Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-21
FAV|UE BEFORE
WOMAN 5 CLUB
"THE UNDER MAN" BEFORE
CLUB WOMEN.
AS PROSECUTOR GIVES
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
Era of Reformation Has Dawned in
Dealing With acknowledgements
Should Save Boys az We'll as Hot
entots, and State Has Duty to the
Boy as Well as Swine.

C4QD ana lIlelE guests w eCiieSO'5 -
ternoon at Red Mems hall, by the bus
mess department, of which Mrs. James
McNally is chairman. The meeting was
one postponed from the week previous.
the speaker secured for it having been
unable to be present at the regular
time The program opened with twt
enthusiastically received vocal mum
bers, a group of Frederick King Logan
, songs, given by Mrs. H. r. Cammack,
with Miss Allie Bristol as accompanies.
Mrs. Cammack responded to an encore
with The Perfect Day
The speaker of the afternoon was Mr..
+. F. Faville, of Storm Lake, United
States attorney for the northern dis
| trict OF Iowa, who appeared before tht
Searchlight Club the evening previous.
Mir Faville proved not only very in
structive speaker, but most enter
tanning one, aid had the sympathy OF
the audience enlisted in his theories
from the start. His subject was The
Under Man. and his presentation has
grown out of his own experiences as q
prosecuting attorney.
"conservation Of the under man" the
speaker traced the evolution Of the
treatment Of the criminal from the
primeval idea OF retaliation, down TO
the present day. The coming of Christ
changed all previous ideas of punish
ment as revenge, he said, but we, IN
enlightened America have not yet sub
stiiuted the teachings of the Nazarene
for harsh and oftenIimeS unjust judg-
meriS.
The second step in the e. olution CT
the punishment oil the criminal was the
conception of the tWo-fold idea, that
the criminal not only be punished, but
that society be protected from him IN
the future, as a result of which the
jails were converted into dungeons d
horror, and the gravity of the offense
was lost sight of in the eagerness to
invent new tortures. The blood OF the
, guilty man was not only taken, be.
! his children were branded as outlaws,
the latter a proceeding which the pres
/ en-: age has not entirely gTo%n away
| from.
Era Of Reformation.
I'VE are now in the midst, or rather
| in the very beginning Mr.. Faville said,
"of a third, mad greater than all, era in
the evolution of punishment for crime,
when, in dealing with the offender, the
idea is not only to punish him and 70
protect society, but to reform him, and
restore him to the ranks Of honest So
Getty"
First Of all, Mr. Faville believes,
/ criminals must be dealt with as IN
dlvdualS. and not as class. Give the
! criminal chance according to his
merits, is his axiom, and his entire lee
ture was interspersed with intensely
interesting instances Of the practice Of
| this idea and it's splendid results. While
ne firmly believes in the conviction
and punishment Of the hardened and
deliberate wrong-doer he also believes
1 in clemency wherever there is justifi-
cation for it, especially in the case OF
young and first offenders, where a
little wise guidance and human kind
ness will in many cases make splen-
did. law abiding citizen out Of the Of
fender.
iowa's Stop Forward.
The establishment Of the indeterml
nate sentence and Of juvenile courts
is; q long step forward in Iowa. He
explained the workings of these laws
and also the parole system, which
holds out to the convicted man every
incentive to reform. The latter, he
thinks. is the most effective means yet
devised to handle the criminal wisely
About 90 per cent of our criminals are
young men under 80 years Of age, an6
the great majority Of them are MOI
confirmed criminals.
Thinks Liquor Traffic Doomed.
With the most biting sarcasm, Mr.
Faville referred to the equipment with
which the state turns its criminals
adrif1 when their terms expire, prac
tically driving them into crime again
for society in general is never willin:
to give them a lift. however sincere
they may be in a desire to live an hon
est life. One institution opens its arms
to welcome them, he said, and that i!
not the church Of God, as one would
have right to suppose. 1t is the opeI
saloon. and until the liquor traffic il
wiped out. which time he believes Il
coming, he would have law estab
lished making it a crime for any per
son to sell or give liquor to an ex
convict. He enlisted the help Of tn
women in this and other law reform
which he advocates deeming the crea
ton Of a better sentiment by them al
important factor in the fight.
Save Boys as Well az Hottentots.
While a church member himself, tn
speaker was scathing in his term
| regarding the selfishness Of the churc
J as an institution, and thinks 1t shout
devote it's time to the saving Of tn
. American boy as we'll as the Hotten
tots. Also while soul saving is to b
commended, much more Of it could b
done by a care for the physical wei
fare Of man. for the released convie
cares more about sandwich in hi
hand than a crown for his head. TIL
man Of wealth and standing in tn
community must learn to reach thr
prison bars to the man who has gon
wrong. and say, Ny brother" al
mean it.
State Helps Swine; Not Boys.
Society in general views the situatfo
with complacency. however. and goe
I on damning mems souls witiiou. cc::
junction. In answering his own quei
ton as to what society shall do, M
F'aville said that the following theol
OF his had grown out of his own q
q j.