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'In the eouese of the next few day's
We are likely to hear some interest,
log opinions by those. who have given
special thought to various social prob-
lems, Of these one of the most ire-
portant is that of the criminal and
his treatment. The horror at the Col-
umbus State penitentiary has drawn
world-wide attention to this and the
daily newspapers continue to respond
to echoes of that disaster. In our own
reading we find that more and more
people have been aroused to a sense
of public responsibility for those so-
cial units who wind up• in the prisons
or the electric chairs. Warden Lawes,
the veteran warden of Sing Sing, says
that we are now passing through a
"hard-boiled" era with regard to the
treatment of criminals. As he says:
"We have passed through the periods
cf theoretical, hereditary crime; of
criminality due to physical deform-
ity, of limitation of will, of freedom
of will, of glandular defects, and the
many other peculiar notions of swivel
chair theorists and investigators." The
"hard-boiled" era will also pass. It
is to be hoped that it will be follow-
ed by something that is a change
from all the others that have pre-'
ced'ed it. All have been failures,
The curious fact has been noted that
in hardly any other respect do Amer-
ican and English conditions differ
more than in the matter of the crim-
inal populations. In England the
prisons are being closed. In the past'
30 years their number has been re-
duced by half. In that period there
has been the war and the reaction
after the war. There has been no
prohibition. The penalties have re-
mained much as they were. Also the
criminal repeaters in England amount
to 64 per cent. among the men and
87 per cent. among the women. In
the United States the recidivists are
not half as numerous. One inference
is that the English prisons are not
being recruited from the ranks of the
law-abiding as rapidly as are those in
the United States. In some respect=
this should make the police problem
more difficult in that it might be said
that the English police *are dealing
with confirmed criminals, profession-
als as compared with American am-
ateurs. This is a most hopeful sign
for it gives promise of a time when
criminals will cease to emerge from
the law-abiding classes of the com-
munity, so that when the existing
crop of 'criminals is exhausted there
will be no more of them. This per-
iod is arranged to occur just before
the millennium.
In Britain the idea is to keep peo•
ple out of prisons unless it is abso-
lutely necessary that they should be
confined. The American ideal, ac-
cording to Warden Lawes, is to get
as many people in prison as possible.
More and better and safer prisons is
the current American solution of the
criminal problem. Mr. Lawes says
that except for physical improvements
that mechanical progress made easy
of adaptation, the American prisons
are managed and operated to -day just
as they were 100 years ago. In Eng-
land it has been said that the prison
system to -day is as different from
that of 50 years ago as the older
system 'was to that existing 100 years
ago. We have never had the idea
that English .police were lax in their
duties et- that English judges were
prone to sentimentalism. They ar-
rest and punish criminals whenever
possible. But criminals are becoming
fewer, and this despite the terrible
unemployment which is a chronic
English evil that American police
and courts are not troubled by.
It seems fair to comp re Canadian
with American rather than British
systems as far as the penitentiaries
are concerned. Our courts are un-
doubtedly different and our police
systems also, although we have pre-
viously noted tendencies to copy
American methods on the part of
some of our police. Our judges. on
the whole, seem to err on the side of
sternness. We notice all too fre-
quently long sentencZes in addition to
periodic floggings. This we cannot
condone. A short sentence with a
severe flagging may be better for all
concerned than a long sentence with-
out corporal punishment, but a severe
sentence, with the lash in addition,
merely represents the fury and not
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"Sores on leg, ulcers, for months. Doctors
failed to heal. Then 'Sootha-SalvQ' heated
them in few days," Jules Simard. "Soothe -
Salva" heals sores, ulcers, boils, burns,
scalds, eczema, like magic. All druggists.
76 beats 36
Read this wonderful letter from a man of
78 who is " more active than 40 years ago,"
thanks to the " daily direful " of Krusehen
Salts.
41.8 a subject of both gout and rheumaftsns
for just over 50 years,I wish to acknowledge that
I have found nothing 80 absolutely certain as
Rruschen Salts. Epson and other things all
have their virtues, but also their drawbacks.
Eruschen Salts I have so far found, after 5 years
or more of using them. have no drawbacks and
no counter -effect whatever. I am 76 and more •
active than 40 years ago.'
Original letter on 810 ler inepentioa-
Truschen Salts is obtainable at drug and
department stores in Canada at 75c. a bottle.
A` bottle contains enough to last for 4 or 5
months—good health got half -anent a day.
the balanced judgment of society. So
far as reforming the prisoners is
concerned, Warden Lawes does not
believe that any sentences against
which the prisoner revolts and will
continue to revolt will ever do him
any good. A sentence of which he
will see the justice, and treatment
whose fairness he will admit are the
only agencies likely to soften a man's
heart after he finds himself in the
hands of the law. Less than this
tends to turn him into a permanent
enemy of society.
