Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-15
NOTED AUTHOR BITTERLY
ATTACKS WARDEN MOVER
ASHEQUITSP ENITENTIAR)

. a fcw minutes. D. wasn't u lad
been brewing for months TIE men
were starved. absolutely s@ryed.'
Lr Morton explained the grievance
Of the disorderly prisoners.
1T is like the horse that pinned on
ration exclusively Of oats" he said
The men were suffering because OF
insufficient rations. And they were
In the mool for anything for some
time
Hawthorne counted over the arGu-
ments that the Atlanta Penitentiary
is a model prison.
You hear ~ the baseball. and the
music At the meals and the permits
sion To talk at meals. and the few
privileges. he said They are the
work Of me deputy warden. and not
Of Warden Moyrr the real head and
executive
STAYED Oh Despair.
oscar wilde was certainly sincere
when ne wrote of the despair and
the horror that is cngendcrcd hv
prison. His Reading Gual and bis
De Profuudis' are faithful portray
ais"
Hawthorne was personal &C.
quaiutauCe OF Wilde, and Do. smiled
AT the statement that there was PROB
ably something In his own prison
writing that suggested the gloom ami
bitterness OF the English vsthetc IN
prison.
Perhaps there was" he said.
wilde wrote sincerely
However Hawthorne said that none
OF the moments of dark despair came
10 him during the year of coutnr-
mcut. and never much Of bitterness
except when the application for pa
role made by him and Or. Morton
was refused while 81 others We're
granted.
81 was never harassed by gloomy
f0rcbodings." he said, except for the
time that / thought / would never
i've 10 get out. And I WAS never bit
ter except when ! realized that the
impression received by the public WAS
altogether unreal
Pail Of Fright Present
For myself ! felt no dependency.
because ! knew my time was short
But there WAS always the affecting
sight Of others less fortunate. When
ever the prisoners meet after night
apart even after "a few hours apart,
from their friends. they always have
the grave salutati0n How are YOU
this time or How are things com
ing just ne II they had been away
Tor months.
There IS always the fear that
something will happen always the
pan Of fright over the men, the fright
that they win break a plate or offend
a guard. or i'm some way violate the
rules and be sent to the hole that
place OF darkness and heat ana
stencil
AS far as I am concerned. the eN-
perience has been valuable. and with
out personal harm. Nuw that IL is
over / am glad that ! went through
%. and would take nothing for the
knowledge ! received in all those
months
To Write Experience
You soc. &c is knowledge Of men
IN the leash that can be obtained IN
no other way, No one can tell from
m. outside No one knows OF the
misery, the haunting fear OF those
within"
This knowledge VIII DE utilized ny
Hawthorne in his writings 1t is like
~ that much of his literary talent will
be devoted to drawing a picture of
his prison observations and TO an at
tack on the prison system veryVhere.
- don't believe tn prisons" he
said recalling one OF his articles in
I the prison paper. but | think this
prison rs one Of the worst"
Going to New York Wednesday,
Hawthorne probably win enter the
employ of a newspaper In the metrop-
oils. and thus find means OF sub
sistence while he writes independ
emily.
Il don't think I shall come back TO
I Atlanta" ne smiled except in the
role Of government Investigator. per
( hups + my feeble attempts to attract