD. He stooped with ten open and jumped words of the ant—murder. old Je Jimmie Dale closed the door of the old clothes shop behind him, crossed the yard and using the back door of the tenement again, gained the etreet. quite spent “Youse can take it from me, den,” “The Voice in the Fog” By Harold McGrath Kitty Killigrew and Mrs. Craw ford are robbed of their jowels while Enghan tide women in London, Webb, who inherited § muspected of the robbery Begin This Story Monday AAT his eyes to sald the Wowser, “dat dere's some- keyhole and the next instant, his thing doin'! Dey got her! *inguired Jimmie Dale The Wowrer leaned forward se- Pippin's note Mag!" he said, said Jimmie Dale. somebody else! Mug croaked out the night they had that fire down there in the old tene- of fire There was no need onger on their meaning, On the floor, 4 crimson pool beside him, clothes dealer, she did—nix!" ame same way dat blasted snith of a niowet reward ucrosa the yard, Win- | fifteen inclusive, who writes the d truest account of a dream im dow or bavx door, it mattered little | 4m to Jimmie Dale now, #0 that he couid | OF her age class. ny gain an entry into the house un- observed, in’ around one of de » Sen's half an hour ago, Say, de whole mob all de way up de line's been tipped off. ing youse de real thing. Youse must en-trays Into youse’d have been wise before,” ‘There was no light tm tie room itself, I belleve you! sald Jimmie “Who caught ‘# got her over in his layout. It was & moment before Jimmie There seemed to be a ghastly drgneas there seem from his soul and overwhelm him @ world of mocking and sardonic trony. The Mole was the leader of the gang with which the Pippin was allied; it was at thi that the Pippin usually lived: couk a8 she jay on & cheap Cot) company each composition. Dale spoke, across the room, her suce to the wail, Mole's place would first institute their searcn for her face, but he saw her raise head quickly and then, evidently quick to meet always was, rise from the cot and me off!” said Jimmie Dale effusively, “Oh, dat's all right,” responded the Wowzer graciously, CHAPTER XIII, T was not far to only halfway down block to the corner of the lane; but It seemed a distance interm- inable to. Jimmie Dale, whirling In a chaotic turmoil, and the turmoil seemed barbed with a horrt- ble fear that robbed him for the mo- ment of his mental poise Man dazed, unconscious of the physl- cal process by which he had arrived there, that he found himself standing in the Sanctuary, leaning, like a man there mattered He had desired only one thing the Sanctum eof the Pippin's sh another moment in obedience to his whisper the bound wrists were thrust | within his reach and he wi h ed whimaically His brain was A man com- from the other direction bbed his arm. lo, smarly news Wows he shook his head. " greeted the other, the front of the house, a sudden tur- flashes like gigantid fireflies moll from within, @ burst of shouts, & in the night, Ne could see chorus of yells. The police! And They were racin; now another shout, another burst of he and th yells—trom the rear—trom the lane! safety he prayed 80 wildly, Bo ow. It w ! he returned, as ‘No, I ain't heard mechanically, he had closed led the way toward the gate in the tence out of the house from the back door had not reagiad the in a minute—the only chance was a dash for it. His mind was groping now, bewildered. What did it mean? along the lane, drum The police who had obviously been ear in an angry busz—and detailed to the lane at the rear of the beside him Jurehed heavily, Mole's were fighting now—with whom and pitched forward, —why? But the fight was working It had taken scarcely further on down the lane in the oppo- lock the doors, and now he site direction from that shed door, side a form that was omin beads started owt She had dia- carded the character of “Silver Mag’ that night in the tenement fire when the character of “Larry the Bat"—and “silver Mag’ had never been seen again until to- e had discarded was working with mad speed stripping off his clothes, dely- ing into that secret hiding place be- seotion of the base hind the movable with jta pove ty-stricken, me. iluminated the From Mole's house was Hung open and (To Be Continued.) —_— ras AUGUST CONTEST AWAI WINNER. ay “How | Spent My Vacation.” placo dimly—and Jimmie Dale, with his make-up box and a cracked mir- ror, worked against the flying min- | utes, ‘There was only one way to go ~aa Larry the Bat. ‘The gas was out again, the room was in darkness, ‘Through the litte Frenca window, and hugged close against the wall of the tenement, and| teen, Jersey City, N. J. through the loose board in the fence that gave egress to the lane, Jimoie MBER WRITING CONT Dale, as Larry the Bat now, sluni) A PRIZE of four Thritt ® Aion ie wtreake of light through the | (the equivalent of $1) wil By ANNA HANDLER, aged interstices of a shuttered window | awarded each of the wed just in front of him as he Kiddie Kiub members, aged fivi Each will write a true and full count of the last dream that t remember and those who are too! to write their dreams may tell to their mammas, who will put h faint glow cama in through thd} De happy to write tham out foe pn goorway Of # lighted roud be | "TN" vertiqcate trom the parent yond enough 10 snacie Be’ pire guardinn of the contestant, & o ", > that ne composition is * hair ‘streaming over the threadbare | Uo! the soe original, must ‘The window was shoulder high, He was peering in through the blind, must not exceed 150 her hands bound together behing her| Feaeys, Kaust ack exoees ot back. AGE, ADDRESS and CERTIFI it was Jimmie Dale working with) NUMBER, all the art he knew now; and those|” Address Cousin Bleanor, slim, sensitive, wonderful fingers were| world Kiddie Klub, No, 63 Park swift and silent a» they had never] New York City. . been before, A steel jimmy loosened the shutters, and they swung apart without a sound, He could see better | {HOW TO JOIN THE KLUB now—see, at least, that she was alone OBTAIN YOUR PIN. in the room, He tapped softly on the esi eh aap window pan It was too dark to ber, cut out sit of pone, ke | ~ One emergency as she uteal to the edge of the open door, He was working at the window now. A fever of anxiety was upon him, And now cautiously, inoh by inch, he was raising the window; and in severing ords with his knife, ft hank God!" breathed Jimmie 'there came the rush of feet. Dale fervently. “Now jump—aecross gown the lane the ah the yard—the door of Foo Sen's shed (arvie Hamman ne cevetors --it's open—quick thro: bi There came a. sudden crash from pcan Save’ for those auicke racing like ide him f form “Quick!” he whispered again, and gionately tn his soul m tep further—just another The police would be pouring the police, coming out of the step—Rnd a raying from the fight down med Quick!" he said again, ‘The shed upon the floor and called her ~or-on the other side-—quick!" over and over again. Together they darted into the lane, “Marie! Marie! Marie!" be behind, the back door of the pered frantically,