Warden Lawes says that it has
been estimated that the prison popu-
lation of the United States repres-
ents only eight per cent of those en-
gaged in criminal practices, and since
ince
there are about 125.000 persons serv-
ing prison sentences the total crim-
inal population of the country may
be about 1,500.000, As he asks, what
would happen if all these criminals
could be put behind the bars to -day?
Would not the morrow yield another
crop of new criminals equally de-
termined in the paths of violence and
unrighteous acquisition? He believes
that real prison reform will not come
until the public attitude is changed
toward the man who has been in pris-
on and until judges try to make the
punishment fit the criminal rather
than the crime. We gather that he
favors some such system as prevails
in several states whereby a board of
psychiatrists. psychologists and so-
cial service experts determine the
punishment. He is also in favor of
permitting another special board to
decide when a prisoner is safe to be
let loose again. Judges generally he
believes to be ignorant on such mat-
ters. But Warden Lawes ,is also firm
in the belief that there are certain
persons who should never be let out
of prison once they are in, and quite
regardless of the seriousness of the
offence which brings about their first
conviction.
GIVE CONFIDENCE
TO 'YOUNG MOTHERS
A simple and safe remedy for the
common ills of babyhood and child-
hood should be kept in every home
where there is either a baby or a
young child, Often it is necessary to
give the ,little ones something 'to
break up a cold, allay fever, correct
sour stomach, and banish the irrita-
bility that accompanies the cutting
of teeth.
Experienced mothers always keep
Baby's Own Tablets in the home as .•t
safeguard against the troubles that
seize their little ones so suddenly and
the young mother can feel reason-
ably safe with a box of these Tablets
at hand and ready for emergencies.
Baby's Own Tablets are a mild but
thorough laxative that act without
gripping and they are absolutely
guaranteed free from opiates or
other harmful drugs. They are sold
l;y medicine dealers or by mail at 25
cents a box from The Dr. Williams'
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
Danger of Weed Seed.
With a considerable portion of last
year's big red clover crop still in the
feirmers' hands there is a graver risk
than usual of a serious weed spread
this season. government officials fear-
4ng that a large portion of th:s will
fiaid its way into seed drills without
proper cleaning. 'Weed seeds in a
l•in of clover or grain are not con -
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hair tio
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Your pride prompts you
to keep your hair well
groomed ...then for the
same reason smarten
your dull, unpolished
shoes regularly with a
glossy "Nugget" shine
—waterproofs the
shoes as it polishes.
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ed xr ' fact it was recent'lyt eetireat-'
ed that ;in three cars of gate shipped
to wa katehewan there were contain-
ed approximately 23,000,000 sow
thistle weeds. The government seed
laboratories are the proper place for
testing your seed and do so at in-
finitesimal cost.
OOP
TAFT AND ROOSEVELT DAMON
AND PYTHIAS
Li the whole career of William
Howard Taft nothing was so import-
ant as his friendship with Theodore
Roosevelt; and no personal incident
in the past 50 years perhaps has so
influenced American polities and pos-
sibly woxtld politics, as the rupture of
that friendship, It was the break up
of that old comradeship that almost
destroyed the Republican party for in
the presidential election of 1912 it
carried but two states, Vermont and
Utah. It made possible the election
of Woodrow 'Wilson, with all the tre-
mendous consequences which were to
affect the world war. Had there been
first of„ all no Roosevelt -Taft friend-
shi.9eand later no Roosevelt -Taft fight
there would have been no Woodrow
Wilson in the sense of international
politics. One may let his imagina-
tion roam as far as he pleases in this
realm of what might -have -been, and
if he comics to the conclusion that the
history of the world for another
century was affected by the relations
between Taft and Roosevelt, who will
contradict him? The original friend-
ship was like that of Damon and
Pythias. No two public men of cor-
responding rank ever were greater in-
timates; no two ever had a profoun-
der admiration for each other. No two
ever fought more• savagely. In the
end they became reconciled' and be-
tween the mit was the "Theodore"
and "Will" of their early manhood.
Their frieed'ship began long before
the days of Roosevelt's presidency and
had become one of the established and
seemingly permanent features of their
lives when Roosevelt succeeded Mc-
Kinley. Taft was at the time Gover-
nor of the Philippines. Roosevelt
wanted to have him at home and in-
tended to appoint him' to the Supreme
Court, a position Taft had always
wanted. But for certain reasons he
did not want to go to Washington at
to Baby Canis R
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Gained 22 Lbs."
"After baby was .born I was very
weak skinny. Since taking Ironized
Yeast feel fine. Gained 22 lbs."—
Mrs. Laura Benoit.
Thousands write new Iron'ized
Yeast adds 5 to 15 lbs. in 3 weeks.
