Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-16
NOTED AUTHOR BITTERLY
attacks WARDEN MOYER
ASHE QUITS EN|TENTIARI

a few minutes. II wasn't I; had
been brewing for months The men
were starved. absolutely starved
Br. Morton explained the grievance
OF the disorderly prisoners.
1T Is like the horse that piued on a
ration exclusively Of oats" he sald
The men were suffering because OF
insufficient rations. And they we're
in the mood for anything for some
time"
Hawthorne counted over the srgu-
ments that the Atlanta Pen.tentiary
IS a model prison
You hear OF the baseball. and the
music at the meals. and tho permits
sion to talk at meals. and the few
privileges" he said They are the
work OF me deputy warden. and not
OF Warden Meyer, the real head and
executive
STAYED on Despair.
oscar Wide was certainly sincere
when he wrote of the despair and
the horror that ia engendered by
prison. His Reading Goar and his
DE Prorundis' are faithful portray
ais"
Hawthorne was personal &C
quaintanCe Of Wilde. and he smiled
at the statement that there was PROB
ably something IN his own prison
writing that suggested the gloom ami
bitterness OF the English esthete in
prison
Perhaps there was" no said.
wilde wrote sincerely"
However, Hawthorne said that none
of the moments OF dark despair came
to him during the year OF Conhns-
ment and never much OF bitterness,
except when the application for na-
role made by him and Dr. Morton
was refused while 81 others were
granted.
Il was never hsrassed by gloomy
forebodings." he said except for the
time that ] thought l would never
live to get out. And ] was never bit
ter except when | realized that the
impression received by the public was
altogether unreal.
Pail OF Fright Present.
For myself I felt no dependence.
because l knew my time was short.
But there was always the afrectinE
sight OF others less fortunate. When
ever the prisoners meet after night
apart, even after u few hours apart,
from their friends, they always have
the grave salutatiOn, How are you
this time? or How are things COM
ing just as If they had been away
for months.
There Is always the fear that
something will happen, always the
pail OF fright over the men. the fright
that they will break plate or offend
a guard, or in some way violate the
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place OF darkness and heat ana
stencil.
AS far as I am concerned. the eX-
perience has been valuabl and with
out personal harm. Now that II 10
over, I am glad that ! went through
il. and would take nothing for the
knowledge I received in all those
months.
To Write Experiences
You see. II is a knowledge Of men
in the leash that can be obtained in
no other way No one can tell from
the outside. No one knows OF the
misery. the haunting fear of those
within"
This knowledge will be utilized by
Hawthorne In his writings. II IL 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 everywhere.
u don't believe In prisons" he
said recalling one OF his articles in
the prison paper but I think this
prison is one OF the worst"
Going to New York Wednesday,
Hawthorne probably will enter the
employ or a newspaper in the metrop-
oils, and thus ind a means OF sub
sistenoe while he writes independ-
emily.
Il don't think shall come back 70
Atlanta" he smiled, except in the
role Of government Investigator, per-
haps, II my feeble attempts to attract