Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-08

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regarding children, especially those
finding their way to home finding con
Germs
Attributed to Liquor
Mr.. Graves recited statistics that
cations that would care for the child
He stated that the causes are more
than fifty per cent due to intoxicating
liquors. Desertion and unsanitary
housing were shown to be part of the
cause and behind this was said to be
liquor OF 7,436 arrests in Des Moines
1928 were for intoxication. He said
| that charity workers find that fifty
per cent of the INDECENT persons have
been made so by the direct or indirect
use of liquor.
! Raps County Jails.
He described the present method Of
handling the liquor question and char
acterized 1t as taking the bread out Of
the mouths of the wives and babes Of
the drinker, adding to the suffering Of
the former by court costs and fines
that were said to not punish the drink.
er SO much as the wife and babes, and
failing utterly to reform the victim of
the habit. The costly jails were de-
scr1bed as places that teach crime. The
cost paid by the tax payer for meals
and bed for the prisoner was criticized
in that twelve and one-half cents is
paid the sheriff for each meal and
nights lodging, whereas in the settle
ment house at Des Moines the cost of
feeding each person per meal was said
to be two and one-half cents, and in
Chicago test was said to have shown
that nine cents per day was the cost of
feeding persons in charitable institu-
tons in which the test was made The
speaker said he was not criticizing the
sheriffs, but that the system in vogue
is rotten to the core, and that the coun-
ty jails are the worst schools Of crime
in the world in that they provide only
idleness, card playing, etc., instead of
supplying useful employment. The
speaker denounced contract labor and
the stone pile work as worse than no
labor in that it DEVELOPS the worst in |
4 man by enforcing him in an occupa- |
lion that has no remuneration for him |
and is distasteful. ,
Establish Farm Colony.
Society demands that We return |
,hese men better than when we took |
hem" said the speaker, "but it can
not be done by the present system.
Put him at reasonable employment out
n the air and Gods own sunshine for
his wife and children. Establish a
arm colony and some plan of work
house where useful articles are made
Ind the prisoner can spend his time at
Uplifting employment that will supply
he wife and children with some re-
urn from his employment and even
supply him with something when he Is
discharged from the Jail, work-house
n farm colony"
He told Of the practical workings of
he modern method as applied in
toronto, and Guelph, Can. Minneapolis
Kansas City, Kan, and a number Of
ther places. Some OF these cities were
aid to have proven its practicability
fter some years use. while others
we're experimenting but had thus far
ound it practical. He said bill would
70 presented to the next legislature for
he forming of five of these institutions
o be situated in the center and four
orners of the state, and urged support
f the measure when it was offered for
doption.
Regan's Pictures. {
With huge easel on which large !
heets Of paper hung suspended and :
nth a variety Of colored crayons,
rank S. Regain from Rockford ILL.,, :
ook up the matter of intoxicating =
quors and taxation in a novel man. =.
er. He showed by picture, figures =
nd story. his arguments against the =
ale OF liquor in community. Some :
f the pictures were especially en- y
Eyed by the audience which caught the =
aeme as rapidly as the cartoonist :
nished his subject Some of these =
)o were drawn in parts, illustrative =
different phases of the subject +
'eated. The boy was the chief sub a
,ct used, the inspiration being y
ketch Of the speakers own son. A =
,ory accompanied each picture, which. q
was made to strike home n
the minds Of the hearers, showing h
le conditions good or bad at first and n
le changes for the better or worse as n
le picture and story finished a
One-HaIf Water. r
The argument of Mr.. Regain against Il
hiskey was almost quaint and the t
ethod and style Of the speaker is p
lite different from anyone yet heard
ere. The chemical whiskey of eight F
ours making and the grain whiskey n
eight years making were explained ="
: the speaker who asserts that chem tt
Is pronounced the scientific whiskey a
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