Ugly hollows fill out. Bony limbs
gets clear and rosy like magic. Ner-
vousness, indigestion, constipation
vanish overnight. Sound sleep, new
pep from every first day.
Two great tonics in one—special
weight -building Iron. Pleasant little
tablets. Far stronger than unmedi-
cated yeast. Results in time. No
yeasty taste, no gas.
So quit being "skinny," tired, un-
attractive. Get Ironized Yeast from
druggist to -day. Feel great to -mor-
row. Money back from manufac-
turer if not delighted/with quick re-
sults.
ceiving from Roosevelt the following
that time and declined even after re -
letter:
"Dear Will—I am awfully sorry, old
man, but after faithful effort to try
to arrange matters on they basis you
wanted I find that I shall have to
bring you home and put you un the
Supreme Court. I am very parry.' I
have the greatest confidence in your
judgment, but after all old fellow, if
you will permitme to say so, I am
President and see the whole field. .
after the most careful thought, after
the most earnest effort as to what
you desired and thought best, I have
come, irrevocably, to the decision that
I shall appoint you to the Supreme
Court in the vacancy caused by Judge
Shires' resignation . I am very
sorry if what I am doing displeases
you, but as I said, old man, this is
one of the cases where the President
if he is fit for his position, must take
the responsibility."
But in the fallowing year, 1903,
Taft was induced to go back as secre-
tary of war. Thereafter, until Taft
was well advanced in his first term
as ssdeatb the relational between
the o men twerer, as cordial as; ever.
It ass the literal 'truth that Roeaevelt
ma`d!e Taft gresideant. He host t},o op-
portunity of publicly paying tribute
to his qualities. Ile was, Roosevelt
said, the greatest man he had ever
met Roosevelt was Tafre press ag-
ent, for Taft himiseif was no such
master of the art of eatchin'g the pub -
14c eye and ear as Roosevelt. He, no
doubt, had' the normal ambition of
every American to become ‘president
some day, but undoubtedly there nev-
er was a time, where he would not
rather have been Chief Justice of
the United States. Without the en-
ergetic Roosevelt behind him it is
more than doubtful if Taft would ev-
er haver gathered the momentum
which was to make him chief mag-
istrate. Indeed, Roosevelt 'had plenty
of opposition in his own party when
he forced Taft forward as his nom-
inee for the presidency in 1908. Taft
was elected and between the two men
passed touching vows of gratitude,
affection and undying devotion.
Without going into detail concern-
ing the,estrangegnent that later arose
it might ibe said that Roosevelt had
the idea that Taft was not carrying
out the Roosevelt policies; and Taft
had the, idea that Roosevelt wished
to be the power behind the presi-
dency. So far as the , men were per-
sonally concerned, their quarrel Was
fomented by lesser men unworthy to
bl'aek the shoes of either. But the
old-time politicians found that Taft
was more comfortable with him. But
in addition to their personal differ-
ences there was also • the political
cleavage that was taking place and
that, no doubt, would have occurred
irrespective of the men who were to
lead the rival factions, If it was in
anybody's interest to heal the breach
between them, it was in nobody's
power. The issues between stand pat
Republicanism and Progu+essivismi
were probably too deep-rooted to be
compromised. Rdosevelt set himself
in the field to lead a new party or
a wing of the old party against the
Republicans under Taft.
In the course of the campaign of
1912, the 'two oven denounced each
other more bitterly than they attack-
ed Wilson. With the perspiration
streaming down a face working with
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for Mintaki, Winnipeg, Brandon,
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EQUIPMENT
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emotion, Taft spoke of "the unjust,
unfounded charges against me that
Mr. Roosevelt is now making to the
public." Roosevelt had attempted to
"discredit" him by "adroit appeals' to
discontent and class' hatred," had
"garbled" his language, and "mis-
represtnted" his actions. After a
fierce •attack on "one whom in the
past I have greatly admired and lov-
ed," he paused for a moment and ex-
claimed: "This wrenches my soul."
He warned the people that Roosevelt
aimed to 'establish a dictatorship ever
the American people. The next night
Roosevelt ,said: "President Taft
served under me for seven years
without finding fault with me. He
only discovered that I was dangerous
when I dnseovered that he was use-
less to the Almleriean people. If he
had given the people a square deal
he could have counted on my enthusi-
astic support. Every
boss i
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country is with Mr. Taft," Finally he
said: "Mr. Taft is president only be-
cause I kept my promise in spite of
infinite pressure to break it." Four
or five years later Roosevelt and Taft
happened to be in OOhicago. Roose-
velt was in a hotel dining -room when
Taft entered and walked' up to him.
He offered his hand. Roosevelt stood
up and graesped it:
"Well, Thedddore?"
"Howl are you, Will?"
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