Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1914-08-27
Friday Chautauoua

AuS P1SIOuSS VI ycSCcTu0y
given by our local Treble Clef
were of the higher class of mu.
sic and we'll rendered. The
stringed trio was very good in
deed. Max Martin, a violinist
of Omaha, gave several excel.
lent selections.
in the afternoon Warden
Sanders, delivered a most in
teresting lecture on "The maxi
ing of a Criminal" He stated
that out of seven life men par
doned or parolled not one had
gone wrong. For twenty.one
years he was in public school
work, leaving that to go to F't
Madison.
The chief difference between
1.-The audience he was talking to
and the one he was accustomed
to address was that one had
been found out and the other
|hyd not taken time to examine
their conscience. Societ
should do as much for the man
going down as the one going up
The penitentiary is necessary
as long as the human heart has
passions and weaknesses. One
person should not be measured
by one standard. Over the en-.
trance at the penitentiary are
the words, Cali who enter here
must pay Csc" If he had his
way there would be no visitors
admitted unless with the proper
credentials, as most of the Wis
itors are simply curios. He
would run the penitentiary as a
hospital is run, for these men
are in there for treatment. He
would do away with the time
limit and have the criminal re.
main until he was cured.
The warden now has absolute
control over the granting or
withholding of good behavior
The first year one month is
granted, the second year two
months and so on up to six
years, which grants six months
and from then on up it stays at
six months.
In the cell house at present
are GOO inmates These cells
are 3 TT. 8 inches by Z TT. and Z
inches. They have a new cell
house, which will hold 400.
1t is impossible to make :;
man good until he wants help
ANY one who commits murder
in the first degree is not normal
mo one should be sentenced to
death on circumstantial evil
dence, altho' a sentence of SO
years might be placed over him;
Warden Sanders is opposed to
capital punishment In their
library are between 5000 and
5000 volumes of good literature.
They must attend church once
on Sunday, such mt being the
case in Missouri Valley.
These mon work ten hours a
day and attend night school
He has 200 criminals working
on farms in the state OF Iowa
In speaking of the struggle
some people have to rise in this
world, he gave very pretty H.
lustration by saying, "Kites PC
up against the wind, not with
it,"
The first thing that should be
done to every criminal who en-
ters there, is to give him a thor
ough physical examination just
as you would your auto. The
: old saying that there is homo,
even among thieves is only too
true Among his teachers are
I eight college graduates Fra
ternal Insurance policies arr
: v lid when a man becomes fel
on, altho' n old line policy does
not paw enough for the labor
! derived from these men. Sup
I. pose man is an excellen
workman drawing zoe an hou
outside, when he becomes al
Inmate he draws 60c a day.
Mr.. Saunders put his men OF
their honor to a certain exten
? as he has II transfers, and
I chaffeurs working on the out
side and Z of these are lif
= men They have an orchestr;
= that furnishes music during tn
/. noon hour in the dining room
y every day in the week They
also have their band, orchestr
and glee club
4 If we only had more Sunda.
schools, we would have fewe
I iaiIs. The home is the best pc
7 lice force on earth. The
DIhava their lecture cOnrses AM