ON PAY ROLL.
y\cr\ in Prison Costly, Work’
; r ‘ Them Aids When Free.
|By HARRY F. DUNN.)
men iin prison is costly bus
tpprins them there is still mor i
; - Some students of crimnol-
Snomirs and history -have de
e t r * from no point of view
li I \' v society to confine its
* Mi'ii in charge of state
~ ve discovered that it costs
ice ! l r \oe, SI,OOO to arrest, con
u f V.fto the doors of the pris
aiu‘ ? nr with an added expense
n< i ~?It $350 per year as long as
there. Efforts to take the
taxpayer have been
f \ ■ vit'ii'' schemes, most popula
[)) : [c \ x has been selling of con
in quanity, to contractors
~]!? have been bad both for
f'ato and the convicts.
llclL \, lllK Cahtorma with a new
I ' v t ; , ', ,! result of study by state
‘ ..risen wardens, welfare
> t ]', e prisons, and the stud
‘T Penologv. The law is now in
what appears to be good
n the state and to the con
-1 Ti\ Jaw provides that the state
We- 1’ the California State Highway
r.yhon. shall employ on the con
tin, of it." higl.'*vays all available
IT j shall pay them $2.50 a
ior evevv day they work. Pro
■ ( | criminals, men convicted of
|-uifilter and of degrees of mur
iMo), do not carry capital pun-
I : so that the men are held in
Litharies are barred, but the pris
t own as ordinary convict, who
ts has committed his first
fan.l probably will ‘‘go straight”
| t ’-, the opportunity, is included
| workings of this plan.
| i ? w was drawn up by Julian H.
In' San Francisco, who has been
■ '-h a welfare worker for one of
Protestant churches in the
If of California. It is actively
Irted by some of the wardens a d
I authorities and opposed by
|a"d so won the recognition of
lw state administration, headed
l ornor Friend W. Richardson. It
■fed that for every 1500 con
lo employed $1,000,000 will he
■even- year to the tax payers. I
I with Mr. Alco, on the day
Re returned from the several
| of convicts, established under
lw plan, and while he talked, a
■7,011 men whom he had helped
lies from San Quentin and from
I. called on the telephone to
■ The smiling little man, ap
■ without a care in the world
9sed years of his life behind
■walls as a volunteer worker
I behalf of men and women
■ the state restrained, and out
■experience has come a law in
■ to prepare the convict for a
■ life; to provide his depend
■th a livelihoood, and the pris
■mselt with strength to retain
■ respect and his initiative.
■ idea grew out of the urfor
| relationship between tlm state
■met/’ said Mr. Alco, disdaining
■ himself any credit. “The act
■t of sending a man to prison
■ judges, attorneys, juries po
l.d transportation —ranges from
■ to $5,000, a minimum average
■ <pent in the bie"-
i’-’ind anproximat c ly
B r o on transportation alone for
r ed men to penitentiaries. Fur-
Kha” this, it costs the state an
■3 of one dollar a day to keep
■ in prison, that is. let us say,
t year, a low estimate. After
ate has had a man in prison,
ase? him to start life all over
with five dollars in cash, but
ao initiative, no resistance to
al influences, no clothing and
). When the law was passed
the released convict five dollars
•uni was equivalent to fifteen
it will barely sustain him for
iys. The new law provides that
en are to be paid $2.50 a day
licit they work. The money is
to their credit with the prison
which they come. From it is cle
-1 the cost of their transporta
-0 the road camp in which they
’Ployed; their food and their
tig— for convicts in California
wear stripped uniforms. Trans-
Pi i> obtained at a reduced rate
rvi p* co t with p slight acldi
charge to cover handling and
ration. Clothing shoes and to
>cn : y and ether ‘luxuries’ are
ted at cost. Sales of army cloth
-1 shoes provide equipment for
n g at costs far below those at
a wei could buy them were
"2. Food army sho°s, for ex
' ve Peon supplied at fL ty
k ' ’-'enty cents a pair, overalls
c° its to thirty cents, and
j • espondingly low pries.
" • t ’east ‘sfv'ntv
a day. This sum is to their
' ’ the dav of their release,
at paid to dependents, is
1 r !'he men not onlv have
which to live until they
'■-tamed work, but they are pro
owl edge of road build
ms to obtain a job. Fur
ls has arranged with
mtractors to take into
■'S3 men v/ho are re
nd records. Thus the
n man with and
lition has preserved
l his self respect,
d s the man out of
f prison thought; it
, y from instruction in
j amid clean, healthful
. and gives him the
ini ty to ‘come back’
0 secure the future of
> has paid his so-called
’• employment must be
in. In most cases, the
the mu previous to
°d. The workingman,
n to prison; it
8 , 0 0 1 eokkeeper, the
-. 1 s onal man who makes
V art of our prison pop
-1 men cannot return to
• ! e-k, but they can be
-vk, without expense
installing machinery
Co „ ; f • and without the
’ ’’To conflict with free
1 i zation of free la
ls the ‘letting out’
be f ... , mm '*or» + ra'*N>r; rt-ey
f -ff only by the state,
ad feonstruction
teas served time
m a road camp has a job open in
a free road camp when he is dis
charged, and needs no recommenda
tion to get his job; the state’s word
is back of him.
