Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-03

control in prison, reformatofy or
workkouse. Further extension and use
Of the suspended sentence and parole
feature. hope, viii be more widely
used soon.
JAN reform will come only When
we make radical changes in our en-
tire jail system. We must maintain
a place of detention for witnesses
and persons awaiting trial. We might
incidentally. so adjust our courts
that speedy and early trials may be
had in the greatest possible number
of cases. While holding all such per
sons in detention. they should be
Fept each one absolutely separate
and apart from every other one, save
at meal time and during working
hours. If work shall be provided.
we must take up the grave sub
ject of the treatment of inebriates IN
relation to county jails. Shall munici-
palities send mebriates to a county
Jail? over in HUDSON county they
get the interior of that big jail thor
oughly painted once a year BY a most
efficient painter. who comes in about
that often to serve q term, due to his
habit of drink,
over in the Essex county work
house they pointed out a man to me
cracking stone who had been there
Just sixty-six times. while his family
We're nearly all the time dependent
upon private charities for their sup
port.
Think of the time of courts and
court officials and the expense TO the
Taxpayers of getting this job of
painting done in the Hudson county
Jail and of the waste of effort in the
case of Ire old rounder at the Essex
county workhouse
Municipal courts should not send
offenders of local municipal laws To
a county Jail. Offenses against state
laws should not be left for treatment
to thei average sheriff in the average
jail The State should supervise the
treatment of the offender Of state
laws. This means farms, work
houses and open-air treatment, and
the real thing is hard work for
habitual drunkards, non-support
cases and habitual offenders of our
minor criminal laws
cial Problem Mayor Wallace Win
chell, of the Jersey City Salvation
Army, made a plea for drunkards.
THE most permanent cure for the
liquor habit is to bring people to the
place where they do not want it, he
declared. 81 refer TO such work as
education against alcoholic beverages
in the schools, and probation work,
where law is tempered with mercy,
and the whole temperance propa-
ganda.
DR.. Stewart Patton. Of Princeton,
made a short speech. lie said in
part;
The object of the mental hygiene
campaign is the cooperation of those
agencies which aim to make the lives
of the majority of persons happier
and more efficient In order to un-
derstand human activities we must
first study the Individual. This is
what the modern alienist Is trying
10 do. We study disease in order to
understand health. AS a result of
recent Investigations we may discard
the word insanity We only need
two words, health and disease
Life is a process of adjustment,
health is condition of relatively
perfect, and disease of imperfect adj
justment. Insanity is a form of~dis-
ease and a special form mot specil-
cally differently of imperfect adjust
ment"
The officers of the conference are:
President. DR.. Frank Moore, OF
Railway; vice-presidents, Governor
Woodrow Wilson. former Governor
John Franklin Fort, former Governor
Edward c. Stokes. former Governor
Franklin Murphy. the Rt. Rev. Edwin
S. Lines. of Newark, and the Rt. Rev.
James A. McFaul, of Trenton; secre-
tary, Ernest d. Easton, of Newark;
treasurer, Isaac c. Ogden, of Orange;
assistant secretary, Miss Mabelle C.
Phillips. of Plainfield.