Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-16
PREDICTS PAY FOR
STATE PRISONERS
DR.. Frank Moore, Reformatory
Head, Sees Changes in
Jail Methods.
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MORRISTOWN, Dec. 16.-That New
Jersey is coming to the time when it
Will pay wages to the men it confines
in prison and reformatories was the
declaration Of DIR. Frank Moore, su-
perintendent Of the Railway Refor-
matory, at q meeting in the Morris
County Court House last night.
DR.. Moore asserted that the men
should so be paid when they earn
more in the industrial pursuits of the
prison and reformatory life than their
keep costs the State. BY doing this
the State will teach the man behind
the bars that society is just, giving
him the means to rehabilitate himself
when he energies from prison, or to
relieve the suffering of his family de-
prived of his protection and earning
ability while imprisoned. DR.. Moore
told of the coming abolition of the
contract labor system IN the prisons
of the State, and asserted that If 1t
was wrong for individual citizens to
make money out of the convicts 1t
was just as wrong for the State to do
so.
DR.. Moore addressed meeting of
about 400 people on the objects of the
reformatory of which he is the head.
He was introduced by Common Pleas
Judge Joshua r. Salmon, and his
address was illustrated by stereopti-
con views taken at the institution by
the institution force. and the slides
prepared by the young men there.
The lantern was operated by Patrol
officer Crosby.
Third Have Children's Brains.
DR.. Moore described the life and in
struction given at the institution and
made the startling assertion that of
the young men committed there that
one-third are of less than twelve
years of age in mentality There are
the feeble-minded for whom nothing
can be done in the way of teaching
a trade, but who are put to the
manual labor of farming and grad
ing; the moral degenerates, who have
normal abilities, but whose minds
have become fixed upon sordid
thoughts and who are swept by Grim
inal passions, and a third4class, whqu
are determined to be criminals and
who have had criminal ancestry. The
county Judge has not time to find out
whether or not the young man
brought before him is a member OF
one of the three classes, and under
the law has no recourse, If IT is
first offense, than to send him TO the
reformatory. What is needed In New
Jersey. declared DR.. Moore, is a farm
colony to send certain classes or crlnl-
inals to.
DIR. Moore described the parole sys-
tenn in vogue at the institution and
told his auditors that from 55 to 90 per
cent. of those who are paroled from
the reformatory make good"
That $2,500,000 was spent by the
State yearly on it's charitable and cor
rectional institutions and not one cent
came from the pockets of the people
nv direct tax was the result, Mr..
Moore said, of the States corporation
laws. The people of New Jersey pay
no more, he said for the maintenance
of these institutions than do the peo-
pie of California. And that TINS was
right DIR. Moore asserted to be the
case pointing out that this State is
on the border of the country; Sthe
criminal foreign element landing on
these shores fleeing from punishment
abroad have little more than enough
money to get beyond their LANDING
place. and in consequence the NUMBER
of murders in this State is greater
than II is in some countries, and crime
is more prevalent The thrifty Tor
eigners who come to this country Tor
BODYBUILDING, DR.. Moore declared,
generally had enough money TO carry
them to the Western States, there TO
settle down and become good citlzens.
The people of the State should De
proud. he said, of its treasury acVan-
cling vast sums for It's INSTITUTIONS
and not attempt to curb IT,
Poor Homes Breed Anarchists.
10 asked for the sympathy and CO.
oneration of his auditors in his work
of the reformatory, declaring IT TO pc
needed because society, the nome, the
church. the city, State and nation had
all failed. Incorrect methods OF cor
rection in the home breed anarchists,
he said. -,
The school system, for years con-
Quoted on q wrong principle, mao
taken up new ideas. He pointed out
that there were two types OF boys
the intellectual and the industrial boy.
THE school system has confined lts
attentions to the intellectual type ana
left the industrial type to shirt LOT
itself -, A.,
Another point emphasized by the
sneaker was that the State was pass
ing too many laws making trivial m
fractions State prison offenses inc
right of citizenship should be restored
to the men when they are discharged
after going through the. reformatory
Nth . clean record and not compel
them to go through all the req tape
that is now necessary 1t ought 10
he when they are made men again
tbat thew can go forth and stand up
90 rood citizens with other citizens
and hear their just burden of citizen