The law was prepared after long
conferences with the labor unions on
the competition of convict labor with
free labor, but the measure was so
drawn that the laboring people are
protected. Putting the men at work on
state highways eliminate the
necessity of employing the convicts
within the penitentiary at occupa
tions whose production comes under
competition with free labor. The high
ways constructed by the state with
convict labor are in remote sections,
in the mountains, away from the cen
ters of free labor. This preliminary
work was done by Mr. Alco, before
he obtained the approval of the gov
ernor. Guards are kept chiefly to
maintain discipline, but they are be
ing eliminated from the road work
itself simply by increasing the reward
for an escaped convict from fifty to
two hundred dollars, and deducting
that amount from the pay of all of thj
men in the camp when one escapes,
knowing that the reward comes out of
their own pockets; or,* if a man es
capes, strive to get him back, so that
, the reward so paid may be turned
over to their camp. This plan has
I worked well.
j ‘ The convict has a drawing account
j to purchase such luxuriies as he may
desire, but if after thirty days, his
drawing account, including transpor
tation, food, clothing and luxuries, ex
ceeds the amount that he has earned,
i he is sent back to the prison whence
he came. The convict himself hand
les no money, and aside from the pay
ment of his transportation, clothing
and food, his one obligatory expense
is the payment to his dependents, if
he has any, of 'a certain sum each
month! Dependents resident in Cali
fornia for three years get certain aid
from state and county, ranging from
five to ten dollars per child each
month When a convict lias such de
pendents, if they are entitled to state
i aid, he must pay to them two thirds
of his earnings. To those dependnts
who are not eligible for state and
j county aid, the convict may send
to two thirds of his net earnings if
he so chooses, but this is not obliga
i tory.
STRANGE AND CURIOUS.
Peculiarities That Will Astonish
Almost Anyone.
Vern F. Smith, of Laporte, Ind., bet
$5 he could marry a certain woman
and he won.
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A man arrested in Chicago has got
to answer 261 charges against him,
233 being for burglary.
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1 The memorial Methodist Church at
Denver, Col., has boxing contests af
ter services in the church have been
held.
A woman in Lincolnn Neb., has
sucrl her husband for divorce because
he loves his dog better than he does
her.
A baby that weighed only 12 ounces
was recently born to Mrs. Anna Game
of Chicago. He nicely fits into a cigar
box.
One man, an Italian operates 40
a blind tiger in Pawnee, Neb., eat its
places where liquor is sold in New
York.
Booze, held in evidence, against
ablind tiger in Pawnee, Neb., eats its
way through the wooden barrel in
which it was kept.
I Our Guarantee Means |j) :
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I Proof Instead Os Promises
I In some things we must be satisfied with promises, but where money is fl
involved NOTHING SHORT OF PROOF IS ENOUGH. Imagine paying j|Jj
U\ for a promise the same amount of money that will buy the proof! Think
Xja of buying a bond secured by First Mortgage on income earning proper- ffiV
ties, but with only the promise of safety, as against a Six Per Cent
jjijj First Mortgage Real Estate Bond with every dollar of principal and in- [Bij
est guaranteed to maturity!* js|.
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|| A Promise Means the Hope of Safety Ij
% A Guarantee means the Knowledge of Safety. That’s what you get in
<y our Guaranteed Six Per Cent First Mortgage Real Estate Bonds,
j|jj which we have for sale in denominations of— |W|!
I SIOO, $l5O, S2OO, $250, S3OO, S4OO, SSOO, SI,OOO 1;
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CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $500,000.00
|| W. W. BROWN,. ■ Secretary and Treasurer, |]
| BURLINGTON, N. C. i{
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An Illinoise woman is a grand
mother at 29. She married when she
was 15, and her daughter was mar
ried at the age of 12.
Clyde Bowen, of Waycross. Ga., ,
had his entire face cut off at a saw .
mill. He lived thirty hours but before <
he died he sang a song.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Willifred, of
Enfield, N. C., have been married 51
years and they have four children.
Not a death has ever occurred in the
family.
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Pasquale Stallone, of Old Forge,
Pa., has got to spend 12 years in
prison and afterwoods die in the elec
tric chair. He killed two people.
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JONESBORO: MONCURE: ll
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