Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-09
WARDEN BARR, OF ANAmosA
PLEASED WITH SYSTEMS
REsvLTs.
cossoN NOT WORRYING
OVER SALINGER's SUITS
Does Not Anticipate That United States
Supreme Court Will Nullfy Iowa
MuIet Law-iowa Congressional DEL
egation Working to Secure Promo
ton For Aawkeye Army Officers.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
/ Des Moines, Dec. 9.-"The indeter-
| inmate sentence and parole system
| one of the strongest influences We have
in reformatory work" So declared
Warden Marquis Barr, of the Anamosa
reformatory, before the state confer
| parole law has come to stay and that
| in its practical workings, if properly
administered, it is of the greatest pos
sible good: Warden Barr spoke of the
! reformatory work at Anamosa and in
dictated that it has been no small task
to get fairly started the work which
| the legislature contemplated should be
! done there. He expressed himself as OPP
posed to the silent system in prison.
| but would permit conversation that
seems to be necessary. He encourages
his men to put on clean collars, white
shirts and good clothes on Sunday and
to black their boots Complaint is
sometimes made that prisons are beinS
made so good that men will want to
come back. That is not true, for the
greatest luxury with restraint of liber
~ ASoNo ~ dAiAAthpplilCSS, Aiiu 4iASAA
never desire to get back where they
are restrained OF their liberty no mat
ter how well fed they are.
Senator George Cosson, special coun-
sci tor the state. is not given to wor-
rying over the effort which is still be-
| ing made to induce the United States
supreme court to suspend the opera
ton OF the Iowa prohibitory and mulct
laws pending the determination OF
certain appeals in cases from Boone,
Carroll and Marshall counties from the
decision of Judge Mcpherson uphold
ing the Iowa laws. Senator Cosson and
E. /. Salinger went to Washington to
present the matter to the court and
they were permitted to file written
briefs with Judge Lurton alone, and he
! his his O. *. on the position taken by
Judge Mcpherson. The next step
naturally was to so to the full bench
for relief, but there is very little dam
ger of the court sanctioning nulllfy-
ing the entire law while the appeal is
pending.
The most serious matter that con-
fronts us just now is the danger that
President TAFT will induce Senator
Cummins to accept place on the su-
preme bench, said Henry Wallace yes
terday. Il am satisfied something of
| that sort is contemplated but l do not
| believe that Cummins would accept
the place and consent to be taken out
of public life at this time: Any reader
! of the Washington dispatches will dis
being done at Washington; it will pay
TO keen track 0f them
The Iowa delegation in congress is
united, or was recently. on the mat
ter of urging justice for two worthy
Iowans in the military service. They
will insist upon definite ass gnmant OF
Capt. Creger, of Cherokee, to the de-
i'artment of the judge advocate gem
eral; and upon the promotion of Col.
A. G. Sharpe, of the Twenty-third in
fantry to be brigadier general. Capt.
Creger went to the Philippines as a
volunteer and as he was a lawyer he
was temporarily assigned to work IN
the judge advocates department. Later
when he went into the regular army
he was kept III this department, but
has never been given definite place
there. BY such assignment he would
be assured of promotion before re-
tirement. Col. Sharpe has been in the
regular army many years He origin
ally enlisted from Oskaloosa There
are several appointments to be made
for brigadier generals and no more
worthy soldier could, be designated
than this .oMar and as it has been
a long time since Iowa had any re2os-
milton of that Kind in either army or
navy it is believed ne stands cool
chance. Altho Iowa has had he chair